The Albanese Labor government seems to be hell bent on an “economically destructive pro-union industrial relations assault on mining, in particular, and business in general”. But, at the Minerals Council of Australia - and Peter Dutton - have declared war on the Albanese in this area.

All Albanese could manage at a dinner meeting with the MCA was to bleat that they were abandoning co-operation for conflict! How ignorant and unaware can he be? Albanese himself is the master of conflict, and the reason for the MCA standing up at last.

Albanese was reminded by the MCA that the mining industry he was ‘undermining’ provided government coffers with $74 billion in taxes and royalties in 2022-23, and provided 10% of GDP.

“The straw that broke the camel's back” according to the MCA were the government's IR laws. They are “reckless” and have brought conflict to every work place.

Then there's the economy-choking rebuttal recently of a mine knocked back after 4 years of applying through red and green tape costing the company millions. Questionably claimed to be aboriginally ‘significant’.

Australia will become a no-go country for investment if the Albanese gets another term. They have made it clear that their stupid pigheadedness is not for turning. Just look at net zero, expensive and soon to be unreliable power situations. The Albanese mob's reaction to alternative suggestions is to double down on their own stupidity. Madeleine King, Resources Minister, for instance, claiming that, ‘No government in recent memory has put the resources industry at the centre of its policy making in the way that the [Albanese] Government has…”.

‘No government in recent history’ has had an anti-mining, take-the-word-of-one-or-two-activists, Minister like Tania Plibersek knocks that lie on the head.

Even the namby pamby BHP has stood up to the Albanese government’s “industrial relations assault on mining”.

An election is coming. I hope Albanese's goose is cooked before he totally kills off the goose that is laying the golden eggs for Australia.

(Source: Michael Baume, ‘Spectator’, Paywalled)

The latest Newspoll now has Labor’s primary vote at 31%.

Still scarily high !

Indyvidual

It's about the same as they got when they formed government with the help of the Greens. They probably will still have the help of the
Greens at the coming election. So, it's not particularly good news, just an observation that they are no more popular now than they were in 2022.

The only Goose here is the ex Liberal Party hack who wrote the anti-Labor diatribe to begin with, full of biased opinion and non-factual nonsense. Reproduced by the forums number one Usual Suspect.

I don't know why Paul(ine) 1405, who accuses other people of bullying, feels the need to try bullying me, and other posters, with abuse and name-calling without ever addressing the subject at hand.

The fool never gets anything right. I have had nothing to do with the Liberal Party. I am not a “hack” (he doesn't know what it means); he doesn't realise that that all opinions are biassed; he has not explained what the “non-factual nonsense” is; he doesn't know that “Reproduced by the forums (sic) number one usual subject” is not a sentence, nor does he reveal what I am ‘usuallying suspected’ of. Like a budgie, he has learned a few words and phrases he doesn't know the meaning of, and inanely cheeps them.

1405 is a wonderful ambassador to OLO for the Greens.