DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Joe Biden has been crowned president-elect by a handful of self-appointed news networks – but not by anyone who actually matters. Officially, he is not president-elect. A number of world leaders – Prime Minister Scott Morrison included – were premature in phoning him.
LABOR shadow minister Joel Fitzgibbon has spectacularly quit his resources portfolio after a Party room shouting match on Monday, further weakening Anthony Albanese’s grip on the leadership. The pair are reported to have had a mid-meeting verbal brawl which saw Mr Fitzgibbon storm out after saying he regretted not running for the ALP leadership.
WITH the US presidential election result still before the courts, Leftist Liberal MPs have gone all in with Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s climate policies. Mr Biden, who has been unofficially crowned President-elect by a number of partisan US media networks, has been a vocal supporter of his Party’s radical Green New Deal agenda.
A US Supreme Court justice has ordered late arriving ballots in election battleground Pennsylvania to be segregated and removed from the official count as Republican scrutineers continue to be locked out of counting centres. In related events, a US postal worker has testified he was instructed to backdate late arriving postal ballots, US election staff have been captured on video tampering with or discarding ballots and “faulty” election software used in as many as 30 States has “switched” thousands of Trump votes to Biden’s tally.
PROMINENT Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine this week labelled Black Lives Matter divisive and untruthful during a major address in Sydney. The former ALP national president told the internationally-affiliated CPAC forum on Wednesday that Australia was not a racist nation.
IT WAS all going to plan for the Republican Party. Enthusiasm had peaked and the predicted red wave struck like a thunder clap. Every toss-up State bar one – Arizona – had swung heavily to Trump. It was almost mind numbingly efficient. With up to 96 per cent of toss-up States’ vote counted and Trump in the lead by anywhere from 150k to 600k votes, the result would be a blow out.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean has hinted at a Julia Gillard-style carbon tax to force the “decarbonisation” of the State’s electricity. Mr Kean, who doubles as NSW’s energy minister, has thrown his support behind a discussion paper calling for the reintroduction of a carbon tax, according to Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
THE ALP shadow cabinet has backflipped on environmental policy, embraced gas and declared Australia will not be a low-carbon economy “anytime soon”. The Party has been involved in a public civil war since its crushing defeat in last May’s “unlosable” federal election – which it had dubbed the “climate change” election.
PUBLIC sentiment is behind Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s economic recovery plan as anger grows at NSW Environment & Energy Minister Matt Kean’s anti-gas agenda. The defiant State minister again raised the ire of parliamentary colleagues and voters after appearing on a Left-wing think tank seemingly deriding the Prime Minister’s call for a gas-led post-COVID recovery.
US VOTERS have over-run Australian news sources to access political reporting following a US media black-out triggered by the Biden laptop scandal. With content from the laptop – allegedly owned by the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden – falling into the Trump campaign’s hands, Left-wing US media and big tech companies have combined to censor any local coverage of the story.
