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.
DONALD Trump will comfortably retain the White House, the Republicans will hold the Senate with a reduced majority while the Democratic Party will retain the House of Representatives.This is the prediction of highly regarded social media election analyst Red Eagle Politics.
AUSTRALIA’S elites would prefer Beijing’s candidate, Joe Biden in the White House, it seems. But, unlike 2016, at least a few notable commentators here now favour Trump, however grudgingly. Yet local outlets still echo the American mainstream media, even though they have become the Democratic Party’s propaganda arm. Little wonder then that Biden’s campaign manager admits most media polling is fake.
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.
THERE’S no doubt as a result of the COVID-19 virus and its debilitating and destructive effect on society both medically and economically that increasing numbers of people are distraught and in danger of suffering anxiety, loss and depression. Whether measured by alcohol consumption, family violence, calls to organisations like Beyond Blue or the incidents of self-harm and in extreme cases suicide it’s clear the fabric that holds communities and families together is under threat.
THE 2020 budget is a financial disaster designed to fund an earlier disaster, a government-imposed depression, camouflaged by massive borrowing, as a recession. Under this, the politicians have delivered a trillion dollar bill to remedy their mess to what pollsters tell us is a grateful nation.
PRO-REPUBLICANS have commenced their strategy to upend Australia’s constitution by painting Prince Charles as untrustworthy and at odds with Australia’s national interests. Having repeatedly failed to turn citizens against Queen Elizabeth – republicans are now attempting to demonise her heir and so heartlessly capitalise on the Queen’s age.
