Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese ran great guns for his party in 2022’s Australian federal election. He campaigned on Covid-19 promising a focal change from the incumbent government’s mismanagement putting the safety of Australians first.
Tagged: Anthony Albanese, Covid-19, Indigenous Australians, Referendum, Voice
Little did I know that when I wrote in 2015 about a leadership spill in the Australian Coalition government led by Liberal Party prime minister Tony Abbott, I’d be gazing at the underpinnings of a federal election coming in six days’ time.
On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson gave his first inaugural address as president of the United States of America. He was the third person to hold the office.
Tagged: Australia, First Inaugural, Geopolitics, Jefferson, Scott Morrison
As the guns fell silent in armistice at 11 am on 11/11 1918, the world vowed it would witness its last war while it determined its victor: though when its victor was found its determination would never succeed.
Victorians. Today you are the world’s first people who have faced and defeated a Covid-19 Wave 2 with statistical validation.
Friday, October 16, dawned as a day of political tumult in Australia. Sky News Australia political editor Andrew Clennell had been pushing for the resignation of New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian over an alleged visa and land corruption scandal, whose boyfriend and disgraced State minister was about to give a final day of testimony before an ICAC probe—while Sky’s Peta Credlin, a former chief of staff to a disgraced prime minister and now tagged as a Liberal Party hopeful, bayed for the blood of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews over alleged cover-ups in a failed Covid-19 hotel quarantine program that had sparked Australia’s Covid-19 Wave 2.
There’s a scene in the epic movie “Patton”, where the namesake’s character walks along the plains of the ancient battlefields of Carthage in Africa and says, “I was here”, believing himself reincarnated as a great leader.
A unique press conference took place in Melbourne the capital of Victoria, Australia, today. One worth noting not just because Covid-19 questions relating to masks, testing, intensive care units, hoaxing and controlling the virus came up but its participants—a state premier and his chief heath officer—allowed themselves to go off the cuff and show some emotion.
Tagged: Brett Sutton, Covid-19, Daniel Andrews, Journalism, Leadership, Scott Morrison, Wave 2
A headline in this morning’s Melbourne The Age newspaper ran, “Not a single call or email”. It was a piece bemoaning Australia’s lack of enthusiasm for their politicians’ announcement the day before of the country’s latest $20 billion job protection program in light of the economic hardships borne by Covid-19. Apparently, no one had called their local representative to say thanks.
Tagged: Covid-19, Global War on Terror, Leadership, Weariness
You’ve come across them on social media, cable media and the traditional media itself. The hoaxers, the manipulators, the conspiracy theorists, the religious extremists, the Karens and Ians. All claim that Covid-19 doesn’t exist or if it does, there’s no need to fix it.
Tagged: Courage, Covid-19, Fear, Gaslighting
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