OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[strider]

Imagine making them fight for the win. That would certainly get a crowd.
Or have ex prime ministers fight from around the world. Imagine Trump vs Keating

You want em to punch on?

 

[Bandwagon]

Gillard was the most effective, and policy driven PM we've had since Keating.

 

[crocodile]

Gillard was the most effective, and policy driven PM we've had since Keating.

Doesn't get enough credit unfortunately.

 

[the phantom menace]

I like Albo but unsure why he is rubbing up against Kyl.

...

I didn't mind him at the start but now I am souring.

That happened quickly... less than 24 hours!

 

[Gary Gutful]

Gillard was the most effective, and policy driven PM we've had since Keating.

Shame KDudd couldn't let go.

 

[hineyrulz]

Yeah but Abbott ate a raw onion ffs!!

 

[Bandwagon]

Shame KDudd couldn't let go.

Yeah, without doubt.

Yeah but Abbott ate a raw onion ffs!!

.....and he brought back knighthoods, it's quite the record of achievement.

 

[Gronk]

Albo loves to think he is cool hangin with the Ibrahims

I don’t get it either.

Just remember some context, Ibrahim is a small time crook and Murdoch is the James Bond super villan who influences global politics more than any man in history.

 

[Gronk]

FFS Vlad is flexing this morning claiming an assassination attempt on his life.



In voice of Mick Dundee; that’s not a drone - THIS is a drone !

 

[Twizzle]

looked more like a seagull

 

[the phantom menace]

More good work Chris Minns - a simple policy fix that should help get the city going again.

Finally, an end to the crazy rule that shamed Sydney on the world stage

As with most things, if you just bite the bullet and change the policy, most people will learn to live with it.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Gronk]

The Saudis, LIV golf, top secret documents, Trump Golf Courses. Coming to a Netflix series soon.

A thread

 

[strider]

Is he taking a piss in the bushes?

 

[Twizzle]

He's probably growing his own secret stash in the bush

 

[Gronk]

Is he taking a piss in the bushes?

I don't believe that is necessary.

 

[hineyrulz]

I don't believe that is necessary.

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I need some of them for tomorrow, nothing worse when you’ve necked 7 or 8 sherbets and are on the back 9 nowhere near the Boggers.

 

[Gronk]

On the eve of the budget, with Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor telling all and sundry that the government need to rein in spending….

Morrison government spent $20.8bn on consultants and outsourcing public service in final year, audit finds

The equivalent of 54,000 full-time staff were employed by the federal government in 2021-22, or 37% of the actual workforce

www.theguardian.com

 

[hineyrulz]

Pretty hilarious after what spent their last few years in government.

 

[Bandwagon]

On the eve of the budget, with Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor telling all and sundry that the government need to rein in spending….

Morrison government spent $20.8bn on consultants and outsourcing public service in final year, audit finds

The equivalent of 54,000 full-time staff were employed by the federal government in 2021-22, or 37% of the actual workforce

www.theguardian.com

This is what you get when your policy is a smaller public service.

Upside is the government gets to decide which of their mates gets which fat juicy contract they can overcharge for.

 

[Chipmunk]

On the eve of the budget, with Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor telling all and sundry that the government need to rein in spending….

Morrison government spent $20.8bn on consultants and outsourcing public service in final year, audit finds

The equivalent of 54,000 full-time staff were employed by the federal government in 2021-22, or 37% of the actual workforce

www.theguardian.com

If you delve more into this article, you get a bit more of a picture of what was really going on.

70% of the money was spent on labour hire, which is essentially just outsourced payroll. To get a true reflection of whether what was actually spent was actually more than reality, you need to compare the costs if those people who were engaged through labour hire would have been engaged on the APS books instead.