Follow today’s news liveLiberal senator Simon Birmingham has kicked off the week with a statement ‘warning’ that “the risk of the Albanese Labor Government doing destructive deals with the Greens is enormous”.The elephant in the room here of course, is that on some of these bills (housing being the main ones) the Greens are in the negotiating hot seat, because the coalition hasn’t come to the table. (Others include future made in Australia, the RBA reforms and the nature positive/EPA bills)Many of Anthony Albanese’s big spending bills are stalled, making the government even more desperate as it tries to clear the decks for a possible early election.Labor should rule out an avalanche of billion-dollar, economy crushing deals with the Greens in this Senate-only sitting week.None of this legislation will lower inflation but it will add billions to public spending, green tape to economic activity and risk the independence of the Reserve Bank.Labor’s bad policies need to be defeated in the Senate, not made even more costly and interventionist at the hands of the Greens.Mahsa Jina Amini’s death galvanised months of protests in Iran, which were brutally quashed by Iranian security forces.The individuals sanctioned today include senior security and law enforcement officials who have been complicit in the violent repression of protests in Iran. Continue reading…
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Author : Amy Remeikis
Publish date : 2024-09-15 23:44:52
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