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09/04/2024

“The Albanese Government has added more than a thousand jobs per day, achieving record highs for employed men and women.

“The participation rate hit an all-time high last May at 66.74%. which was beaten in October and again in November.

“The mainstream media refuses to report this accurately. Their motto is: if you can’t say anything bad about Labor, don’t say anything at all.”

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Australia’s labour force is changing significantly under Labor and citizens are benefiting greatly.

26/02/2024

“The ABC/RMIT so-called 'fact check' unit is still trying to deceive its audience into believing Labor mismanages the economy. Last week, it fact-checked a Liberal Party claim and assessed it as ‘overblown’. It wasn’t. It was patently false.

“Critics have long suspected the Institute of Public Affairs, which has a strong presence at RMIT, to be behind this.

“Fortunately, the ABC has heeded calls to dump the RMIT/IPA fact checkers and will soon do so.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-abc-continues-to-falsely-trash-labors-economic-credentials,18364

26/02/2024

“The ABC/RMIT so-called 'fact check' unit is still trying to deceive its audience into believing Labor mismanages the economy. Last week, it fact-checked a Liberal Party claim and assessed it as ‘overblown’. It wasn’t. It was patently false.

“Critics have long suspected the Institute of Public Affairs, which has a strong presence at RMIT, to be behind this.

“Fortunately, the ABC has heeded calls to dump the RMIT/IPA fact checkers and will soon do so.”

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Through its deceptive "fact-checking" the ABC has continued to spread Coalition disinformation, though help may be on the way, Alan Austin reports.

29/08/2022

“Contrary to optimistic reporting in most Western countries, things look grim for Ukraine. Hopeful predictions of Russia giving up with fatigue or demoralisation, or Ukraine mounting a sudden devastating offensive have little chance of fulfilment.

“While the war grinds on, the death toll keeps climbing.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/russia-may-defeat-ukraine--but-at-incalculable-human-cost-,16708

It is 187 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, ostensibly to "liberate" the eastern Donbas regions. Alan Austin assesses the cost of lives — so far.

22/08/2022

Australia’s official jobless rate is now 3.38%, the lowest in 48 years. But all is not well.

More than 1.3 million Australians can’t get enough work to live on, and 474,000 of these can’t find any job at all. Job vacancies are at an all-time high, and real wages are still declining.

But help may be on the way.

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/jobs-summit-offers-chance-to-reverse-disastrous-coalition-decisions,16686

The Albanese Government’s upcoming jobs talkfest provides a hopeful platform for necessary reform.

01/08/2022

“On American prime time TV, Fox News has confirmed Rupert Murdoch has switched his support for next US president from Donald Trump to Ron DeSantis.

“But does Murdoch still decide election outcomes? Australia suggests maybe not.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/rupert-murdoch-abandons-trump--heres-why-it-matters,16615

Powerful media owner Rupert Murdoch is no longer supporting Donald Trump as the next president of the USA.

11/07/2022

“Australia has the chance now to become a global naval manufacturer and exporter.

“The challenge is to build a smaller, faster, stealthier, stronger submarine than its rivals, which requires fewer crew and is cheaper to build and operate.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/labor-must-reverse-morrisons-submarine-bungle-to-serve-nation,16546

There is a niche in the global submarine industry that Australia is well-placed to occupy, reports Alan Austin.

04/07/2022

“Mid-way through 2022, the USA is on track to record the highest-ever tally of children and teenagers shot, teachers shot, police officers shot, and victims shot by police. These total 3,880 – so far.

“All these categories of gun deaths are zero or close to zero in Australia, as in other developed countries with effective gun laws.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/us-court-decision-will-ensure-gun-deaths-soar,16525

The current epidemic of avoidable gun fatalities in the USA is set to worsen.

28/06/2022

“France is not ‘in turmoil after poll shock’ following the recent Assembly elections, as The Australian ridiculously asserts.”

Elections in France, Australia, Colombia and elsewhere actually offer great hope for a more compassionate and collaborative world which will get things fixed.

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-world-is-now-a-much-better-place-not-just-australia,16501

Several recent elections of reformist governments augur well for global collaboration.

20/06/2022

“Australia now ranks a dismal 22nd on the IAREM, the fourth year outside the world’s top 20. That’s down from first place under Labor from 2009 to 2013.

“This decline reflects the long-term effects of hundreds of billions lost offshore in company taxes not collected and to Coalition corruption and mismanagement.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/iarem-2022-switzerland-tops-economic-rankings-australia-out-of-top-20,16480

30/05/2022

The watching world is jubilant at Australia’s change of government.

“French journal Le Figaro greeted Morrison’s demise with scathing comments from France’s Foreign Minister:

“Le Drian fired red hot bullets at the departing government in very undiplomatic and quite rare terms – Lies, duplicity, contempt ...”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/hopes-rise-worldwide-as-australians-reject-a-regime-of-notorious-incompetence,16417

Governments, academics and others are celebrating the Morrison Government’s defeat.

24/05/2022

“The problem with the ABC is not its editorialising. It is not that the national broadcaster openly spruiks the party serving rich corporations at the expense of Australian citizens.

“The problem is its assertions of fact are not true.

“The ABC now deceives its audience with constant repetition of Coalition falsehoods. Sackings are needed from top to bottom.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/well-done-australia--now-lets-fix-the-joint-up-properly,16392

Australia’s Parliament is not the only institution to have been trashed by the Coalition and corrupt corporate interests over the last decade.

09/05/2022

“Australia desperately needs profound reform in these ten areas – all blocked by the corrupt Liberal and National parties.

“So the more seats they lose on 21 May the better the prospects for renewal within those parties and for these dreams for Australia eventually to be realised.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/big-picture-reforms-including-slashing-mp-perks-now-in-sight,16337

The forthcoming Election offers hope for a major transformation of Australia’s society, even if not immediately.

02/05/2022

“The vast wealth and income lost over the last eight years through export companies evading tax may actually be traceable and recoverable.

“This requires an investigation with the powers of a royal commission and broad terms of reference. It also requires a change of government.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-royal-commission-that-could-recoup-billions-of-rorted-aussie-dollars,16316

Of all the post-election royal commissions proposed to deal with Coalition corruption, one has a chance of retrieving billions,

19/04/2022

“Minister Anne Ruston is now challenging the great fabricators of the Liberal Party on who is the nation’s most audacious fibber. Her whoppers are of Trumpian proportions.

“Clearly, she is ambitious for promotion.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/anne-ruston-tries-to-outdo-morrison-and-frydenberg-on-greatest-deceptions,16271

Falsehoods foisted on voters by the Liberal Party are multiplying rapidly.

14/04/2022

“Under the Coalition, the explosion of gross debt – nearly three times Labor’s – has been the worst in the developed world by far.

“So why no screaming headlines about disaster and destruction today? Because the purpose of economic data, according to the media, is not to provide information but to falsify it in order to destroy Labor.”

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https://theaimn.com/worst-debt-blow-out-in-the-developed-world-refutes-coalition-claims-of-economic-competence/

By Alan Austin Last Friday morning, just as Scott Morrison was spruiking his credentials on 3AW, Treasury updated Australia’s gross debt – a thumping $874.2 billion. The Coalition has now added a neat $600 billion to the nation’s debt. Morrison told Melbourne voters “we know how to manage mo...

28/03/2022

Was Michael Joseph Savage the best prime minister Australia ever produced?

“Undoubtedly the most loved of all prime ministers, his kindly and genial personality, his skills as an orator ... He became his country’s icon.

“Australia now needs another Michael Savage.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/michael-savages-pm-greatness-echoed-in-anthony-albanese,16196

Alan Austin celebrates the achievements of a great national leader, who is little known in his country of birth.

21/03/2022

“Over the last five years, GDP growth has been the weakest since records began.

“This is yet another appalling statistic the Morrison-Joyce regime has generated and brings the grand total to sixty. Yes, sixty – six-oh – outcomes which are the worst on record.”

“The mainstream media will not report this. But they should.

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/all-time-worst-economic-outcomes-under-morrison-and-frydenberg-hit-60,16173

The number of published results of the Coalition’s economic mismanagement which are the worst on record has now reached 60.

14/03/2022

Insiders presenter David Speers wants Australians to swallow the lie that the Morrison Government has “a good story to tell” on growth and unemployment.

In fact, GDP growth now ranks 28th in the OECD. That’s down from first under Labor. The jobless rate also ranks lower than under previous administrations.

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/insiders-leads-coalitions-election-campaign-on-economic-supremacy,16146

The ABC continues to violate its charter by boosting one side of politics with false information.

07/03/2022

“Frydenberg wants voters to believe Australia is ‘outperforming all major advanced economies’.

“In fact, Australia now ranks an appalling 28th in the OECD and around 40th in the UNDP list of developed economies.

“This is just another blatant, bare-faced lie.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/twelve-more-things-revealing-australias-poor-economic-management,16121

There is plenty in last week’s quarterly national accounts that the Coalition Government does not want voters to discover.

21/02/2022

“After three years of lazy incompetence by Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s global economic freedom score has collapsed to an all-time low.

“This adds yet another item to the list of “worst ever” outcomes notched up by this inept administration – now well above fifty.

“We can imagine the Heritage boffins in Washington scratching their heads in bewilderment – 'Why do those folks Downunder put up with this spiraling incompetence? They once led the world!'”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrison-humiliates-australia-further-with-lowest-economic-freedom-ever,16070

Heritage Foundation has graded all countries on prosperity, security and freedom and given Australia a huge F for FAIL.

14/02/2022

“One of the most sycophantic pro-Coalition daily newspapers has labeled Josh Frydenberg ‘the dolt from Kooyong’, claiming his ‘humiliation is total’ and ‘his complete lack of political judgment has been exposed for all to see’.

“So what provoked The Australian Financial Review to assert this?

“His accumulated budget deficits nearly five times Wayne Swan’s? Blowing out federal debt by $591 billion? Australia’s worst post-war recession? Wasting tens of billions in JobKeeper rorts, or losing hundreds of billions to corporate tax evasion?”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/frydenbergs-gross-incompetence-finally-hits-mainstream-media,16046

Josh Frydenberg was described as ‘lighter than helium’ and having ‘no agenda’ by one staunchly pro-Coalition media outlet.

07/02/2022

“The mainstream media is fully backing the Coalition again. They are just miffed that current ministers are so incompetent and corrupt that they make journalists look like they aren’t doing their job. Which, of course, they aren’t.

“If they were vigilant watchdogs rather than strutting show dogs, they would challenge Morrison’s four central mendacious claims – which have enabled the Coalition to steal victory, or come perilously close to, in eight out of the last nine federal elections.

“But they didn’t.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/instead-of-baring-teeth-journos-pampered-morrison-during-recent-speech,16021

The Prime Minister’s recent speech in Canberra revealed much about Australia’s press gallery, writes Alan Austin.

27/01/2022

“Suddenly last year, Australia’s global ranking on corruption tumbled from 11th down to 18th. That’s down from seventh in the world where Australia ranked under Labor and the Greens.

“Over the last decade, the decline in Australia’s standing is the deepest of all 38 advanced OECD members. No other developed country has allowed corruption to flourish so badly.”

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https://www.michaelwest.com.au/australia-hits-new-low-on-transparency-international-corruption-index/

Transparency International has found Australia fell more than any other advanced nation over the past ten years on its Corruption Index

23/01/2022

“While Morrison and Frydenberg were treasurers, Australia notched up fifty economic outcomes which are ‘weakest on record’ or ‘worst decline in the developed world’.

“Analysing these shows Morrison is the second-worst post-war treasurer Australia has had.

“Frydenberg is the worst.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/frydenbergs-record-proves-he-would-be-worse-pm-than-morrison,15970

Opinions are being aired that Josh Frydenberg would be a better PM than Scott Morrison, yet his outcomes achieved as Treasurer suggest otherwise, says Alan Austin.

17/01/2022

“The Morrison Government’s tally of economic indicators which are ‘all-time weakest’ or ‘worst decline in the developed world’ keeps climbing. These have now reached an even fifty. Five O. The half ton.

The latest batch relate to gender equality, unfilled job vacancies, access to housing, critically low dole payments and the highest personal taxes on record.

As this is an election year, it would be good to read this and pass it along. Thanks.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrison-government-hits-50-worst-economic-outcomes-on-record,15943

The Morrison Government’s tally of economic indicators which are the “all-time weakest” or “worst decline in the developed world” keeps climbing, reports Alan Austin.

10/01/2022

“The Big Lie in Australia is that the Coalition manages the economy better than Labor. It is a tried and true tactic, asserted repeatedly in every election since 1974. It was not true then and has not been true any time since.

“The economic evidence overwhelmingly proves the opposite.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/debunking-the-myth-that-the-coalition-are-good-economic-managers,15917

The mainstream media is pushing hard for the fiction that the Coalition competently manages the economy, as Alan Austin reports.

06/01/2022

“The collapse in skilled worker arrivals has been one contributor to the overall demise of Australia’s economy since 2014. One of several.

“The ever-diminishing availability of qualified staff has impacted innovation, scientific and medical research, manufacturing output and the efficient operation of many enterprises.”

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https://www.michaelwest.com.au/skilled-migrant-arrivals-hit-20-year-low-but-covid-is-not-the-reason-for-innovation-deflation/

The collapse in skilled worker arrivals has been a factor in the deterioration of Australia’s economic performance since 2014.

20/12/2021

“There is a disturbing incongruity at the heart of the Government’s MYEFO report. It claims economic management is magnificent and Australia’s economy is set to boom – with bounteous jobs, rising wages and record company profits. This must mean record tax receipts and government revenue overflowing.

“Yet the current run of the deepest budget deficits on record will continue until 2025. Gross debt will quadruple Labor’s level to reach $1.2 trillion.

“How is this possible?”

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/latest-government-report-suggests-record-economic-mismanagement,15869

The latest report to Parliament on the state of the economy by Coalition ministers is riddled with contradictions, hypocrisies and falsehoods, writes Alan Austin.

12/12/2021

“Insiders reinforces constantly that the Coalition can manage the economy, that economic declines are due to the pandemic, both sides of politics are as corrupt as each other and Parliament has a problem with the abuse of women. All these are false.

“Realities never acknowledged are that Australia has tumbled in most global economic rankings, government waste is in the hundreds of billions, corruption is endemic, most current federal ministers lie routinely, the Morrison Government is despised worldwide and Australians would be vastly better off with a change of government.”

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https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/abcs-insiders-doesnt-serve-its-viewers-or-the-nation,15844

The case for a review of Insiders and sacking its producers, presenter and most regular guests has strengthened as the year has progressed, writes Alan Austin.