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\nThe Left should promote progressive social policies but to win an election it must first convince voters that conservatives have ruined the economy.
\nPM\u2019s Office says Auditor General is wrong
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\nWake up, Australia: the government is shattering the rule of law
\nFrom Crikey
\nWhether Morrison and his gang are aware of the damage they are doing is unclear, but their shameless refusal to submit to the law is lethal to our democracy.
\nBridget McKenzie has gone temporarily to the backbench, felled not by her facilitating the government\u2019s $150 million cash grab but for failing to declare her membership of a gun club that was awarded grants.
\nOtherwise, the prime minister tells us, his\u00a0departmental secretary\u00a0found no evidence of wrongdoing, despite the acres of evidence that the Australian National Audit Office had already found and reported.
\nA misdemeanour, picked out with tweezers from the neck-deep muck.
\nBut we can\u2019t see the secretary\u2019s report; it\u2019s secret.
\nAnd, the prime minister tells us, the Attorney-General Christian Porter \u201cdisagrees\u201d with the Australian National Audit Office\u2019s conclusion that the sports grants program was executed without valid legal authority.
\nBut we can\u2019t see Porter\u2019s advice; it\u2019s secret.
\nMeanwhile, the\u00a0Angus Taylor affair\u00a0\u2014 in which a senior cabinet minister\u2019s office used a fake document to try to discredit the Sydney lord mayor \u2014 ended last week when the federal police (AFP) announced that it isn\u2019t going to even bother investigating.
\nBecause it\u2019s not serious enough.\u00a0And Taylor had apologised already.\u00a0And that\u2019s that.
\nThey all do it
\nYes, but in the past, when they were caught, there were consequences. (think Paddington Bear and colour TV)
\nIn the art supply world, businesses are going broke and then re-opening. No consequences.
\nThis villager wants consequences for poor social behaviour.
\nDavid Williamson and emotion
\nFrom the John Menadue Blog
\nThe political parties of the Left often still hold to the Enlightenment belief that we are rational creatures \u2013 that the person who has the best evidence based argument will win the debate. Sadly, as long as they do they\u2019ll keep losing.
\nIt\u2019s only recently that brain imagining studies have shown how much of our actions stem not from our frontal lobes, where rational calculations take place, but from the deeper emotional centres of our brains. In a great number of cases it\u2019s been conclusively shown that those emotional centres have already decided on a course of action before that decision is even registered in our frontal cortex.
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\nScott Morrison knew, deep in his marketing psyche that we aren\u2019t rational creatures. That we\u2019re more fearful and much more susceptible to emotional string pulling than rational creatures ever would be.
\nI had my first inkling that Labor was going to lose the night before the election. I was in a taxi and I asked the driver if he would be pleased, that if Labor won, the unconscionable tax lurks available to the rich, (Some of which I\u2019ve benefitted from) would be stopped and the money saved go to those who need it. I wasn\u2019t prepared for the vehemence of his reply. \u201cI couldn\u2019t give a shit,\u201d he replied. \u201cI\u2019m on the breadline and all that matters to me is that I can keep my head above water. Labor will fuck the economy. All I care about is jobs and growth!\u201d
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