And, if the #AUKUS tier one debacle ins’t muddy enough for us lay people and tax payers, here is yet more #Double-talk from our #Secretive #DefenceProcurement, #Minister and #LaborMP.

Make of it what you will, but I’ll venture to say that we will not know the truth of it all until sometime hence when an #AmyRemeikis of the future writes a revelatory book about those #RustBuckets #HandMeDowns #SSN boats we are now likely to get from the USN.

Nothing stinks like #ScottyFromMarketing smell… now where did I store that gas mask I used during the #Moretorium protests?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/ed-husic-calls-for-aukus-deal-rethink-submarines/106750234

#AusPol

#AmyRemeikis in her column for #DeepCutNews dot com has taken aim at the #ParliamentaryPressGallery for their #BrokenPromisse obsession and the way in which they tune the political narrative to suit their antiquated journalism.

“voters are not only aware the Albanese government broke a promise to not change CGT and negative gearing, but are marking it down for it. But dig deeper into the data and it turns out that the changes are either welcomed or neutral. So it’s not the changes then, but the narrative.

Media in this context love to see themselves as neutral, when the exact opposite is true. The reason the promise exists in the first place is because of the game of rule in, rule out that journalists and commentators love to play during election campaigns.

Once something has been ruled out, it is expected to always be ruled out. This is in part in response to questions the community is asking, but it’s mostly about what the Canberra clique is obsessed with — because it is only ever the promises that the press gallery care about which get attention.”

Amy tells it like it is: “The press gallery is whiter and wealthier than most of the population. Journalism is increasingly the domain of the wealthy, which means the journalists who cover politicians share the same networks.” And alleges that the Gallery doesn’t reflect our society or public opinion. With self-interests disconnected from the electorate at large, is it any wonder our msm is all fucked up and nought but a #CentreRight #PropagandaMachine?

Read more:
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/behind-the-broken-promise-frenzy

This is an interesting article with many vaild points made about the Budget, its delivery and its promotion before legislation is tabled in parliament. It is another comment (apart from #AmyRemeikis and a few others) on #AlboPM ‘s rather ascerbic and dismissive style of communication. To me, it is just another nail in the coffin of his career. I reckon Albo will lead Labor for another term but unless there is a substantial behavioural change (which I wager is unlikely), he will face a leadership challenge before the end of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/23/australia-labor-federal-budget-tax-reform-explanation-albanese

#Labor #AusPol

Words of wisdom from #AmyRemeikis:

“There is very little curiosity outside of the business pages about why Rinehart is doing this (Sarah Martin at the Guardian a noted exception). Context has very rarely been a forte of mainstream media, which tends to see adding in historical facts and events in their total context as rubbing up against their ideas of ‘objectivity’. That’s always been a problem, but it’s becoming an increasing threat to our democracy, with legacy media – not just in Australia, but also in the US and the UK – showing itself incapable of handling a backslide in democracy, partly because it doesn’t see context and proper analysis of power as necessary.”
Source: https://www.deepcutnews.com

#ThisIsNotJournalism

A thoughtful piece from #AmyRemeikis in The Point.

I would only argue that #fuel prices were not the main reason for the #RBA disastrous decision to raise the #CashRate to 4.1%. Bullock herself started her press conference with “the labour market’ is too tight. IOW, the RBA is considering low empoyment figures (seemingly arbritrarily so, the same as their arbitrary acceptable inflation window percentage) to be the cause for the underlying inflation (which is nowhere to be seen in the latest data, see Greg Jericho’s many articles on the matter).

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260324-soaring-petrol-prices-have-exposed-a-rotten-core-in-australia

"So strap in. We are about to see the worst of Australian politics, normalised. And that makes us all losers."

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/01/17/coalition-one-nation-sussan-ley

#auspol #amyremeikis

Another excellent article by Amy. Pointing out the #gaslighting our federal government continues to do to us.
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When ‘common sense’ cuts are code for a cruel con job
#amyremeikis #ndis #capitalgains #aukus #fossilfuel #labor

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/12/03/ndis-cuts-albanese-govt

‘We have reached the end of the political year with Labor pushing forward environmental protection laws that benefit the mining industry, refusing to implement gambling ad reforms but banning teenagers from social media, sacking scientists, cosying up to authoritarian babymen, actively harming the unemployed, tightening spending on public health while throwing money at uncertain defence contracts, criticising and condemning…’ #labor #amyremeikis

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2025/11/22/labor-power-courage-government