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0 pointsdarkteflon5y ago0 comments

I was surprised to see Michael McCormack in charge this week. I always thought Morrison was acting PM?

I’ll get my coat.

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dwd5y ago· 2 in thread

As much as I dislike Morrison, he's done an alright job keeping the economy ticking over by throwing money at it as needed. Probably better him than a Labor Gov as you would have had nothing but endless politicking about them turning the country into a welfare state, etc, etc.

You wouldn't have noticed McCormack in charge but for him opening his mouth and spouting some retarded crap (about COVID19) and some very poorly thought out and articulated comments on BLM vs the Capital insurrection. The only person I think mostly has the right of it as far as comparing the two and the police responses was Sam Harris from his last podcast.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/230-insurrection-lies/

darkteflonOP5y ago

Completely agree. Also very proud of my home state Premier, Dan Andrews, for showing backbone when people needed it. Don’t agree with everything he did without qualification, but I’d vote for him again.

All in all Aus put in a solid performance with this pandemic - one of the best, I reckon, and markedly better than that of Japan, where I currently reside.

dwd5y ago

Dan did alright. My parents (lifelong Liberal voters) had nothing but praise for him and his daily stand ups. He did well to bring it back from the brink at the time and the rest of the country got a good lesson in how quickly it can take off. Dan just needs to stop doing dumb shit like sign up for Belt and Road funding.

I'm in Qld and the response/outcome so far has been better than New Zealand's (with comparable population size).

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