Paul Bongiorno
Columnist at The Saturday Paper
Columnist for The Saturday Paper and regular ABC Nightlife commentator, veteran political journalist. His views contestable but his own.
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6 days ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Paul Bongiorno
Labor has entered the Easter holiday period with the wind in its sails, although insiders worry that the break may allow the Coalition to right its flailing campaign. These concerns are based more on memories of shock losses in the recent past than on any evidence that the Dutton opposition can lift its game dramatically in the final two weeks before the election. The nervousness is akin to the post-traumatic stress disorder the party suffered after the 2019 election defeat.
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1 week ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Paul Bongiorno
All elections turn on competence in political and economic management. Undermine voters’ confidence in either – or, worse, both – and the chances of success are seriously diminished. That is the situation Peter Dutton finds himself in at the end of the second week of the campaign. It is hard to recall an opposition leader in the past three decades so unceremoniously abandoning a key policy just one week into an election campaign.
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2 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Paul Bongiorno
There is not a politician in the country who isn’t nervous about May 3, but there are growing concerns in the Coalition in particular about its disheartening start to the campaign. Peter Dutton, who has mostly managed not to make the opposition the issue, has been caught wanting as the spotlight turns on him as the alternative prime minister. No longer is the election a referendum on Labor’s incumbency. It is now a stark choice between Dutton’s prescriptions and Anthony Albanese’s.
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3 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Paul Bongiorno
Jim Chalmers insisted in the budget lock-up news conference that his fourth effort was primarily about economics and not politics, a claim that didn’t really convince his audience. As Paul Keating was wont to do, the treasurer insisted good economics is always good politics. Winning that argument, of course, largely depends on your politics. The economy, though stuck in anaemic growth, is growing.
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1 month ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Paul Bongiorno
At a convivial lunch in a Canberra restaurant three weeks ago, one of John Howard’s most trusted advisers shared his wisdom on the best election timing for Anthony Albanese. “I know what John Howard and I would do,” the political veteran said. “We’d deliver the scheduled March budget, note Peter Dutton’s formal reply, dismiss it as the worst effort since Federation and immediately call the poll.”As fate would have it, Tropical Cyclone Alfred delivered the opportunity for this scenario to play out.
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So climate vandal Peter Dutton promises to scrap fuel efficiency standards - standards that Ford Ranger utes in Trump’s USA already meet - besides cutting dangerous emissions the fuel efficiency saves these drivers thousands of dollars in running costs.
RT @markgkenny: I remember writing it for the Herald and Age straight from the Coalition’s first budget papers in 2014 https://t.co/UYQh53U…
RT @markgkenny: If the proposed efficiency minister (Trump ™️) can’t name specific areas of waste to be cut, perhaps her pretend ministry (…