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Policies to make Turnbull look good

Reader Peter of Bellevue Hill:

Of note in Sid Maher’s story yesterday on Turnbull wanting to mess with negative gearing before being rolled in cabinet:





One theory put to The Australian yesterday was Mr Turnbull was keen to pursue the change [to negative gearing] as a counter to attacks on his wealth and improve his status with lower and middle-income earners.

No thought about whether the policy change would be disastrous: it was all about how it would...

Negative gearing cuts: Turnbull was for it before he was against it

A leader saved from himself, left free to argue against what he actually thought wasn’t that bad:

Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison argued in cabinet to tighten negative gearing concessions but were later rolled in a key economic committee by ministerial supporters of Tony Abbott who wanted “clean hands’’ to attack Bill Shorten’s crackdown.

Labor will seize on the revelations — contained in a new book, The Turnbull Gamble by The Australian’s Peter van...

Rudd wants global waffle to save the UN

I can’t say it’s much of an agenda, with a dash of identity politics and another summit of the kind that Kevin Rudd tried here with complete lack of success:

It is Kevin Rudd’s manifesto to cure the world’s ills - how he might have built a “Team UN”, if only Malcolm Turnbull had not stood in the way of his quest to become the next secretary-general.

In a report that offers a fascinating insight into what might have been, Mr Rudd, now describing himself as...

Book has Bellini by the Harbour

The book’s amazing world tour continues. Now reader Mary Lou enjoys the book with a Bellini in her back yard in Sydney:

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ON SATURDAY: I’ll be speaking at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas The topic: How Many Dangerous Ideas Can One Person Have? I...

Why does Dastaryi get the Chinese to pay his bills?

This really is odd - an MP passing on his bills to a company with links to the Chinese regime:

Labor frontbencher Sam Dastiyari plans to donate more than $1600 to charity after it was revealed he asked a Chinese donor to foot his bill after he exceeded his travel allowance.

Senator Dastiyari admitted the sum of $1670.82 had been paid by the Top Education Institute, a Sydney-based Chinese higher education provider…

Fairfax said a Finance Department invoice...

Kalgoorlie race riot

The “reconciliation” industry is inciting a us-vs-them racial resentment that has become violent:

Police riot squads have been pelted with rocks and bottles outside Kalgoorlie Courthouse, which has been forced into lockdown as tensions boil over after the alleged manslaughter of a 14-year-old Indigenous boy.

Teenager Elijah Doughty died on Monday morning after the scooter he was riding, which was reported stolen on Sunday and was linked to the...

Why we build the world’s most expensive buildings

Employment Minister Michaelia Cash on the need to bring back the Australian Building and Construction Commission to tackle rogue unions:

At the end of last month, there were more than 100 representatives of the [Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union] before the courts, which in recent years have imposed fines of more than $8.25 million on this union and its officials for proven breaches of the law....

The rate of industrial action in the...

Banning ourselves into the stone age

Like I said on my show last night, this is mad:

[Victorian] Premier Daniel ­Andrews announced that fracking and controversial coal-seam gas drilling would be banned under legislation to be introduced this year.

The announcement was coupled with an extension of a moratorium on drilling for “conventional” onshore gas until June 30, 2020.

What makes it even madder are all the other bans Victoria’s Socialist Government is imposing on sources of cheap and...

Another Flannery fail: geothermal project scrapped

Another green energy fail:

A potential energy source in Australia is set to remain untapped, with a geothermal power project in the far north of South Australia now closed.

Energy company Geodynamics closed and remediated the sites of several test wells and generation plants in the Cooper Basin after deciding they were not financially viable.

So who spruiked it? Climate catastrophist Tim Flannery:

There are hot rocks in South Australia that...

“Racist,” cried defenders of 18C, blind to the Aboriginal leader demanding reform, too

Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has now got 20 Senators to co-sign his bill demanding changes to the Racial Discrimination Act to restore free speech - but racists on social media object:

Crossbench senators Bob Day, David Leyonhjelm and Derryn Hinch and One Nation’s four new senators are also backing the bill, prompting suggestions on social media the issue was being pursued by 20 “white” people.

But the head of the Prime Minister’s indigenous advisory...