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Stevens: this kind of reckless spending must stop

Glenn Stevens has tried his best, but do you see any sign from the Turnbull Government or Labor that his warning will be heeded?

David Uren:

Glenn Stevens has delivered a blunt warning that the nation cannot count on economic growth to fix the federal budget and says “we are kidding ourselves” that tough decisions can be avoided on cutting government spending.

In a plea before he ends his ­10-year term as Reserve Bank governor next month, Mr Stevens said...

Column - The truth they tried to punish Bill Leak for telling

THIS week proved cowards and hypocrites are using government power to destroy people trying to tell you a truth.

Worse, they are using that power to smear and silence people warning you some children are in terrible danger.

Last week, cartoonist Bill Leak, of The Australian, drew a cartoon in response to the media outrage over the alleged abuse of Aboriginal teenagers detained in the Northern Territory.

It showed an Aboriginal policeman lecturing a...

Column - Turnbull turned off

IT’S not fair to say Tuesday’s census fiasco was all the fault of this bumbling Turnbull Government, but when was politics fair?

For most Australians, the “agile” Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is responsible for what government does. Simple.

So his government will pay a high price for the cyber attacks that shut down the Australian Bureau of Statistics computers on Tuesday.

For a start, Turnbull has been made a laughing stock. Just minutes before the...

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UPDATE

My editorial from the latest The Bolt Report - on Malcolm Turnbull’s latest disaster:

Mind you, since that editorial two experts have told me the census meltdown may not have been the result of a denial-of-service attack but simply a huge demand that the Australian Bureau of Statistics somehow failed to predict. If the Government has not told the truth about this, the political fall-out could be even worse.

UPDATE

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On The Bolt Report and radio tonight

On The Bolt Report on Sky News Live at 7pm tonight: 

Editorial: Why the census debacle makes Turnbull a laughing stock.

My guests:

Technology commentator Trevor Long on how the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ computers were attacked. Do the excuses wash?

Liberal MP and former policeman Jason Wood on the Apex gang terrorising some of his electorate. Are police being honest enough?

On Straight Talk, Mark Latham.








The panel:...

Is there still time to replace Donald Trump?

He said what?

Trump was discussing the possibility that the Democratic nominee would be able to appoint liberal judges to the Supreme Court who would block gun rights if she wins the presidency.

“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment,” he said, amid boos from the crowd.

“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,” he added with a shrug.

“Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t...

What has Turnbull actually done? What’s his plan now?

Janet Albrechtsen wonders what Malcolm Turnbull has actually done in 11 months:

Turnbull has been Prime Minister for almost a year and still his government operates like a series of random, unconnected events. Almost a year on, too may people are still asking: what is the purpose of the Turnbull government? ...

Turnbull took the leadership from Tony Abbott in September last year because “the prime minister has not been capable of providing the economic...

Socialist Government spends money on a mate

The Socialist Left government of Victoria, already spending more than $160 million of taxpayer’s money on its union mates, now spends some extra to give another mate a job:

Former Labor senator Nova Peris has scored a role with the Victorian government to find ways to encourage Aboriginal children to play sport.

The Herald Sun reports Ms Peris, the first indigenous Australian to win a gold medal, has signed a one-year contract.

Her role will be to develop...

The census debacle

So who will lose their job over this? The census now is largely ruined, and $10 million wasted:

THE Australian Bureau of Statistics has blamed hackers for the embarrassing census website shutdown.

ABS chief statistician David Kalisch ... said the census website was targeted by hackers four times yesterday in DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks in which hackers flood a server with automated traffic.

The ABS is now working with the Australian...

Turnbull’s census crashes

I think this is really going to hurt the Turnbull Government:

In fact, it was just about then that computer said no:

It’s a very quick way to tell millions of Australians directly that you are simply not competent:

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ census site is struggling to deal with the volume of Australians attempting to log in and fill out the form online, with errors codes and messages appearing on screens across the country.

Today is the...