Flip-flop flap: Morrison hits trifecta with about-face on super
A triumphant Malcolm Turnbull, July 13:
We’ve won the election, that’s the mandate. All of our policies that we took to the election we will deliver.
The Prime Minister on his mooted superannuation changes, Adelaide radio 5AA, June 3:
It is absolutely iron-clad.
Er, yes, about that. The Australian website reports, yesterday:
Workers will face a new limit of $100,000 a year on their contributions to super from their after-tax income or savings in the biggest single change to the government’s controversial tax changes. The new approach replaces the divisive proposal for a $500,000 “lifetime cap” on the non-concessional contributions, an idea announced on May 3 but bitterly opposed by parts of the super industry, some wealthier workers and Coalition MPs.
Scott Morrison, news conference, yesterday:
I’m not an enemy of aspiration by Australians. Raising your children, paying off your home and providing for yourself in retirement — they are a trifecta of Australian dreams that we believe in.
What? No world revolution? The Sydney Morning Herald editor Ben Cubby tweets about the Treasurer’s trifecta (while taking a dim view of his would-be readers), yesterday:
What a banal country.
At least the Greens are gunning for change, right? Waleed Aly, The Age website, yesterday:
(The Greens are) unashamedly pro-diversity, pro-equality, pro-tolerance, pro-refugee and anti-privilege.
So diverse! So anti-privilege! The Australian, April 11 last year:
Analysis of election results … reveals the secret of the Greens’ success appears to be the party’s appeal to atheists and the well-off.
So pro-refugee! The Australian, May 20:
Greens leader Richard Di Natale, who is campaigning to more than triple the nation’s humanitarian intake from 13,750 to 50,000 people, lives in the Surf Coast local government area, close to Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. The area settled fewer than five refugees from 2010 to last year … In Victoria, Greens MP Adam Bandt is campaigning to be re-elected to the inner-city electorate of Melbourne. His local government area of Moonee Valley took only 151 refugees over five years.
What would we do without experts? Madonna King, The Age, yesterday:
So, the latest expert education advice is that single-sex schools are a waste of time.
Can we make up our minds, please? Headline, The Age website, Wednesday:
Girls learn better without boys.
This whole debate is so gender normative. Ivy-Jane Browne asks, won’t somebody think of the teachers? Sydney Morning Herald, August 29:
By excluding trans teachers from the classroom, you are sending the message that the learning environment is not accepting of transgender people, you are denying trans students and other gender diverse students with the right to feel safe.
Meanwhile in the US … Retired general Colin Powell on Hillary Clinton and gossip about her husband reported in the New York Post:
A 70-year-old person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home.