It looks like that our last right wing state government is in trouble.

Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockliff issues threat of early election to independent MPs Lara Alexander and John Tucker.

Will it survive?

It seems that our local federal MP was on the piss yet again.

A bizarre video showing Barnaby Joyce saying “dead f**king c***” while laying on a footpath has emerged, with his wife weighing in.

Tassie's right wing government implodes as it couldn't get its way so the people will be going to the polls.

The Premier of Tasmania will call a snap election a year early.

Tasmanians will go to the polls more than a year early after Premier Jeremy Rockliff could not break a stalemate with two key crossbenchers.

Mr Rockliff will call on the Governor Barbara Baker on Wednesday and then announce the date for the next state election, which was not due till mid-next year.

The Liberal Party has been in minority government since May 2023 when two MPs – John Tucker and Lara Alexander – quit the party to sit on the cross benches.

The pair had an agreement with Mr Rockliff to guarantee his government supply and confidence.

But the Premier wanted a tighter agreement after they supported opposition motions and criticise his government, including sending minister Guy Barnett to the privileges committee.....

The more you tighten your grip the more things slip through your fingers.

Barnaby comes up with a new excuse for his last drunken escapade, but his boss isn't happy.

David Littleproud urges Barnaby Joyce to take leave after he 'embarrassed himself' in late-night video.

And I have no idea why the people around here actually vote for this drunk.

How many more of these "black holes" has our incompetent ex right wing government left behind to be found?

$20 billion funding ‘hole’ in troubled Hunter warships, Labor claims.

It seems that everything that they touched has became a financial blowout.

It's no wonder that they got us into almost a trillion dollars of debt when they can't do the numbers.

Angus Taylor says personal income tax increased by a 'record' 27 per cent in the first 18 months of the Albanese government. Is that correct? : Overblown.

At least that debt is now getting paid down instead of continuing to go upwards while 83% of a now much larger working force is better off as well so it just goes to show just who can't do their numbers correctly.

Is Barnaby finally going to address his long time drinking problem?

Joyce takes leave from parliament after encouragement from Nationals leader.

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce will not attend parliament this week, his party leader David Littleproud says, after being advised to take a break following a late-night incident in Canberra.

Mr Joyce was filmed laid out on a Canberra footpath on one of the city's bar and restaurant strips late one evening after a sitting day of parliament.

The former deputy prime minister apologised for what he called "a big mistake", blaming an interaction between alcohol and a medication he was taking.....

At least he had a new excuse this time and didn't have to resort to big dark sunglasses to coverup black eyes.

1 of our few ring wing pollies that had half a brain at least.

Malcolm Turnbull has labelled Donald Trump a “tyrant” and raised questions about Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.

Finally the lying scheming religious young punk finally does the right thing.

Former prime minister Scott Morrison has announced he will resign from parliament, ending almost two years of speculation.

It's just a shame that he couldn't do that a long time ago, but I wouldn't be surprised that he's jumped because another bad report on him and his dodgy government is coming.

At least his final speech was topical.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-68411764

Lord Voldemort and the Wicked Witch are at it again, but they still can't properly admit to their errors, which seems to be standard these days for the morally crippled right.

Dutton and Ley chastised for using immigration detainee's mistaken arrest ahead of Dunkley by-election.

When will they realise that this type of politics is exactly 1 of the reasons why they got turfed out of government to start with?

Our right wing coalition unveils a plan to cost us taxpayers even more $'s.

Coalition's plan to go nuclear puts five regions on the table as favoured locations for nuclear reactors.

There are just a handful of regions in Australia shaping up as the most likely candidates for the Coalition's proposal to install nuclear reactors in Australia, as the party eyes retiring coal stations as a way to go nuclear.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says he will be up front with voters about where the Coalition is looking to place potential nuclear reactors when the party announces its policy in coming weeks.

Speaking on Channel Seven on Tuesday morning, Mr Dutton confirmed the party was "interested" in replacing retiring coal plants with nuclear because the sites come ready with poles and wires to distribute power........

.....Australia also still has a total ban on nuclear energy in place, which the Coalition would have to win the support of parliament to lift even if it won government at the next federal election.

And there are a number of safety and technical requirements for installing any nuclear reactor, such as geological stability and a readily available source of water.

The national science agency CSIRO has estimated nuclear energy from small modular reactors (SMRs) — modern reactors built in a factory and then shipped to a site for installation — would also be more expensive than powering the grid through wind and solar.

The agency projected in its draft GenCost report that wind and solar would cost an average of $82 a megawatt hour by 2030, while SMR nuclear power would cost an average $282 by 2030.

Even if the nuclear ban was lifted tomorrow and a decision immediately taken to commission a nuclear reactor, CSIRO estimates the first SMR would not be in full operation before 2038, ruling it out of "any major role" in reaching net zero emissions by 2050.....

For a so called "fiscally responsible" mob they cost us 10's of billions of dollars over their last 9yrs in power and they want to do the same thing again, if they can ever get back in power. Talk about a bunch of morons.

I don't know enough about Australia's climate to make a decision. But in Europe there are plenty of recorded periods of several days when there has been no significant wind or solar generated, usually in the winter, and as it is unfeasible to store more than about 12 hours of energy in batteries. There has to be a core generating source of power.

The question has to be what type of power source is this going to be?

Presumably not carbon based fuels.
Hydro is not environmentally or wildlife friendly.
Therefore, can you name another source other than nuclear?

You have to remember that the climate here is pretty much the opposite of Europe and even on an overcast day my solar system will throw in a 30+ kw/hr day (up to almost 60kw/hr on a good summer's day) and doing road trips out west you can see how they shutdown wind turbines due to solar input coming online as well allowing those coal fuel generators to stay on (the wind rarely stops at anytime across the top of these mountains).

But we also have plans for old mining sites where disused pits can be used as pumped hydro batteries and old shafts used as gravity generators on top of other types of batteries and then there's that Snowy 2.0 that's getting back on the move again (though a 2nd borer could be brought in to catch up on lost time and all at a much greater cost than we were originally told).

There's also being some new developments in battery technology which even ATM I wouldn't mind having a 10'x10' container in my backyard to cover a few days worth of power, but I still have to pay this solar system off 1st before a battery comes along though by then they'd likely be even better and smaller (and I'm not talking about lithium battery jobs either).

We're not called the "Sun Burnt Country" for no reason and we do have the expertise to pull all of this off without nuclear even being considered, though we'll still sell uranium to allies that need it. ;-)

I don't know enough about Australia's climate to make a decision. But in Europe there are plenty of recorded periods of several days when there has been no significant wind or solar generated, usually in the winter, and as it is unfeasible to store more than about 12 hours of energy in batteries. There has to be a core generating source of power.

Add summer nights under high pressure conditions to the list. They call it the Central European High. Often in summer whole of Europe enjoys splendid sunny weather, with no wind at all. Then sun sets for a short but dark night. Sometimes such weather doesn't change for 14 days.

as for Australia: I learned there are vast areas in Central and Western Australia with on average stable strong enough winds over the course of an average year, completely different than in Europe.

After the Rozelle debacle and the revelations coming out of it our new Premier started off an inquiry and it has found that our previous right wing government not only set us taxpayers up for big cost overruns, but they also set up contracts to make us pay through the nose in tolls and create traffic chaos instead of fixing it.

Sydney motorists will pay $195 billion in tolls for projects that favour private companies over drivers, report finds.

The full report should be very interesting and likely more damning.

Sounds like you found a politician down there.

It really all boils down to a stingy conservative government trying to save a few bucks yet again by buying totally unsuitable for the purpose items.

The father of an airman killed in an MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crash has shared what he’s learnt about his son’s death and the ongoing anguish he faces.

Little Johnny Howard still has a great deal to answer for with his penny pinching ways during his time.

It just goes to prove how little was thought went into the rushed Snowy 2.0 project by our ex-right wing government as the problems and costs continue to grow.

Partial tunnel collapse at Snowy 2.0 construction site raises fresh safety concerns.

A fresh crisis has hit the beleaguered Snowy 2.0 hydropower project, with part of a tunnel collapsing and boring machine "Florence" once again struggling to progress through difficult geological terrain.

On Monday, "drill and blast" tunnelling activity in the main power cavern of the project caused a collapse in an adjacent tunnel, called the Main Access Tunnel.

Three sources connected to the construction project have told the ABC that concerns were raised before the collapse about the proximity of the drilling and blasting to that access tunnel.

The collapse raises questions about the safety procedures for tunnelling and why blasting for one tunnel was happening so close to another.

In a statement, Snowy Hydro said it had always planned for the cavern to connect to that part of the main access tunnel, but not that quickly........

.......The Tantangara construction site has been beset with problems ever since the tunnel boring machine there, named Florence, got bogged in soft ground for the better part of a year.

Now, Florence has struck new problems, but this time it is solid rock that is causing problems.

The hard rock Florence is currently boring through takes longer to grind and has meant the cutting heads have had to be frequently replaced, causing the entire operation to halt while that happens.......

But it's just 1 of many the right wing coalition's projects (at both state and federal levels) that have ended up in this way.

Lord Voldemort winds up with eggs on his face yet again.

Second man charged over Perth bashing revealed to be former immigration detainee released under Coalition's watch.

....After news of Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan's arrest, senior members of the federal opposition accused the government of failing Ms Simons and her husband Phil, who was tied up during the alleged attack.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Coalition now had questions to answer about its own decisions involving Seyed Younes Tahami, and its repeated demands for ministerial scalps as a result of the assault on Mr and Mrs Simons.

"The reports are very clear — of the three people that entered Ninette Simon's home and engaged in that brutal attack, one of the alleged perpetrators was someone released from detention when Peter Dutton was home affairs minister in 2020, who was not subject to any ongoing scrutiny, and that person has an extraordinary record of behaviour which is of enormous concern," Mr Albanese told reporters in Launceston on Saturday.

"It's up to Peter Dutton to explain how this occurred, why this occurred, and to reconcile the statements that have been made by shadow minister [James] Paterson, shadow minister [Dan] Tehan and Peter Dutton himself — how the statements that they've made this week can be reconciled with this fact.

"People will draw their own conclusions from the gap that is there between the Coalition's rhetoric on this and their actions when they were in government."

Seyed Younes Tahami was jailed in 2018 for drug possession, and his protection visa was cancelled in February 2019.

That decision was overturned in January 2020 by a bureaucrat in the Home Affairs department who was delegated the decision-making power by the minister of the day.

The Iranian man was released into the community and later charged with a number of other offences including theft, fraud and drug possession.........

I get convinced more each day that you have to completely delusional moron these days to be a right wing pollie.

I wonder what happened to all those cartons of $5 "Back in Black" coffee mugs that SloMo and Josh were sitting on to sell at $40 each when they reached this point that they came nowhere near too.

Triumphant Treasurer to announce back to back $9.3 billion surplus that eluded Scott Morrison.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to announce a back-to-back surplus of $9.3 billion on budget night for the first time in almost two decades.

As the government prepares to unveil energy bill relief, tax cuts and an extension of the instant asset write-offs for business, the Treasurer is set to claim a big prize that eluded his predecessors.

Despite the bizarre promises of the Morrison Government that the budget was “back in black” way back in 2019, Scott Morrison and his Treasurer Josh Frydenberg never delivered a surplus as forecast......