This Morning Is Amazing And So Are You
A disaster of Biblical proportions was now overtaking the country.
Thousands of communities across the country were struggling to deal with the consequences of the government's insane over-reaction and mismanagement of the Covid "threat".
If we came through to you with a begging bowl, if you threw the people onto their knees, if you destroyed their livelihoods and their independence from the state, if you controlled every last moment of their waking hours, then they might as well be robots.
Already many were just place mats waiting for the next evolution; to be replaced by machines which could do their work better and far more efficiently.
We were entering a new era, and the question became, what to do with all those surplus people? Those "superfluous" men?
Fools gold. Fools paradise. There was no choice, they said. But there had been every choice. They talked of the coming apocalypse, but they themselves had created it.
Thousands would be out there on the road, in those desperate times. We would walk among them.
As for the perpetrators of the crime, they would retire to their wealthy enclaves, and live out their lives in shame; if they were even capable of such insight.
In a country where nothing worked; where, for ordinary people, the vast majority of the population, nothing worked.
Not the internet, not their lives, not the electricity networks, not the transaction between individual and the state, nothing.
The government wasn't even capable of organising the unemployment queues. And no amount of grandstanding on other people's money, no number of multi-billion dollar announcements in front of cameras and tame journalists, was ever going to alter that fact.
HEADLINES:
Health Editor at The Australian Natasha Robinson says it was “rather foolish” for Australian health authorities to set such a high target for vaccinations initially. “I think it is quite unfortunate that they set that target of sort of around four million people vaccinated by early April,” Ms Robinson told Sky News. “They initially said by end of March, and then that changed to early April.” She said there is “absolutely no way” that target would be reached; there is 100,000 people vaccinated at the moment and “it’s already almost mid-March”. “I think that was rather sort of foolish that they set that four million mark as a target for early April”. Ms Robinson said it gives a perception where people wonder “what’s going wrong with the rollout”. “I think that’s a really unhelpful narrative.”
800,000 half-price plane tickets on offer from April 1 in tourism lifeline
Hundreds of thousands of cheap airline tickets will be offered by the federal government to encourage Australians to holiday in regions still reeling from COVID, as part of a new tourism package to fill gaps left by the end of JobKeeper.
A $1.2 billion package, to be formally announced on Thursday, will see new support aimed at the aviation and hospitality sectors, as well as an extension of a loan program for small and medium businesses that are being weaned off the JobKeeper wage subsidy.
With JobKeeper to end on March 31, the government has been under pressure to extend the program, or announce substantial support for sectors not yet fully recovered from the pandemic and associated lockdowns.
“This is our ticket to recovery,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.
Boss of law firm MinterEllison reportedly steps down over Christian Porter furore
Annette Kimmitt emailed 2,500 staff apologising for any ‘pain’ after a lawyer at the firm took the attorney general as a client
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The chief executive of MinterEllison has reportedly stepped down, after a furore erupted about the law firm representing Christian Porter.
Annette Kimmitt will leave the firm in coming months, the Australian Financial Review reported, after the board told her that her position was no longer tenable after a meeting on Tuesday.
Kimmitt sent an email to the firm’s more than 2,500 staff last week after learning that one of its most experienced lawyers, Peter Bartlett, was representing Porter, who last week identified himself as the cabinet minister at the centre of a rape allegation, which he categorically denied.
She apologised for any “pain” caused by the decision to take the attorney general on as a client, claiming that Bartlett had not gone through the proper approval process before taking the case and that she had only learned about his involvement from the media.