Abbott’s recently offered excuses for his political demise- colleagues, the Deep State, unelected bureaucrats- mirror those offered by Liz Truss -neither prepared to admit their massive policy failures.

Very sorry to see Michael Rowland leave ABC News Breakfast -my daily initial news feed . His hallmarks were grace and decency . Congratulations Michael on 15 Great years .

LNP have lost out with the campaign funding reforms. Sure they got the discrimination against independents that they wanted, but ALP gets serious carve outs for unions-uncapped donations/affiliation fees to Labor’s admin a/c and each union can spend up to $11m on their own adds

Example-Dutton’s reckless arrogance and opportunistic hypocrisy in now opposing govt. Legislation to limit foreign student numbers having long called for it and blamed them for almost all our economic ills.

R.I.P. Matt Peacock An outstanding journalist and ABC Director .

@Kate_McClymont @rgloveroz Very sorry to see one of the most respected go.

Populism going mad - Greens want govt to set interest rates . The Nats want tax free beer. Hang commonsense, history and the national interest.

A disgrace. The opposition blocking the reform of the Reserve Bank as part of their silly political game claiming Chalmers is “at war” with the Bank -overriding the recommendations of an independent Review panel of experts . Grossly irresponsible-nothing constructive to offer.

Very concerning that early explanations for the Tories landslide loss in the UK include that they” were not conservative enough”,. A clear indication of just how out of touch they had become.

It’s good that Julian Assange is home. We are supposed to help our fellow Australians in need globally. Would be good to see the successful prosecution of those who have committed the war crimes he exposed.

Dutton claims a strategy to win back seats lost to Teals . Abandoning Paris Agreement with no effective climate policy is the gift that keeps giving -grossly irresponsible and against our national interests.

Opposition now claims to still be committed to Net Zero by 2050 intermediate targets are important as adjustment needs to be front-end loaded . Can’t wait to 2049 and hope to meet target.

Opposition decision to scrap the2030 emissions reduction target if elected , no surprise. Have been arguing that we will need nuclear power to meet our emissions targets but on the CSIRO evidence that couldn’t be installed by 2030. Read - they have no answer. Mugged by reality.

Disturbing to see Taylor out in the media salivating over what he likes to call a household recession . Still no hint of what he would do about it.

@strangerous10 I couldn’t believe how unprepared Taylor was

What an irony Dutton Opposition demanding detail of CSIRO calculations of cost and timing disadvantages of Nuclear power having failed to provide any detail of their nuclear power strategy . What a joke . Their position is fanciful nonsense

R.I.P. Ignatius Jones -a wonderful talent.

Time for more fairness in Budget. Need a commitment to a forward timetable to increase jobseeker and youth allowance . Could be funded by restricting or abolishing negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions that conspicuously favour the wealthy .

@MLoParis @padders001 @SatPaper Suggest you take a look at CSIRO data and assessment.

@Cranky_Old_Guy @SatPaper Ihave no such investments although I have advised on many projects