Ever since being dumped from the Prime
Ministership, Tony Abbott initially harboured a desire to become prime minister
again, but only had to be satisfied with the demise of the prime ministership
of Malcolm Turnbull. Losing his seat of Warringah at the last election seems to
have made him realise that the prime ministership is forever out of his grasp.
As a consequence of that and the demise of his marriage, he seems to be
The idiotic mindset of Donald Trump has
been on display for quite some time and it is epitomised by his call for
slowing down of testing for Covid-19 so there will be fewer cases recorded.
While he eventually tried to pass it off as sarcasm, he has stated it several
times and at another time said ‘I don’t kid’1. Trump is so bereft of
an inkling of understanding that if you decrease testing you will certainly
Craig Kelly has been the subject of derision
here before. His opinion that ancient photos are a reliable measure of sea level
rise1, and that Pacific atolls float on the ocean2, and
that climate change is not happening3, were astonishing. However, the
stupidity continues.
It is always useful to
see how far politics has sunk in Australia when you look at the response from
one major party when a member of the other major party is caught with their
fingers in the till, and then seeing how the first reacts when a member (or
members) of their own party is caught doing the same thing. The fact that
members of either major party get caught undertaking such nefarious activities
Scientists all over the world are
attempting to develop a vaccine for SARS-Cov2, the virus that causes Covid-19,
which, at the time of writing, has infected just over 22,638,000 people and
killed 792,106 of them1. One of the most promising vaccines,
apparently, is being developed at Oxford University, and the Covid-19 vaccine trial is being run by the
Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group. The team, who started work on
New Zealand had its first confirmed
Covid-19 case on February 26th, 2020. This case was a person who had
arrived from Iran, and their diagnosis was announced publicly on February 28th.
By that time the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had already announced (February
2) a ban on travellers from mainland China. By March 5th, the first case of
community transmission was demonstrated from the person who had returned from
Sophie Elsworth is the
‘national personal finance writer and columnist’ for News Corp according to her
own profile on Twitter1. She has published in the most egregious of
the Murdoch rags: The Daily Bellylaugh, The Hun and The Australian. This
morning (10/8/2020), it was announced by the Victorian Government that over the
last 24 hours, it had detected 322 new Covid-19 cases, and 19 people had died2.