Not Trampis: November 2021

The decision on the base makes sense because they could kill australians. On the other hand no-one has stated anyone from hizballah is ever likely to kill anyone in Australia. Their total concentration is in the Middle East and fighting Israel. Thus it seems the only possible reason for this is to deny hizballah any funds from Australia.

Tuesday, 23 November 2021

Kevin Bonham on voter ID

Kevin Bonham ,a must read on polls, has an excellent article on the prosed new laws on voter ID.

A must read

Monday, 22 November 2021

Three simple low cost actions that can accelerate transition to zero emissions

David Leitch write a thought provoking article with the above title.

Although not in the first three he recommends a price on carbon. I totally agree. The reason is there is no can do capitalism. Pigou a long time ago showed up instances of where ,as in this case, there is negative externalities. The price of carbon does not have the effect of pollution or emissions in the price. Put it in and only then do you get can do capitalism.

Sunday, 21 November 2021

sound advice from Thomas Lumley

Thomas Lumley runs a wonderful blog called statschat.

his latest article is entitled vaccinate-for-the-holidays.

Short but sweet.

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Around the Traps 19/11/21

It is time again for Around the Traps

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,OyOy

Peter Martin on how-government-modelling-found-net-zero-would-leave-us-better-off, the-embarrassingly-easy-tax-free-way-for-australia-to-cut-the-cost-of-electric-cars
Melissa Tyler on australia-has-not-just-had-a-diplomacy-fail-it-has-been-devaluing-the-profession-for-decades
John Quiggin on government-assumes-90-of-australias-new-car-sales-will-be-electric-by-2050-but-its-a-destination-without-a-route
Michelle Grattan on -scott-morrison-caught-in-catch-22-over-the-issue-of-his-integrity
Phillip Adams on the-governments-net-zero-modelling-shows-winners-weve-found-losers-as-well
Antony Green on john-alexanders-retirement-opens-up-the-contest-in-bennelong
Bruce Mountain on i-chose-the-electricity-retailer-offering-the-best-deal-for-my-home-thats-not-what-i-got
Sussannah Patton on australia-relevant
croaking cassandra on a-cost-benefit-approach-to-thinking-about-vaccine-coercion, reserve-bank-people, 5-7-billion, lallys-paper-on-a-cost-benefit-analysis-of-covid-vaccine-mandates
renew economy on south-australia-curtailed-nearly-as-much-wind-and-solar-on-sunday-as-it-used, telstra-to-tap-1gw-of-batteries-and-abundant-dirt-cheap-clean-energy-in-big-new-play, taylor-concedes-key-government-policy-was-never-intended-to-cut-emissions, fossil-gas-hydrogen-could-lead-to-substantial-lift-in-emissions-and-higher-prices, south-australia-sets-stunning-new-benchmark-as-gas-output-halved-and-wind-at-record-highs
Dennis Muller on is-morrison-gaining-a-reputation-for-untrustworthiness-the-answer-could-have-serious-implications-for-the-election
Nadeem Samnakay on im-an-expert-in-what-makes-good-policy-and-the-morrison-governments-net-zero-plan-fails-on-6-crucial-counts
Chris Wallace on on-politics-as-performance-morrisons-advantage-is-ebbing-and-that-could-make-a-difference-at-the-next-election
Anna Boucher and Elisa Choy on cautiously-optimistic-chinese-students-keen-get-back-australia
Greg Jericho on no-wages-are-not-about-to-explode-they-are-struggling-to-keep-up-with-australias-inflation
Richard Holden on vital-signs-chill-this-weeks-news-on-wages-points-to-anything-but-hyperinflation
Robin Smit on we-must-rapidly-decarbonise-road-transport-but-hydrogens-not-the-answer
Institutional Economics on what-happened-to-the-mortgage-lending

Northern America

noahopinion on why-steel-tariffs-are-always-bad, inflation-is-up-but-the-inflation-truthers-are-still-wrong, try-patriotism, people-have-a-right-to-be-upset-about-inflation
Barkley Rosser on repeated-lying-about-lying
Tyler Cowen on assorted links ( go to 3) ,why-is-inflation-so-bad
New Deal Democrat on dear-democrats-yes-inflation-is-a-problem
Lili Loofbourow on trump-news-dropoff-democratic-action
the conversable economist on the-shifting-center-of-us-population-1790-2020
Uneasy Money on high-inflation-anxiety
Neil Lewis on why-many-americans-underestimate-who-is-most-concerned-about-the-environment
Clark Williams-Derry on the-goldilocks-predicament-for-oil-and-gas-there-are-no-just-right-prices

Europe

long and variable on team-transitory-vs-team-permanent
Mainly Macro on why-have-conservative-chancellors-since-Osborne-been-bad-for-households
Samantha Wong on brewing-crisis-bosnia-and-herzegovina
Masha Gessen on can-russias-press-ever-be-free
Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo on nord-stream-2-will-you-go-gazprom-me
stumbling and mumbling on frames-stories-and-political-change

Asia

David Goodman on xi-jinping-puts-his-stamp-on-communist-party-history-but-is-his-support-as-strong-as-his-predecessors
Bill Hare on are-you-kidding-india-your-last-minute-glasgow-intervention-wont-relieve-pressure-to-ditch-coal
David Hopkins on thailand-s-regressive-royal-insult-law
Tony Walker on xi-biden-meeting-is-cordial-but-will-anything-change-between-the-superpowers
Mubashar Hasan on minorities-under-attack-bangladesh
David Fawcett on myanmar-totalitarian-terror-shouldn-t-fly-our-watch
Johannes Nugroho on true-challenge-indonesia-s-large-informal-economy

Wonk

Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp on framing-globalisation
Menzie Chinn on some-useful-terms-in-economics
Tim Harford on christmas-i-had-it-wrapped-up-weeks-ago
stumbling and mumbling on the-decline-of-economics
the conversable economist on a-primer-on-nfts, the-bottleneck-story
Brad De Long on why-was-the-20th-century-not-a-chinese-century
Jake Bernstein on tax-havens-loopholes-for-kleptocrats
Simon Nicholas and Soroush Basirat on more-than-half-of-current-global-steel-production-may-have-already-reached-peak-carbon-emissions

General

Jack Feehan and Vasto Apostopolous on no-vaccinated-people-are-not-just-as-infectious-as-unvaccinated-people-if-they-get-covid
Brendan Chapman on how-do-police-forensic-scientists-investigate-a-case-a-clandestine-gravesite-recovery-expert-explains
Mathew Hayek and Jan Dutkiewicz on beyond-impossible-plant-based-vegetarian-meat-climate-environmental-impact-sustainability

Climate

Jeremy Moss on cop26-leaves-too-many-loopholes-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry-here-are-5-of-them
Simon Lewis and Mark Maslim on five-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-glasgow-climate-pact
David Appell on divergence-of-lower-troposphere-warming, nasa-giss-4th-warmest-october-warmest
Moyhu on giss-october-global-temperature-up-from-september
Open Mind on new-york-the-battery
and Then Theres Physics on the-hack-that-changed-the-world
Sally Thompson et al on deforestation-can-raise-local-temperatures-by-up-to-4-5-and-heat-untouched-areas-6km-away
Des smog on four-major-climate-denial-scare-tactics-twitter

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

Econometrics

nuttin

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading
Davis Kedronsky on the-book-of-t Thanks Tyler Cowen

Vox Wonk

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Inflation in America

No it is not a song.

Quite a few people are writing about it.

Tyler Cowen

A few linked Twitter pieces from Tyler A twitter conversation from Kruggers from Tyler

Noah Smith has three pieces

HERE
HERE
HERE

David Glasner

Great and interesting reading

Tuesday, 16 November 2021

We wil not make the World Cup

We were terrible against Japan, mediocre against Saudi Arabia and pedestrian against China.

We do not have the cattle. There are NO players in the major leagues such as the EPL, La Liga etc.

We have little industry. We rarely create goal scoring chances. Moy is past his best or needs more matches and Rogic has never delivered on his potential.

Arnie has little idea in terms of strategy not in his use of substitutes.

Both out fullbacks are weaknesses, we cannot play out from the back ( although Soutar is a major offender) and both Mabil and Boyle play on the wrong side of the field.

If we finish 3rd we might best the third team in the other group but we will not go further.

Arnie is somewhat unlucky in becoming coach when the quality of our players is so low but he has not got the team to play better as a team. They have always been loose at the back and nothing has changed.

The onlt god news is that Qatar is likely to be a world cup we are likely to forget for all sorts of reasons.

Monday, 15 November 2021

Some random thoughts on the next federal election

We are currently in a 'phony' election campaign. This was begun by Morrison because he is behind in the polls. Even allowing for their failure in the last election. going hand in hand with this is the testing of some slogans which have their birth in focus groups. This phony campaign entails risks. I have no access to any polling used by parties but it used to be the case people hated campaigns real or phony and only put up with them because an election had been called. Blatantly campaigning as Morrison is with helmets and vests ubiquitous could put off the very people Morrison wats to get back.

Morrison in the last election was essentially a new PM. We di not know much about him. although some say he is a great campaigner few said that in the last campaign. Only after the Libs won was the 'wisdom' accepted. For example he 'lost both the debates. However he now has a record to defend and also a reputation for being a gaslighter. He is poor under pressure and just remember it was Bill Shorten not he that was under pressure last election.

He is clearly vulnerable on climate change and he has tried to counter with policies that do not stack up

Another interesting aspect is both the Government and Opposition call the government the Morrison/Joyce government. either Joyce is an asset or he is not. We shall see. Just on Joyce he got less of the vote than McCormack. Hmm

Clearly Morrison is trying the same tactics as last election. Can a big spending government scare the electorate about a big spending opposition? Joyce for example was positively dyslexic when asked how interest raters would rise if the ALP were in government.

One interesting aspect of the last election is no-one knows why the result occurred. Clearly the Opposition is spooked by that loss and the Leader who is supposedly left wing has totally ditched policies without knowing their impact on the electorate.

I shall also put on the record the ALP needs to win. NO party should be in for more than two terms and this government has already shown they are heavily into rorts to win elections.

Sunday, 14 November 2021

Large fiscal debts does not imp[ly fiscal dominance

That is the title of THIS article.

Very interesting

Saturday, 13 November 2021

Marshall Tucker Band

Toy Caldwell the guitarist in this band never played with a pick but was one of the best.

Enjoy.

Thursday, 11 November 2021

Around the Traps 12/11/21

It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

Terry Hughes and Sean Connolly on 5-major-heatwaves-in-30-years-have-turned-the-great-barrier-reef-into-a-bleached-checkerboard
John Hawkins on rba-says-we-are-in-a-w-shaped-recovery-with-housing-one-of-the-few-concerns
Ian Ramsey and Lloys Freeburn on australian-companies-are-facing-more-climate-focused-esg-resolutions-than-ever-before-and-they-are-paying-quiet-dividends
Natasha Yates on we-can-expect-more-colds-and-flu-as-covid-restrictions-lift-5-germs-to-look-out-for
Michael Rose on closing-the-loophole-a-minimum-wage-for-australias-farm-workers-is-long-overdue
Ross Gittins on masterpiece-spin-is-morrisons-plan-to-reach-net-zero-is-dizzying, interest-rates-definitely-to-rise-sometime-maybe
Kevin Bonham on poll-roundup
renew economy on the-highs-and-lows-of-australias-increasingly-variable-energy-market, scott-morrison-is-hiding-behind-future-technologies-when-we-should-just-deploy-what-already-exists, cheaper-cleaner-more-reliable-the-stunning-success-of-south-australias-renewable-transition, scott-morrisons-hopeless-spin-and-failure-on-electric-vehicles, rooftop-solar-smashes-output-records-in-all-australian-states, nsw-formally-declares-australias-first-renewable-energy-zone
Sian Troth on sinking-trust
Peter Martin on economically-2022-looks-like-an-ideal-time-for-a-government-to-land-re-election
Victoria Stead on australia-needs-better-working-conditions-not-shaming-for-pacific-islander-farm-workers
Croaking Cassandra on the-beehive-will-have-been-happy-i-suppose, productivity-commission-at-sea
Graeme Readfearn on do-angus-taylors-carbon-capture-and-storage-claims-stack-up
Erin Hurley on australia-and-american-far-right-conspiracy
Richard Holden on vital-signs-marketing-is-getting-in-the-way-of-markets-that-could-get-us-to-net-zero
Robyn Eckersly on the-australian-way-how-morrison-trashed-brand-australia-at-cop26
Dane Moores on australia-s-aid-ambition-should-rise-its-geo-political-status
Institutional economics on the-rbas-thesaurus-of-inaction
Adrian Blundell-Wignall on the-cash-hit-list-to-counter-climate-change
Ketan Joshi on scott-morrisons-net-zero-modelling-reveals-a-slow-lazy-and-shockingly-irresponsible-approach-to-climate-action

Northern America

Menzie Chinn on long-lived-negative-consequences-of-steel-tariffs, macro-implications-of-bbb-and-iija-implications, a-fiscal-cliff-scenario-a-symposium-of-views-in-the-international-economy
new deal democrat on a-very-strong-report-putting-to-rest-questions-about-the-strength-of-the-expansion
Brad De Long on why-all-the-inflation-worries
the time of monsters on orbans-outreach, gop-values
Zack Beauchamp on north-carolina-redistricting-gerrymandering-2021-2022
538 on exit-polls-cant-always-explain-why-voters-vote-the-way-they-do
the conversable economist on when-residential-real-estate-turned-commercial-working-from-home, state-level-health-and-income-a-puzzle
calculated risk on cleveland-fed--cpi-measures
Mark Stern on supreme-court-gerrymandering-texas-wisconsin-north-carolina
Uri Friedman on joe-biden-foreign-policy
Robert Kuttner on bringing-the-supply-chain-back-home
noahopinion on inflation-is-real-now-its-up-to-the-fed
Geoffrey Skelley on resist-the-pundits-what-the-2021-elections-can-and-cant-tell-us-about-2022

Europe

Mainly Macro on the-malversation-of-this-government-is-not-a-surprise
Ellie Martus on can-climate-laggards-change-russia-like-australia-first-needs-to-overcome-significant-domestic-resistance
Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo on forest-trees-trouble-poland-belarus-border
La Campagne on french-right-crossroads Thanks Brad

Asia

Jen Kirby on iran-nuclear-deal-biden-raisi-jcpoa-sanctions
noahopinion on what-if-xi-jinping-just-isnt-that-competent
Tony Walker on chinas-sixth-plenum-will-consolidate-xi-jinpings-power-and-chart-the-countrys-ambitions-for-the-next-5-years
Chulanee Attanayake on india-s-answer-china-s-ports-sri-lanka
Shaun Cameron on china-rejecting-rubbish

Wonk

Tim Harford on how-to-make-the-algorithms-serve-us-not-the-other-way-around
the conversable economist on dementia-a-public-policy-challenge, women-in-economics-another-part-of-the-story
stumbling and mumbling on working-less
Uneasy Money on the-explanatory-gap-and-mengerian-subjectivism, more-on-arrows-explanatory-gap-and-the-milgrom-stokey-argument
Henry Storey on do-comprehensive-strategic-partnerships-matter
noahopinion on the-metaverse-and-near-infinite-economic-growth
Peter Dorman on money-illusion-in-twenty-first-century
John Hawkins on what-is-bitcoins-fundamental-value-thats-a-good-question
Macromania on run-proof-stablecoins

General

John Grant on the-moons-top-layer-alone-has-enough-oxygen-to-sustain-8-billion-people-for-100-000-years
Chloe Yap et al on gut-bacteria-dont-cause-autism-autistic-kids-microbiome-differences-are-due-to-picky-eating

Climate

open mind on new-kid-on-the-beach
and Then Theres Physics on the-concept-of-net-zero
Moyhu on october-global-surface-templs-up-0114-from-september
David Appell on some-basic-evidence-for-manmade-climate-change
Umair Irfan on cop26-un-climate-change-glasgow-scotland-obama
Climate Citizen on guest-post-shipping-emissions-must-fall
John Quiggin on take-heart-at-whats-unfolded-at-cop26-in-glasgow-the-world-can-still-hold-global-heating-to-1-5
skeptical science on tiny leaks big impacts
Anna Hurliman et al on cop26-cities-create-over-70-of-energy-related-emissions-heres-what-must-change
Christian Barry and Garret Cullity on big-business-greenwash-or-a-climate-saviour-carbon-offsets-raise-tricky-moral-questions
Phillippa Barr on what-climate-change-means-mosquito-borne-diseases

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

Econometrics

econometric sense on causal-decision-making-with-non-causal-models

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

Joshua Black on book-review-sean-kellys-the-game-a-portrait-of-scott-morrison

Vox Wonk

Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Noah asks a real good question about China

Noah Smith of the great noahopinion blog asks a very good question. what-if-xi-jinping-just-isnt-that-competent.

A very good read

Tuesday, 9 November 2021

South Korea and Industrial policy

Another article on industrial policy and South Korea .the claim is it worked in south korea.

Interesting read.

Monday, 8 November 2021

combatting climate change

A marvelous article on the above topic from Vox eu.

Plenty of articles on this topic to digest.

Have a great read.

Sunday, 7 November 2021

Poll Roundup

The redoubtable Kevin Bonham has his latest poll roundup up. He looks at whether Oppo leaders ratings below the existing PM is of any use in particular.

Always a good read

Thursday, 4 November 2021

Around the Traps 5/11/21

It is time again for Around the Traps

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

Carolyn Holbrook and James Walter on will-national-cabinet-survive-the-covid-opening-up
James Ha and Alison Reeve on reaching-net-zero-is-every-ministers-problem-heres-how-they-can-make-better-decisions
Mark Kenny on scott-morrison-attends-pivotal-global-climate-talks-today-bringing-a-weak-plan-that-leaves-australia-exposed
Mark the Ballot on the-2022-election
Ross Gittins on beware-of-pedlars-of-supply-side-solutions-to-home-affordability, net-zero-cant-be-reached-by-magic-but-we-can-ease-the-pain
Frank Jotzo on scott-morrison-attends-pivotal-global-climate-talks-today-bringing-a-weak-plan-that-leaves-australia-exposed
Lee White on how-australias-coal-country-past-is-scuppering-its-renewable-energy-future
Mark Wooden and Peter Gahan on australias-great-resignation-is-a-myth-we-are-changing-jobs-less-than-ever-before
Romain Fathi on i-dont-think-i-know-what-makes-macrons-comments-about-morrison-so-extraordinary-and-so-worrying
renew economy on nsw-flooded-by-11gw-of-pumped-hydro-proposals-for-big-flip-to-renewables, remarkable-south-australia-reached-100-pct-renewables-nearly-every-day-in-october, australia-finally-wakes-up-to-solar-opportunity-worlds-cheapest-clean-electricity
Greg Jericho on the-morrison-governments-emissions-projections-are-a-farce-based-on-technological-pipe-dreams
croaking cassandra on pushing-down-the-league-tables, half-a-million-a-head, walking-the-path
Peter Martin on australia-is-about-to-be-hit-by-a-carbon-tax-whether-the-prime-minister-likes-it-or-not-except-the-proceeds-will-go-overseas
Isaac Gross on australias-reserve-bank-signals-the-end-of-ultra-cheap-money-heres-what-it-will-mean
Institutional Economics on rip-rba-yct
Sarah Moulds on no-thats-not-the-law-the-danger-of-using-pseudolegal-arguments-against-covid-19-rules
Graeme Orr on voter-id-is-a-bad-idea-heres-why
Judith Brett on its-time-for-anthony-albanese-to-get-angry
Kate Dooley on cop26-global-deforestation-deal-will-fail-if-countries-like-australia-dont-lift-their-game-on-land-clearing
Mark Howden on australias-refusal-to-sign-a-global-methane-pledge-exposes-flaws-in-the-term-net-zero
Nic Bainton and Deanna Kemp on more-clean-energy-means-more-mines-we-shouldnt-sacrifice-communities-in-the-name-of-climate-action
Michelle Grattan on if-the-government-is-re-elected-it-may-be-in-spite-of-scott-morrison-rather-than-because-of-him
Richard Holden on vital-signs-borrowing-from-king-solomon-economists-are-getting-closer-to-working-out-how-good-leaders-can-make-good-decisions
Dennis Muller on the-last-squawk-alan-jones-finally-seems-to-have-nowhere-to-go

Northern America

the time of monsters on mob-lawyer
Daniel Politi on trump-files-block-capitol-riot-inquiry-documents-files
noahopinion on defund-the-police-is-dead-as-a-doornail , much-of-what-youve-heard-about-carter-and-reagan-is-wrong
Anna Wiederkehr on how-you-view-climate-change-might-depend-on-where-you-live
Alex Tabarrok on labor-market-participation-rates-and-male-incarceration-rates
Andrew Prokop on virginia-governor-results-youngkin-wins, joe-biden-approval-virginia-new-jersey
David Graham on virginia-election-results-trump-youngkin
Isaac Chotiner on how-the-democrats-lost-virginia
Michael Pettis on chinafinancialmarkets Thanks Brad
stay at home macro on the-child-tax-credit-will-transform-our-economy thanks Peter Whiteford
Zack Beachamp on virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-critical-race-theory
Nathaniel Rakich on why-virginias-and-new-jerseys-elections-could-suggest-a-red-wave-in-2022

Europe

stumbling and mumbling on government-spending-profits-capitalism
Ian Hill on russia-finally-getting-serious-climate-change
Gregori Galofre'-Vila et al on austerity-and-the-rise-of-the-nazi-party Thanks Brad
Mainly Macro on the-danger-of-imprecise-exceptions-from-fiscal-rules

Asia

Elliot Zaagman on just-how-serious-xi-about-climate-change
Christopher Hughes on legal-case-defending-taiwan
Craig Mark on japans-ruling-conservatives-have-been-returned-to-power-but-amid-voter-frustration-challenges-lurk-for-kishida
Jitendra Misra on sport-between-india-and-pakistan-not-just

Wonk

Victor Ferguson et al on markets-and-resilience-face-economic-coercion
Tim Harford on why-scrambling-back-to-2019-is-not-progress
Khang Vu on arms-control-not-just-about-arms
Phillipa Barr on the-dynamics-of-dust
the conversable economist on taxing-global-companies-the-imperfect-choices, fall-2021-journal-of-economic-perspectives-available-online
Tom Barber on it-s-time-talk-about-existential-risk
noahopinion on cutthroat-capitalism-vs-cuddly-capitalism
Xueyin Zha on regulate-against-machine
Uneasy Money on m-economic-forces-podcast
Nicholas Bugeja on national-self-interest-cannot-govern-global-vaccine-distribution

General

John Sarkissian on 60-years-after-it-first-gazed-at-the-skies-the-parkes-dish-is-still-making-breakthroughs
Kathryn Hughes on dh-lawrence-white-heat-conviction

Climate

Open Mind on the-truth-about-sea-level-rise
Moyhu on ncepncar-global-temperature-index-up-in-october
Stoat on equilibrium-climate-sensitivity-is
coppolla comment on how-to-use-peoples-qe-to-fight-climate-change
Pep Canadell et al on global-emissions-almost-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels-after-unprecedented-drop-in-2020-new-analysis-shows
Tyler Cowen on claims-about-the-costs-of-global-warming

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

Econometrics

nuttin

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

the-future-of-everything
Andrew Gelman on the-truants-by-william-barrett, apprentice-to-genius,
Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading

vox wonk

Wednesday, 3 November 2021

Carter and Reagan

Noah Smith writes at his blog noahopinion ( get it) on much-of-what-youve-heard-about-carter-and-reagan-is-wrong.

A long time ago I read a similar article to this from the Cato institute.

This is highly educative.

Tuesday, 2 November 2021

Fran Kelly leaving RN Breakfast

Fran Kelly has announced she is leaving RN breakfast. Good. It is quite apparent the program moves up in quality when she is not there. Hamish McDonald would be the best replacement. His interviews are so much more penetrating without the latent aggression of Kelly. Sally Sara who does the friday program would be okay as well.

RN Breakfast became the breakfast program to listen to when Peter Thompson was at the helm and Pru Goward was doing the politics. Fran Kelly has dragged the program downwards in quality.

Thus the need for the ABC to carefully select her replacement. It needs to get back to the must listen to program.

Monday, 1 November 2021

Does Gladys have a political future?

Our gladys has finished giving evidence to the ICAC and frankly it was embarrassing.

Although she put down her cousins working in the public service in terms of conflict of interest. She still does not think she should have put down her lover of 5 years.

She still does not think she had anything to report to ICAC about her former lover.

She disputes she told her chief of Staff her relationship with Darryl was over when it clearly wasn't.

Let us forget about what the ICAC reports for a moment. Any of the above would be fodder to any candidate opposing her in the future.

Let us assume the ICAC does not refer her behaviour to the DPP for prosecution. What if the ICAC consider Gladys's evidence not much chop. As a witness she was not reliable at all. That would finish her.

Her entire behaviour at the ICAC was very strange. It was as she was willing for people to believe she was an idiot as this was the least worst outcome.

All in all I think we have seen the last of gladys in politics.