Articles from THE BLOT REPORT

Just when you thought the government’s mind-blowingly
ridiculous reaction to the Labor Party’s electric vehicle plan1,2  couldn’t get any worse, Senator Michaelia Cash
has momentarily stepped out from behind her whiteboard to add to the idiocy. She
was reported as saying: “50 per cent of
these apprentices will be driving an electric vehicle under Bill Shorten … we
are going to stand by our tradies and we are going to save their utes”3.

Unfortunately, money is crucial to success
in elections and this coming election is no different. The money raised by
political parties is used to buy advertising, send out flyers, print posters, produce
expensive television advertisements, undertake professional social media
campaigns, and to run focus groups and opinion polls1. So, a
political party that cannot attract sufficient funds is hamstrung in the lead

You have to feel sorry
for the Kenny family, having to put up with the idiocy of Chris. He is a
Murdoch hack in the worst sense of the word, and that is saying plenty. His
lies are almost continuous, and he will do anything to try to prop up the
Coalition parties, especially the far right of that party, and lies are mostly
what the Liberal far right have left.

After Prime Minister Scott Morrison went
down in history as the first PM to lose a vote (for the Medevac bill) on the
floor of the House of Representatives for many decades, he tried to convince
that electorate that it was necessary to open up the detention centre on
Christmas Island. This was despite the security services telling him that this
was unnecessary, as anyone transferred for medical treatment could be returned