The unity of America’s states has been tested this year and it has sorely failed. Twenty five cities across the US declared curfews on Saturday night to try to rein in the rioting that has spread even quicker than the coronavirus. Streets are burning as the National Guard has been called in across several states and the President has done nothing to quell the flames of anger and despair. Indeed, Donald Trump's screed of tweets across the past four days has only exacerbated the tensions.
Trump poured scorn on the Democrat Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz this week as the twin cities of St Paul and Minneapolis were under siege, just as he actively sought to score points against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as New York City was overrun by COVID-19. Australians, watching this near-anarchy from afar, should reflect with some gratitude on the strengths of the local version of federalism. While there are clearly disagreements on how to tackle the complex problems generated by the pandemic – border closures, school openings, tax reform – they have for the most part been respectfully prosecuted.
The national cabinet is the place where premiers and ministers and health officers can vigorously debate the wisdom of border closures. It should continue for a lot longer as it has proved far more effective than COAG.
Gratitude? Dismissing the Statement from the Heart - grateful? Deaths in custody - grateful?
Federalism is dead in this country.
Editorial straight out of ScottyFromMarketing bunker..Lisa Davies..shame on you- your bias to the LNP cause is both transparent and when aligned with so much other bias - Fordham/Jones/Hadley/Murdoch rags etc.. makes any worthy read hard to find in this 'regime'we now live in 😔
Laying it on thickly. We’ve had a ‘sun shower’ of good grace between the States and the Commonwth during the Covid crisis but there are already signs of the good old, bad ol’ days Have the taunts toward the Labor premiers from the Ministry been stymied? No I didn’t think so.
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I'll go along with the strength claim if they can remove Andrews. Until then it's weak as .....
Oh really. Is this the type of thing we should be grateful for under the velvet glove of RubyDutton?
are you guys fkn serious? Like actually fkn serious? Scummo is literally Trump lite
This is not democracy. Who is questioning Scott Morrison’s actions. About time parliament was recalled to do the job they are being paid for. Useless bunch. auspol RoboDebt SportsRorts JobKeeper is a farce!
Lol. Another delusional piece.
You are joking, hey.
Trust that lighting the right match here will replicate what we are seeing.
No 1 issues Australia debt rolling fast but next 2years unemployment numbers climbing more technology works in other countries so quiet Australia voters keep talking
What piece of condescending bulldust👍🏼 ‘Federalism’ minus Victoria? 🤫 “when Australia was negotiating on the world stage for an investigation into the origins of this world-changing virus, it served us poorly to have Victoria’s Treasurer freelancing criticisms of the approach.”
Calling it out as it is. thisisnotjournalism
2000 dead people due to robodebt would disagree.
Thanks for your condescending message, local branch of the Liberal party fund raising machine. Perhaps 9News should look at the reports of journalists being targeting in the USA and ask themselves if advertising for the LNP instead of doing their job might have repercussions.
Overdoing it a bit aren't you? Who is 'The Herald'? Looks like Morrison entrenching his own power to me. NC worked well for Covid with 4 competent, strong Labor state govts, 2 good LNP (SA & Tas), 1 so-so, doesn't mean same result would apply with different mix.
My eyes rolled so hard I saw the back of my head.
I’d rather it was a spectator sport! As an Australian I want to know the secrets of that national cabinet
Politicians in Canberra, watching the US riots from afar, should reflect with some gratitude, on the strong social cohesion of the populus despite their atrocious handling of Aboriginal affairs.
WScetrine Editor - oh pleaaase,enouh of yr blatant *Conservative propaganda*. Costello-led, you R prostituting yr news media!The NationalCabinet, if permanent, will be ‘secretive,unchallengable’.As if that’s NOT bad enough,Morrison conts.2move us2 US-style RWLibertarianism.We ARE not BLIND
In six months when all this shit is really real because jobkeeper is gone, jobseeker is back to below poverty levels and jobmaker has been an abject failure as all the libs will do is 'invest' in their mates...sorry private industry then we will join the US AuspolSoCorrupt
and the verbal masturbation about the laughingly labelled liberal party continues from the Cosello media group. zero credibility SMH
Take off your rose coloured glasses & critically analyse the adverse implications of this! “National Cabinet” can mean secrecy & solidarity. Think that thru! COAG is a meeting of equals with their State’s interests & obligations to each’s Parliament & people uppermost. Think!!
Yes. We should be grateful we live here, even though our kids have been forced out of learning opportunities in selective schools and universities, setting them up to become workers for our new middle class Asian elite. We should all be grateful just to be able to live here.
Strengths? Jobkeeper was lobbied for by Labor, the pay thresholds of those receiving it were lowered by lobbying from Labor, temperature testing at airports was introduced only after weeks of lobbying by Labor. The incumbent LNP are inept and look after only their rich mates.
What having the highest Indigenous rate of incarceration in Australian stares and territories
Perhaps calls for reform of the current three tier system are our of place?
The only reason we do not have riots here is that the Federal and State governments have so completely destroyed the lives of the first nations people that they don't have the capacity to riot like they are in the US. Australia has a terrible record of black deaths in custody.
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Trump’s America
Absolutely no reason for complacency with the encumbent crime collective!
Just stop. More gaslighting than newscorp. SMH and The Age have become 24/7 non stop BS machines. I don't think there is a media outlet in the world that so freely and mindlessly churns out so much tripe. For one political party. Incredible fall.
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