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Scott Morrison has effectively ditched his commitment to establish a national anti-corruption watchdog even if re-elected. No one should be surprised.

As we see another tumbling rainfall record following the record-breaking floods, I feel afraid of the future which is no longer unknown but predictable and frightening, just as scientists have been warning for years.

More money thrown at aged care will not fix the problems, any more than it did in education.

The best prescription for saving the Great Barrier Reef is for the government to stop spending millions in public funding on the coal and gas industry whose emissions have been killing it off for decades.

Has the COVID-19 death toll of 46 now reached the “best-case predictions” and does the Premier think it removes his responsibility for doing something that has any chance of stopping this shocking state of affairs?

Among all the stories of government inaction and chaos around Omicron there is an emerging pattern of individuals and organisations being told by suppliers that their RAT order has been taken by the federal government.

It’s astounding that Scott Morrison would draw the world’s attention to the Park Hotel in Melbourne, a coronavirus incubator and home to refugees seeking asylum in Australia.

It is right to lament the normalisation of pork barrelling in our political system.

The antics of our elected officials are very much like those of an ill disciplined, unfettered schoolyard mob.

We know the problems. We know what we should be doing, and must do, to address the problems. Time to elect only those politicians who both know and care, and vote out the rest.