Summary: This weekend, on SW: Terrible Policy Corner is unsurprised by the Coalition’s plan to respond to the budget worsening under their control (SPOILER: its first order is to force choke the poor and sick. not to lead a resistance against the very profitable companies paying no tax); travels far, far away to Paris; and touches on the revelations from the Victorian Auditor General about how the East West Link was a corrupt boondoggle even less well thought through than a planet-destroying battlestation with an unshielded exhaust port; Good Policy Corner is surprised by even existing, but yes, there is a Rey of light here. In The Focus Group we admire another great week for Julie Bishop; Bill Shorten being noticed but not in a good way; the Liberals Strike Back against the ASIO chief; and we learn of Joe Hockey’s plans to At Last Have His Revenge; In Australia vs Humanity it turns out we should have a bad feeling not just about the brutality of what we’re doing to refugees, but MYEFO reveals a $1bn blowout in how much it’s costing us (when will this hideous policy Finnish?); Stop The Press: there are disturbances at the top of The Australian as well as the ABC; and the Oz and Bill Leak refuse to Leia off on racist cartoons.
