Real Mark Latham

@RealMarkLatham

Liverpool Councillor 1987-94, Mayor 1991-94; Member for Werriwa 1994-2005; Federal Opposition Leader 2003-05; NSW MLC since March 2019; Master.

NSW Parliament House, Sydney

Joined November 2014

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Real Mark Latham

@RealMarkLatham

about 2 hours ago

HOW LABOR GOVERNS Alex Sanchez has written a scarifying critique of the economic failures of the Albanese Government. What makes it particularly significant is that for many years he was Albanese’s chief economic adviser. Anyone with an interest in Australia’s future should read the Sanchez essay published by the Centre for Independent Studies. It rips apart the Labor Government’s appalling record on productivity, economic growth, market reform, budget management and the resurrection of industry policy. No Labor staffer has penned a more devastating account of policy failure since Vere Gordon Childe’s classic How Labour Governs (1923). I don’t know why the Sanchez monograph hasn’t attracted more attention. I found his critique of the NDIS particularly instructive, as an example of Labor’s policy sloth. It’s the only ‘insurance’ scheme in the world with no user contribution or excess payments, making cost control impossible. There are now 760,000 active NDIS participants. Over half are under 18 years of age; with 42 percent under 14. The initial promise of the NDIS was to bring disabled people back into the workforce, which it has failed to do. It was also supposed to shrink the number of people on the Disability Support Pension, but those numbers have increased by 100,000 to 840,000. Like the NDIS, the DSP is inducting young people into a lifetime of open-ended welfare, at a time when they should be finding productive work. On every front, Sanchez explains the mistakes Albanese and Chalmers are making in sending Australia on a downward spiral of national decline. Please read this essay and its policy recommendations to help save Australia. We are running out of time.

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Alex Sanchez has written a scarifying critique of the economic failures of the Albanese Government.
What makes it particularly significant is that for many years he was Albanese’s chief economic adviser.
Anyone with an interest in Australia’s future should read the Sanchez essay published by the Centre for Independent Studies.
It rips apart the Labor Government’s appalling record on productivity, economic growth, market reform, budget management and the resurrection of industry policy.
No Labor staffer has penned a more devastating account of policy failure since Vere Gordon Childe’s classic How Labour Governs (1923).
I don’t know why the Sanchez monograph hasn’t attracted more attention.
I found his critique of the NDIS particularly instructive, as an example of Labor’s policy sloth.
It’s the only ‘insurance’ scheme in the world with no user contribution or excess payments, making cost control impossible. There are now 760,000 active NDIS participants. Over half are under 18 years of age; with 42 percent under 14.
The initial promise of the NDIS was to bring disabled people back into the workforce, which it has failed to do. It was also supposed to shrink the number of people on the Disability Support Pension, but those numbers have increased by 100,000 to 840,000. Like the NDIS, the DSP is inducting young people into a lifetime of open-ended welfare, at a time when they should be finding productive work.
On every front, Sanchez explains the mistakes Albanese and Chalmers are making in sending Australia on a downward spiral of national decline.
Please read this essay and its policy recommendations to help save Australia. We are running out of time.

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Real Mark Latham

@RealMarkLatham

about 3 hours ago

@Adam_Creighton Only the slogan

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Real Mark Latham

@RealMarkLatham

about 12 hours ago

THE GREAT DIVERSITY MYTH Why is one person in a photo (former Queensland Premier Steven Miles) eating something we could all cook from Google evidence that “diversity is our strength”? Obviously it’s not. It’s just an opportunistic political cliche. There’s no evidence anywhere in the world that increasing ethnic diversity automatically makes a society wealthier, stronger and more cohesive. Miles wants to double funding for multiculturalism, but if these groups are so strong (from their diversity) why can’t they fund their own events, instead of hitting taxpayers? In truth, not even the migrant groups arriving in Australia believe in diversity. Many have settled in ethnic enclaves, a lot closer to a monoculture, such as Chatswood, Lakemba, Miller, Eastwood, Cabramatta and Dover Heights in Sydney. Labor runs a big immigration program because the people coming in mostly vote Labor. It’s got nothing to do with the myth of “diversity is our strength”. Restaurant photos are a fig leaf to hide that basic truth.

Steven Miles @StevenJMiles

1 day ago

Queensland is made richer when we celebrate our diversity, and it’s not often that I get to have Lebanese for lunch Our diversity is our strength - it’s why a future Labor Government would double funding for multicultural groups to hold events.