Paul J. Berating

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Chalmers offers tax bandaids for fuel crisis while parliament discovers collective laryngitis on Trump

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announces tax relief and support for businesses affected by Australia's fuel supply crisis, while government and opposition MPs uniformly refuse to comment on Trump's latest rebuke to allies.

Tax relief for businesses hit by a fuel crisis is the government equivalent of handing out umbrellas in a flood you could have dammed forty years ago. Chalmers calls it a support package — Bismarck would have called it a confession. Meanwhile every MP in the building has suddenly gone mute on Trump, which takes real coordination from people who normally can't shut up. The money flows out, the commentary dries up, and nobody connects the two silences.