The Daily Breakdown

There's a Senate inquiry going on at the moment but it's not into COVID, or the rise of tyrannical China or even the scourge of plant-based "meat products". No, it's investigating how to reduce media diversity and kill voices on the right. And it's latest witness has an axe to grind.

As we near the 30th anniversary of the release of the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody, the Breakdown looks at how the activists use deaths to promote their agenda that Australia is racist - and ignore a much bigger issue.

And why the response to the death of Prince Philip makes me proud to be a monarchist.

We were told vaccines were the key to getting back to a post-COVID normal, but yesterday the PM announced that under-50s should avoid the AstraZeneca vaccine. Under-50s are the taxpaying backbone of the economy, and the AZ vaccine was the one that Australia was relying on. Two steps forward, two steps back. Normal has been postponed.

On the same day as Scott Morrison was pleading with the European Commission for more supplies of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the European Medicines Agency said there was a "clear link'' between blood clots and the vaccine ... oh, yippee.

And can Biden backflip over a wall? Probably, but it won't be pretty.

Today on The Breakdown, Malcolm Turnbull's just lost his third job because of climate change - this one took less than a week - but is less impressive than the self-destruction that cost him the prime ministership. Maybe he'll learn to get along with others this time. But probably not ... cos it wasn't his fault (it never is).

We also address why power prices are rising 30 per cent in the ACT and the global push for a minimum corporate tax rate is gaining steam, but who'll pay it? (Hint: not the companies.)

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Today on The Breakdown, how government subsidies distort markets, a billionaire's wife sets out to save the world with your money and the unstoppable whining of kancel kulture.

ScoMo's bad week got worse when he had to apologise to News Ltd for overreach, while the ABC complains that he won't volunteer himself to be slain on 730 (so at least he's learned something as PM). Why does the US Treasury Secretary want to increase global company tax? And another product is in the woketavists' firing line. But which one?

ScoMo needs a circuit breaker. He tried tears. When that didn't work, he went the nuclear option. Somehow he forgot it only works if the destruction is mutual. You don't aim the nukes at your face and start the countdown. And what happens when conservatives lose the culture?

Grab a mask and wash your hands afterwards because we're going inside the Canberra bubble - and it's not pretty. And if Toyota is ringing the alarm bells over electric vehicles, why isn't anyone else?

Companies used to operate in the interests of shareholders. Those days are gone. Now companies bend to the loudest voices and invite their enemies into their boardrooms. The latest example is Rio Tinto. This won't end well.