The Daily Breakdown

The $60 billion JobKeeper screw-up was the result of two input errors: the ATO and Treasury estimated more businesses would need help than actually did, and they based their errors on the pessimistic forecast of epidemiologists like Dr Brendan Murphy who predicted Australia would become Italy. It wasn't bad policy. It was bad data. Garbage in-garbage out. And the story of COVID-19 has been the failure of experts to be right, starting with Neil Ferguson.

China is supposedly threatening Australian coal exports - this is not entirely true. Today we breakdown the reality of Australian coal exports to China, why won't Dan Andrews tell us what was in the Belt and Road agreement with China and the ACT protects the human rights of people who want to bash cops. Seriously.

Why lockdown is the pandemic paradigm and we breakdown China's bellicose 'Wolf Warrior' diplomacy. What is it? Why are they doing it? And why it's here to stay.

The relationship between Australia and China is at its lowest ebb in more than 40 years. It's time for Australia to stand as one. To be true to our values. No one told Dan Andrews or Tim Pallas who are selling out Australia at every opportunity for tummy rubs and pats on the head from a communist dictatorship.

Newsrooms across Australia are shutting don and journalists are losing their jobs by the bucketload, but when you see how crappy they are, is it any wonder Australians won't pay for news? And what we get for 'free' form the ABC is little better. And US Attorney-General William Barr drops a hammer on the coup plotters.

Today on The Daily Breakdown, the Greens release their post-COVID-19 recovery plan and it's as bad as you'd expect: pork for mates, bigger government and more on the credit card. And why lockdown to infinity is a failed policy that's just delayed the inevitable.

The experts want COVID-19 dead but with each day it becomes clearer that the perfect is not just getting in the way of the good, it's destroying lives. And the experts themselves - such as Queensland Chief Health officer Jeannette Young - may not be as pure as they make out to be. And don't get us started on the latest Trump whistleblower in the US. Oops. Too late.

NSW Senator Kooky Faruqi thinks your government is racist (and therefore, you're racist) and let's hope we kept the receipt on Twiggy's COVID-19 testing kits.

Josh Frydenberg exposed the true horror of the cost of COVID-19 yesterday - everywhere you look it's killing the economy and destroying lives. And China has a beef with Australia. What will they wine about next? And a pirate beclowns himself.

The brown stuff's hitting the whirly thing for the supposedly scandal-free Obama but how will be media hide the conspiracy of the century? And how are the Japanese dealing with Kung Flu (is it karate-related?) and the sewer of Queensland politics.