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23.01.2022 "It’s quite a moment, when the country’s first law officer is asked on his home town radio station, So you don’t think you’re a sleazebag or womaniser or someone who’s drunk in public too much now? Overnight, Christian Porter had been reduced from high-flying attorney-general to a man forced to publicly confront a nightmare episode of This is Your Life delivered by Monday’s Four Corners. No, it’s definitely not indicative of who I am now, he told interviewer Gareth Park...er. Parker did not resile from going to some of the worst of the confronting claims in the program. Did you ever say you wouldn’t date a woman who weighed over 50 kilograms and preferred that they had big breasts?‘"
20.01.2022 A former adviser to cabinet minister Alan Tudge has lodged a formal complaint accusing him of engaging in workplace bullying and intimidation. Rachelle Miller, who had an affair with Mr Tudge while working in his office, told of his belittling and humiliating behaviour in a complaint to the Department of Finance.
20.01.2022 "The 400,000 Australians unwittingly caught up in the Robodebt scMorrison appeared to rule out any further compensation for people hounded over unlawful debts. We’re resolving the issue by ensuring that the money is paid, $1.2 billion, the Prime Minister told The New Daily at a press conference over the weekend. But the money Mr Morrison refers to is simply refunding cash wrongfully claimed from welfare recipients under the automated income averaging system. The government essentially admitted fault in this system by settling a class action lawsuit on the morning it was due to appear in the Federal Court, agreeing to a billion-dollar payout despite claiming the agreement was not an admission of liability."
19.01.2022 "As pick-up lines go, Michael's was certainly exceptional in its own way. A senior staffer in the business side of a media company, hearing his far more junior editorial colleague, Clare, telling a work friend about the vagaries of dating, he sensed an opportunity and offered: "What you need is a balding accountant." Clare was 24, Michael was 32 and both were unattached. Each prefer to use their middle names to discuss how they met and fell in love because the managers who pushed both out for becoming romantically involved are still in the industry. Also, they want to keep the past in the past, even though their behaviour should have been free of the kind of scrutiny surrounding several contemporary high-profile work partnerings."
17.01.2022 The Liberal Party must still resolve a problem that has dogged it for most of this century: its reason for being and its sense of purpose. It needs to explain persuasively why it will be worth voting for. In all but a few cases, there are only two reasons why state governments fall. Either they are judged to have been there too long and the voters think the other crowd deserves a turn, or they are in utter crisis.
16.01.2022 "As the Robodebt class action result announced yesterday by Gordon Legal indicated, pending court approval, the Morrison Government will: pay $112 million in compensation to (approximately) 400,000 people; repay $720 million in debts already collected; and no longer pursue $398 million in further debts. With an estimated total outlay of $1.23 billion, there is no doubt the class action achieved a landmark result. However, what is particularly shocking about the case is that there had to be a class action at all and that it had to get to the 11th hour before a settlement was reached."
15.01.2022 "Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has attempted to defuse Malcolm Turnbull's criticism of its coverage of the national bushfire crisis and climate change following a heated debate on ABC's Q&A between the former prime minister and a senior journalist. Mr Turnbull attacked News Corp on Monday night for blaming last summer's fires on arson and urged The Australian's editor-at-large Paul Kelly and other employees to speak out against the organisation. The company you work for and its ...friends in politics, like Trump and others, have turned this issue of physics into an issue of values or identity," Mr Turnbull said to Kelly. "Saying you believe or disbelieve in global warming is like saying you believe or disbelieve in gravity. "We had 12 million of hectares of our country burnt last summer and your newspapers were saying it was all the consequence of some arsonists. "James Murdoch was so disgusted, he disassociated himself from the family business. How offensive, how biased, how destructive does it have to be, Paul, before you will say one of our greatest writers and journalists ‘It’s enough, I’m out of it’?" Advertisement
15.01.2022 "Concerns have been raised about the Queen Elizabeth’s involvement in British political affairs following suggestions that she was part of an orchestrated campaign to discourage Scots from voting for independence. Lionel Barber, a former editor of the Financial Times, alleges that Prince Andrew told him over lunch one week before the Scottish referendum in 2014 that the Queen was preparing to intervene on the vote. Barber says that he met the Duke of York and Ma Kai, the former Chinese vice-premier, at Buckingham Palace on September 11, four days after a YouGov poll for The Sunday Times had stunned Downing Street by putting the yes campaign ahead for the first time."
13.01.2022 "Labor says it does not trust the Morrison government to find ways to build wages growth if it ditches legislated increases in the compulsory superannuation guarantee due to start next year. The long-awaited independent report into retirement incomes found while increases to the super guarantee provided a better standard of living in retirement they would come at a cost to wages."
04.01.2022 Four Corners’ Canberra Bubble story was quite a story, but it was also the start of stories. Hares have been set running. The obvious is that two senior family values ministers are in the gun. Without referencing either Mr Tudge or Mr Porter, in my opinion, a minister who was known as a small-L liberal libertarian who advocated sex as a healthy thing between any consenting adults would have nothing to worry about if reported to be having healthy sex between aforementioned consenting adults. But those who wrap themselves in the flag or pretence of capital C Conservative family values well, it’s that trust thing, yet again.
03.01.2022 "During the recent American elections, the most eye-catching graphics were were the individual county tallies. These showed that even when states appeared to be overwhelmingly Republican red, some still flipped to the Democrats on the strength of a smaller number of blue squares. The trick? These azure islands denoted population clusters in cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Phoenix. The left-right chasm between urbanised Americans and the more sparsely distributed rural-regional ones was there to see in primary colours."
03.01.2022 In the aftermath of Monday’s Four Corners expose of two senior Liberals and their extracurricular activities, Prime Minister Scott Morrison called on Labor and the Greens to replicate Malcolm Turnbull’s 2018 bonk ban between ministers and staffers. No disrespect to the Prime Minister, but this is a classic Scotty from Marketing pivot. I cannot see any self-respecting left-of-centre party endorse a rule that a) infantilises adults, b) outs itself as creepy and sex-obsessed and c) sees women professionals as biscuit tins that must be labelled off-limits to the boss or of course he’ll dip in.
