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Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire
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25.01.2022 Craig the coal lover is going to be in a fight for his reelection into his seat. Oh well he can always go back to selling furniture I suppose. https://www.theguardian.com//push-to-oust-liberal-mp-craig
25.01.2022 Gladys B. once famously stated "It is no good being in Government if you don't listen to the people. Well Gladys the people are shouting from the roof tops regarding the NIF trains. In order to save a few million dollars to give to her developer mates or put in a pork barrel for election vote buying she is removing guards from the new trains which will eventually happen to all inter city trains. Removal of guards is a dangerous move as there are many people who at times need ...the asstistance of a guard during a medical episode. One such friend of mine has needed such help several times, at one time needing an ambulance to be called. One question that needs to be asked is how will disabled people in wheelchairs be able to alight at an unattended station if there is no guard to help them? *** End of rant ***
24.01.2022 The Saturday Paper
23.01.2022 Government finally calls out China's behaviour for what it really is. Until now, the Morrison government has maintained the facade that each trade ban or threat... imposed by China should be treated as an individual incident and fought out as such. The approach was underpinned by a doctrine of "strategic patience and consistency". The idea was to never acknowledged what both sides knew that the threats, bans and trumped-up claims underpinning them were part of a campaign of payback by Beijing for measures Australia has taken to safeguard her sovereignty and security. China had no qualms admitting what it was up to. Its ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, said as much to The Australian Financial Review in August. Last week, the embassy handed the media a list of 14 reasons why Beijing was punishing Australia. And when it imposed crippling duties on Australian wine on Friday, as it had threatened, it even gave preferential treatment to one winery which was founded by Chinese entrepreneur Wei Li and of which former ambassador to China and sometimes Morrison government critic Geoff Raby is a brand ambassador. Australia Swan Vintage Pty Ltd received a 107.1 per cent impost. Everyone else received 160 per cent or more. Beijing's move was even more poisonous given it did not have the basic decency to inform the government. It found out from the Commerce Ministry website. Furthermore, it came just days after Scott Morrison offered an olive branch of sorts with a foreign policy speech that even the Chinese foreign ministry noted had "positive comments''. So angered was the federal government that the strategy for dealing with this repeated coercion went out the door. Trade Minister Simon Birmingham called it for what it was. China's dumping claims were rubbish and trade was being used as a weapon, in total breach of both the free trade agreement between the countries and World Trade Organisation rules. "It is entirely understandable why people would draw the conclusion and why perceptions will exist, but as a result of the accumulation of trade sanctions levied by China against Australia, this is a deliberate strategy," said Mr Birmingham. It seems another depth has been plumbed. Source -AFR - Phillip Coorey "This is a deliberate strategy": Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has finally called out China for using trade as a weapon. Alex Ellinghausen
22.01.2022 Well done Dan Andrews and Victoria Victoria notches another coronavirus-free day and has just three active cases left And for the first time in months, Victoria has gone a fortnight without a "mystery" case of COVID-19.... Victoria has three active cases of COVID-19 as the state records another day without any fresh diagnoses. The health department on Sunday confirmed there had been no new coronavirus cases or deaths in the past 24 hours. And for the first time in many weeks, the number of cases without a known source for the past fortnight stands at zero. The statistics mean Victoria has gone 16 days without a new case of COVID-19, but the government is still urging caution. Deputy Chief Health Officer Allan Cheng described the stretch of zero-case days as "about as good as it can get". "What we're still concerned about ... is that there may still be the potential for hidden trains of transmission out there; obviously that chance is decreasing as time goes on," he said on Saturday. "And then obviously the potential for an incursion of cases from outside, from New Zealand or NSW." A testing push has begun in Hume and Wyndham - local government areas hardest hit during the state's second wave. "We just want to make sure that there's nothing we're missing there," he said. "This is not over." He encouraged anyone with COVID-19 symptoms to get tested. Health Minister Martin Foley on Saturday corrected the state's record on the number of cases without a known source of transmission, after DHHS established links to 515 previously labelled "mystery" cases. "As case numbers have come down over the past few weeks, the DHHS ... has created and tested an algorithm that has identified some additional 515 historical cases that are connected to close contacts or established outbreaks," he told reporters. The final step of easing restrictions is due next Sunday. Ten people will be allowed to visit a home and public gatherings will grow to 50 people outdoors, while the cap on weddings and funerals will be increased to 100 and organised contact sports will resume for all ages. South Australia will re-open its border with Victoria on 1 December, while NSW will open its border with the state earlier on 23 November. There will be no requirement for travellers to quarantine in hotels or at home. Victoria's death toll from the virus stands at 819, with the national figure at 907. Source - AAP A woman wearing a face mask seen crossing the Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne. Source: AAP
19.01.2022 Department of Defence captured by foreign weapons makers Thales, BAE Department of Defence secretly investigates itself, does not make public the review’s existence or its terms of reference, and keeps any resulting report secret. Defence recommends buying hundreds of vehicles from Thales, despite no need for them, just so Thales can keep its factory open. Houston, we have a problem, writes Michelle Fahy. The culture of cosiness; the revolving door; and undue influence. The r...Continue reading
13.01.2022 Thousands of Donald Trump supporters rally in Washington, backing unproven claims of election fraud With far-right militia group the Proud Boys also among those rallying, a large security presence was deployed in the capital to prevent clashes with anti-Trump events scheduled outside the Supreme Court. Thousands of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington on Saturday, with the president making a drive-past in his motorcade as he sticks to discredited claims that mass fra...Continue reading
07.01.2022 Frydenberg rips into regulators. But wasn’t it 5 minutes ago they were too soft? The treasurer uses that old cliché 'cutting red tape' to justify his push to roll back Hayne banking royal commission reforms. The COVID-19 crisis has apparently trumped our memory of previous financial crises, what caused them, and the tortuous process of legislating to fix the long-term damage....Continue reading
05.01.2022 Trump fires agency head who vouched for 2020 vote security President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the nation’s top election security official, a widely respected member of his administration who had dared to refute the president’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouch for the integrity of the vote. While abrupt, the dismissal of Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was not a surprise. Since his loss, Trump has...Continue reading
04.01.2022 BREAKING South Australia will begin a six-day ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown from midnight tonight. Only one person per household will be able to leave the home each day for specific reasons, with masks to become mandatory in all areas. Source - ABC
03.01.2022 News Corp Australia cuts more jobs at end of brutal year for media. News Corp Australia has made another round of job cuts, losing 25 editorial staff at the end... of a brutal year for the media that has seen Murdoch outlets alone shed 200 journalists and photographers. Sources told Guardian Australia all 16 of the Courier Mail and Gold Coast Bulletin staff photographers were summoned to a meeting at 11am Queensland time and told they were being laid off. News Corp said it was outsourcing photography in Queensland, and would use freelancers next year. The company is centralising its reporting, subediting and production under the Melbourne-based News Corp veteran Peter Blunden. We’re making a limited number of our staff redundant as we move to a new way of working similar to many news organisations internationally, a News Corp spokesman said. It reflects the successful model we’ve established for our news and sport networks, which are generating strong subscriber growth and brilliant, specialist journalism, and will complement the soon-to-launch Australian business network to deliver the best in finance reporting. There have been 137 newsroom closures Australia-wide since January 2019, according to the Public Interest Journalism Initiative, which is mapping contractions and expansions. At News Corp in June 65 people were tapped for redundancy at the Herald Sun and the Daily Telegraph and 13 people at the Australian. The executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, Michael Miller, has said the publisher is transforming from a network of newspapers to Australia’s leading journalism network and streamlining operations. The fresh round of cuts comes after News Corp shut down more than 100 newspapers and cut at least 500 staff from its local mastheads, including 150 journalists, photographers and designers in May. The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance said the cuts, including six in centralised production and three editorial roles in Hobart, were disappointing coming just six months after News closed mastheads and restructured its local community and regional newspaper businesses. Meaa’s media acting director, Adam Portelli, said staff were devastated at the news just before Christmas after such a tough year. When so many redundancy rounds follow hard one after the other, it creates a climate of uncertainty and fear for the staff who remain, Portelli said. It also piles on the pressure as they try to cope with the inevitable increased workload. Following News Corp’s withdrawal as a major shareholder of Australian Associated Press, the company has established its own internal wire service, NCA NewsWire, to supply court, crime and politics reports. We are reshaping our operations to meet the needs of customers and clients we will be much more focused on digital, growing digital subscriptions and simplifying our structures to be less complex for advertisers to leverage, a News Corp spokesman said earlier. Pictured Below :- News Corp outlets have shed 200 journalists and photographers during 2020 as the company centralises its reporting, subediting and production. Photograph: Reuters
