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I'm just looking forward to hearing something from Labor, it will be great when the campaigning starts and some of the policies can be discussed, that goes for both sides.
At the moment, there is a lot of waffle but not much on the way of policies, from anybody.
Agreed. Although policy announcements are an easy target for extremist parties and their fake news these days.

Holding the cards until the last minute might avoid the above but then we'll probably get saturated with policies that everyone forgets :)
 
Oh well it looks as though we were right, Porter is toast, as he should be IMO.
In my opinion he was done, as soon as he tried to suppress the information the ABC had on him, in their defence of the rape claim.
From the article:
Christian Porter is tipped to quit politics in the wake of the bruising fallout from a rape allegation that saw him abused and spat at in the street.
The former Attorney-General, who strenuously denies the rape claim, announced he was standing down from the front bench last month.

But at the time he insisted he still planned to contest the next election.

It followed his refusal to disclose the identity of mystery donors who funded his legal fight against the ABC, which is estimated to be costing up to $1 million.
 
Indeed SP. We'll see what transpires.

Frankly IMV it would have been far, far better to see Christian Porter attempt to stand for election and see just how much of a public rebuttal he received. My guess is any election poll now would be showing a 15-20% swing against him. He is absolutely on the nose.

Loved The Shovel's take though.

Christian Porter to quit politics, describing it as ‘massive victory for Christian Porter’


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Former Government Minister and legal genius Christian Porter has apparently decided not to re-contest his seat at the upcoming election, telling friends it is a ‘massive victory’ for him to be forced out of politics against his will.

“To be so besieged by scandal that I am left with no other option but to bow out at the prime of my career – that’s a pretty big blow to my detractors. What a humiliation for them,” he said.

He said it felt good to win so big. “I did everything wrong and yet here I am, without a job. It’s a triumph”.

The former Attorney General said those who doubted him and attacked him should be embarrassed. “They said I shouldn’t be in politics. They said it was inappropriate for me to be in Parliament with these accusations hanging over me. They said I should resign. Well, well, well. Who’s got egg on their face now?”.

Porter will look to find work in Sydney as a barrister or, failing that, a barista.

 
I would really like to debate the issue, rather than just mindless ranting, due to tribal politics.

I'll take you at your word trawler''
Do a bit(better a lot) of back ground on the 'Japanese Top Runner Programme' and we might take it a bit from there.
It's auspices is of worthy note.

Big heads up to you Focus...
For those with a wish to a better understanding of Bernard Collaery's situation and a wish to give him support, you can do a lot for youselves and the County by reading (and better buy) two books Collaery's 'Oil Under Troubled Water' and Clinton Fernandes 'Island off The Coast of ASIA'

I'm getting a better feeling as to what australia's desision will be on this accomplishment of nothing, rancid little epoch of marketed dross the country has enduered...
lets hope.
 
Always good when the government goes hard after the big guns

Centrelink’s cancelling of 80-year-old’s age pension ‘absurd and wrong’, tribunal rules​

Aged care resident has advanced dementia and did not ‘have the capacity to comprehend’ the decision


 
Always good when the government goes hard after the big guns

Centrelink’s cancelling of 80-year-old’s age pension ‘absurd and wrong’, tribunal rules​

Aged care resident has advanced dementia and did not ‘have the capacity to comprehend’ the decision


That was pretty scary. One of the most damning observations in the story was that Centrelink had quite sufficient authority to contact the super fund and see what was happening. But they didn't do that even though their records would have indicated the condition of the pensioner.

Incidentally the pensioner was still well eligible for a pension.
 
Always good when the government goes hard after the big guns

Centrelink’s cancelling of 80-year-old’s age pension ‘absurd and wrong’, tribunal rules​

Aged care resident has advanced dementia and did not ‘have the capacity to comprehend’ the decision


What I have found and I have been on the receiving end two or three times is, these Government departments obviously don't use people to actually check every welfare payment, super contribution etc every week, so what happens is when the ducks don't line up the computer sends out a letter.
If that letter isn't responded to, then the system assumes it is correct, then a payment is stopped or a debt is generated.
It is a pain in the butt and a lot of the time it is wrong, but like I said having been through the wringer a few times with it, you can understand the logic.
The issue is, when someone can't respond to the initial letter, then it becomes messy.
I was away in Europe for 6 months, when I came back, I had a tax bill that had been sent to collections, it was the ATO's fault but it did take a lot of unravelling.
Then you get the superannuation issues, due to the complexity, that again becomes a real issue if you don't respond to the first letter.
It is a mess and it makes a lot of mistakes, but coming from a background that processed a lot of info, it always needs ongoing fine tuning.
There will always be the occasion, where it makes mistakes, how they will ever get rid of them who knows.
My daughter after 20 years has finally received an auslan interpreter, when she visits centrelink, it is shocking that it has taken so long. Also the lack of an auslan interpreter back in 2010, ended up with her receiving a $6,000 bill, in 2017.
 
This is a strong, honest statement from two politicians across the political divide. IMV well worth checking out.

Former Liberal leader John Hewson and I have teamed up as joint patrons of the Truth and Integrity Project, a social media-focused advocacy campaign targeting Scott Morrison’s record on integrity matters and climate action in the lead-up to the federal election.

We are also patrons of Climate 200, an organisation driven by Simon Holmes à Court that is supporting candidates committed to strong action on increasing Australia’s commitment to mitigate climate change and embracing a post-carbon economy.

We are both board members of the Accountability Round Table (ART), chaired by Fiona McLeod, SC, which is devoted to the creation of a Commonwealth integrity commission with independent authority and power to call witnesses on matters involving corruption in the political process. This is in sharp contrast to the wretched model, programmed to fail, put up by then attorney-general Christian Porter and taken on by his successor Michaelia Cash. ART’s board includes retired judges, former politicians, public servants, lawyers and academics.

Both of us are troubled by the failure on courageous polities by both the Coalition parties and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). But the yawning abyss of Australia’s grossly inadequate and mendacious response to climate change and the unprecedented levels of corruption at a federal level are the responsibility of government, not opposition.

On climate change Morrison is wicked, Barnaby Joyce pretends to be crazy, while Labor is timid and fearful. Morrison and Anthony Albanese appear to be closer to each other on climate change than they are to Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and the New South Wales Coalition and Victorian Labor governments.

We would like to be proved wrong about this and hope for an effective rebuttal.

Advertisements by Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party shout at electors: “You can never trust Labor, the Liberals or the Greens.” Note the significant omission: voting for the Nationals, the back legs of the Coalition horse, would presumably be acceptable.
 
IMV The Shovel always manages to skewer the reality of ScoMo's government with the veneer of satire.

Forget QAnon! This shadowy cabal uses a blind trust to protect powerful men accused of rape


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An increasing number of Australians are convinced that Donald Trump is secretly trying to defeat a satanic, cannibalistic paedophile ring operated by Hillary Clinton. But an even more outrageous conspiracy theory has emerged closer to home, which claims that a shadowy cabal is using its wealth to anonymously protect powerful men accused of rape and sexual assault.

Australian QAnon followers say the claim stretches credibility. “The idea that there is some secret underground group of people funnelling money into the legal cases of elected officials, without ever revealing their identity or the sums of money involved is so crazy,” one QAnon believer said. “It’s much more likely that there’s a government operative planted within the White House who is using 4chan to reveal the details of a network of underground tunnels used by Tom Hanks to traffic children”.

https://www.theshovel.com.au/2021/11/23/qanon-blind-trust-powerful-men-australia/
 
Sounds like Murdoch wants a change of government, two articles, the same day, can't read the content but the headline isn't flattering. :xyxthumbs


That's what Murdoch does.

Sand castle syndrome.

I've noticed this for decades.... Play king maker, doesn't matter which side, then year down the castle.

Every farkin' time bro.
 
The ScoMo Government: I think it's gone in early 2022.

Now in November 2021: ..Scott Morrisson and Josh Frydenberg can't spin their way out of this ..they behaved intolerably towards Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer - on a matter of principle for her and her constituents, on the proposed federal corruption authority.

Morrison a conviction politician? The ALP says: ."The Liar From the Shire" ..They may well think that, but of course, I couldn't possibly comment..

To posters Basilio and Orr ..you'll be in Fed government next year. A consequent reduction in electricity prices, and global temperatures will doubtless follow..
 
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The ScoMo Government: I think it's gone in early 2022.

Now in November 2021: ..Scott Morrisson and Josh Frydenberg can't spin their way out of this ..they behaved intolerably towards Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer - on a matter of principle for her and her constituents, on the proposed federal corruption authority.

Morrison a conviction politician? The ALP says: ."The Liar From the Shire" ..They may well think that, but of course, I couldn't possibly comment..

To posters Basilio and Orr ..you'll be in Fed government next year. A consequent reduction in electricity prices, and global temperatures will doubtless follow..
And hopefully an ICAC with teeth something your side seems to be avoiding
 
No surprises for ScoMo in the Jenkins report on sexual harassment in Parliament. Its the biggest open secret in town. Now we'll know whether ScoMo decides to "do the right thing" :rolleyes: and actually implement the recommendations or simply consider them before having another extensive review .

Perhaps a few focus groups on how women see the government in light of this report would help him develop his views.

Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame say politicians knew depth of harassment in parliament


Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame say until concrete changes are made in Parliament House they will not trust the words they have heard from politicians about changing the culture and making it a safer place to work.

Key points:​

  • Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame say all the recommendations from the Jenkins report should be implemented
  • The review found 51pc of workers experienced at least one incident of bullying, sexual harassment or actual or attempted sexual assault
  • Ms Tame said it was disturbing that review participants said offenders had continued in their roles or even been promoted.

Earlier this week, a report by sex discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins found one in three people working in federal parliament had experienced some kind of sexual harassment there.

Ms Higgins said the report would not have come as a surprise to many who worked there.

"I don't think it shocked anyone It didn't even shock the Prime Minister himself. It's been rampant in that building," she told RN Breakfast.

"We've yet to see real decisive action from the Prime Minister on this, or at least a firm commitment that he's actually committed to changing things."

 
Another loud explosion in the PM's ear.

Rachelle Miller alleges affair with Alan Tudge 'abusive', as minister denies claim​


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Rachelle Miller, who came forward to speak about the Canberra culture more than a year ago, detailing her experience after her relationship with minister Alan Tudge ended, has delivered a statement in support of women who have experienced abuse and harassment in the parliament, calling on men to begin addressing the issue.

“I am fully aware that a year ago I said my relationship with minister Alan Tudge was a consensual relationship, but it’s more complicated than that,” she said in front of cameras in the Mural Hall.

“I was so ashamed, so humiliated, so scared, so exhausted. I told the small part of my story I was able to manage.”

Miller said the Liberal party did not have a ‘women problem’ but a ‘men problem’ and said while she had attempted to speak to the prime minister about her experience on more than one occasion, she had been rebuffed:

All I ever wanted was for the government to listen and to acknowledge our experiences in this building,” she said.

Yet when I spoke out, not a single member from this government contacted me to see if I was OK. One female chief of staff sent me a text and that was it.

Many former staffers reached out to tell their stories and they were shocking. I’m here because the government will not listen. Despite the prime minister’s claim on Tuesday that he’s willing to hear our experiences, his actions have betrayed that he’s not.

Miller said she was coming forward again in an attempt to have the parliament implement the full suite of recommendations in the Kate Jenkins’ review into parliamentary culture.

Miller said she became isolated from her family and friends during her relationship with Tudge, which she alleged was “emotionally abusive” and on one occasion, was allegedly “physically abusive”.

 
I never had any doubt that Morrison was not fit for purpose; And so .....

'A third independent is Allegra Spender, running in the Liberal-held seat of Wentworth. Her antecedents could hardly be more establishment. Her grandfather, Sir Percy Spender, KVCO, KBE, QC, was a member of federal parliament from 1937 to 1951 and a cabinet minister under the Liberal Party’s founder, Robert Menzies. Her father, John Spender, QC, was the Liberal member for North Sydney from 1980 to 1990. Her late mother was the fashion designer and businesswoman Carla Zampatti.

Spender went to the elite Ascham School, then on to Cambridge University for an economics degree, University of London for her master of science, and Harvard and Dartmouth College for business courses. She worked at McKinsey as a business analyst, and in the British Treasury, before becoming managing director of the family fashion company. She was chair of the Sydney Renewable Power Company, an environmental impact investment company, and is now chief executive of the Australian Business and Community Network, which works to address educational disadvantage.
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Science. Integrity. Social Progress. Education and the Arts. And a view to a future for Industry...
Everything Schmo(the Everybogan) has proven to be not....
 

Bail out Qantas so they can gouge us some more and pay themselves a bonus!
I can't wait to see someone ask Alan Joyce, a man of principle to give the money back, I'm sure he will be glad to.
I mean as with the Folau incident, some things just have to be done in the name of inclusiveness, fairness and treating others with respect.
There is no way he would handball his responsibilities to the Australian taxpayer, maybe robo debt should be taken of the leash, to chase those who who obtained the payment outside the guidelines..lol
 
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