The latest fortnightly poll from Essential Research finds 75% support for a net zero carbon pollution target by 2050, with only 25% opposed; 32% wishing to see coal-fired power plants phased out as soon as possible and another 47% wanting an end to subsidies and government support, compared with 21% wanting government support for both existing and new plants; and 80% support for the government preventing people entering the country from China due to coronavirus, with only 6% opposed. There are further questions and breakdowns in the report, but not a lot to get excited about on the whole – I can only beseech the pollster to bite the bullet and get back in the voting intention game.
To add more meat to this post, I will instead probe deeper into the report on the political impact of the bushfires published last week by the Australian National University’s Centre for Social Research and Methods. This was based on a regular panel survey conducted by the centre on a roughly quarterly basis, largely dealing with questions such as satisfaction with governments, public institutions and life in general. Since most of the respondents had also completed previous surveys, the report is able to explore changes in voting intention and attitudes over time. On this occasion, the survey was supplemented by questions on respondents’ exposure to the bushfires.
The study found a slump in electoral support for the Coalition, from 42.6% in the October survey to 37.2%, with Labor up from 33.7% to 35.8%, the Greens up from 14.4% to 14.7% (which is obviously too high at both ends) and others up from 9.3% to 11.2% (after excluding non-respondents, of which there were 5.1% in October and 6.6% in January). However, it did not find evidence that the fall in Coalition support was particularly pronounced among those who had been exposed to the bushfires.
Some of the factors that did associate with defection from the Coalition suggest an intensification of trends evident at the election, with university-educated voters more likely to have abandoned the Coalition and voters aged 75 and over less likely to have done so. However, the Coalition had a particular drop in support outside capital cities, though not in a way that suggested exposure to the fires was the reason. Out of the sample of 618 Coalition defectors, 43.9% supported Labor, 14.3% the Greens and 24.7% others, with the remainder uncommitted.
Consistent with the findings of the Ipsos Issues Monitor survey in January, the number of respondents rating environmental issues as the first or second most important facing the country rose from 41.5% in the October survey to 49.7%. For whatever reason, there was a significant effect here for indirect exposure to the bushfire (having friends or family whose properties were damaged or threatened, having travel plans affected, or exposure to smoke or anxiety), but not for direct exposure. However, as the report notes, what the survey registered as concern for environmental issues extended to blaming “the greenies” for the extent of the fires.
Support for new coal mines was down from 45.3% in the June survey to 37.0%, with the fall particularly pronounced among Coalition voters, down from 71.8% to 57.5%. However, those directly exposed to the bushfires who had expressed support for coal mines in June were relatively resistant to this trend.
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BREAKING: New data shows around 140,000 apprentices + trainees lost under the Libs. As a result, Australia now has shortages of bricklayers, plumbers, hairdressers, bakers, mechanics + other critical trades. Scott Morrison has created a tradie crisis.
William
IMO, the Drought needs to be treated as an important separate variable from the Fires when discussing environmental concerns, assuming respondents thought of the Drought as an environmental concern.
The MSM largely forgot about the Drought during the fires.
This may well have increased the resentment of those suffering from the Drought.
My point is that the Drought is much more likely than the fires to have been an explanation for changes in Coalition voting patterns than the Coalition in areas west of the Divide.
Sheep aren’t stupid. They were desperately searching for air. McCormack is an arrogant fool.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/25/michael-mccormack-grants-exemption-to-live-export-ship-that-fails-new-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Morning Dawn Patrollers
The Australian government has activated its emergency response plan to an impending coronavirus pandemic, foreshadowing fever clinics, fast-tracked vaccines and severe pressure on hospitals, blood banks, medical supplies and mortuaries. Pretty scary reading, this.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/virus-emergency-blueprint-australia-pulls-trigger-on-pandemic-plan-20200225-p54490.html
As we confront the emerging threat of coronavirus, xenophobia towards sufferers and their ethnicity is becoming more evident writes Dr Justin Koonin. He says we must avoid the AIDS-type hysteria.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/epidemic-must-not-be-allowed-to-unleash-aids-style-hysteria-20200225-p5442l.html
Shane Wright explains how Infrastructure Australia has urged federal and state governments to invest billions of dollars shoring up the country’s water supply, roads and telecommunications networks to protect them from national disasters and climate change. Another list for the Coalition to use for its own political advantage?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/governments-urged-to-invest-in-roads-water-telecoms-to-protect-against-natural-disasters-20200225-p5445q.html
Kate McClymont reports on more dirt revealed in the Eddie Obeid case.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/eddie-obeid-wanted-to-hide-the-ownership-of-family-farm-court-hears-20200225-p544ai.html
The Canberra Times editorial examines ASIO’s change of heart on the neo-nazi threat.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6648760/right-wing-extremist-threat-is-not-new/?cs=14258
Greg Brown reveals that Labor frontbencher Mark Dreyfus has used a meeting of Victorian Right MPs to take aim at Joel Fitzgibbon for freelancing on climate change policies, arguing it was doing damage to other right-wing members of the ALP.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labors-joel-fitzgibbon-facing-climate-policy-payback/news-story/b2a28c6edcce148e81ed836a69ef45e4
Gladys Berejiklian has ruled out privatising TAFE but foreshadowed the private sector playing a bigger role in delivering courses.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/business-fears-tafe-funding-to-be-slashed-in-face-of-skills-crisis-20200225-p5443n.html
The great fiscal rhetoric softening has begun says Shane Wright.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-surplus-unwinding-begins-20200225-p5447m.html
And Phil Coorey writes that the Morrison government is bracing for the economy to contract in the first three months of this year but has ruled out any fiscal stimulus, after revealing the impact of the coronavirus will outstrip that of the summer of bushfires.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/government-braces-for-negative-quarter-as-virus-bites-20200225-p5448a
Associate Professor of Constitutional Law Luke Beck says of the religious discrimination bill that Porter must either fix it or ditch it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/religious-discrimination-bill-porter-must-fix-it-or-ditch-it-20200225-p54461.html
Meanwhile the Royal Women’s Hospital has joined with state health services in condemning the religious freedom bill, arguing it prioritises religious views over patient health.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/royal-women-s-hospital-joins-state-health-services-to-oppose-religious-freedom-bill-20200225-p5442j.html
The unlawful killing and “cruel treatment” of multiple civilians and prisoners by Australian special forces in Afghanistan is being investigated by the military watchdog, which says it is not examining misconduct that occurred in the heat of battle. So much for the scorn heaped upon the “left wing Fairfax and ABC” over their reporting!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/more-than-50-incidents-investigated-as-part-of-war-crimes-inquiry-20200225-p54464.html
The SMH editorial believes that by putting some of the above matters on the public record it has helped reassure ADF members they would get a fair hearing.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/report-on-afghanistan-war-crimes-needs-to-bring-closure-to-veterans-20200225-p544ak.html
Dana McCauley writes that the peak bodies for aged care providers and older Australians have united to call for urgent action to address the overuse of psychotropic drugs, with residents’ families continuing to raise concerns about their loved ones three months after the royal commission’s interim report. (In many cases residents are now entering residential aged care already being prescribed benzos).
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/zonked-out-fears-over-too-many-prescription-drugs-in-aged-care-20200224-p543oo.html
10000 scientists, professors and university employees have signed a petition asking the sector’s default superannuation fund Unisuper to divest from fossil fuel producers.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/10-000-academics-sign-unisuper-divestment-petition-20200225-p5448s.html
The federal government is spending up to $2m buying water from Queensland agribusiness Eastern Australia Agriculture in a bid to keep an internationally significant wetlands from dying, despite paying $80m to the same company three years ago for water rights for the same purpose. Anne Davies writes that Angas Taylor’s name comes up again.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/26/government-to-spend-millions-buying-water-from-company-it-already-paid-80m
Nina Hendy explores the rising cost of living over the last decade.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/insurance/why-you-are-feeling-the-pinch-cost-of-living-soars-20200224-p543rf.html
On the other side of the equation Ross Gittins looks at the benefits of 120 years of productivity improvement.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-magic-of-capitalism-you-re-working-less-time-to-buy-your-daily-bread-20200225-p5440y.html
The jobs market is nowhere near as good as you’ve heard, and it’s changing us writes Michael Keating.
https://theconversation.com/the-jobs-market-is-nowhere-near-as-good-as-youve-heard-and-its-changing-us-132249
The government’s controversial cashless debit card scheme and other compulsory welfare income management programs are causing more harm than good, a new study has found. Luke Henriques-Gomes explains how those forced onto controversial income management have ‘overwhelming number’ of negative experiences
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/26/stigma-shame-and-frustration-cashless-welfare-card-found-to-do-more-harm-than-good
The authors of such a study write that its finding is that compulsory income management is having a disabling, not an enabling, impact on many users’ lives and that as the policy has been extended, more and more Australians with no pre-existing problems have been caught up in its path.
https://theconversation.com/i-dont-want-anybody-to-see-me-using-it-cashless-welfare-cards-do-more-harm-than-good-132341
Caitlin Fitzsimons describes the opportunities for transition into retirement.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/the-workplace-right-older-workers-don-t-know-they-have-20200224-p543y6.html
It’s not our small carbon contribution that matters, it’s the disproportionate damage Australia will suffer in a warmer world writes Adrian Blundell-Wignall.
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/myopic-australia-looks-at-the-wrong-climate-number-20200225-p5443r
On this subject Jennifer Hewett declares that business is 30 years ahead of the government.
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/while-business-is-focused-on-2050-the-politicians-are-focused-on-2020-20200225-p54486
The Coalition wants to turn scientists into lapdogs – and muzzle climate research in the process says Paul Willis.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/25/the-coalition-wants-to-turn-scientists-into-lapdogs-and-muzzle-climate-research-in-the-process
Australia has been unable to deal with the issue of foreign interference because of its “embarrassingly” white political system, a researcher has claimed.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6649130/australias-too-white-politics-cant-deal-with-foreign-interference/?cs=14350
The corporate watchdog, ASIC, slammed parts of the Federal Court’s now-famous ‘Wagyu beef and shiraz’ judgment as “fundamentally wrong” before a full court yesterday.
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/asic-slams-extraordinary-wagyu-and-shiraz-lending-judgment-20200225-p5442w
Energy experts Frank Jotzo and John Wiseman tells us how the end of coal-fired power can be either managed or messy. They offer some sage advice.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-end-of-coal-fired-power-can-be-managed-or-messy-20200225-p5441n.html
And right on cue Noel Towell reports that the owner of the giant Yallourn mine and power station in Victoria’s east says it has had one of its “most trying” years on record after its profits slumped by 50 per cent, or nearly $300 million. The dramatic collapse of Energy Australia’s earnings for 2019 was accompanied by rhetoric from the company about “decarbonising our power assets,” raising fears for the future of Yallourn which produces about 14 million tonnes of carbon pollution each year.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/cloud-hangs-over-yallourn-as-owners-power-on-with-decarbonising-20200225-p5449z.html
Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it says the Grattan Institute’s Tony Wood.
https://theconversation.com/carbon-pricing-its-a-proven-way-to-reduce-emissions-but-everyones-too-scared-to-mention-it-132342
Paul Bongiorno says that Angus Taylor is playing funny business with the zero emissions target.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/02/25/angus-taylor-zero-emissions-target/
The outbreak of coal-20 virus – which brings death and ill health to the community but not carriers – has significant implications for the health of all Australians and the international community. Writes David Shearman with tongue in cheek.
https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/dangerous-new-coal-virus-rampant-in-canberra,13625
The telco sector will remain firmly in the regulator’s headlights this year, Rod Sims has promised, as he bounces back from a high-profile court loss to TPG and Vodafone last week.
https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/telco-and-energy-sectors-in-accc-s-headlights-20200225-p5442u
The Crown inquiry is starting to feel a lot like the Hayne royal commission says Elizabeth Knight.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/crown-inquiry-is-starting-to-feel-a-lot-like-the-hayne-royal-commission-20200225-p5449s.html
Nobody goes to work to be harassed or assaulted. The Weinstein case must be a shift in civil society norms too says the AFR’s editorial.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/management/weinstein-verdict-must-be-social-watershed-20200225-p5443b
Celebrity chef George Calombaris’s food empire collapsed owing its secured creditors $22.3m and having racked up a merry-go-round of intercompany loans totalling $17.8m, new documents reveal. How can one get so far into the clag before pulling the pin? This is criminial!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/george-calombariss-tangled-empire-owes-creditors-223m/news-story/a7bd4ac164fd5be12cb2f01eb7fd68c7
Post-politics, Julia Gillard made a decision. The result is a model former prime minister of dignity and grace who has only risen in public esteem writes Troy Bramston.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/julia-gillard-the-prime-of-her-life/news-story/10c72ea64cc06a191ec8a1ba7e8f09b1
The AIMN describes the smirking arrogance of the LNP.
https://theaimn.com/the-smirking-arrogance-of-the-lnp/
The Morrison government has backed the opposition’s call for men’s rights activist Bettina Arndt to be stripped of her Order of Australia.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6647244/senate-backs-push-for-arndt-to-lose-honour/?cs=14350
Foxtel is reaching a threshold where it will have to decide if it wants to continue its proprietary pay-TV service, writes Paul Budde.
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/foxtel-pay-tv-faces-slow-death,13629
Victoria’s Waste Crime Prevention Inspectorate will target cowboys who amass huge quantities of toxic waste, as part of a $71 million crackdown.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/new-waste-crime-squad-to-tackle-illegal-rubbish-and-chemical-stockpiles-20200225-p544ab.html
The publicity that engulfed St Kevin’s College last year and that was revisited on Four Corners last week is a reminder to us all about the need to continue to work at shaping school culture, and the ongoing challenges around gender relations for young people today writes the rector of Xavier College.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/boys-schools-must-challenge-entrenched-attitudes-20200224-p543r1.html
Garry Linnell tells us that the wage theft excuses just don’t pass the pub test.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/02/25/garry-linnell-wage-theft/
Even as the US justice system faces a crisis of credibility because of the Trump administration’s handling of federal cases, Donald Trump has taken the unusual step of attacking two supreme court justices on Twitter and in remarks to the press.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/25/trump-supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-ruth-bader-ginsburg
Here is a worthy nominee for “Arsehole of the Week”.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/six-week-old-baby-nearly-killed-in-ice-fuelled-attack-court-told-20200225-p544ap.html
Cartoon Corner
David Rowe
David Pope
Matt Golding
John Shakespeare
Fiona Katauskas
Sean Leahy
Johannes Leak might be on the money with this one.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/a2cee16040a35154b933f2cf7f911edb?width=1024
From the US
It’s so disappointing this person was never given any opportunity to implement his ideas.
https://t.co/ENxlfeZUhA?amp=1
#UPDATE Austria placed a hotel in the Alpine city of Innsbruck under lockdown after an Italian receptionist working there contracted the coronavirus, becoming one of the country’s first cases u.afp.com/3UCZ
The chickens of globalisation practice, coming home to roost.
LNP. The corruption that just keeps on giving and giving…
“Angus, maattee, want an extra couple of million with the chance that there may be even more in the future.”
“Sure, extra cash never goes astray.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/26/government-to-spend-millions-buying-water-from-company-it-already-paid-80m
Greensborough Growlersays:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 8:15 am
It’s so disappointing this person was never given any opportunity to implement his ideas.
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He was the Prime Minister, how much more of an opportunity did he need. All he lacked was the courage to try.
How much more disadvantage will we suffer by not being on NBN through no fault of our own?
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2020/02/26/regional-broadband-tax-nbn/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20News%20-%2020200226
Right wing madness and a further entrenching of a fascist government –
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/25/peter-duttons-regional-airport-security-plan-under-fire-in-coalition-party-room
Peter Stanton @ #8 Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 – 8:29 am
You are wrong. That was his evil twin brother.
Does anyone else think it odd that one of those escaped baboons from a breeding facility was going into hospital for a vasectomy?
PeeBee @ #12 Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 – 8:44 am
Personally, I think there is a Televison Series just waiting to be written and produced.
‘Stigma, shame and frustration’: cashless welfare card found to do more harm than good
Researchers say those forced onto controversial income management have ‘overwhelming number’ of negative experiences
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/26/stigma-shame-and-frustration-cashless-welfare-card-found-to-do-more-harm-than-good
Both major parties were in lock step supporting the cashless welfare card when it was first introduced and, for many years after, producing ‘evidence’ how well received it was by the communities within which it was implemented and the great results it produced.
The Greens party consistently highlighted problems with such cards in all their subsequent iterations. As is often the case, Greens Rachel Siewert’s advocacy against such cards is being proven correct but only after years of damage to so many individuals.
Peebee re Babboon….. yes it is very odd. You think a vasectomy could be done in their medical facilities at the zoo, or in a nearby Vet clinic…you don’t need a fully resourced, A Grade Major Hospital for that.
I don’t want anybody to see me using it’: cashless welfare cards do more harm than good
https://theconversation.com/i-dont-want-anybody-to-see-me-using-it-cashless-welfare-cards-do-more-harm-than-good-132341
ABC RN Breakfast
The Future of Gas: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/the-future-of-gas/12001058
Australian shares are poised to fall again, as Wall Street extended its sell-off after the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned Americans to prepare for “severe” disruption to daily life with a domestic outbreak of the coronavirus.
ASX futures were down 162 points or 2.4% to 6664 near 8.30am AEDT, paring some earlier losses. The local currency was little changed.
In New York, all three major benchmarks closed at or near their session lows. The Dow ended down 3.2% or 879 points; it fluctuated wildly through the session; in early trading it had been up almost 190 points.
After approaching the 30,000 point mark a week ago, the Dow is now on the verge of falling below 27,000 points; it closed at 27,081.
“The best course of action for investors is if you’re in stocks and you have a reasonable allocation, stay with that; we would not be selling into this weakness,” David Katz, chief investment officer at Matrix Asset Advisors. “By the same token, if you have had cash on the sidelines you are hopeful to put to work, we think this is a good opportunity to be adding into stocks here.”
The VIX (The CBOE Volatility Index, known by its ticker symbol VIX, is a popular measure of the stock market’s expectation of volatility implied by S&P 500 index options) spiked to its highest since the late December 2018 markets swoon. It finished up 11.3% at 27.9.
President Donald Trump and his top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, each sought to calm concern about the virus in contrast to the CDC’s tone.
In the text of a speech, Federal Reserve vice chairman Richard Clarida reaffirmed the US central bank’s manta that the US economy “is in a good place” overall. “The labour market remains strong, economic activity is increasing at a moderate pace, and the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) baseline outlook is for a continuation of this performance in 2020.”
In response to Mr Clarida’s comments, Jim Bianco tweeted: “The Fed is still hiding under their desk.”
lizzie says: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 8:36 am
How about the day that someone from Duttonuci’s department shows up at your door and gives you one choice: Sign up or else!
Thanks BK for the Dawn Patrol.
Chris sorted through the ‘blood and gore’ on social media. Now he’s suing Facebook over PTSD
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-26/ex-facebook-moderator-suing-company-over-ptsd/11972364
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/former-facebook-moderator-sues-for-ptsd/11970784
(*And a warning this program discusses disturbing material*)
Kronomex
I don’t have any choice. I’m still on the old landline Telstra broadband.
I bet that baboon heard someone say something about nuts and took fright.
The South Carolina debate is on today at 12 midday NSW time.
It’s on CBSN. Live stream here: https://www.cbsnews.com/live/
Is the EDIT function still working ❓
The answer is “yes”. Damn looks like I have to reload my main computer.
Over and out.
Crikey Worm: https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/02/25/australias-lobbyists-poor-regulatory-framework/
Australia’s lobbyists are winning thanks to a ‘piss-poor’ regulatory framework
It’s impossible to hold lobbyists to account when they’re operating within such a shoddy framework
Labor got Australia through the GFC without a recession.
Forget the bally surplus.
Will the Coalition lead Australia into recession?
Greens party has made attempts to clean up politics, one in 2018…
Labor and Coalition combine to vote down stricter lobbying rules
Greens-proposed five-year ban on lobbying by former ministers fails to pass Senate
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/19/labor-and-coalition-combine-to-vote-down-stricter-lobbying-rules
Awesome simulator for the upcoming primaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/post-opinions-simulator/index.html?utm_campaign=wp_pw_ret_ssimulator_022520&utm_medium=email&utm_source=retention&wpisrc=pw_ret_simulator_022520#/races/
Data retention scheme is being abused exactly as critics predicted
A review of the Abbott government’s data retention scheme has shown it is being widely abused by scores of bodies around the country.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/02/25/data-retention-scheme-abuse/
The Greens opposed the legislation. The Coalition and Labor supported the legislation.
Skynews after dark blitzs the ratings!
I reckon the old time clock would be better adverstising medium.
Israeli President in federal parliament: Groups calls on Australia and Israel to stop blocking International Criminal Court
https://www.medianet.com.au/releases/184593/
“Groups call on Israeli President to respect Palestinian human rights
8am 26 February, Parliament House Lawns”
Speakers:
Adam Bandt MP – Leader of the Australian Greens
Susan Templeman – Labor member for Macquarie
Andrew Wilkie MP – Independent member for Denison
Bishop George Browning – former Anglican Bishop of Canberra/Goulburn
Dr Sue Wareham – Medical Association for Prevention of War
Alex White – Secretary, Unions ACT
Nasser Mashni – Palestinian refugee and Australian businessman
“It’s impossible to hold lobbyists to account when they’re operating within such a shoddy framework.”
And that’s the way the LNP wants to keep it. Make noise about lobbying being terrible every now and then then unzip (all LNP carpets come with fitted zips) the carpet, push the piles of cash aside, sweep noise next to it and zip it closed again. Use the handy dandy carpet roller to flatten the lumps and all is well again.
GG:
Sky News hitting it out of the park. You wonder why Rupert persists with that vanity project.
Greensborough Growler @ #13 Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 – 8:48 am
Vasectomy Vet???
The Greens Push For Celeste Barber’s $52 Million Fund To Go To Bushfire Victims
https://10daily.com.au/news/australia/a200225lsqrw/the-greens-push-for-celeste-barbers-52-million-fund-to-go-to-bushfire-victims-20200225
“The Greens will put forward legislation to ensure $52 million donated to the NSW Rural Fire Service via a Celeste Barber-inspired online bushfire appeal is used to help torched communities and animals.
Funds donated to the NSW fire authorities under current law are restricted to equipment, operations and supplies expenditure.
Greens MP David Shoebridge says the party’s bill would amend the Rural Fires Act to allow fund donations received from November 1, 2019 to February 1, 2020 to go toward their intended cause.”
Confessions @ #36 Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 – 9:33 am
Due to the multiplier effect across other media, and for the power coefficent.
They want a new trial? Unbelievable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/roger-stone-allegation-of-juror-misconduct-and-demand-for-new-trial-to-be-heard-in-semi-public-hearing-tuesday/2020/02/25/2ad48758-5729-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html
Another mouthy Greens Senator can’t control her tongue.
What is Baboon for:
“Fuck this for a joke, I am out of here!”
Pegasus @ #13 Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 – 6:24 am
Personally I think real time publishing of Minister’s diaries online is a better way to go.
This would include a reason for and issues raised at the meeting.
Corporate crime is topical.
Here is what the Australian Law Reform Commission thinks.
https://www.alrc.gov.au/news/alrc-corporate-crime-discussion-paper/
Imagine being stuck with a 100,000 of these in a retail slump?
No surprises here at all – I’ve been saying this for a while now.
…
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/25/21152538/bernie-sanders-electability-president-moderates-data
2014 report: Who pays the piper? Rules for lobbying governments in Australia, Canada, UK and USA
Greensborough Growler @ #28 Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 – 6:44 am
They might be able to offload them to an AC/DC fan club at a reduced rate. 🙂
GG:
Reminiscent of Workchoices propaganda which Gillard had fun with one QT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJilIspYOs
GG, Ima thinking the Liberal Party will need to replace those mugs with one like this:
😀