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Baghdad Bob
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What do you reckon ?
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TIGER
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God bless those junkies and injecting rooms
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max manewer
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Jim Chalmers looks to me, the likely lad of the ALP. Albo couldn't pull the skin off a custard, they will be spinning their wheels with him in the driver's seat.
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Second Chance
Champion Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Status: Offline Points: 45760 |
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So much for transparency. Even the Rorts probe was a rort.
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rorts' probe did not check McKenzie's legal authority to award funding An investigation
commissioned by Prime Minister Scott Morrison into whether former sport
minister Bridget McKenzie breached ministerial standards during the
"sports rorts" saga did not examine whether she had the legal
power to award funding. Department of Prime
Minister and Cabinet secretary Phil Gaetjens, who conducted the investigation,
also confirmed under Senate questioning on Wednesday he had not looked into
any role the Prime Minister or his office might have played in directing
funding under the scheme. Labor senator Katy Gallagher questioned why neither Mr Gaetjens nor any of his departmental staff who were also working on the investigation reached out to staff in either the Prime Minister's or Senator McKenzie's office, or sought extra evidence mentioned in the auditor-general's report.
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Second Chance
Champion Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Status: Offline Points: 45760 |
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And now they're further looking after their Murdoch mates.
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gives another $10m to Foxtel to boost sport on TV Handout brings to $40m the amount Murdoch’s subscription service
has received since 2017, and comes as government slashes ABC funding by $84m |
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maccamax
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We should all be protesting that the ABC gets any funding.
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Second Chance
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A major national sporting code keen for a slice of $150 million earmarked for female changing rooms was assured the program would not be used in an election cash splash, only to see most of it splurged on swimming pools in Coalition-held seats. Key points:
The ABC can reveal that just a day before Prime Minister Scott Morrison called last year's federal election, the sports organisation sought assurances that the Female Facilities and Water Safety Stream (FFWSS) program would not be used in the campaign. Sure enough, it received that assurance from the office of Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, who oversaw the infrastructure portfolio. Mr McCormack's chief of staff Damian Callachor told the code that before any grant applications could be considered, "guidelines" had to be developed. Mr Callachor also told the sport executive the "nature and size" of the sports program meant "governance and other matters" had to be first established. But days after this email exchange, obtained by the ABC, the Coalition set about making 41 promises funded by the program, nearly exhausting the four-year program's funding within five weeks. This is despite there being no guidelines for the FFWSS program, no tenders, and no application process. |
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marble
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what a disgrace - this mob has just announced nearly the largest budget deficit in history and their throwing money at Murdoch fake news. This is a moment in history where will need government with vision, empathy and intelligence. This failed bozo is just not going to deliver
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Isaac soloman
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Wonderful to see the LIBERAL women on the world stage
Linda Reynolds and Marise Payne. doing iti in a very male domain. |
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Passing Through
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Why did they have to go to Washington in the middle of a raging pandemic, hugging and mingling with other right wing COVID deniers without masks. What was so important?
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Passing Through
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Morrison Govt to take Ruby Princess inquiry to the High Court to stop them calling witnesses to testify. I am sure it is completely innocent and Dutton will come out of hiding shortly. Commonwealth threatened legal action against Ruby Princess inquiry head over constitutional stoushLucy Hughes Jones, The Daily Telegraph Lawyers for the federal government threatened to launch High Court action to force the Ruby Princess inquiry to withdraw a summons for a departmental worker who refused to testify, with the commissioner warning “the rule of law is not so simply sidestepped.” Last month Commissioner Bret Walker SC summoned Department of Agriculture worker Traci Joseph to give evidence about any role she played in granting the Ruby Princess permission to dock when she boarded the vessel in Sydney on March 19. “The commissioner wishes Ms Joseph to understand that it is a possibility that an inappropriate informality, lack of explicit regard to statutory and administrative requirements, and a failure of sensible liaison between her and state offices could be found by the commissioner to have occurred in this case,” Senior Solicitor Assisting the inquiry Jennifer Hoy wrote in a July 9 letter to the Australian Government Solicitor’s office. more... |
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Passing Through
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We all make mistakes and the PM has made a few during COVID-19
- Nikki Savva
The challenge for oppositions in the time of COVID-19 is to offer constructive ideas to tackle the crisis, hold governments to account when they get it wrong, and do it in ways which do not undermine confidence in the integrity of regulations, laws and institutions set up to deal with it, nor incite people to defy the measures designed to protect them. It is inevitable that at times like this governments and leaders will make mistakes. They stuff up during the very best of times, so how much harder is it to avoid errors when the pressure is so much greater and the consequences deadlier. When they do make mistakes, people deserve to know how or why they happened and who was responsible, particularly if those mistakes lead to the deaths of loved ones. Oppositions and journalists have a duty, when those mistakes are made, to pose questions and make criticisms, otherwise there will be swabs for hostage syndrome as well as COVID-19. They are not doing their jobs if they suspend their critical faculties, paper over or cover up blunders. Nor should they be put off by accusations of partisanship or political game-playing or bullying from opponents or their surrogates and supporters on Twitter. That will only cost more money and more lives. So long as everyone accepts there is a line and doesn’t cross it. Which brings us to Victorian Liberal backbencher Tim Smith. A few weeks ago when Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews mandated the wearing of masks in public, Smith complained Victorians were muzzled like dogs. A few days later, with the virus rampant, after a few Victorians had proudly filmed themselves defying instructions to muzzle up, Smith accused Andrews of having blood on his hands. Smith has taken a novel approach in his campaign to become Victorian opposition leader. He has decided the best way to wrest it from the more measured Michael O’Brien, is to run it from the studios of Sydney shock jocks. O’Brien has managed to make the same points about Andrews in a far less frenzied and less dangerous way. Smith might revel in the notoriety he has bought, but he does himself and fellow Victorians no favours. Andrews and his ministers still have many questions to answer. They will be held to account firstly by the board of inquiry he instigated, then by the voters, depending on what happens between now and the next election. The escape of the virus from hotel quarantine because security was left in the hands of untrained guards will be his mistake to carry. One look at him tells you not only that he knows it, but that there is no way he will go without an almighty fight both in Spring Street and Canberra. Despite the veneer of unity, bipartisanship within the national cabinet has fractured over the use – or not – of defence forces to help with quarantine, and responsibility for nursing homes, where the death toll rises each miserable day. Ultimately responsibility for the aged care sector lies with Scott Morrison. On Monday, after a procession of his ministers and backbenchers had gone all out to blame Andrews for the quarantine disaster as part of a deliberate strategy to shield Morrison and the federal government from any fallout, the PM said nobody will get a leave pass for their mistakes. Truer words were never spoken. But the person who ensured Morrison will wear blame for the failures in nursing homes was not Andrews nor was it Anthony Albanese. It is Peter Rozen QC, counsel assisting the aged-care royal commission. Last week Justice Jennifer Coate stripped bare Andrews’s attempts to deflect questions by deferring to her ongoing inquiry into the quarantine breach. Coate said flatly there was no point of law preventing him answering. Rozen was as direct and as devastating when he said on Monday: “While there was undoubtedly a great deal done to prepare the Australian health sector more generally for the pandemic, the evidence will reveal that neither the commonwealth Department of Health nor the aged-care regulator developed a COVID-19 plan specifically for the aged care sector.” He also accused the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner, Janet Anderson, of failing to develop or implement an appropriate COVID-19 response plan, and of failing to investigate the major outbreaks at Sydney nursing home Newmarch House and Dorothy Henderson Lodge in March and April. “It may come as a surprise to some that the aged care regulator has not investigated the circumstances of the Dorothy Henderson Lodge and Newmarch House outbreaks,” Rozen said. “Incident investigations are normally one of the key tasks of any regulator for obvious reasons. An investigation into the facts can inform future regulatory action.” He went to the nub of it, and therein lay the rub. Rozen’s remarks cut deep. They provoked an extraordinary response from Brendan Murphy, the former chief medical officer, now head of the Health Department, who appeared on Wednesday before the commission (which Morrison established) at the request of the commonwealth. Murphy sought permission to correct what he said were “inaccurate” statements. His request was denied. Morrison has made many mistakes during this pandemic. At almost every critical point on almost every contentious issue, he has been forced to shift position. He stopped travel from China but waited too long to block travel from the US. He opposed lockdowns, he opposed school closures, he opposed state border restrictions, he opposed wage subsidies he opposed pandemic leave and he suspended parliament. Many of the switches have come about because of internal and external pressures, including from medical experts and Labor. Nevertheless his ability to pivot in the nick of time on all those fronts has helped him and helped the country get through to this point. Something else he has mastered is the conduct of press conferences where he refuses follow-up questions from journalists he doesn’t like on issues he doesn’t want to discuss. Journalists intent on getting their own questions answered or with different agendas, have tended not to back up colleagues enabling the prime minister to switch to a more agreeable topic or a more agreeable questioner. The line that gets up is almost always the one he has carefully crafted. Morrison will face many more questions about his actions, or missteps, when parliament resumes on August 24. He will not be able to avoid them as easily, unless Labor crosses that line. |
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maccamax
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Gees PT , your not doing her any favours showing her photo.
Destroyed her article in one foul swoop . She is certainly ugly. |
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horlicks
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Why do so many people (not just macca) think that looks have anything to do with a woman's work?
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maccamax
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Horlicks , That is a very good question and like many things discussed , Pointless if we don't call it as it is.
Handsome Men and Pretty Ladies have a gift which is priceless. ( Unless they use it Wrong ) - Particularly the ladies .. has nothing to do with job performance. This subject will take a year to cover only a part. Today a tradesman said on air ... Women in the trades can't keep up ..he was jumped on ... But he is correct .. They don't have the Physical build. Another stinker is the endless call for women to be 50% at least in all of the choice jobs . Like Politicians ... Only 10% of applicants are Women so why should they hold 50 % of the jobs ...Why isn't 50% of slaughtermen ladies. ???.... What use are Female Police on the front line ... |
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max manewer
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Well, the TV people do seem to preference women for on-screen work who are "good looking", but it really isn't an issue for the people in print media, I would have thought.
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maccamax
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Of course .. The ABC is the place where the ugly ones read the weather.
Keeps Stan Grant's interests at a lower level. But God gave the ladies short , stubby feet, so they could get closer to the sink .... NOT to Lay Bricks or build scaffolding. |
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maccamax
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Independent MP Zali Steggall launches campaign to remove GST from face masks
Not heard from Election time until her announcement above. This woman can't be serious . If that is her contibution to Australia .. GOD help us . |
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maccamax
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CONGRATULATIONS Bill Shorten for calling out this unacceptable expanding of Age care Investment in the Private Sector to a point where they are virtually rounding anyone of the (pension) age up , to coerce them into age care ..
The non stop building of these Center's is creating a situation where filling the beds becomes top priority and the examiners who issue the ACAT assessment are usually acting very illegally and finding in favour of the Facility rather than the Elderly individuals needs. CRIMINAL. Mr Shorten didn't miss and about time ... All Governments for many years are guilty. |
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maccamax
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I almost cried for Dan , watching his report of the overnight numbers .
He can't win , what ever he does... Opens up and infections come along ( which they will do for sometime yet ), every where. Close it down and they want to hang him .... Poor bugger , who wants his job. |
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Passing Through
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RUOK maxie?
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Carioca
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S'pose Dan can always ring China, he's sold his mob down the road, I have no sympathy for him.
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rusty nails
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Her predecessors contribution to society ???? Fighting the removal of GST from tampons
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max manewer
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A very rare 'daily double" there from macca. Who hacked his account ?
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maccamax
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It was unusual for me to push the Labor Barrow but credit where it is due .
It's so rare they do anything worthwhile that when someone notices it , the Rusted on Labor ite's , have Apoplectic seizures. |
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max manewer
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I thought there must have been another mine cave-in, for Bill to be in the news.
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maccamax
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Now that he has put it on the table , the Public will get to analyse it for what it is .... IMHO a terrible crime against the Public Purse and to make it worse , so many of them PAY NO TAX.
Church involved in some and rivers of money ... the figures MASSIVE. |
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max manewer
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Where is Albo these days ? Auditioning for "The Invisible Man" ?
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Second Chance
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In trying times like this it's both appropriate and responsible to apolitically support efforts by Parties of all jurisdiction and persuasion to address the health and economic challenges we face. And for the most part that's exactly what Albo's done.
As very distinct from the leader of the Victorian opposition who continually seeks to politicize the current environment, and who was appropriately slapped down big-time for attempting to do so by Jennifer Coate AO who presides over the established Victorian quarantine enquiry. In addition to which it's always best to keep one's powder dry (such as it may be) until the next election becomes a real focus of attention.
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maccamax
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I think this is PRICELESS :- THERE IS NO Fn VACCINE
-------------- The Age Pension typically increases twice yearly in March and September. However, reports surfaced last week that there will be no increase in Age Pension payments at the next indexation. Leon reveals the decision the government has now made on the September increase. In other developments, the federal government has struck a deal to provide a COVID vaccine free for all |
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