Another week’s worth of federal preselection developments. For the latest on the Western Australian election campaign, see the post below.
• Richard Ferguson of The Australian reports there is “speculation” Senator Kristina Keneally might move to the House of Representatives amid a preselection battle with Right faction colleague Deborah O’Neill, in which the winner will get the factionally reserved top position on the ticket while the loser will be relegated to highly loseable third place.
• Nick Champion, who has held the seat of Spence (formerly Wakefield) for Labor since 2007, will move to state politics in the safe seat of Taylor at the next election in March 2022. Champion is aligned with the socially conservative Shop Distributive Allied and Employees Association sub-faction of the Right, and is a member of the pro-coal mining Otis Group. No apparent word on who might be in line to replace him in Spence, which is now a safe seat.
• The Brisbane Times reports the preselection of Graham Perrett, who has held the Brisbane seat of Moreton for Labor since 2007, faces a preselection challenge from state party secretary Julie-Ann Campbell, who among other things has affirmative action considerations in her favour.
• The South Australian Liberals have finalised their Senate ticket, with incumbents Simon Birmingham and Andrew McLachlan taking the top two positions and the third going to Kerrynne Liddle, a factional moderate of indigenous background who works as a staffer to Social Services Minister and SA Senator Anne Ruston. Tom Richardson of InDaily reports Liddle was chosen ahead of state party vice-president Rachel Swift by a margin of 130 to 78.
Mexicanbemmer, if you really believe that, then you need to go back to school for some clear thinking classes because it is blatant!
Then there’s this:
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/brittany-higgins-alleged-rape-parliament-office-steam-cleaned-after-alleged-attack/news-story/fa1797427cf198241d555eb67ec3a306
ABC’s Stephanie Dalzell is currently reporting in Melbourne on the lockdown and she has been as unbiased as anyone could wish for.
Morrison today and many other days:
The reason I posted that is because it’s surprising and very noticeable, compared with, say, Richard Willingham.
From Itzas link…
Now that I believe.
poroti @ #589 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 2:45 pm
I’m surprised the scum in the Coalition haven’t brought up, sotto voce with the CPG, but loud enough for the rest of Australia to hear it, the Bill Shorten allegations.
ItzaDream @ #613 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 3:32 pm
I keep wondering, which half was naked?
lizzie @ #1106 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 3:36 pm
Rich is far from the worst.
Rex Douglas @ #609 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 3:23 pm
There can only be one winner:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/covid-dominated-everything-andrews-morrison-vie-for-political-leadership-prize-20210216-p572up.html
C@t
But who are the judges?
Credlin and Sales – Britain needs you to interrogate Boris:
C@tmomma @ #1109 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 3:11 pm
I keep wondering what in the scene doesnt suggest a more careful consideration of the ‘get in the cleaners’ or ‘call the police first’ decision. I keep wondering how differently most large companies would react to the same situation.
lizzie @ #623 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 3:47 pm
The McKinnon Prize is a non-partisan award given by the Susan McKinnon Foundation and the University of Melbourne’s School of Government. Finalists are selected by a panel of distinguished Australians including former prime minister Julia Gillard and former NSW premier Mike Baird. The winners will be announced next month.
Simon Crean and Amanda Vanstone are Ambassadors, whatever that is.
There’s also this other award:
There is also a prize for emerging political leaders who have been in public life for less than five years. Labor MP Anne Aly, independents Helen Haines and Zali Steggall, new ACT Liberal opposition leader Elizabeth Lee, Queensland LNP councillor Fiona Cunningham and the Greens mayor of Glen Innes in NSW Carol Sparks are on the shortlist.
Go Anne Aly!
Thanks, C@t.
Simon Katich @ #625 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 3:49 pm
Well, this is politics and Christian Porter and Alan Tudge are senior ministers in the government who received no punishment at all for THEIR actions, so that points to the completely different way it would be treated.
Some perspective from Jim Courier
Vic Greens supporting Vic Labor
Linda Reynolds says that “she thought she was doing her best for Brittany, but it seems not.”
Doesn’t say much for her judgement, frankly.
lizzie @ #631 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 4:05 pm
Sounds like, ‘too bad, so sad about Brittany’, from Lynda Reynolds.
An announcement here, a distraction there…
Home Grown Terrorists.
When will Liberal Party and the fascists media wake up?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/15/australian-proud-boys-leader-sought-combat-trained-supporters-to-arrest-police-at-covid-lockdown-protests?fbclid=IwAR0ukEKNceXaTH0CMNpPM6MvoV2UpISDIllNeXs6P8R128d-tzNWRa6cRMI
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/ardern-blasts-morrison-for-shirking-responsibility-for-suspected-isis-terrorist-who-grew-up-in-australia
Sure, but this is not simply an issue of how easily the government would make the decision to call in the cleaners based on political expediency. Pretty sure you dont need to have a criminal case under way to be guilty of removing or spoiling evidence. You dont have to KNOW a crime has been committed and you dont have to KNOW you are deliberately removing evidence.
I suggest that if HR or an executive of a large reputable company found a half dressed semi-conscious young female employee in an office out of hours against the rules would not order a clean until they were pretty sure a crime wasnt going to be investigated. They would do this for many reasons – one of them being fear of prosecution for removing evidence. So I wonder if the same fear is felt in Canberra.
KayJay @ #1004 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 11:39 am
Yay, Australia! Not just leading the world, but doing it in a canter!
Makes you proud to be an Aussie, doesn’t it?
I keep wondering, which half was naked?
I know I shouldn’t point out the bleeding obvious. Bottom half for rape.
Lizzie
That is why i roll my eyes at people when they say putting women in the room will make things better when its not about gender but commonsense because this women has been taken advantage off and deserved a lot better from her employer and colleagues. There is no excuse for what has happened here.
This person was spotted leaving Reynolds office the following afternoon…
Seems like a sudden increase in 2013. How did that happen?
Mexicanbeemer
Women are definitely not always supportive of other women. From my office experience, I’d say the opposite. I’d rather work with men any day.
https://xkcd.com/2425/
Star Wars mRNA vaccine. A longer comic than usual.
SK: “I keep wondering what in the scene doesnt suggest a more careful consideration of the ‘get in the cleaners’ or ‘call the police first’ decision. I keep wondering how differently most large companies would react to the same situation.”
In my long and varied experience of working as a manager in all sorts of organisations, it occasionally happens that two or more employees will carelessly decide to engage in sexual activity on various forms of office furniture: couches, chairs, desks, sick bays, photocopiers, etc. Sometimes, there is – let us say – a visible reminder of this activity left behind on the furniture. The standard response is for the mess to be found the next day, someone to go “bloody hell, it looks like someone has been bonking on that” and the cleaners to be called for to attempt to remove the said visible reminder.
In my experience, these incidents typically end with the participants in this activity being dressed down by a boss for their unacceptable behaviour in the workplace and warned of the severe consequences that would flow should they do it again.
Reflecting back, I am not aware of an instance in which somebody said “wait a minute, this might be evidence of a rape, we’d better not clean it up until we find out more.” Perhaps, thanks to this case, we will see a more cautious approach more widely adopted in future, and that would be a good thing IMO.
lizzie @ #641 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 4:29 pm
Ditto, to the extent that there are shockers on both sides.
Dog and cow in love.
8 mins
https://twitter.com/i/status/1361421674449526784
The Andrews govt needs to tread carefully. It does not have a very good track record with unsolicited proposals. Last thing we need right now is another Westgate Tunnel / Transurban debacle.
Lindsay Fox may own every beachfront property in Portsea by the time this is over.
Elaine McKay
@ElaineM11584892
Morrison congratulated a rape victim who is Australian of the year. All the while covering up a rape he knew about. Let that sink in.
Okay, so i think, considering SK’s and meher baba’s responses, that what we need is a rapid response mechanism whereby a female employee, if she feels the sex wasn’t consensual, can phone a hotline to order the scene to be preserved and not cleaned. A Rape Crisis Centre, or some such, who has someone on call 24/7. Especially in the middle of the night. They can then liase with the Police, in this case with Parliamentary Services and with the local hospital. Someone has a master key and they can go in and secure the room from the cleaners.
I do have to ask though, how did the Department of Finance get to be the ones who sent in the cleaners to do the deep clean?
Taylormade @ #646 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 4:41 pm
If it was a Liberal mate you’d be giving them atta boys!
There’s plenty of land available for a quarantine centre near Avalon Airport just up Windemere Rd near Barwon/Marngoneet prisons.
c@tmomma: “I do have to ask though, how did the Department of Finance get to be the ones who sent in the cleaners to do the deep clean?”
It’s a good question. The Department of Finance is responsible for the pay and conditions of everyone who works in a Minister’s office, but I would have assumed that the Department of Parliamentary Services was in charge of the cleaning: as they are for the rest of the building. But perhaps their responsibility stops at the doors of the offices and Finance employs the cleaners who do the inside of the offices? If so, it’s a strange arrangement.
C@tmomma @ #1137 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 4:43 pm
C@t I think the people that provide all the services to Parliament House report via Finance.
This is a big generalisation. I see a pattern of behaviour in Federal Parl. By certain males of a particular political persuasion and the type of behaviour reportedly in so called prestigious university boarding colleges.
Join the dots
mb
In our case, the table where we have lunch once a week, which I think is poor taste
KayJay, P1
Thanks for posting that graph from the Economist I linked to earlier. I think it is fairly self-explanatory as far as the claims of the Denier from the Shire are concerned.
I can post statistics all day but graphs like that make it so immediately obvious how terrible Australia’s GHG performance has been since first Howard took office, and then Abbott destroyed the CPRS. We are a terrible global citizen on climate change, and nobody honest could blame the rest of the world for tarifing our goods.
What is worse, we have done all this while inflicting our households with some of the highest electricity prices in the world. So our power has been neither cheap nor clean. Double failure.
[near Barwon/Marngoneet prisons]
Sounds like Melbourne’s Champs-Élysées
https://www.pollbludger.net/2021/02/14/comings-and-goings/comment-page-23/#comment-3557757
Pretty sure that emissions per capita, whether consumption or production, aren’t any better?
Shellbell @ #1145 Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 – 4:55 pm
Have to keep clear of the nimby’s.
From what I understand, and what I have outlined in my posts, this isnt a matter of coming across some evidence of bonking. I am not saying a crime has been committed. I am saying the people who came across the scene had every reason to be more careful of their ensuing actions.
If you saw a young woman, alone, half naked, in a “disoriented state”, in a place she shouldnt be…. what would you do? If one of your first moves is to order in a cleaner then I reckon the police should pay close attention to why that would be. This isnt about putting the onus on the woman to pull herself together enough to call a hotline. It is about the workplace being more responsible and accountable in their approach to potential sexual assault.
Australia’s securities regulator says it will seek penalties and other orders against Commonwealth Bank of Australia after the Federal Court found the country’s top lender had overcharged interest to customers.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) said the court declared CBA had misled customers on more than 12,000 occasions between December 2014 and March 2018, charging a higher interest on business overdraft accounts than what the customers were advised.
Australia’s largest bank also breached its obligation as a financial service licensee to comply with financial services laws, the court added.
The total overcharged interest exceeded $A2.2 million and was a result of “inadequate systems and processes”, the securities watchdog said in a statement. ASIC will seek monetary penalties against CBA at a hearing on April 6.
Shellbell: “In our case, the table where we have lunch once a week, which I think is poor taste”
I once took up a job in a new organisation. For the first few weeks, various old hands would wander into my office, point at my desk, and giggle. I eventually found out that it was the site of a storied encounter between one of my predecessors and another willing participant (who was presumably extremely ambitious, given her relative youth and pulchritude and when compared to my predecessor, who was something of a paper bag job).
I eventually learned more details of the incident than I would ever have wanted to know. Suffice to say, I never ate my lunch at that particular desk.