News to report on the three by-elections presently in view – one federal and two state, two with dates confirmed and one to be announced:
• The Liberal National Party candidate for the Fadden by-election on July 15 will be long-serving Gold Coast councillor Cameron Caldwell, who won a final round vote of 153 preselectors over Dinesh Palipana, with Fran Ward, Owen Caterer and Craig Hobart falling by the wayside in earlier rounds. Lydia Lynch of The Australian reports a meeting of Labor’s administrative committee last Friday unanimously endorsed Letitia Del Fabbro, a nurse educator who was also the candidate at the May 2022 election.
• Nine candidates have nominated for Liberal preselection in Warrandyte, expected to be held in about a fortnight, controversial former Kew MP Tim Smith not being among them. As reported by Rachel Baxendale in The Australian, they are John Roskam, former executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs; Sarah Overton, KPMG director; Nicole Ta-Ei Werner, who ran in Box Hill at the November state election; Jason McClintock, a tech business founder who ran in Eltham (and who donated heavily to the party’s state election campaign); David Farrelly, who ran in Pakenham; Jemma Townson, “energy industry communications director and former Matthew Guy and Katie Allen staffer”; Antonietta di Cosmo, 22-year-old “Ryan Smith staffer, champion rower and law student”; Allison Troth, “cancer campaigner and former John Howard staffer”; and Andrew Conlon, “Manningham councillor and maths teacher”. The report says factional conservatives are likely to back Roskam or Werner, while “an opposing factional grouping that coalesces around powerbrokers Frank Greenstein and Holly Byrne” might support Overton, McClintock or Townson.
• The Rockingham by-election to replace Mark McGowan has been set for July 29. The West Australian reports that Labor’s candidate will likely be Magenta Marshall, who has won backing from the Right, despite last week saying she was “not sure it’s my time”. Marshall is in her late twenties and works in a “specialised campaigning role” in party headquarters, having previously been an electorate officer to Balcatta MP David Michael.
Better economic managers my ass.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-morrison-bus-porkbarrelled-its-way-to-the-polls-where-were-the-roadblocks-20230607-p5dequ.html
Aus 469 India 5/151 with bowlers 1 each. Starc smashed early but got Kohli.
“Lydia Lynch of The Australian reports …”
Not to be confused with Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks:
“Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery …”
Prime qualifications for a gig as a columnist with The Australian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Lunch
‘fess,
But it’s the Labor government that have ‘questions to answer’ about text messages and are the cause of the ‘cost of living crisis’ if you listen to the increasingly ubiquitous Peter Dutton and the Coalition. 😡
Butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths and everything they did in government was all legit.
“Nine candidates have nominated for Liberal preselection in Warrandyte … [including] John Roskam, former executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs …”
Best man at Bill Shorten’s wedding.
Or was it the other way around?
“Intense fighting reported as Ukrainian forces go on attack south of Zaporizhzhia:
Counteroffensive reported to have begun, with large force pushing assault against Russian positions
A substantial Ukrainian force was pushing an assault against Russian positions in the south on Thursday, in an intensification of fighting that some Ukrainian officials and western analysts said marked the start in earnest of Kyiv’s much-vaunted counteroffensive.
The combat against Russian positions south of Zaporizhzhia included western-supplied tanks and armoured vehicles and infantry backed by artillery. There were reports of intense fighting outside of the town of Tokmak, a key Russian logistical hub.
Asked about US media reports that the counteroffensive had begun, a spokesman for Ukraine’s general staff said: “We have no such information. And we do not comment on anonymous sources.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/08/tense-fighting-reported-as-ukrainian-forces-go-on-attack-south-of-zaporizhzhia
“ISW
@TheStudyofWar
The Ukrainian #counteroffensive has begun.
Activity throughout #Ukraine is consistent with a variety of indicators that Ukrainian counteroffensive operations are underway across the theater.”
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1666839787850825728?cxt=HHwWgICwxZX95qEuAAAA
The fountain of youth could be a can of Red Bull? Who woulda thunk it?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/08/common-energy-drink-ingredient-taurine-may-slow-ageing-process
“Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal court in New York to slash the penalty … won by writer E Jean Carroll from $5m down to $1m – or grant him a new trial.”
Bargaining: Stage 4 of the 7 stages of grief.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/trump-requests-new-trial-e-jean-carroll-case
C@t:
I don’t listen to Dutton as he has nothing worth hearing.
Fadden by-election next month , Way the lib/nats propaganda media are going all out
Newsltd internal polling must be getting worried for the LNP in the safe seat of Fadden , primary vote under 40% ?
Surely the LNP in Qld would not lose a safe seat
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
David Crowe describes how the Morrison government spent money so quickly on the Community Health and Hospitals Program that nothing was allowed to stop them. The campaign bus crashed through every safeguard meant to protect taxpayers from pork-barrelling for political gain, to the point where politicians and public servants not only flouted the grant guidelines but spent money without the authority of the law.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-morrison-bus-porkbarrelled-its-way-to-the-polls-where-were-the-roadblocks-20230607-p5dequ.html
Matthew Knott writes that the sociologist who triggered the Brereton war crimes inquiry, Samantha Crompvoets, has urged Defence Minister Richard Marles to stare down veterans’ groups by stripping medals from soldiers who oversaw alleged wrongdoing in Afghanistan, saying it will reflect poorly on the nation if no action is taken.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/be-brave-strip-soldiers-medals-says-expert-who-sparked-war-crimes-inquiry-20230608-p5dey8.html
John Pesutto’s first six months as state opposition leader have been enough to qualify him for an annus horribilis, and it’s only June, writes Annika Smethurst who says a loss in the Warrandyte byelection would spell the end of Pesutto’s leadership.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/a-loss-in-the-warrandyte-byelection-would-spell-the-end-of-pesutto-s-leadership-20230608-p5deyz.html
Michelle Grattan says that Labor is caught in a pincer movement of fighting inflation and delivering to its constituency.
https://theconversation.com/grattan-on-friday-labor-caught-in-pincer-movement-of-fighting-inflation-and-delivering-to-its-constituency-207302
The share of tax paid by Australia’s highest earners is at its highest level in at least a decade, with new data showing the top 1 per cent contributed nearly a fifth of personal income tax revenue in 2020-21. The AFR tells us that figures released by the Australian Taxation Office on Thursday showed the average individual tax bill for the top 1 per cent of earners was $317,090 in the period, up by more than $47,000 from a year earlier, according to analysis by The Australian Financial Review.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/top-earners-shoulder-more-of-the-tax-burden-20230608-p5df2g
Blacklisting PwC won’t stop outsourcing, writes Richard Mulligan who says there are three reasons it has become embedded in the Australian public service.
https://theconversation.com/blacklisting-pwc-wont-stop-outsourcing-here-are-3-reasons-it-has-become-embedded-in-the-australian-public-service-206772
“I am pretty confident the AWM will tell the whole story of Ben Roberts-Smith. They will tell the story of the heroic deeds which won the former SAS solider the highest military honour. They will also tell the story of his horrific misdeeds, including the murder of prisoners of war. That’s the sensible thing to do – to avoid the wilful mischaracterisation of all that has happened in this case”, writes Jenna Price.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8226990/when-it-comes-to-ben-roberts-smith-we-have-to-tell-the-whole-story/?cs=14258
Strong growth in the low-productivity services sector and businesses holding on to more workers than they really need could explain Australia’s woeful productivity performance, economists say. After the steepest 12-month fall on record in Wednesday’s March quarter national accounts, labour productivity has returned to December 2019 levels, writes Michael Read.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/firms-hoarding-workers-could-be-to-blame-for-low-productivity-, explains Sue Mitchell.0230608-p5dezz
As Australia dips into a retail recession, retailers are ramping up labour and sales productivity initiatives to offset rising costs, explains Sue Mitchell who explains some of their initiatives.
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/retailers-lead-the-way-on-productivity-push-20230607-p5deoy
“Can the yes campaign overcome the cold political calculus of Australia’s voice referendum?”, asks Hugh Riminton who says the fact is that negative campaigning works. Doubt – or its energised cousin, fear – always has a head start.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/can-the-yes-campaign-overcome-the-cold-political-calculus-of-australias-voice-referendum
The ‘housing crisis’ could use a dose of democratic big government, with state initiatives and regulation — according to some lessons from Australia’s history, explains Lee Duffield.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/more-public-housing-would-help-those-in-australia-doing-it-tough,17589
In banning Nazi symbols, Australian governments seek to prevent an escalation to violence. The risk is that forcing the haters underground will only embolden them, warns Malcolm Knox.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/banning-neo-nazis-will-give-them-exactly-what-they-want-20230607-p5deqx.html
Michelle Pini says that it’s telling that the right-wing mainstream media can manage to turn everything that doesn’t fit its narrative into a Twitter conspiracy and almost always, one involving Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, with whom they have an ongoing and creepy – bordering on unhinged – angry preoccupation.
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/twitter-conspiracy–belinda-jones-for-fadden-real-life-according-to-nines-kids,17592
A new labour agreement for temporary skilled workers in aged care is a promising step towards enforcing Australia’s minimum wage laws because it provides for union induction of temporary migrant workers, writes Stephen Clibborn who explains the narrow path the government is treading to effectively address wage theft issues.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/the-government-has-an-opportunity-to-address-wage-theft-issues-20230530-p5dcif.html
Josh Gordon and Benjamin Preiss report that the state government has seized control of the planning process for renewable energy transmission projects in a bid to prevent a backlash from communities forced to accept the massive power lines needed for Victoria’s ambitious wind and solar agenda.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/power-move-andrews-government-seizes-control-of-renewable-energy-planning-20230608-p5df0d.html
The Australian is all over the Higgins issue. Here is just one of the several articles in today’s edition.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/david-sharaz-is-a-puppet-master-set-on-destroying-the-liberals-bruce-lehrmann/news-story/19290b9909d629d19fbb5a6a1db69bbf?amp
Rob Harris tells us that the price of high-end electric vehicles could be dramatically reduced for Australian drivers as a result of trade negotiations with the European Union as the federal government mulls slashing the controversial luxury car tax or potentially scrapping it entirely for low-emissions vehicles.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/ev-prices-likely-to-be-slashed-in-australia-as-part-of-eu-trade-talks-20230608-p5dez4.html
On the same day a man was jailed for the manslaughter of Scott Johnson a submission to the inquiry into LGBTQ hate crimes exposed the obfuscation and bloody-mindedness of the NSW Police’s investigation into how the young American mathematician came to be found dead at the base of a Manly cliff in the summer of 1988. The SMH editorial is concerned that the crime and the punishment took 35 years to finally meet lies at the feet of the NSW Police and is an indelible black mark against those we expect to protect us.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/long-fight-for-gay-hate-justice-exposes-police-culture-20230608-p5df0c.html
In her first press conference since 95-year-old Clare Nowland was Tasered by officers, NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley has been grilled over the culture of the force.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/minister-faces-barrage-of-questions-as-scandals-mount-20230608-p5df2w.html
The head of Canberra Airport has lashed the behaviour of Qantas. And it seems he has ample ammunition.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8226384/canberra-airport-blasts-qantas-over-massive-cancellations/?cs=14329
A Home Affairs Department contract with consulting firm Deloitte ballooned more than 900 per cent before it was dumped over a conflict of interest, a damning audit report has shown. The firm’s $1.5 million contract, originally signed for $151,800 in September 2020, lasted for just under eight months and was not awarded in line with federal government rules. The critical findings are included in a new report released by the Australian National Audit Office on Wednesday into the former Coalition government’s now-ditched attempt to create a one-stop shop for visas, licences and permits.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8226459/deloittes-ballooned-15m-contract-with-home-affairs-dumped-over-a-conflict-of-interest-audit/?cs=14350
Angus Thompson reports that Peter Dutton has suggested the incoming federal corruption watchdog will choose to investigate the circumstances surrounding the airing of Brittany Higgins’ rape claim and her eventual payout by the federal government.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-suggests-nacc-interest-in-brittany-higgins-payout-20230608-p5df2f.html
With big tech’s track record of monopolistic power, accountability problems and transparency failings, there is a clear need for governments around the world to step up to rebalance the power and protect the interests of everyday citizens, writes Emma McDonald about the largely unregulated that slyly infiltrate our lives.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/you-wouldn-t-let-a-stranger-into-your-house-for-most-of-us-they-re-already-there-20230607-p5deov.html
The public relations department of embattled consulting giant PwC has not been a happy place of late. And as the horror show surrounding the firm’s misuse of confidential tax data refuses to go away, the team will now have to manage without its leader.
https://www.smh.com.au/cbd/pwc-s-head-of-reputation-quits-as-firm-s-horror-show-continues-20230608-p5df52.html
Federal prosecutors have notified former US President Donald Trump’s lawyers he is the target of an investigation into his handling of classified materials, a person familiar with the matter said, adding to his legal troubles as he campaigns for the White House in 2024. Bring. It. On.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/federal-prosecutors-have-notified-trump-he-is-target-of-investigation-reports-20230608-p5deyj.html
Cartoon Corner
David Pope
David Rowe
Jim Pavlidis
Matt Golding
Simon Letch
John Shakespeare
Andrew Dyson
Glen Le Lievre
Leak
From the US
Labor should just say in the Fadden by-election, ‘cost of living didn’t happen overnight, but it did happen. Under the Coalition.’ 😀
If there is a political miracle of the LNP losing another by-election
Federal liberal party leadership spill shortly after 15th July 2023
I’d say that the haters and the Nazis were becoming pretty emboldened above ground already and it was the right thing to do to take their symbols away from them.
I knew that Australia was on a slippery slope when I saw a news report about the people in Melbourne’s west who were flying the Swastika flag in their yard.
It’s already underground. Nothing can stop that, absent massive government surveillance, so stopping the idiots going around the streets displaying their idiocracy is probably the best solution under the circumstances.
Thanks BK
Two competing stories and headlines.
“The share of tax paid by Australia’s highest earners is at its highest level in at least a decade, with new data showing the top 1 per cent contributed nearly a fifth of personal income tax revenue in 2020-21.”
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/top-earners-shoulder-more-of-the-tax-burden-20230608-p5df2g
“Sixty-six people who paid no income tax in 2020-21 earned an average of $14.5 million.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-09/australian-taxation-office-millionaires-paid-no-income-tax-20-21/102456224
Has David Crowe of the SMH changed his version of the history of the Liberal Party and particularly the Morrison debacle ?
Enough voters have changed their opinion and voting preferences since 2019!
The 2022 election results indicated the change and recent polling suggests the voters have not returned to their old “haunts”.
Am I the only one finding the photo of Zelenskyy shaking the hand of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Badr bin Sultan’s hand jarring considering the Yemen civil war and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Arabia is using Yemen to fight a proxy war with Iran. According to the UN estimates, 150,000 people have been killed in Yemen and 227,000 people have died as a result of famine. Is that genocide?
What a surprise, not, that one of the LNP candidates for the Fadden by-election works for one of the Big Four consulting firms, KPMG.
“ Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith directed one of his SAS comrades to kill an elderly man who was dragged from a mosque in Afghanistan, according to allegations examined by the Brereton inquiry into alleged war crimes.”
Nuremberg all over again?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-08/roberts-smith-allegedly-directed-soldier-to-kill-inquiry-heard/102447030
Rainman,
The Ukrainian President is a smart man and may be thinking that, now that Saudi Arabia and Iran have signed an agreement with each other to cease hostilities, that he may be able to get Saudi Arabia to talk with Iran about them sending Shaheed drones to Russia?
The eurozone economy fell into recession at the start of the year after a downturn hit big economies such as Germany. Growth in the 20-country bloc contracted by 0.1 per cent in the first three months of this year, a downward revision from an initial estimate of 0.1 per cent growth, according to official figures from Eurostat. The decline marks the second consecutive quarter of contracting growth, meeting the definition of a technical recession that economists say is likely to be mild given the continued strength of the labour market. Eurostat said that growth in the single currency area had been dragged down by household spending, which fell by 0.6 per cent in the first quarter as households battled with high inflation and rising energy
#weatheronPB
Empty clear light sky,
reveals watching birds swaying,
perched in the bright air.
Oceans to watch, and explore. “… Global Fishing Watch will combine GPS data with millions of gigabytes of satellite imagery and use machine learning to publicly display the activity of all industrial fishing vessels and hundreds of thousands of small-scale fishing boats and cargo ships. It will also map all stationary infrastructure at sea like aquaculture pens, wind farms and oil rigs, opening an online window onto our impact across our blue planet for the first time.”
https://globalfishingwatch.org/press-release/global-fishing-watch-to-reveal-all-human-activity-at-sea-with-investment-through-the-audacious-project/
Jenna Price: “I am pretty confident the AWM will tell the whole story of Ben Roberts-Smith.”
Yeah … nah …
Cronus: “Nuremberg all over again?”
He was “just following orders”?
Oh, wait: he was just *giving* the orders.
Having unleashed the floodwaters, Russian troops hold the Ukrainians’ heads under the water, figuratively speaking:
“Russian forces in control of a Ukrainian town on the occupied southern side of the Dnipro River near Kherson have been accused of preventing evacuation efforts after flooding caused by the Nova Kakhovka dam bursting.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/08/russian-forces-accused-of-blocking-flood-evacuation-efforts
#NotATarget
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Has anyone heard from Katy Gallagher yet? Because we’re certainly hearing A LOT from the Coalition about those damn text messages.
Also,has anyone discovered where the leak came from?
Looking at the front page of The Australian, Textgate is the most momentous event happening in the world at this time.
C@t, the media’s complicity is disgraceful.
But, sadly, not surprising.
The Liberals are such a vile and corrupt outfit.
I can’t see their primary vote growing while they conduct themselves like they are at the moment.
You would think the AFP would be top of list for potential leakers of texts …?
The corrupt media has tried these propaganda attacks on Labor/Albanese and failed
Mean girls
The Gaffe
Albanese not knowing his NDIS policy
Petrol to rise over $4 per litre
Labor/Albanese cost of living rises
Albanese at the tennis not at Alice springs
Albanese travelling around the world, instead of being in Australia
AKUS /Submarines
Labor/ leadership
The latest using the same propaganda as in the USA – Trump/Newstld was robbed of the election win
Labor/Albanese were in a political conspiracy theory to bring down the Morrison Government – Lib/nats & Newsltd was robbed of the election win
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“I am pretty confident the AWM will tell the whole story of Ben Roberts-Smith. They will tell the story of the heroic deeds which won the former SAS solider the highest military honour. They will also tell the story of his horrific misdeeds, including the murder of prisoners of war. That’s the sensible thing to do – to avoid the wilful mischaracterisation of all that has happened in this case”, writes Jenna Price.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8226990/when-it-comes-to-ben-roberts-smith-we-have-to-tell-the-whole-story/?cs=14258
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The narrative of West when describing their wars is that they fought with great bravery in adverse conditions and only killed the enemy only to defend themselves.
If you read WW1 and WW2 narrative of war movies of US and UK it is as if only their soldiers who won those wars against great odds and dare devil feats.
It will be very hard for them to believe that Russia lost most soldiers in both wars than any other country or that country like India had the largest volunteer soldiers on the ground in WW2 and that other countries made some huge sacrifices in those wars even when it has nothing to do with them.
The danger of Brereton Report and BRS scandal is to fracture the myth of ANZAC and RSL soldiers.
I read that Australian soldiers returning from Vietnam war were not treated well. That is one of pet peeves of Jeff Kennett, a Vietnam veteran. According to him that he was very upset with that reception and formed the basis of his social values. I think Kennett view is only the tip of iceberg of many soldiers.
Lib/nats and their propaganda media units are bad losers and cannot handle Labor federal/State/Territory government on Australia’s mainland
Yep, it’s all about scalping a Labor Minister. No consideration AT ALL about how Brittany Higgins is coping.
I just hope that ordinary people of good faith see this cynical exploitation of her and the issue of the incident in Parliament House, by the grubby Opposition and the Murdoch media, for what it is.
The censorious aspect of this is the leaking of the texts, not whether one or other of the Labor party knew about it before it was public knowledge.
Morning all. On economic management I think the Liberals reputation is sinking and has some way further to go. It is absurd for them to wash their hands of the current mess, caused by their spending and their RBA pic raising interest rates too fast.
From Radio National just earlier.
“Sussan Ley: “I think the blame lies SQUARELY at the feet of the government…”
Hamish Macdonald: “Doesn’t the previous government share some blame?”
Sussan Ley: “The blame game might be interesting to commentators…”
Much thanks BK!
Scott,
For balance today we do have the story about the illegitimate and potentially illegal activities of Scott Morrison’s government in attempting to pork barrel their way to victory in 2019. Now that’s something that is worthy of outrage.
C@tmomma says:
Friday, June 9, 2023 at 8:52 am
Yep, it’s all about scalping a Labor Minister. No consideration AT ALL about how Brittany Higgins is coping.
I just hope that ordinary people of good faith see this cynical exploitation of her and the issue of the incident in Parliament House, by the grubby Opposition and the Murdoch media, for what it is.
The censorious aspect of this is the leaking of the texts, not whether one or other of the Labor party knew about it before it was public knowledge.
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The public is already awake to the predictable propaganda from Lib/nats and Newsltd , and it happens when there are by-elections or elections coming up
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Strong growth in the low-productivity services sector and businesses holding on to more workers than they really need could explain Australia’s woeful productivity performance, economists say. After the steepest 12-month fall on record in Wednesday’s March quarter national accounts, labour productivity has returned to December 2019 levels, writes Michael Read.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/firms-hoarding-workers-could-be-to-blame-for-low-productivity-,
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World lost many jobs due to automation and it will accelerate further in next decade at greater pace.
Every one cannot be a University degree holder of high value and work in jobs that produce great productivity.
People are replaced even in menial jobs by automation and a lot of them can neither find other productive jobs nor study in University.
Telling people, who are already working very hard, to work even harder to increase “productivity” will only make things worse. We are all after all human beings with physical limitations.
Only economists will say such crap as “Strong growth in the low-productivity services sector and businesses holding on to more workers than they really need could explain Australia’s woeful productivity performance”.
Is there any doubt, now, that the LNP have stopped trying to be agents of government and are merely junior agents for Big Rupert and his Trumpettes. Their only function is to desperately generate screaming disinformation to fill otherwise empty bold headlines in dead organs. Ne(ws)crosis.
Soc,
Sussan Ley back to the old deflection game, more like.
The Coalition are a shameless bunch of people who operate on the basis that the electorate has the memory of a goldfish.
Scott,
Yes, the hysteria from the Opposition has been turned up to eleventy it seems for the Fadden by-election.
There’s also zero contrition from them about the reason for the by-election. It’s almost as if that’s a nothingburger.
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A Home Affairs Department contract with consulting firm Deloitte ballooned more than 900 per cent before it was dumped over a conflict of interest, a damning audit report has shown. The firm’s $1.5 million contract, originally signed for $151,800 in September 2020, lasted for just under eight months and was not awarded in line with federal government rules. The critical findings are included in a new report released by the Australian National Audit Office on Wednesday into the former Coalition government’s now-ditched attempt to create a one-stop shop for visas, licences and permits.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8226459/deloittes-ballooned-15m-contract-with-home-affairs-dumped-over-a-conflict-of-interest-audit/?cs=14350
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Another damning audit report of Australian National Audit Office on LNP government, which shines light on another Consulting firm, government mismanagement, ballooning of costs, conflict of interest.
Thanks BK
Oliver Sutton says:
Friday, June 9, 2023 at 8:21 am
Cronus: “Nuremberg all over again?”
He was “just following orders”?
Oh, wait: he was just *giving* the orders.
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Yep, unlawful military orders. Every soldier knows what they are and every soldier knows they should be refused. Double culpability.
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C@tmommasays:
Friday, June 9, 2023 at 7:21 am
I’d say that the haters and the Nazis were becoming pretty emboldened above ground already and it was the right thing to do to take their symbols away from them.
I knew that Australia was on a slippery slope when I saw a news report about the people in Melbourne’s west who were flying the Swastika flag in their yard.
……..
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C@tmomma
Swastika
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly in various Eurasian, as well as some African and American cultures, now also widely recognized for its appropriation by the Nazi Party and by neo-Nazis.[1][2][3][4] It continues to be used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.[5][6][7][8][1] It generally takes the form of a cross,[A] the arms of which are of equal length and perpendicular to the adjacent arms, each bent midway at a right angle.[10][11]
Socrates @ #37 Friday, June 9th, 2023 – 8:23 am
Wasnt that a couple of days ago?
Or am I in the twilight zone?
It would just be coincidence that News Ltd is broadcasting exclusive leaked material from the Lehrmann case over the past few days, along with exclusive statements from Lehrmann today (https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/david-sharaz-is-a-puppet-master-set-on-destroying-the-liberals-bruce-lehrmann/news-story/19290b9909d629d19fbb5a6a1db69bbf)
and the recent settlement of the defamation action between Lehrmann and News Ltd on the 30th of May. (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/30/bruce-lehrhmann-drops-defamation-case-and-settles-with-news-corp-over-brittany-higgins-reports)
Nothing to see here.