The fortnightly Essential Research poll has all the main players up on the primary vote, with the Coalition up two to 36%, Labor up one to 32% and the Greens recovering the three points they lost last time to return to 13%. Room is made for this by a two-point drop in the undecided component to 4% and a three point drop for One Nation to 5%. The pollster’s 2PP+ measure has Labor and the Coalition tied on 48%, with the balance undecided, after the Coalition led 47% to 46% last time. The monthly leadership ratings record little change for Anthony Albanese, steady on 43% approval and down one on disapproval to 47%, while Peter Dutton is down three on approval to 41% and up one on disapproval to 42%.
An occasional reading of national mood records a slight improvement on April, with 34% thinking the country headed on the right track, up two, compared with 49% for the wrong track, down one. Also featured are a series of questions on artificial intelligence and one on the impact of large technology companies, with 47% thinking them mostly negative for young people compared with 19% for positive, and 68% supporting an increase in the age limit on social media platforms from 13 to 16. Sixty-two per cent supported making hate speech a criminal offence with only 16% opposed, and 50% supported a weekend a month of national service for eighteen year olds consisting of paid full-time military placement, with 25% opposed, reducing to 46% and 26% for unpaid volunteer work. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1160.
The weekly Roy Morgan poll reverses a dip for Labor last week, their primary vote up two-and-a-half points to 31% with the Coalition down a point to 36%, the Greens down one to 14% and One Nation down one-and-a-half points to 4.5%. Labor now leads 52-48 on the respondent-allocated two-party preferred measure, after trailing 51.5-48.5 last time. The poll was conducted Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1579.
Also out this week is the Lowy Institute’s annual poll focusing on international issues, which affirms last year’s finding that Japan, the United Kingdom and France are trusted to act responsibly in the world, the United States, India and Indonesia a little less so, and China and Russia not at all. Joe Biden’s net rating turned negative, 46% expressing confidence, down thirteen on a year ago, and 50% lack of confidence, up twelve. Enthusiasm for Volodomyr Zelenskyy was off its earlier high, confidence down twelve to 60% and lack of confidence up seven to 29%, though this notably compares with 7% and 88% for Vladimir Putin, while Xi Zinping was at 12% and 75%. Fifty-six per cent rated the government as doing a good job on foreign policy compared with 41% for poor. The survey was conducted March 4 to 17 from a sample of 2028.
JWS Research’s quarterly-or-so True Issues issue salience report finds little change in the most important issues since February, with cost of living one of five issues nominated by 80% of respondents, well ahead of health on 58% and housing and interest rates on 55%. Nineteen per cent rated that the economy was heading in the right direction, unchanged on February, compared with 40% for the wrong direction, up one. An index score of the Albanese government’s performance records a two-point improvement to 47% after its lowest result to date in February.
Steve777 @ #250 Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 – 9:05 pm
😉
Thanks for info on send off v sin bin.
Socrates Walsh is out for at least two weeks. Not long back from a broken jaw.
Steve777says:
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 9:00 pm
ATMs have been going the way of bank branches in recent years. Those left are mainly generic ones in garages and convenience stores which charge a you a fee to withdraw your own money. I refuse to use those. In any case since the Pandemic I rarely use cash so I don’t have to.
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While bank branches may be closing. As far as i know the ones still there have ATM machines still?. I’m not sure i’ve seen a bank branch which didn’t have one. Though there is a tendency to have them inside the door now and not in the wall outside.
Another blues try and this becomes interesting
So, as to why voting “1” Labor, “2” green is a rational choice, as a woman who had to flee DV, and look after kids and a dog, I will give you some reasons, part 2.
The Greens oppose any new housing unless it is,
1) Public housing AND 2) NOT built in a Greens seat.
And yes, I am using the logical AND and NOT.
Basically the Greens can’t count, however well-meaning they may be.
So, they want to reduce the number of dwellings built in Australia, unless their demands are met in full.
They are innumerate – they cannot figure that while the extra dwellings they oppose in their very well-healed seats, just because they will be rented / bought by other well-heeled people like themselves, will actually mean vacancies in other less salubrious suburbs.
And I can tell you, in fleeing violence, a Harbourside view and a healthy green sludge drink as you exit you local gym, are really not hight on the list of priorities. I remember looking at fibro houses in hinterland suburbs, and thinking how happy I would be if I owned one.
So, my rational decision for not putting the Greens at number 1 is encapsulated in just a couple of illogical decisions they have made in the last few days:
Apartment towers up to 75 storeys proposed for Woolloongabba to alleviate housing crisis opposed by Greens
A plan to build more high-density apartments and affordable housing to combat Brisbane’s cost-of-living crisis has received stiff opposition from the Greens.
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The Queensland government’s stated aims are to speed up the approvals process to build more higher-density homes to fill the shortage of houses.
In exchange, developers would be obliged to make at least 20 per cent of their new developments social or affordable housing.
The government estimates the PDA will build over 14,000 new dwellings over the next 40 years for the area flagged as Brisbane’s “second CBD”.
The plan specifies that taller towers must satisfy requirements around housing diversity, affordability, and sustainability to be green-lit.
The plan includes open spaces, bicycle lanes, and walkways linking to the upcoming underground Cross River Rail station and proposed Brisbane Metro station.
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The MP for Woolloongabba’s South Brisbane electorate, the Greens’ Amy MacMahon, said the 20 per cent affordable housing requirement was too low since it meant 80 per cent of houses would be unaffordable.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/greens-oppose-woolloongabba-priority-development-area-plan/103932628
The NSW Liberals have moved to kill off the Minns government’s signature density reforms and overturn new planning controls at 37 train stations, where six-storey apartment blocks would be built as part of its transport-oriented development program.
In an extraordinary step, the opposition’s spokesperson for planning, Scott Farlow, on Tuesday told parliament that he would introduce a bill to allow for the abolition of transport-oriented development (TOD) locations. This could stop any or all of the 37 different TOD locations.
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The government does not have a majority in either house of parliament but the Coalition bill would require the support of the Greens and the Animal Justice Party in the upper house, as well as other crossbenchers such as independents Mark Latham and Rod Roberts. The Coalition has had success recently working with the crossbench to get support for motions to pass the upper house, including establishing an inquiry into the proposed housing development at Rosehill Racecourse.
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Greens MP and spokesperson for housing and homelessness Jenny Leong said the government “can’t outsource solving the housing crisis to the private market”.
“Setting housing targets is all well and good, but unless the NSW Labor government is going to step up and provide the financial investment needed to deliver this housing, then it’s just another empty announcement that won’t actually deliver a single home,” Leong said.
“Planning reform that relies on the private sector to deliver housing is not a stand-in for real housing solutions and the NSW Labor government needs to take responsibility and start building public and genuinely affordable housing itself.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/housing-under-threat-the-plan-to-kill-off-sydney-s-signature-density-policy-20240604-p5jj7b.html
So, both articles say “No to New Housing” at the first instance. This will make housing more expensive for everyone.
The Greens could say, “Yes, build this housing” and then also push for more public housing – if they followed this path I would actually consider voting 1 for them.
And I did vote 1 for the Greens more than a few times over the last 20 years.
But for Nicholas, unless I am a slavish follower and promoter of the Greens, I am scum*.
* I wrote scum, and immediately went to correct it, to something less emotive, but I will go with what I first wrote.
I fear that I am the wrong social class, and female, when means Nicholas basically thinks of me as “scum” although I am sure he has far more polite words for describing me.
Re Entropy @9:21 PM. ”While bank branches may be closing. As far as i know the ones still there have ATM machines still?. I’m not sure i’ve seen a bank branch which didn’t have one. Though there is a tendency to have them inside the door now and not in the wall outside.”
Yes, you are right as far as I can tell, but bank ATMs outside of open branches, for example in shopping strips and small shopping malls, garages and convenience stores, etc, are disappearing, to be relaced by generic ATMs or not replaced at all.
Griff
And don’t forget Bordeaux, where Haussmann also built many lovely buildings, in the same style 🙂
No try? The bunker defending staunchly for NSW.
Socrates @ #259 Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 – 9:40 pm
The referee was right on the spot. He should have called a forward pass. Which is what it was.
The dam has now broken. Game over.
Steve777says:
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 9:37 pm
Re Entropy @9:21 PM. ”While bank branches may be closing. As far as i know the ones still there have ATM machines still?. I’m not sure i’ve seen a bank branch which didn’t have one. Though there is a tendency to have them inside the door now and not in the wall outside.”
Yes, you are right as far as I can tell, but bank ATMs outside of open branches, for example in shopping strips and small shopping malls, garages and convenience stores, etc, are disappearing, to be relaced by generic ATMs or not replaced at all.
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Actually i’ve seen a few cases were the bank branch in a small shopping strip closed and was replaced by a cafe or something like that. Yet they still left an operating bank ATM machine there in the wall. Maybe as some sort of compensation for the former patrons of that bank?.
BW
Yes, thanks! And I do very much remember the support from you and so may others. And thanks yet again * 10^9 🙂
I was just gobsmacked that Nicholas thought that because I as not an ardent Greens supporter I should be slagged off, and my experience disregarded. Apparently talking about escaping for my for my life, and more importantly my childrens lives, was a story not wort telling, because it was making it “all about me”.
BW
I will take this question on notice.
Because of my interest in machine learning, which reluctantly I concede everyone else calls AI (artificial intelligence) althought it is just a bunch of cleverly put together computer algorithms, the poster “Irene” did pique my interest over a few months, before i made my comments that attracted Nicholas’ ire.
So, I will look again at “Irene’s” posts, and test them against some of my pointers to he / she / it being a bot, or not.
And yes, Nicholas did have a “chilling” effect on my commments. I stopped commenting on anything “Irene” said, while I watched other PB commentators make similar comments to the things I had said. Nicholas never challenged a single one of them.
So, yes, give me a few days, but if my analysis still suggests that “Irene” is 80% bot (and yes, bots have handlers), what is the worst Nicholas can do to me – AI porn depicting me giving some bloke a blow job in 1984 in a shared house in Newtown?
You are either lying or completely indifferent to the truth. Anyone who has a modicum of knowledge of Greens politicians knows that they desperately want new public housing everywhere, including in their own electorates.
So which is it? Are you dishonest? Are you just spouting a Labor centrist talking point out of laziness?
How amusing that the Labor partisans here have finally found an even worse insult than declaring someone must be a “Green”.
Now, if they really don’t like what someone posts, they will declare that the poster must be a “bot”.
Just call me Player “bot” One! 🙂
You dehumanized Irene by calling her an AI chatbot. That is what I was objecting to. Do you remember that? That is what I was objecting to. But because you couldn’t bring yourself to admit that it was disrespectful of you to strip Irene of her humanity you chose to imply that I am indifferent to sexual violence and domestic violence. I am repulsed by the crimes that you suffered. I am very sorry that that you endured such a horrific experience. If you can muster some self-awareness of your own one of these days perhaps you’ll realize why it is dumb and offensive to suggest that someone is indifferent to vile crimes when you have zero basis for making that claim.
Nicholas there are times when it is best to stop digging.
3,249 push-ups
5-28 June
The Push-Up Challenge is a free mental health and fitness event focused on pushing for better mental health for all Australians.
Participants complete 3,249 push-ups (or alternative exercises) over 24 days, representing the 3,249 lives lost to suicide in Australia in 2022.
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Anyone else on here doing it.
Just banked 52. (10+15+15+12)
It’s going to be tough.
Nicholas. The extraordinary thing about you is your absolutely classic lack of awareness of the fact that you make a prat of yourself every time you post.
You plainly have no lived experience worth a twopenny damn, and your lambasting of those who see the Greens’ holier-than-thou hypocrisy for what is, is pathetic. You come over as verbose, silly, gullible, idealistic, unrealistic and juvenile. It is truly painful to observe.
Nicholas = Angel Clair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_of_the_d'Urbervilles
Criminal charges in GOP’s fake elector scandal reach new heights
The Republicans’ fake elector scandal from 2020 has now racked up indictment totals unseen since Watergate and Iran-Contra.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/criminal-charges-gops-fake-elector-scandal-reach-new-heights-rcna155398
“Arizona: 18 people have been indicted, including 11 fake electors and seven Trump aides.
Georgia: 19 people were initially indicted, including Trump, though some have since reached plea agreements with prosecutors.
Michigan: 16 people have been indicted, though there are several other prominent unindicted alleged co-conspirators, and there’s a very real possibility that others will soon face related charges.
Nevada: Six people have been indicted, each of whom served as fake electors.
Wisconsin: Three people have been indicted.
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Taylormade says:
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 10:52 pm
They’re doing it at my work but I’ve got a shoulder that disagrees with pushups.
Nicholas says:
Kowledge of Greens politicians knows that they desperately want new public housing everywhere, including in their own electorates.
Please provide concrete evidence of the plans that the Greens support for public housing in any state or Federal seat that the Greens currently hold.
Also you might be suprised that I subscrie to Crikey, becuse while I do not aqgree with everything thay say, but I support diverity in media.
And one thing Guy Rundle (of Crikey) says, consistently, is tht there is no space for any more housing in the “inner north” of Melbourne, public or otherwise.
No, I am actully asking for references from credible sources to that the Greens are willing to have pubic housing in “their” electortes.
Will a felony conviction hurt Trump? Yes! Just listen to him!
The man’s practically howling in pain, but some people still wonder.
https://www.editorialboard.com/will-a-felony-conviction-hurt-trump-yes-just-listen-to-him/
“For the most part, all this wondering comes from very clever people who are paid very handsome salaries to wonder aloud about things, even in the face of plain reality that should end all the wondering.
I’m talking, of course, about members of the Washington press and pundit corps, even some liberals, who want more than anything else to get your attention. They can’t do that as well as they would like if the contours of the election align with normal common sense. It’s normally very bad for a convicted felon to run for president, but it’s more fun, and perhaps more lucrative, to pretend the opposite could be normal.
Political reporters are probably more bored than cynical. Trump never changes and he’s been campaigning nonstop since 2015. The main difference is while he was fascist-lite then, he’s full-on fascist now. That’s not enough, though, and when political reporters get bored, they assume everyone else is bored, too. That assumption, however, should be seen as a choice of convenience. Assumed boredom is a credible rationale for believing spin about a felony conviction working in Trump’s favor, instead of what it really is, which is a painful wound.
Nicholas
Nicholas:
No, not at all. Other posters had expresseed the opion that she may be a chatbot and I had, to myself, wondered the same , out of professional interest.
So I joined in the convertion, from a profeioal point of view, to provide information.
You could have gone after any of the other 8 or so posters who asked if “Irene” was a bot, but you picked on the easy target – the woman – because how could a woman possibly know anything about AI
Nicholas
Actually, no, I do not remember this, becaue it did not happen. If you believe tht you made a post telling me that I “dehumanized Irene by calling her an AI chatbot”, then please produce it.
Ironically, if you had used plain english to exlain why you thought i was “dehumaniing ” irene, I ould hve replied, amd a timely mnare.
Your only riposte was a tawdry, sexulised gonzo jurnalism
Nicholas
You dehumanized Irene by calling her an AI chatbot. That is what I was objecting to.
But why only call out me, the only self-professed female in the bunch of posters suggesting tht Irene my be a bot?
You still refuse to answer this quetion.
Nicholas
Ahh, but it was you who said, when I recounted my real experience, c.f. your fevered sexual dreams about my life in the 1980s, that “I was making it all about myself”
I have no kidea what YouGov are playing at here .. perhaps William could chime in
YouGov
@YouGov
New voting intention (3-4 Jun): this is our first poll carried out under our new methodology, which mirrors that which we use for our MRP
Lab: 40% ( -4)
Con: 19% (-2)
Reform UK: 17% (+3)
Lib Dem: 10% (-1)
Green: 7% (+1)
SNP: 3%
Old methodology
Lab: 45% (-1)
Con: 18% (-3)
Reform UK: 18% (+3)
Lib Dem: 8% (nc)
Green: 6% (nc)
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49614-using-mrp-for-our-voting-intention-polling
Is Niki Savva implying that Dutton’s leadership is becoming tenuous?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-mood-on-immigration-is-tinder-dry-and-dutton-has-lit-a-match-20240604-p5jj97.html
She also delivers a nice rebuke to the ABC for its cowardly handling of the Tingle matter.
Confessions says:
Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 6:17 am
Is Niki Savva implying that Dutton’s leadership is becoming tenuous?
Maybe even terminal
Further from Niki..
“Unless Anthony Albanese wants himself and the government to be dragged down all the way through to election day, he will remove Giles as part of a wider reshuffle during the winter break, which is expected to follow announcements from high-profile ministers including possibly Linda Burney and Brendan O’Connor they will not recontest.
While he’s at it, he should take Tanya Plibersek out of the freezer.”
Doing a home screen cleanup and stumbled on the Ipsos Issues results for May 24.
All of Spud’s dog-whistling seems to have come to little as 11% think immigration is an issue down from 14% last month. Ten years ago it was 20+%.
Seems its really the Economy that’s got people agitated.
Summary in link:
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/publication/documents/2024-05/IM_Nat_May24_v1.pdf
#weatheronPB
Cold air holds me close,
settled across my shoulders,
waiting for the sun.
I think Nicholas is using ChatGPT to create his posts.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
The mood on immigration is tinder dry and Dutton has lit a match, writes Niki Savva. This article is in the MUST READ category.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-mood-on-immigration-is-tinder-dry-and-dutton-has-lit-a-match-20240604-p5jj97.html
Australian Press Council member, Alan Sunderland, calls BS on the treatment Laura Tingle has received.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/so-laura-tingle-has-been-outed-as-partisan-what-nonsense-20240605-p5jjdg.html
David Crowe describes what happened in parliament yesterday when Adam Bandt accused the government of being complicit in the Israeli invasion of Gaza after Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton blamed the Greens for encouraging the protests.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/fury-on-the-floor-dutton-and-albanese-clash-with-greens-over-gaza-protests-20240605-p5jjj5.html
Dennis Shanahan writes that the realignment of leadership into a clear, passionate and direct statement of condemnation for terror and anti-Semitism without equivocation is a telling moment in a critical time for Australia’s social cohesion, immigration outlook and multiculturalism.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/time-labor-acted-over-preferences-from-divisive-greens/news-story/17ca22b9091db86decec5e0bf883f6b0?amp=
Andrew Tillett reports that Adam Bandt has vowed to put recognition of Palestinian statehood on the agenda in negotiations if there is a hung parliament following the next federal election, after Labor and the Coalition combined to kill off a symbolic motion doing so.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/greens-will-demand-palestinian-statehood-if-there-s-a-hung-parliament-20240529-p5jhip
Confusing revisions within the national accounts suggest that things are not as dire as the misleading talk about a per capita recession, explains the AGR’s editorial.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/the-slump-australia-must-have-after-the-bounce-back-20240602-p5jik9
The economy is barely crawling, but weak 0.1 per cent quarterly growth should be considered a Goldilocks scenario for Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the Reserve Bank, writes John Kehoe.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/why-weak-gdp-is-not-the-full-picture-for-the-rba-20240605-p5jjby
The treasurer claims the weak economy shows why the government’s budget strategy was exactly right. Voters are likely to have a different opinion, says Jennifer Hewett.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/chalmers-hopes-wage-increases-tax-cuts-will-lift-spirits-20240605-p5jjf7
“Australia is on the brink of recession. So why does the RBA think we are spending too much?”, asks Greg Jericho.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/article/2024/jun/06/australia-gdp-figures-recession-fears-rba-spending-too-much
Peter Dutton has complained the government’s scrutiny of his yet-to-be-announced nuclear power plan is “childish”, as Labor seeks to emulate a successful anti-nuclear push from Kevin Rudd’s 2007 campaign. Josh Butler tells us that a social media spat is emerging over the Coalition’s nuclear policy, with Labor raising fears about mutated fish with AI-generated images and one minister posting daily reminders that the opposition is yet to outline its plan – despite first raising it two years ago. If it does come down to the likes of mutant fish arguments, Dutton’s characterisation is accurate IMHO.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/06/a-nuclear-coastline-and-ai-generated-mutant-fish-dutton-labels-labor-childish-as-social-media-campaign-ramps-up
The NSW government’s transport-oriented development scheme will probably deliver two-bedroom units on the north shore priced at $1.4 million or more, according to fresh industry analysis that casts doubt on the viability of most of the chosen sites. Michael Koziol outlines the analysis of the TOD scheme.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/housing-sites-may-not-be-feasible-west-of-sydney-s-latte-line-here-s-why-20240604-p5jj71.html
The Liberals have devised a bill to undo NSW Labor’s push to build more apartments around 37 train stations, but a mix of NIMBY and YIMBY MPs makes things awkward.\, writes Alexandra Smith who talks of a Liberal wrecking ball.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/a-political-wrecking-ball-could-destroy-urgent-housing-before-it-s-even-built-20240605-p5jjdr.html
According to David Estcourt, Peter Dutton could be investigated by the national security watchdog after a Victorian Supreme Court judge found that under his watch as home affairs minister, the department failed to disclose scathing reports questioning an assessment tool used to detain terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/national-security-watchdog-could-investigate-dutton-over-terror-leader-s-detainment-20240605-p5jjf6.html
The Victorian Government’s plan to privatise the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry has given the mainstream media ammo against the state’s ballooning debt, writes Rosemary Sorensen.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/vic-governments-registry-sell-off-plan-inflates-debt-hysteria,18658
Labor senator Fatima Payman has quit an internal party committee, in a further sign of the West Australian’s isolation within the government. James Massola report that Payman quietly resigned as secretary of the international and legal affairs caucus committee this week, just days after stepping down from two parliamentary foreign affairs committees.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-senator-fatima-payman-quits-party-committee-in-further-sign-of-isolation-20240605-p5jjfc.html
An internal survey found 13 per cent reported they had been sexually harassed in the past two years, and one-quarter said they were bullied, writes Calum Jaspan after David Anderson told staff yesterday that the findings of the survey, conducted in the second half of 2023, were unacceptable.
https://amp.smh.com.au/business/companies/abc-boss-condemns-unacceptable-sexual-harassment-survey-findings-20240605-p5jjhs.html
Hundreds of jobs at CSIRO are under threat as part of the national science agency’s plans to make Australian research more “sustainable” in the future. The public sector union expects more than 500 jobs across corporate services and some research units to be cut in the coming months, while warning the “gutting” of CSIRO could mean hundreds more might be on the horizon. A majority of the redundancies are expected to target some of the 1,600 support roles within the agency’s ESS unit, covering finance, business development, commercialisation, health and safety, and human resources, writes Sarah Basford-Canales.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/05/csiro-australia-job-cuts-fears-union-warning-science-agency
in fines that Medibank Private could potentially pay as a result of legal action taken by Australia’s privacy watchdog is a screamer of a headline, and easy to relegate to the realms of fantasy. But it does serve as an uncomfortable reminder to corporate Australia that it’s not just the cyber criminals that are now on the hook, explains Elizabeth Knight.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/medibank-on-the-hook-for-trillions-but-there-s-more-at-stake-than-money-20240604-p5jj62.html
The New York Times has revealed that Israel organised and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting US politicians and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war in the Gaza Strip, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/irresponsible-israel-targets-the-us-with-secret-influence-campaign-on-gaza-war-20240606-p5jjme.html
A great deal of Israeli money and local Australian Israeli lobby effort is expended on influencing, or rather suppressing, discussion of the Israel-Palestine issue in this country, writes Bilal Cleland.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/media-stifles-gaza-narrative,18657
And Farrah Tomazin reports that Joe Biden has said there is “every reason” to think that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the war with Hamas for political gain.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/every-reason-to-think-netanyahu-is-prolonging-war-biden-says-20240605-p5jjbl.html
No more Mr Nice Guy. Rish! is embracing Boris Johnson’s brand of making stuff up, writes John Crace who will b in his element during the UK election campaign and its aftermath.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/05/no-more-mr-nice-guy-rish-embracing-boris-johnsons-brand-making-stuff-up
Donald Trump’s three-times biographer and friend of Michael West Media, David Cay Johnston writes about the con-man he has known for 30 years; and his prospects of another US presidency. He says dictatorship is a real possibility.
https://michaelwest.com.au/trump-dictator-risk-if-master-con-artist-back-in-white-house/
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Cathy Wilcox
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From the US
A Utube on where California grid is at. Basically the duck curve has been dealt with using Batteries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaOgWO_zS6Q
Maguire’s skills are limited to making bad comparisons and excuses: c/- FoxSports
“Walsh suffered a facial fracture and was sidelined for two weeks after a sickening head clash with Panthers centre Taylan May in Round 3. May was penalised and placed on report for the collision but was not sanctioned by the match review committee.
“Earlier on in the year I think (Walsh) ended up with a broken jaw and there was no send-off so it’s a big call at this level,” Maguire said in reference to the Round 3 incident.
“He was falling… I’d have to have another look at it but I think it was a massive call for a game like this.”
Boeing has launched astronauts to space for the first time, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA.
A pair of NASA test pilots blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the International Space Station on Wednesday, local time, the first to fly the new spacecraft.
The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours, with an arrival on Thursday. They will spend just over a week at the orbiting lab before climbing back into Starliner for a remote desert touchdown in the western US on June 14.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-06/boeing-starliner-launch-nasa-astronauts/103942648
A Georgia appeals court has frozen former President Trump’s criminal trial proceedings as it takes up his appeal seeking to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), all but guaranteeing the trial will not be held before this year’s election.
In a one-page ruling issued Wednesday, the Georgia Court of Appeals issued a pause until it resolves the appeals from Trump and a handful of his co-defendants seeking to boot Willis from the prosecution over her romance with a top prosecutor.
Oral arguments are tentatively scheduled for October, meaning the case likely will not proceed to trial until after the presidential election, where Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee and is hoping to retake the White House and grind his cases to a halt. A trial date had not yet been selected.
The appeals court’s decision to stay the proceedings comes as it weighs whether Willis should be removed from prosecuting the case over her relationship with a top prosecutor who was also working on the case.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4706051-georgia-appeals-court-pauses-trump-election-interference-case/
Guardian: The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is continuing on his “it’s challenging, but let’s not jump to the ‘R’ word” media tour. He tells ABC radio RN Breakfast:
Our expectation in the Treasury forecast is that the economy will continue to grow, but it is growing very slowly right now – it barely grew in the first three months of the year.
We expected it to be very weak, and it was, and the point that we’ve made about the budget is that in this context, you get a lot of free advice.
People say you should slash and burn in the budget, you shouldn’t be providing cost of living relief. And what these national accounts have proven, really, is that advice was horrendously wrong.
We got the budget right. Because we’re repairing the budget, we’re fighting inflation, but we’re doing that in a way that doesn’t smash an economy which is already weak.
A plan by oil and gas giant Chevron to leave five decommissioned oil platforms off Western Australia’s Pilbara coast has drawn the ire of unions and green groups.
The company owns nine platforms in the waters around Thevenard Island, off the coast of Onslow, but has not extracted oil from the area since 2014.
Chevron must decommission the infrastructure, but has received state government approval to leave five platforms behind. Another three will be repurposed into artificial reefs under a complex arrangement involving the state and federal governments as well as peak fishing group RecFishWest.
The ninth platform will be fully removed and recycled on the mainland.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-06/chevron-thevenard-oil-rigs-left-behind-decommissioning/103880456
✅ Agree to remediation conditions.
✅ Don’t set aside funds for remediation.
✅ Renegotiate conditions so you don’t have to remediate fully.
I’d say people in extractive industries wonder why the rest of us don’t believe their promises, but they don’t wonder.
They just don’t care.
Today, eighty years ago (give or take ten hours).
Douglas and Milko, I too have wondered about Irene. I dont necessarily think they are a chat bot, but they certainly use GenAI to craft their posts.
After it being pointed out that they only posted during work hours there was a certain loosening up of their style after hours, with a shorter and targeted (ie specific responses to specific posts and posters) output with a more colloquial style.
They certainly work for someone, I believe the Greens, some others the Socialist Alliance (still others some right think tank who is deploying a double blind). They have a very specific anti-Labor brief, and as such they do this well enough.
But OMG are they a bore.
British paratroopers having to go through immigration checkpoint after parachuting into France. Times change…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/6AljG7zNJT
Rewi, why should they care when they dont need to pay an actual penalty for these actions? Any slap on the wrist fees the government may have the balls for are already costed in… because they know it wont be anywhere close to whats needed. But hey, thats the duopoly for you…
Douglas and Milko says:
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 9:38 pm
Griff
Griff says:
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 5:57 pm
“I am all for Haussmann architecture. But those double story terraces and single story houses will all have to go.
Viva Paris”
And don’t forget Bordeaux, where Haussmann also built many lovely buildings, in the same style
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Thank you! I have yet to visit Bordeaux, but should I find myself there, I shall definitely look to the architecture.
Confessions at 6.17 am
Savva apparently agrees with Tingle yet lacks the guts to say so.
Dutton’s difficulties may be more evident after Qld election, but his internal opponent is a Sunakian called Gusgate Taylor.
Thanks, BK.
‘Andrew Tillett reports that Adam Bandt has vowed to put recognition of Palestinian statehood on the agenda in negotiations if there is a hung parliament following the next federal election, after Labor and the Coalition combined to kill off a symbolic motion doing so.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/greens-will-demand-palestinian-statehood-if-there-s-a-hung-parliament-20240529-p5jhip‘
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So, what else is going to be on the Greensmail list?
Zero Net Forty or we’re not playing in your sandpit?
Destroy the ADF or we will stamp our feet?
Every house in Australia to be publicly owned or we’ll chuck a tanty?
No irrigation for the cotton, olive, wine, rice or dairy industries or we will piss our pants?