A hypothetical Referendum question: Do you want Health and Education Improved? Peter  Dutton would vote No! Because the Government hasn’t detailed how yet detailing how would constrain any attempt in the Constitution. Dutton is simply frozen in time and space unable to move forward or backwards.

The referendum is our pick of a race. The horse and cart come after, and which cart is to be decided after the question of a necessary race is confirmed.  Peter Dutton says do nothing because choosing a horse and cart comes first. He and the LNP have done just that nothing for a decade, 10 years of simply saying Nope Nope Nope and then leaving the ALP to clean up the LNP mess. Dutton did nothing about Housing, Education or Health. In fact, he has voted the worst Health Minister on record along with being nominated the worst Immigration Minister ever and is blaming the ALP after 9 months for the mess we are in. Australia we have been Privatised and are paying and feeling the pain of that pleasure yet again.

The opposition leader said he wanted to see legislation in parliament on what the voice would look like and how the body would operate.

Source: Dutton denies his questions are undermining the voice – Michael West

The Culture and Gatekeepers of Australia’s cash flow

Alcohol and gambling companies and their lobby groups donated $2.165 million to Australia’s major political parties in 2021-22, representing a 40 per cent increase on the previous year, an analysis of disclosure returns published this week by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) shows. Callum Foote reports.

Source: Addicted to donations: alcohol, gambling, fossil fuels, property sectors stump up big – Michael West

She said PwC’s approach to fulfilling its near-$1 million contract was “very laissez faire”.

Source: Vital robodebt audit never gave final report to DHS

Collective Punishment is an instrument of a number of fascist regimes throughout history. Israel is in complete denial that it belongs on such a notable list. However, it’s a practice once condemned by Jews in the past and is now common practice of a State that claims to represent them.

Israel has sealed the home of an east Jerusalem man who killed seven people outside a synagogue, in a preliminary step ahead of the expected demolition of the building, as two Palestinian men died from Israeli fire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved an order to seal the home of a second Palestinian shooter — a 13-year-old boy who wounded two Israeli men in east Jerusalem on Saturday. His Cabinet also took steps toward approving other punitive measures against the families of Palestinian attackers, including potentially stripping them of citizenship rights and deporting them.

Source: Israel to punish families of Palestinian attackers

According to Sky News’s Andrew Bolt the youth of the world should have no say. Children need to be trained to obey their elders.

Public opinion is widely in favour of fairer political representation for young people. According to The Body Shop’s largest-ever global survey**, two thirds of people agree that the age balance in politics is wrong.

Source: ‘No Say Day’: the Last Day Youth Voices are Represented in Parliaments Around the World – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Will he go the way of Weinstein, Capone or simply the first corrupt President who stole secret documents? Or will he go as all three?

Former President Donald Trump will likely be indicted and spend the rest of his life “behind bars,” Representative Jamie Raskin said Saturday.

Source: Trump Likely to Be Indicted, Will End Life ‘Behind Bars,’ Congressman Says

The have nothing to bring to the table other than NOPE NOPE NOPE. Will Abbott be called back?

Anthony Albanese has consciously changed the way Labor governs. But Peter Dutton doesn’t want to change the way the Liberal and National parties oppose. One man is trying to exorcise the ghosts of the past while the other wants to revive them.

Source: Peter Dutton the wrecker: that’s the label he risks being stuck with

Should we be surprised?

Coalition financial services spokesman Stuart Robert is refusing to say whether he had been doing business with an offshore entity controlled by his business partner while also serving as a minister.

Source: Stuart Robert ducks question about offshore business

I would love to know how much she has tried to help the prosecution case with tips. I guess we will never know.

Source: Linda Reynolds – it is time to resign – The Echo

Just days after proudly announcing he would be giving away his wealth for the benefit of society, the world’s fourth richest man Jeff Bezos was astonished to learn that millions of other people are already contributing their money to worthy causes via an age-old mechanism known as ‘the taxation system’.

Source: Jeff Bezos shocked to learn millions of others also giving away their money to society through obscure system known as ‘paying tax’ | The Shovel

Murdoch is never in trouble because news isn’t his business. Good bad or ugly as long as the attention is on him he’s ahead and a winner. The issue really is “fake product” is being delivered and sold as news and information. If commercial advertisers did the same as Murdoch they’d be jailed like Australia’s Peter Foster has time and time again.

Murdoch’s conservative media outlets seem to have launched a coordinated effort to nudge Trump off the stage. It is not going well.

Source: Rupert Murdoch Has Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster Problem

With the Victorian election only weeks away, “embattled” Premier Dan Andrews is under intense scrutiny from sections of the media about [checks notes] some veranda steps and a 10-year-old car crash he wasn’t involved in.

But could there be worse to come? Crikey satirist Tom Red has the inside skinny on the growing list of the premier’s past indiscretions.

Source: Dirty Dan Andrews’ dastardly deeds exposed!

Source: Remember struggling Australians: Taylor – Michael West

Thirty-two per cent of Australian public companies paid no tax in 2020-21, according to ATO data, although the tax office said most have legitimate reasons for not doing so.

Source: Almost 800 large companies paid no tax in 2020-21, Australian Taxation Office report reveals – ABC News