The Australian Parliament House, on the 7th of July 2023, refused to give video of the night of the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins to the Federal Court, which put the Australian Parliament House in breach of a subpoena, in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel 10, Lisa Wilkinson and the ABC.
But the Australian Parliament House gave the video to Channel 7 for the Bruce Lehrmann interview a few weeks ago. Or did Linda Reynolds or Michaelia Cash give it to Channel 7?
When Australia’s Politicians don’t have a clue about Civics they shouldn’t be in the job
If Littleproud wants an equal voice in the Parliament for all Australians, Tasmania should lose two members of the House of Representatives and lose 11 senators. South Australia should lose 10 senators. To be consistent Littleproud should be either advocating that or acknowledging that in the Australian constitutional compact there is a deliberate recognition that smaller entities require greater representation.
But the founding fathers specifically excluded one of those smaller entities – the First Nations or Indigenous people. The constitution stated they were not to be counted in the censuses which determined representation in the Parliament.
That was partly rectified by the 1967 referendum. But there was still no recognition and no mechanism to prevent Indigenous people being ignored or mistreated, even if they got to vote in their state of residence. And the poor treatment continues to this day.
The logic of the constitution calls for that recognition as does a sense of fairness and a practical need to do something about entrenched Indigenous inequality that might work when all else has failed: listening. People in the small states should especially support that. Or agree to back their extra senators.
Source: “Nationals… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
A former Coalition staffer who claimed she was abused while working for the former government has released details of her settlement, as she writes to the new parliament.
Source: Former Coalition staffer Rachelle Miller releases details of $650,000 settlement – ABC News
FRYDENBERG: Thank you Prime Minister. You can see I’m holding up a jar filled with jelly beans. For only $5 per guess and you can guess as many times as you wish; if you guess correctly, you get the jar and all the jelly beans in it. This offer is open to all of Australia. I’ll pay the postage if required. Everything going well we expect to raise $38,000 for a Labor held electorates affected by the floods.
MORRISON: Thank you, Josh. What a good guy he is. What Josh humbly didn’t mention is he bought the jelly beans out of his own money. And remember, all monies raised will go to a Labor seat. Michaelia Cash, get yourself up here.
Attorney-General Cash takes to the microphone.
Source: Morrison, Frydenberg, Joyce and Cash fundraise for Labor electorates
The huckster who claimed to be someone else
Forbes has reviewed campaign finance disclosures from former President Donald Trump and discovered that he apparently had far less cash in his final year of office than he claimed.
This Bill is a denial by the AG that the debate rages within the different religions themselves. This new law is constructed as if it doesn’t. It’s a return to the past. This Bill is merely reverses what the majority of Australians voted for during the Marriage Equality referendum. It’s constructed to placate some 4% of LNP ultra-religious right-wing supporters and runs counter to the wants of the Australian Majority. It returns the stick that was once taken from them.
The Attorney-General’s department has confirmed religious schools’ right to sack teachers for their views on sexuality under the federal government’s revised Religious Discrimination Bill and signalled protections for LGBTQI students will be delayed.
Source: Teachers can be sacked over sexuality under bill, A-G’s department confirms
Independent senator Rex Patrick has condemned the prime minister’s department for claiming it cannot find a key letter from Christian Porter to Scott Morrison about the sports rorts affair, a position seemingly at odds with the attorney general’s office, which has fought to keep the document secret. Patrick has been fighting an almost two-year freedom of information battle with the attorney general’s office, seeking access to a letter from the then attorney general to the prime minister about the administration of the community sport infrastructure program. The attorney general’s letter is thought to provide legal advice to the prime minister on a particular aspect of the damning auditor general’s report that found the government handed out $100m in sport grants in order to favour “targeted” Coalition seats at the May 2019 election. Parliament House, Canberra Information watchdog demands change after two government departments break FoI laws within a month Read more The request was rejected on cabinet confidentiality and legal privilege grounds, something Patrick disputed and took to the watchdog, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. While he was waiting for a
Michaela Cash as AG is proving to be as astute as Christian Porter was. With and IQ of a bucket of bricks but persistence of a bear trap she’s determined not to let Porter’s case against ex ACT’s AG Bernard Collaery go. Heaven forbid we might discover the LNP government’s criminal conspiracy in its dealings with Timore Leste and oil companies.
The ruling is a small win for Collaery, but the attorney-general can still choose to make a fresh application for more restrictive orders on the basis of changes to the current circumstances.
The case has already been appealed to the High Court as the Commonwealth seeks to have part of the Court of Appeal judgment – which found secret trials diminished public trust in the justice system – redacted from the public.
Source: Change to secret evidence refused in Bernard Collaery case
Political theatre only works where the audience suspends its disbelief.
The Shane Warne Foundation is unable to explain what happened to large sums of cash it received from donors who attended its star-studded fundraising events over the last four years.
Source: Shane Warne Foundation unable to explain what happened to cash donations
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