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Climate 200: inside the fight to control climate agenda in parliament
Rebekha Sharkie, Dave Sharma Zali Steggall

“People are seeing that there’s a fundamental disconnect between what the electorate wants and what their representative is doing in parliament,” she said. “It’s not enough to look at what they do in the electorate — Tony Abbott was a volunteer at the local surf club. We think that it’s the MP’s voting record that they need to be judged on.” And how will these electorates fare at the next federal election? As retired independent politician Tony Windsor is fond of saying, “the world is run by the people who turn up”. All across the country, Australians who have never been part of a political party are turning up, and finding their voice.

Climate 200: inside the fight to control climate agenda in parliament
Humour

MPs Told They’ll Need To Accept $1500 JobKeeper Payment If They’re Not Working Until August – The Shovel

via MPs Told They’ll Need To Accept $1500 JobKeeper Payment If They’re Not Working Until August – The Shovel

via MPs Told They’ll Need To Accept $1500 JobKeeper Payment If They’re Not Working Until August – The Shovel

Julian Assange, Uncategorized

Australian MPs call for release of Julian Assange to home detention as Covid-19 ‘rapidly spreads’ in UK prisons — RT UK News

Australian MPs call for release of Julian Assange to home detention as Covid-19 ‘rapidly spreads’ in UK prisons

Britain is ready to do America’s job and kill Assange in prison (ODT)

via Australian MPs call for release of Julian Assange to home detention as Covid-19 ‘rapidly spreads’ in UK prisons — RT UK News

LNP Government, Uncategorized

Coalition MPs lead the pack in leaning and entitlement

The Morrison Government has failed to release its own integrity commission legislation for consultation. They continue to stall. Revelations of $100 million of sports grants targeting marginal seats show why a Federal ICAC is needed, perhaps also a special prosecutor. Independent MP Zali Steggall has joined the many voices calling for a Federal ICAC. How many more are needed before those with entitlement respond?

Plato understood democracy but even he could not have foreseen the age of political entitlement. We need to return democracy to the voters.

via Coalition MPs lead the pack in leaning and entitlement

LNP

Lawyer jokes? As always, the joke is on us. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

“Ysaiah Ross: Yes, I think there’s some truth about that. The fact that lawyers are in people’s minds all the time is probably very good for the profession, it probably generates more business. The Howard government, its Cabinet has more lawyers than any other Cabinet in the history of any Australian government. And it’s also the one which is least responsible for human rights. I find that very strange.”

Here we are, more than a decade later, with a parliament full to overflowing with tertiary qualifications. The abundance of lawyers is staggering, as is their mediocrity. It is the most unfunny ‘lawyer joke’ ever told, against which Duddo’s legal advice pales into insignificance.

via Lawyer jokes? As always, the joke is on us. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

ADF gutted

SAS ethics ‘deeply compromised’ by Afghanistan failings

 

A former head of Australia’s special forces expressed fears that some of the nation’s most elite SAS Regiment and Commandos soldiers were “deeply compromised” ethically and their command “not fit for purpose”.

In a blistering secret briefing, the then Special Operations Commander Major General Jeff Sengelman attacked a collapse of leadership, “tribalism”, government policy that exhausted special forces through multiple deployments to Afghanistan, and a failure by individuals to take responsibility for their actions.

SAS ethics ‘deeply compromised’ by Afghanistan failings

Australia, Humour

Housing Crisis: ‘I Only Have Five’ Cormann Says – The Shovel

Source: Housing Crisis: ‘I Only Have Five’ Cormann Says – The Shovel

LNP

Power games | The Monthly

This morning’s newspapers made it look as though the Coalition was running a sharp, unified media strategy. The Fairfax papers, as well as the Australian, carried stories marking the end of speculation about any GST changes. The death of this particular reform was extensively justified, with quotations from Treasurer Scott Morrison and modeling from Treasury to back up the government’s argument that “the [budgetary and economic] risks are very great and the rewards are very modest”.

Source: Power games | The Monthly

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