MY QUEEN, MY COUNTRY
Australia’s nationwide day of mourning doubled as a tribute and a trial. Near 700 high-profile figures packed into Parliament Home in Canberra for a service to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated he hoped she may very well be memorialised via collective commitments to “responsibility”, “service” and “respect for all” moderately than one other marble monument, SBS experiences.
Across the nation, many extra took to the streets to protest towards the continuing “racist colonial imperialism” of the British monarchy and “every thing her regime stole” from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, writes the ABC. Demonstration organisers Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance known as for recognition, the return of land, “reality, accountability and justice” and an finish to black deaths in custody. (A NSW Closing the Hole report launched yesterday discovered suicide and incarceration charges of First Nations peoples has risen, The Canberra Occasions/AAP experiences.) Struggling was expressed via smoking ceremonies, speeches and extra symbolic gestures like dousing the Australian flag in pretend blood, slicing it up and setting it alight. Federal Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe informed a Melbourne crowd: “The crown’s boot is on our neck and we’re sick of it.” Each homes of Parliament will reconvene in the present day for a day devoted completely to the dying of the queen and ascension of King Charles III.
CONSCRIPTING CHAOS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs world leaders to punish Vladimir Putin. Putin, in the meantime, will punish his individuals with as many as 1 million Russians to be conscripted within the coming days, The Guardian experiences. The Russian defence ministry stated the call-up could be restricted to 300,000 reservists, however inside sources say Putin signed off on six zeros. The announcement has prompted a mass exodus of fighting-fit males, says The Australian ($), with automobiles queued on the border and airplane tickets offered out. A seat from Moscow to Dubai is buying and selling at $13,450. As 1000’s fled, 55 Russians returned residence in alternate for 215 captured Ukrainians, Reuters experiences.
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The Kremlin’s dedication to counter Ukraine’s counteroffensive with extra Russians and extra weapons sparked anti-war protests throughout the nation, writes SMH/Reuters. 1300 individuals in 38 cities have been arrested by Russian police and will resist 15 years behind bars. Abroad, Overseas Affairs Minister Penny Wong joined world leaders on the UN Basic Meeting to sentence the Kremlin’s nuclear threats, says Guardian Australia. She stated extra army help was on the desk and that Australia would possibly transfer to expel the Russian ambassador. Opposition overseas affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham needs extra sanctions to “tighten the stress additional on Russia”, The Age ($) experiences.
FIND ME SOME FOREIGN FUNDING
Yet one more secret research from the Morrison period will quickly turn out to be public property, the AFR ($) experiences. The 2019 feasibility report performed by Treasury and Workplace of Nationwide Assessments official John Eyers urged DFAT to refocus overseas assist within the Pacific and South-East Asia on “personal sector funding”, moderately than a “conventional strategy of handouts and low-cost loans”. This is able to assuage a regional urge for food for infrastructure growth whereas additionally satisfying Australian geopolitical targets. Briefly: bolster model Australia and counter Chinese language affect.
Former overseas affairs minister Marise Payne saved the report beneath wraps for 3 years, with DFAT constantly rejecting freedom of data requests. All of the whereas, assist budgets have been reduce. The Albanese authorities has opted for public launch of the unbiased evaluation. Worldwide Improvement and Pacific Minister Pat Conroy known as it a “worthwhile contribution” that needs to be launched within the pursuits of “higher transparency”.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
It’s not exhausting to really feel like a fish out of water going via airport safety. Recall the chaos and the confusion. Now spare a thought for the fish in water that came upon at check-in it didn’t qualify for carry-on. Kira Rumfola, 19, turned as much as the airport along with her fish Theo solely to be informed that it was not match to fly, The Washington Put up experiences. However she acquired fortunate when customer support agent Ismael Lazo determined he was out there to fish-sit. He gave Rumfola his quantity (which she saved as “Airport Fish Taker”) and promised to deal with Theo till she returned. And so started a brief and candy story of two cities.
Evaluate this with the pet coverage of Australia’s esteemed “nationwide service”, Qantas. It advises reserving a pet on a flight earlier than reserving your self (maybe to compensate for the truth that it could nicely arrive after you?). Pooches, flocks of birds (max 4) and domesticated fish “with no aeration necessities” usually are not entitled to frequent flyer factors, however they do qualify for totally versatile bookings as much as 14 days earlier than departure. In-flight leisure shouldn’t be offered for these travelling within the airplane’s underbelly. Neither is meals, which I’d argue is a missed advertising alternative given Qantas’ shift to all-meat meals.
Wishing you a no-fluff Friday, people.
SAY WHAT?
How may Biden not lose rattling face if these fuckers don’t move it in Congress?
Yoon Suk Yeol
The South Korean president’s delicate diplomatic diatribe was picked up by a sizzling mic on the sidelines of the UN Basic Meeting International Fund convention in New York. He eloquently concluded that US counterpart Joe Biden’s plans to up the ante on funding for HIV, TB and malaria weren’t with out political threat. Yoon Suk yeol was already within the sizzling seat for skipping an appointment to see the late queen mendacity in state. Why? Allegedly “heavy visitors”.
An announcement on Mr Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey’s writer Personal Media
“Personal Media, Crikey’s writer, has filed its defence towards allegations by Lachlan Murdoch that Crikey defamed him in an article printed in June concerning the position of Fox Information in inciting the January 6 US riot. The Federal Courtroom will shortly launch the doc, which has already been canvassed in different information media. Personal Media’s CEO Will Hayward launched a press release yesterday in textual content and video kind concerning the firm’s defence.”
Alleged mistreatment of Hawthorn’s Indigenous gamers reveals sport’s deep-set racism
“Ordered to terminate a being pregnant. Compelled to interrupt up with companions — and supervised whereas doing so. Cellphone numbers modified and communication with household monitored. The allegations from a evaluation into racism on the Hawthorn Soccer Membership, as revealed by the ABC, are stunning.
“They expose an alleged tradition beneath four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson and former assistant coach Chris Fagan of abuse, deeply entrenched racism and management over Indigenous gamers’ lives and households.”
Virgin comfortable to attain factors on the expense of Qantas’ ‘eat meat or starve’ coverage
“With Qantas’ snub to vegetarian, kosher, halal and gluten-free passengers nonetheless thrilling loads of media curiosity yesterday, rival Virgin was solely too comfortable to level out it doesn’t share the contempt of the ‘nationwide service’ for anybody who doesn’t like consuming animals. Virgin continues to supply vegetarian meals to all enterprise and financial system passengers, it stated yesterday.
“Whereas the character of the meal you get on board may not outweigh flight availability and value for many travellers, the most recent insult by Qantas is all a part of what is likely to be known as the Joycification of the airline, wherein a creeping contempt slowly extends throughout all aspects of the corporate — first to its staff, after which to clients — that reduces the Qantas expertise to a succession of impositions, insults and inconveniences offered by overworked, underpaid and wholly unappreciated employees.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
China’s ex-justice minister faces life in jail amid purge of safety officers (Reuters)
Tribunal upholds Khmer Rouge’s Khieu Samphan’s life sentence (The Australian)
New York Occasions beneath fireplace for ‘racist’ Uncle Jack Charles obituary (SBS)
Mahsa Amini protests: US sanctions Iran’s ‘morality police’ (Al Jazeera)
NASA releases clearest view of Neptune’s rings in a long time (ABC)
Hobbits and the exhausting proper: how fantasy evokes Italy’s potential new chief (The New York Occasions)
Twin authorized blows hammer Trump (CNN)
India arrests dozens after nationwide raids on Muslim group PFI (Al Jazeera)
How NFL hiring practises block Black coaches from high jobs (The Washington Put up)
THE COMMENTARIAT
Bread-and-butter finances we simply need to have — Jim Chalmers (The Australian): “We all know it’s uncommon at hand down a second finances this 12 months, however it is a new authorities and these are uncommon circumstances. It made no sense to us to attend 13 months between budgets when the duties are so pressing, the challenges so confronting and the wants so substantial.
“This can be a reasonably commonplace bread-and-butter finances as a result of, for the occasions we’re in, that’s what it must be. It shouldn’t be seen in isolation from the opposite two or three we hand down this parliamentary time period. It’s the start, not the tip, of an enormous nationwide dialog about our financial challenges, the structural place of the finances going ahead, and the sorts of selections we have to make as a rustic sooner or later about what our priorities are, what’s reasonably priced and what’s truthful.”
ClubsNSW has misplaced its ethical compass over pokies — “The Herald’s View” (SMH): “Final November, a senior gaming regulator informed the Herald that he believed about $1 billion is laundered annually via golf equipment in Australia, a lot of it via NSW’s 85,000 poker machines. The Each day Telegraph this 12 months leaked particulars of a confidential state authorities report which stated investigators suspected organised crime had laundered $5.5 million although 178 Sydney venues in a single seven-week interval.
“ClubsNSW’s common denials of the size of the issue are paying homage to the denials by on line casino operators Star Leisure and Crown Resorts earlier than quite a few inquiries confirmed they have been facilitating systematic cash laundering via their gaming tables. ClubsNSW has made noises about preventing each cash laundering and the equally significant issue of dangerous playing however in actuality it has dragged the chain.”
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