MEMEFIED MORRISON’S MINISTRIES
Former deputy prime minister Michael McCormack knew that then prime minister Scott Morrison had sworn himself into the Assets portfolio final 12 months, based on Keith Pitt. The previous assets minister made the revelation below scrutiny final evening on ABC’s Q&A — McCormack was the chief of the Nationals till late June 2021 when he was toppled by his predecessor, Barnaby Joyce. That the deputy prime minister was in on not less than one of many secret ministries Morrison held is “extraordinary”, a shocked Minister for Emergency Administration and Agriculture Murray Watt mentioned, persevering with that the Liberal PM muscling in on the portfolio undermines the Coalition settlement (Pitt is a Nationwide MP). However Pitt stood by his man — he mentioned he didn’t assist requires Morrison to resign, although he’d welcome an inquiry into the entire saga. Yesterday Opposition Chief Peter Dutton distanced himself from the matter too, saying he would have informed Morrison it was “inappropriate for him to be assuming this energy”, the AFR reviews. Hmm… keep in mind in 2017 when Dutton was given the unprecedented super-department of House Affairs, which swallowed the Division of Immigration and Border Safety, in addition to nationwide safety, emergency administration and felony justice capabilities? However I digress.
It comes as Morrison has gone full daggy dad in replying to memes posted about his 5 secret ministerial positions, information.com.au reviews. A band known as Eaten Alive mentioned he had “secretly turn out to be our vocalist” to which Morrison responded: “That’s humorous.” A Melbourne arborist enterprise wrote that he’d began working with them, to which he replied: “What time do you want me for my first shift?” The previous PM posted to his personal web page that “it’s been enjoyable becoming a member of in on all of the memes”, and he “can’t sustain”. (Crikey has rounded up the memes from politicians too, which had, erm, various ranges of comedic impact.) Are Morrison’s replies a real Aussie larrikin transfer, or him purposefully trivialising his personal disregard for our democracy, most likely to resuscitate his private picture for some profitable non-public sector job? Worm reader, as at all times, you determine.
WOMEN’S WORK
Queensland’s prime cop says sexism is rampant among the many senior ranks of the state police power, The Courier-Mail ($) reviews. Police commissioner Katarina Carroll apologised after it was revealed two senior police had made sexist feedback throughout a senior chief’s convention. In a single occasion, a superintendent (who was later promoted to chief superintendent) yelled: “Did she shut her legs on you?” and joked it had been a “tough promotional course of” with reference to a presenter’s face stitches, the Brisbane Occasions continues. Carroll informed an inquiry she was “upset and appalled”, agreeing that misogynistic and disrespectful views in the direction of ladies had been “infecting” how Queensland cops reply to household and home violence. In the meantime, the federal authorities has accelerated a $10 million funding increase to household, home and sexual violence within the NT, the NT Information reviews. NT’s Minister for Home, Household and Sexual Violence Kate Worden added that the NT’s home murder fee is six instances the nationwide common, and home and household violence-related assaults are thrice the nationwide common.
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In Western Australia now, and the state has the most important gender pay hole in Australia as of Could 2022, based on knowledge from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. There’s a whopping 22.4% distinction in female and male earnings, equating to a median of $471.70. Countrywide, males earn $263.90 greater than ladies every week, WA At this time continues, and it’s really elevated in the course of the previous six months. Why? Extra ladies are working, however they’re working within the lowest paid sectors of hospitality and retail, the paper says. Girls in South Australia (7.4%) and Tasmania (7.5%) had the bottom gender wage gaps however they’re additionally the 2 lowest-paid states.
GETTING A LIFT
Medical doctors will name Ubers for sufferers below a brand new service launched this week known as “Uber Well being”, The Age reviews. Well being professionals would e book the rides and foot the invoice, so the affected person wouldn’t want to make use of the app. Uber says it will likely be helpful for appointments, sending sufferers dwelling, and transporting people within the NDIS, however not for emergency transport. It additionally wouldn’t be used for individuals with COVID-19. Is it bizarre that Uber can have entry to well being knowledge now too? Former chair of the Australian Privateness Basis’s well being subcommittee Juanita Fernando says so, arguing weak knowledge legal guidelines in Australia go away sufferers weak. Plus ambulance providers already use taxis to move individuals — in 2020-21, Victoria moved 9600 passengers this manner.
In different transport information this morning, a brand new report from Climateworks Centre has discovered every of us might save $1300 a 12 months in petrol and upkeep prices if we embrace electrical autos (EV), The Pushed reviews. It comes as Financial institution Australia will encourage us to go electrical by reportedly banning loans for fossil gas vehicles in three years, Guardian Australia reviews. The client-owned financial institution, which has 185,000 clients, will give loans for second-hand fossil gas vehicles although. The EV chatter comes forward of the landmark EV summit as we speak, as AFR reviews — Local weather Change and Vitality Minister Chris Bowen is ready to argue for a penalty on the sale of inner combustion engine vehicles, saying we might drive down the price of residing if we ditch “inefficient vehicles”. However, Bowen says, we’d like cheaper EV choices — he’ll launch a paper about how we will get extra fashions available in the market costing lower than $60,000. Within the UK, there are 26 to select from below that quantity.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
The mayor of Venice is just not precisely often called a wallflower. Final week, Luigi Brugnaro publically known as for a Scottish man who stripped down for a fast dip within the world-famous canals of the Italian metropolis to go to jail. Brugnaro’s protecting of the aquatic metropolis — and with Airbnb shifting Venetians out, the continued threat of rising water, and the throngs of vacationers who flock to the town of lurve, one can see why. However when he noticed footage of two guys browsing the canal, the hot-headed Italian reached the top of his tether. The mayor tweeted that he compelled everybody to assist establish the “two overbearing idiots”, and “punish them, even when our weapons are actually blunt”, persevering with that mayors “urgently want extra powers”. Cripes. Somebody get that man a cup of la camomilla tea.
Brugnaro known as the surfers a “mockery” of the town — take a look at the footage and decide for your self. Some agreed with the mayor, however others mentioned it regarded type of cool. To be sincere, and I hope I don’t sound too sacrilegious, it does look type of cool — the fellows are on electrical boards and browsing off into what seems to be the beginnings of nightfall, that attractive golden Italian gentle paving their manner forward. And apart from, it wasn’t that way back that massive cruise liners blared their manner into Venice’s waters — they had been formally banned final 12 months. Nonetheless, an irate Brugnaro continued in his tweet, if the culprits are discovered he gives a bounty of 1 dinner in Venice to their captures. Bellissimo.
Hoping the grins come simply as we speak, people, and have a restful weekend forward.
SAY WHAT?
All you bought to do is placed on a cool shirt, take a bathe, convey your laptop computer, I’m gonna present you precisely what to do.
Fatman Scoop
That sounds fairly good. I don’t know what I’m doing on the eleventh of November.
Anthony Albanese
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did the prime minister simply conform to DJ whereas Fatman Scoop performs in Brisbane? Albo continued that he would “speak to my individuals” and requested the American rapper if he had his telephone quantity. Looks like solely yesterday that his predecessor Scott Morrison apologised for utilizing an specific Fatman Scoop tune in a video of MPs elevating their fingers.
The perfect (and worst) of the key minister memes from Australian politicians
“Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Younger received the day, nevertheless, by bringing our minds again to not one however two WTF moments in Liberal Celebration historical past. First, when Scott Morrison thought that crowds of protesters on the 2021 March for Justice ought to contemplate themselves fortunate they weren’t “met with bullets”.
“One thing, we presume, he thinks solely doable in international locations with tin-pot dictators who’ve full management of energy and overtly flout fundamental transparency. Second, when, y’know, the Liberal chief all of us thought was going to go down in historical past because the weirdest of the twenty first century, Tony Abbott, did in actual fact declare himself Minister for Girls. Hey, not less than he informed us!”
The Manchurian president’s worst act but
“Meaning People should assume that no matter is in these paperwork is now recognized to their enemies. This doesn’t simply embody US secrets and techniques, however ones America could have intercepted from its enemies or allies — together with Australia. Plus, that the technical and sign assortment capabilities that may have price billions of {dollars} to place into place has been compromised, and that the dangerous and laborious means of re-establishing it have to be invested in once more.
“These are the risks and prices we will safely assume Donald Trump has uncovered the American individuals to now. But when the Justice Division retains wanting, the harm could stretch additional. To no matter transactions Trump supposed, carried out or was planning to conduct with overseas adversaries for a value.”
Seems like nothing can save the governor-general this time both
“Ben Rose writes: Morrison was an unsuitable particular person to be PM. His excessive evangelical tackle Christianity will need to have included considering God led him to ‘self appoint’ on this weird scale. Non secular extremism is damaging and I say this as a practising orthodox Christian.
“As for the governor-general, he compromised himself. He needs to be an knowledgeable on Westminster conventions and have the character to uphold them. It’s plausible that he could have thought Morrison would make his first self appointment public. However when he didn’t do this, certainly Hurley ought to have heard alarm bells and refused the next ones. The G-G is simply as culpable as Morrison however for various causes. He ought to resign now or be sacked.”
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Ukrainian assaults in Crimea weaken Russia’s navy capability (Al Jazeera)
Allen Weisselberg, a prime Trump government, pleads responsible in tax scheme (The New York Occasions)
Human stays present in suitcases had been two younger youngsters, New Zealand police say (The Guardian)
Sir Salman Rushdie assault suspect ‘solely learn two pages’ of Satanic Verses (BBC)
At the least 38 individuals killed as ‘twister of fireplace’ rages in northern Algeria (The Guardian)
THE COMMENTARIAT
Albanese’s price range woes could hurt Andrews’ probabilities of a 3rd time period — Annika Smethurst (The Age): “After years of complaining about being short-changed on infrastructure, Labor sources say the state authorities was banking on a major contribution from Canberra to assist it construct the suburban rail loop. The urgency is bigger given the state Parliament’s price range workplace estimates the price of constructing the primary two phases of the suburban rail loop is now anticipated to price as much as $125 billion — greater than double the federal government’s preliminary estimate for all the undertaking.
“Up to now, Albanese has supplied up $2.2 billion for the jap part, properly in need of what the Andrews authorities would really like. Any extra cash will hinge on an unbiased evaluation of the plan by Infrastructure Australia, which Albanese established as infrastructure minister. With hospital beds full, sufferers queued outdoors, the state authorities can also be determined for a long-term funding answer from Canberra to assist it flip round its buckling well being system. Albanese has already bowed to the calls for of the states and agreed to increase its elevated well being funding for COVID for six months till December, which means it’s going to expire one month after polling day leaving voters to ask, so what’s subsequent?”
Dial down the heated ceremonial dinner rhetoric — you don’t must have an opinion on every part — Brigid Delaney (Guardian Australia): “Having a robust opinion on every part creates a unstable, febrile environment the place you’re continuously stating, defending and arguing your opinion, usually on platforms akin to Twitter the place context has been collapsed in 280 characters. The opinion turns into tied to the ego, your opinion turns into you — and so an assault in your opinion is an assault on the very fibre of your being. So, vigilant and anxious, it’s essential to defend opinion as you’ll defend your self. This then creates a binary: individuals who agree with you’re good and individuals who disagree are unhealthy.
“By leaving issues alone, by not getting labored up, we aren’t including to the poisonous load of disagreement, hate and fury on-line, which in fact seeps into individuals’s actual life. It’s liberating if you relinquish the have to be proper on a regular basis. The flexibility to wheel again in your positions, to soak up new info, to see a unique viewpoint, be interested in options, to say “I used to be fallacious” or “I’ve modified my thoughts” is to erode these laborious binaries, the us v them that so many people have discovered ourselves caught in over the previous couple of years. Once you put down your weapons, loosen up and don’t have anything to show, then you may work in the direction of a consensus on the massive points.”
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