THE RICH GET RICHER
The richest 1% of Australians will get as a lot cash from the stage three tax cuts because the poorest 65% mixed (!), Guardian Australia stories, some $14 billion for every cohort, in accordance with parliamentary finances workplace evaluation. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stood by the tax adjustments yesterday, however Greens Chief Adam Bandt stated the Coalition-era tax cuts have been solely going to make issues worse for inequality. The evaluation confirmed males would get two-thirds of the cuts that come into drive in 2024-25 — by the numbers, $160.6 billion to males and $82.9 billion to girls. So what are the stage three tax cuts? Principally they’ll take away the 37 cents-in-the-dollar tax bracket, decrease the 32.5 cent bracket to 30 cents, and lift the highest tax bracket to begin at $200,000 (in contrast with $180,000 now). For those who make $50,000 a 12 months you’ll save $2.40 every week. However should you make $200,000, you’ll save 73 instances extra — some $174 every week, Guardian Australia reported earlier this 12 months.
Regardless of the coverage’s Coalition origin, not everybody agrees it ought to go forward. Liberal MP Russell Broadbent has damaged ranks along with his social gathering in saying the tax cuts must be binned, the ABC stories, and the cash diverted into struggling authorities companies like social housing and defence. Broadbent stated COVID has modified every thing, and “folks like me don’t want tax cuts”, the SMH continues. A number of independents and minor events agree — on the weekend, the paper reported 9 of the 19 crossbench MPs and senators favoured scrapping or a minimum of placing the tax cuts on maintain. They’ll value our strained finances $243 billion over 10 years, the ABC added.
RED SHIRT, RED FACE
Has Victorian Labor breached its personal pink shirts period coverage? Is determined by who you imagine. The Age says it was instructed Victorian Labor assistant secretary Nicola Castleman met authorities MPs and a few voters officers at Parliament Home in the course of the first parliamentary sitting week of this month to speak Labor’s reelection technique. It’s a “potential breach of legal guidelines launched three years in the past”, the paper says, with intel coming from a “well-informed supply” who didn’t put their identify to their declare. In 2019, the federal government banned voters employees (who’re paid by the taxpayer) from campaigning after the 2014 pink shirts affair, as Crikey stories, although they will nonetheless do social gathering political work. The federal government instructed the paper no employees have been on the assembly in query.
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In the meantime Victorian Liberals have rolled out former prime minister Tony Abbott of their election marketing campaign, The New Each day stories. He popped up at a fundraiser on Saturday night time and guaranteed the trailing Libs they may flip it round. Take a look at the 2010 federal election, Abbott reportedly stated, when he compelled Julia Gillard’s Labor right into a minority authorities (however remained in opposition, one should level out. Wouldn’t Scott Morrison’s shock win over Invoice Shorten have been a greater instance?). Anyway, the Victorian Coalition wants 18 seats to win — however Victorian Liberal MPs are going through impartial challengers in blue-ribbon seats like Kew, Sandringham and Hawthorn. Abbott claimed a vote for a teal is a vote for Labor.
WIND OF CHANGE
Local weather 200-backed impartial Kylea Tink has shares in two fossil gas corporations — Viva Vitality and Seaside Vitality — in accordance with her declaration of pursuits, the SMH stories. She instructed the paper she purchased them for “shareholder activism” causes — to affect the businesses from inside. She stated she donated her dividends to renewable power campaigns or emissions offsetting. In the meantime, the AFR stories world power titan Equinor has joined forces with Australian renewable power firm OceanEx to create massive offshore wind tasks in NSW. The zero-emission supply is touted to provide Victoria with a fifth of all its power by 2030, and climate-friendly wind era makes good enterprise sense too, contemplating the Australian Vitality Market Operator (AEMO) says two-thirds of our coal energy can be passed by 2030. That’s some massive (profitable) footwear to fill.
In the meantime The Australian ($) is becoming a member of the Coalition’s refrain for nuclear power in Oz — it stories a small-scale reactor firm instructed the paper it may energy 700,000 properties as quickly as 2027, some two-thirds of outgoing Liddell coal-fired energy station’s provide. US correspondent Adam Creighton claims that nuclear is changing into “a extra enticing possibility” and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is beneath “extra strain” to rethink nuclear. Opposition Chief Peter Dutton has spruiked nuclear in latest weeks (should you can name that strain) however as Adam Morton writes for Guardian Australia, his social gathering simply spent a decade in workplace — why not speak about this then? There was a 2019 inquiry, Morton continues, however then PM Scott Morrison stated our nuclear ban wouldn’t change with out Labor’s assist. And Labor has lengthy dominated nuclear out on financial grounds — as one skilled instructed the ABC, nuclear energy stations can value $20 billion and take as much as 10 years to assemble. Plus, Australia is among the sunniest and windiest nations on earth, the Local weather Council provides, with sufficient renewable power to energy our nation 500 instances over. Maybe it will be higher to play the (extraordinarily good) hand we’ve been dealt.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
Bridie Jabour has had a critical realisation: she is sillier now. The opinion editor for Guardian Australia says the silliness sneaked up on her amid all the larger adjustments that befell numerous us in the course of the pandemic, like shifting out of the cities, shopping for canines, and becoming a member of the Nice Resignation. As 2021 wrapped up, Jabour was coming down from giving start to her second baby in the course of the disruption of consecutive lockdowns — together with her three-year-old baby in tow. A breakdown may’ve taken place, she provides, if she had really had the time to interrupt down. However this 12 months, issues calmed down a bit. She swam within the ocean and acquired some sleep. That’s when she observed the silliness. She acquired no fewer than three tattoos in six months, one being the slightly romantic gesture of her husband’s identify. Her spur-of-the-moment act even impressed two others to do the identical — “Properly, comparable,” Jabour writes. “As an alternative of Matty Q they acquired their very own associate’s identify, despite the fact that Matty Q would’ve been infinitely funnier.”
Sitting in her longtime hairdresser’s chair at some point, she declared it was time for a fringe. Her stylist was thrown — however Jabour was like, who cares? Hair grows! The silliness, it appears, was infectious — a number of of her buddies began throwing themed birthday events, like The X-Recordsdata, or younger, wealthy and tasteless. The lady on the costume store stated it wasn’t simply them both — “It’s been like Halloween each weekend for months.” Jabour provides that neither she, nor these round her, take COVID as a right. Issues are unhealthy, they usually have been for some time. However she’s given herself permission to “let extra pleasure in”. Typically you’ve acquired to bop via the rain, get a spontaneous ode of affection etched into your pores and skin, and scream your lungs out howling the lyrics of a foul cowl band. It may be a balm for all of us, and let’s face it — two and half years into the pandemic, we’ve earnt the appropriate to be a bit foolish typically. Because the saying goes, “laughter is the perfect drugs” (however get vaccinated anyway).
Hoping you embrace the foolish immediately, no matter that appears like for you.
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SAY WHAT?
The Andrews authorities might be one of many worst governments Australia has ever had.
Tony Abbott
It’s simply seven days after Australia’s second highest-ranking legislation officer discovered Scott Morrison had “essentially undermined” authorities ideas by secretly swearing himself into 5 portfolios, one thing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese known as an “unprecedented trashing of our democracy”, the cherry on prime of an extended listing of well-documented lies and falsehoods, however the former PM says the Andrews authorities is a contender for worst ever.
How Rumble grew to become the world’s hottest video app
“When Andrew Tate was booted from Instagram, YouTube and TikTok earlier this month, the web superstar introduced that Rumble could be the brand new digital house for his content material. Not lengthy after, the alt-tech video platform went to primary on the Apple and Google app shops.
“Tate is the newest on-line persona whose controversial statements and acts have examined what tech corporations will enable on their platforms. Like Alex Jones or Milo Yiannopoulos earlier than him, Tate’s conduct — on this case, hate speech — led to him being deplatformed. Rumble welcomed him with open arms.”
Ousting ScoMo wasn’t Fran Bailey’s solely good thought
“Then she supported the concept of draping a massive shade fabric over the Nice Barrier Reef — a suggestion, together with cool water sprays, from a time when our desperation to halt coral bleaching produced numerous concepts that may very well be mistaken for plans for a pleasant beer backyard.
“We additionally benefit from the element of then opposition atmosphere minister Anthony Albanese criticising the Coalition’s ‘absurd’ strategy to local weather change, one thing that hits a little bit otherwise now as the federal government he leads has just lately backed a number of new fossil gas tasks. And eventually, Bailey wished to show showrunner — pitching a cleaning soap opera to replenish the flagging variety of Japanese vacationers to Australia …”
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“‘Lachlan Murdoch owns boats which might be value greater than Crikey. It is a bullying hypocritical lawsuit introduced by a person who isn’t even named within the article and whose media shops, particularly Fox Information, have achieved extra to undermine American democracy than every other. Fox’s contribution to the occasions and context of the January 6 tried coup are issues of the best doable public curiosity and never simply to Individuals. These occasions shook the world and it needs to be stated that Australians immediately are way more sanguine concerning the endurance of American democracy than many, if not most, Individuals.” — Malcolm Turnbull.
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Final member of Indigenous tribe dies in Brazil after resisting contact for many years (CNN)
Main sea-level rise brought on by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’ (The Guardian)
French tax officers use AI to identify 20,000 undeclared swimming pools (The Guardian)
THE COMMENTARIAT
Emergency powers, secret ministries keep away from scrutiny of Parliament — George Williams (The Australian) ($): “The implications of disobeying the well being minister are extreme. An individual who refuses a route, maybe that they continue to be of their house or bear a medical process, might be jailed for as much as 5 years or fined $66,000. No defences are supplied for conscientious objection or on spiritual grounds. The pandemic demonstrates how a lot affect these instructions can have. Public well being orders can impose authorities instructions that contradict an individual’s bodily autonomy. Additionally they can have life or loss of life implications. One instance is the well being minister’s choice in April final 12 months that Australians be prevented from returning house if they’d been in India within the earlier 14 days. This stranded 9000 residents who confronted the selection of navigating the pandemic in India with COVID-19 rampant or returning to Australia and the potential of a five-year jail time period.
“The very fact these powers are so in depth and concentrated in a single particular person, with out the potential of efficient parliamentary oversight, doesn’t sit nicely with how Australian democracy ought to function. Morrison was proper to be involved. He additionally was proper to take motion however selected the incorrect technique of doing so. Morrison mustn’t have been appointed as a second well being minister in secret. This exacerbated the issue as a result of excessive powers may now be exercised by a second particular person unknown to Parliament and the neighborhood. Having a second particular person within the portfolio additionally opened up the prospect of confusion and authorized uncertainty, which is extremely undesirable in an emergency. Within the occasion of conflicting orders, it’s not clear which well being minister ought to have been obeyed.”
Plibersek has energy to cease mega-projects of coal and fuel — Tim Flannery (The SMH): “Ignoring impacts of greenhouse fuel emissions leaves the door open for dozens of recent fossil gas tasks to get the go-ahead in Australia, at a time when the science couldn’t be extra clear: the world should get to net-zero emissions as quick as doable, and there might be no new coal and fuel tasks if we’re going to maintain world warming inside the secure limits of nicely under two levels. New coal and fuel tasks don’t stack up environmentally and it takes numerous psychological gymnastics (and ignoring proof) to say they do. We are able to and should flip this round now. The Setting Council of Central Queensland has lodged an software for Setting Minister Tanya Plibersek to rethink 19 fossil gas tasks assessed by her predecessors, together with mega-projects such because the Narrabri underground coalmine and Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension.
“Science is on their aspect. It’s why I’ve joined nearly 100 different main Australian scientists to again this authorized intervention and urge Minister Plibersek to think about the broader environmental affect of burning coal and fuel. That is the one accountable and evidence-based manner ahead. There’s a lot driving on this choice. The case may halt the progress of plenty of present coal and fuel tasks and probably put a cease to future ones. Provided that we have to be utilizing each software within the field to repair local weather change, this is able to be like having a limitless Bunnings voucher. Minister Plibersek should heed the recommendation of the nation’s main scientists. She holds the ability to show round a decade of significant environmental decline and local weather inaction.”
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