HOME TRUTHS
The federal authorities desires the superannuation sector to fund social and reasonably priced housing, the ABC stories. Minister for Monetary Providers Stephen Jones met with the height trade group yesterday to influence it to assist shore up the housing scarcity — tremendous funds have to this point been reluctant, nonetheless, due to the decrease return and better danger of housing funding. However issues are dangerous and getting worse within the housing disaster, notably for the weak: one report put the scarcity of social and reasonably priced housing at 700,000 by 2036. Dismal. One other discovered the scarcity is costing Australia $676 million a 12 months. It comes after the Reserve Financial institution raised rates of interest to 2.35% yesterday, the AFR stories, the fifth consecutive month it has performed so. RBA governor Philip Lowe says he’s not performed but — extra rises will likely be required to deliver the surging inflation charge down.
But it surely’s hurting Aussies within the meantime. In Queensland, owners have to seek out a median of $146 further a month to pay their mortgage, The Courier Mail ($) stories. However one in 4 have been already struggling to pay it earlier than yesterday rise. Throughout the nation, it means we will likely be forking out 29% extra on a median mortgage than we have been in April — about $3528 a month (up from $2727 in April), based on Finder. The paper put it plainly: $9608 extra a 12 months spent on the mortgage is identical as “three return flights to London, a small second-hand automotive, or a full 12 months of groceries for a household of 4”.
DEFAME AND FORTUNE
Former Liberal MP Andrew Laming has requested for almost $1 million in his defamation case in opposition to the 9 Community, The Australian ($) stories. It dates again to March final 12 months when 9 screened a information report that claimed Laming allegedly took an upskirt picture of a Brisbane employee — Laming has denied the report ever since and requested for it to be faraway from the web site, however 9 dug its heels in (two reporters received a Walkley for the report). So Laming sued for defamation. 9 has since withdrawn its “fact” defence referring to the upskirting declare (in impact admitting it wasn’t true) and accepted Laming is “entitled to damages”, based on courtroom paperwork. In the meantime out west the previous Melbourne Soccer Membership president Glen Bartlett is eyeing suing present president Kate Roffey, The West ($) stories, amid his defamation go well with in opposition to among the nation’s high AFL journalists. Bartlett’s legal professionals say its Roffey’s “contributions” to a bunch of articles in query that embroil her within the saga.
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To a different, extra private defamation battle now and impartial Zoe Daniel has taken her movement for an inquiry into media focus in Australia to Parliament. The movement will likely be launched to the Home right now, Crikey stories — it requires a judicial inquiry with the powers of a royal fee. It got here after Fox billionaire Lachlan Murdoch launched his defamation proceedings in opposition to Crikey, however Daniels (a former journalist) says it’s additionally about journos dropping their jobs, regional newspapers folding (not less than 60 in the course of the pandemic) and the necessity for a “match and correct particular person” check within the Broadcasting Providers Act. What does that imply? Within the UK, the communication regulator (its model of ACMA) will get to resolve who ought to obtain — or hold — a broadcast licence. For example, in 2010 Bang Media, which operated grownup chat channels, had its licences revoked.
STRIKE ACTION
In what may effectively be the largest industrial motion of its type, greater than 1000 childcare centres will shut their doorways right now, Guardian Australia stories, with employee rallies deliberate in each capital metropolis and a few regional centres. Employees are fed up with low wages and crap circumstances, they are saying — 70,000 households will really feel the discomfort of the strike, based on the union. Astoundingly, employees in childcare earn 30% lower than academics — some $22 an hour, the SMH stories. Pundits say it’s one motive the childcare sector has such a excessive turnover. Plus, greater than two-thirds of all centres are owned by personal fairness and shareholders, with some saying the operators are taking advantage of the low wages.
In the meantime, in the event you’re flying subsequent week give your self an additional a number of hours — 350 third celebration floor handlers at Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney have voted to strike for twenty-four hours on Monday the twelfth. The transport union mentioned it’ll principally have an effect on Qantas, Singapore Airways, Etihad and Emirates, Sky Information stories. So what’s the deal? Properly, Dnata was one of many outsourced floor dealing with operations that Qantas engaged after the nationwide service sacked 2000 floor crew, a transfer that the Federal Court docket discovered had breached the Truthful Work Act in July 2021 (Qantas is difficult this, as Guardian Australia reported). However Dnata employees have been denied JobKeeper in the course of the pandemic, transport union secretary Michael Kaine defined, and now the roles are so low paid that he says persons are being pressured out of the trade.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
An opportunistic chimp named Chichi had a monkey’s day trip in Ukraine’s second largest metropolis. Chichi made her daring escape from Kharkiv metropolis zoo on Monday, touring an area park and exploring the streets of the town with two zookeepers scorching on her heels, The Guardian stories. However when it began to sprinkle, a out of the blue sooky Chichi was able to go house. She turned to certainly one of her keepers dolefully after which returned into her arms for a comforting hug. The keeper was prepared with a canary yellow rain jacket for Chichi, which she promptly dressed the chimp in earlier than serving to Chichi on to a bicycle. Then two folks and a monkey carrying a coat on a motorbike made their means by the streets and again to the zoo. The footage introduced some much-needed smiles to the town, which has been sadly bombarded by the Russians.
And it’s not the one cheeky animal making headlines right now. In true rock star trend, an echidna has trashed a lodge room at a NSW nation pub, as ABC stories. Cleaner Robbie Lee opened the door of room 8 at Bendemeer Resort on Sunday and located torn up carpet, filth on the sheets and a heater and fan askew on the ground. What the hell had occurred, he questioned? The room was empty the night time earlier than and there have been “no footprints”. Peering below the mattress, Lee noticed a blond-tipped ball of mischievousness plonked proper in the course of the carpet. He donned some welding gloves to take away the rowdy visitor and launch him safely into the paddock. As for the room, it’ll set the pub again about $3000 to repair, however not less than it has a cracking story to inform. “We’re now truly considering of calling Room 8 the Echidna Suite, in honour of our little buddy,” publican Leanne Summers says.
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SAY WHAT?
One firm has a 59% share of the metropolitan and nationwide print media market by readership. Solely Egypt and China have a higher focus of newspaper possession.
Zoe Daniel
Yep — you guessed it: the Murdoch media empire. The impartial MP for Goldstein is pushing for a royal commission-type inquiry into the focus of media in Australia, together with her movement seconded by fellow impartial Monique Ryan.
Tudge, the person who by no means was, thinks we’ll neglect about his grubby historical past
“So we’re left with the thriller of why Miller was awarded $650,000 when, as we’re informed by her employers, nothing occurred to her — with the implication from Tudge that Miller has lied about his therapy of her. It’s the identical thriller because the position of Tudge within the Morrison authorities after he ‘resigned’ (regardless of the Thom evaluation ‘clearing’ him), when he by some means remained in cupboard and but wasn’t working because the training minister, when he was by some means a member of the ministry whereas Stuart Robert truly did his job.
“And it’s the identical thriller as Tudge’s location in the course of the election marketing campaign, when he hid from the media and his personal voters, turning a safe-as-houses Liberal seat into a good marginal. Tudge is a person outlined by his absence, the person who wasn’t there — not there within the mattress allegedly assaulting Miller, not there rorting automotive park grants, not there in cupboard, not there in an election marketing campaign. There’s by no means something to see right here with Tudge.”
Partying with Lindsay Fox can get you greater than a hangover
“The extravagant $5 million eighty fifth birthday bash for Lindsay Fox reportedly entails a 12-day cruise from New York to Montreal. Throw in journey time and the 450 company are anticipated to be in a foreign country for greater than two weeks. In case you plan to attend, simply be sure that your bosses give the sign-off.
“The billionaire trucker has a protracted historical past of extravagant birthday events — whether or not it was the $8 million three-day celebration on the Sydney Opera Home for his seventieth or the celebration of 80 years since his conception on what was dubbed a Love Boat cruise of the Mediterranean with the likes of Joe Hockey, Greg Norman and Jeff Kennett. Nevertheless, it was a cruise down the Nile celebrating his fifty fifth birthday in 1992 which wasn’t so good for the profession of then ANZ Financial institution CEO Will Bailey …”
Avi Yemini admits donation web page was arrange earlier than he was denied entry to New Zealand
“Yemini claims he was informed by an official that his rejection was due to an article written about him within the New Zealand Herald that referred to as him a ‘conspiracy commentator’, however an Immigration NZ spokesperson informed Crikey his legal report — which features a conviction for home violence — meant he didn’t meet immigration necessities.
“Yemini used this denial of entry as a rallying name for donations to his authorized fund to problem the choice in order that ‘Avi can present actual, on-the-ground reporting and ask the questions NZ media refuse to ask’. His YouTube video and social media posts linked to an internet site: www.saveaviyemini.com. Eager watchers on social media quickly seen that the web site had been registered the day earlier than Yemini had been rejected.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
‘Inappropriate’: Solomon Islands chief rejects Australia’s provide to fund upcoming election (SBS)
Lethal al-Qaeda assault targets Yemen’s southern separatists (Al Jazeera)
Russia is shopping for North Korean artillery, based on US intelligence (The New York Occasions)
Dutch metropolis turns into world’s first to ban meat adverts in public (The Guardian)
Iran sentences two LGBT activists to dying (BBC)
Juul to pay $438.5 million to settle probe over underage use (The Wall Road Journal) ($)
Video exhibits pretend Trump elector helped entry election workplace (CNN)
Flood-hit Pakistan bids to cease its largest lake from overflowing (Al Jazeera)
THE COMMENTARIAT
Launch the handbrake on competitors — Daniel Andrews and Adam Triggs (The Australian) ($): “The federal government hit the accelerator exhausting on the jobs and expertise summit. Its sensible actions on expertise, immigration and participation will assist to deal with expertise shortages. However boosting expertise and rising the workforce with out growing financial dynamism — which means extra new corporations, job-switching and competitors — is a bit like accelerating with the handbrake on. The issue is that markets behave in another way within the absence of dynamism. Properly-intentioned insurance policies are much less efficient. Generally they’re even counterproductive. Staff wrestle to modify to jobs that higher match their new expertise. Firms that face little competitors have little incentive to spend money on their employees within the first place.
“And even when the abilities agenda raises firm productiveness, much less of the profit goes to employees. Firms that face little competitors for his or her employees hoard the features for themselves. This isn’t a theoretical drawback. We will see it within the information. Analysis from the e61 Institute exhibits {that a} lack of market dynamism has shrunk the pie and is seeing much less of it going to employees, notably younger Australians. Firms move on 25% much less of their productiveness features to employees than 15 years in the past, when start-up and job mobility charges have been larger and the company construction was much less bloated. The coverage problem now could be to inject a dose of dynamism into Australian markets.”
I’m a psychologist – and I imagine we’ve been informed devastating lies about psychological well being — Sanah Ahsan (The Guardian): “If a plant have been wilting we wouldn’t diagnose it with ‘wilting-plant-syndrome’ — we might change its circumstances. But when people are struggling below unliveable circumstances, we’re informed one thing is incorrect with us, and anticipated to maintain pushing by. To maintain working and producing, with out acknowledging our harm. In efforts to destigmatise psychological misery, ‘psychological sickness’ is framed as an ‘sickness like every other’ — rooted in supposedly flawed mind chemistry. In actuality, current analysis concluded that melancholy isn’t attributable to a chemical imbalance of the mind. Sarcastically, suggesting we have now a damaged mind for all times will increase stigma and disempowerment.
“What’s most devastating about this delusion is that the issue and the answer are positioned within the particular person, distracting us from the environments that trigger our misery. Particular person remedy is sensible for many folks, and antidepressants may also help some folks cope. However I fear {that a} purely medicalised, individualised understanding of psychological well being places plasters over large gaping wounds, with out addressing the supply of violence. They encourage us to adapt to methods, thereby defending the established order. It’s right here that we fail marginalised folks essentially the most: Black folks’s comprehensible expressions of harm at dwelling in a structurally racist society are too typically medicalised, labelled harmful and met with violence below the guise of ‘care’ “.
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