International Beer Day friday

Today is International Beer Day .

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And as I am a world citizen I am fully embracing this celebration with a few lovely refreshing beers from my cellar

 

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I bet our suck hole PM wishes he could hide in his cellar after his Pathetic  call to Trump was released

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If there is anymore evidence needed that the people on manus are just cattle the transcripts confirmed it all.

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Have your favorite Tipple Peoples

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It will all be over in a year or so

628 thoughts on “International Beer Day friday

  1. The media making up crap again?
    Surely not!

    I saw a report this morning that said someone had tried to get “an improvised device” (the meat mincer?) onto a plane, in some luggage, but whoever it was never even got to check in their luggage because the bag was too heavy.
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-terrorist-plot-bid-to-smuggle-bomb-through-airport-thwarted-at-checkin-20170803-gxodlz.html

    Believe that if you like. It sounds extremely odd to me. Whatever it was, IF the bag had been checked though, would have shown up in a scan or a search anyway, and surely a suspiciously heavy bag would have been thoroughly searched. At least, you’d think so. Or doesn’t anyone bother scanning/searching checked luggage?

    Things are really going bad for this government. Even ‘Boats!’ can’t be used as a scare campaign now, not after all that boasting about ‘we stopped the boats’. All they have now is terrorism threats, and they have been so frequent, and so predictable, always after a bad poll or yet another government disaster, that it’s all starting to look like a high-budget theatrical production of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’. There have been so many alleged thwarted attacks now that no-one cares any more.

    Latest news – the alleged ‘bomb’ was allegedly mailed from Turkey. Mailed! I thought Australia Post and/or customs checked suspicious mail. My son bought a harmless ring (real gold) for his fiancee, from overseas. It was opened by customs and checked. A tiny ring from overseas gets opened, examined and resealed, but an alleged IED sails through the post without question? Pull the other one.

    ‘How many times has this happened?’ Border force faces questions over ‘terror bomb’ mailed from Turkey.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/how-many-times-has-this-happened-border-force-faces-questions-over-terror-bomb-mailed-from-turkey-20170804-gxpqtw.html

  2. TLBD
    I have recently been given a so called starter batch of reds as a bribe. I must say I am liking Pepperjack Shiraz .I may have to start researching a bit more

  3. Pepperjack is a tribute to the Barossa’s rich heritage. The winemaking team has respect for traditional winemaking techniques and is also dynamic and imaginative. The Pepperjack winemakers are conscious of modern wine styles, and create wines that reflect their passion for this special region. The Pepperjack wines are rich and honest – showcasing the Barossa’s outstanding qualities.
    Year Established

    1996
    Region

    Barossa – Australia
    Winemaker

    Richard Mattner
    Varieties

    Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon

  4. Your AFP proudly announced the names of the four they arrested.

    Now, call me strange, but doesn’t the bloke released without charge have a legal issue? And aren’t they putting a fair trial for the others at risk?

  5. I would not mind another bottle of this to celebrate Beer day. Brewed in Belgium shipped to France to be treated like champagne for 9 months then back to Belgium. A heavy hit on the pocket but worth the experience at least once. Very much a “sipping beer” because it is over 11% ‘Alkafrol’

  6. Josh, where are you? Josh …. ?

    Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising to the highest figures seen in years, according to official government figures, increasing 1.6% in the last quarter and 1% in the past year.

    The country’s emissions in the year to March 2017 are the highest on record at 550.3m tonnes of CO2 equivalent when emissions from land use change are excluded – a sector where the government says its figures have a high degree of uncertainty.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/04/australias-greenhouse-gas-emissions-soar-in-latest-figures

  7. Centrelink has been accused of threatening and harassing vulnerable Australians into updating their personal details using letters emblazoned with the Australian federal police logo.

    Letters sent out in July under the heading “Taskforce Integrity” warned welfare recipients against deliberately withholding or providing false information to dishonestly collect payments.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/04/centrelink-accused-of-threatening-people-using-letters-with-police-logo

    When you read the letter and its questions asking whether the recipient is in shared accommodation its an admission that Centrelink payments are too low to be able to rent in the private rental market

  8. TLBD

    The Rodent made sure that ‘rule’ was ‘dead buried and cremated’ after he lost so many ministers in his first year or so. How high would the level of incomprehension be for the current scurvy crew to read about Mick Young stepping down over the ‘Paddington Bear’ affair ?!

  9. About to replace the Accord Euro; one or two years hence.

    Anyone have a thought about the manual? And what about the “hybrid”? I refuse to by an automatic: I want to drive: not be driven.

    Available as either a two-door coupe or a four-door sedan, the Accord continues to offer four- and six-cylinder engine choices. Measuring 2.4 liters, the standard 185-hp four-cylinder engine is available with a six-speed manual or a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT). Accord Sport and Sport Special Edition sedans add 4 horsepower to that total, as well as a host of other features (including 19-inch wheels, bigger brakes, side sills, and a rear lip spoiler) to denote the two trims’ more driver-focused nature. A 278-hp 3.5-liter V-6 is available on the Accord EX-L and standard on the top-of-the-line Touring. While V-6 sedan consumers must give shifting control to a six-speed automatic transmission, EX-L V-6 coupe drivers can choose a six-speed manual transmission. Finally, the new-for-2017, sedan-only Accord hybrid relies on a 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder and two AC motor/generators to deliver a combined 212 horsepower. Fuel-economy figures span from a less-than-stellar 18/28 mpg city/highway for the V-6 manual coupe to an impressive 49/47-mpg rating for the hybrid sedan.

  10. This little black duck

    I hope before I die they work out the rules behind the “spooky nature” of quantum physics. We obviously don’t know now how to explain entanglement . Discover the underlying rules of quantum particle’s behaviour and come on down the next technologically caused complete remake of the world.

    • I’m nearly at the end of his book. Next step is to go back to the beginning and wiki all the stuff, starting with electrons and working up to quarks and bosons and beyond.

      It’s not rocket science. Just a lot more complicated.

      Einstein’s book Relativity: The Special and the General Theory really is well written and comprehensible.

    • As resident physicist at the Pub, I’m pleased to see this burst of interest in the esoteric corners of our discipline.

      By the way, many years ago I spent an enjoyable day at a Sheffield Shied match between NSW and Q’ld at the Gabba with Fred Hoyle.

  11. TLBD

    “One of the weirdest things is that light is both particle and wave.”
    .
    Behaves like a particle and or wave. It is the ‘why” that we need to know. Read that book many many years ago. Have not thought of Fred for many a year but he was one of those I read a lot of back in the day.

    His notion of Panspermia has been getting a kick along in recent years with the discovery of so many organic compounds in gas clouds. Creatures such as the Tardigrade can survive on the outside of a spaceship !!

    “Amino acid detected in space”
    http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2003/aug/11/amino-acid-detected-in-space
    .
    “Scientists have found the beginnings of life-bearing chemistry at the centre of the galaxy”
    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29368984

    .
    How Does the Tiny Waterbear Survive in Outer Space?
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-does-the-tiny-waterbear-survive-in-outer-space-30891298/

    • kaffeeklatscher,

      It is posited that the “why it is” is search for an explanation of God. Krauss thinks “how it is” is the real issue.

      If God decided to confuse us with wave versus particle that’s its business.

      Julius Sumner Miller is sorely missed. Oh well, Brian Cox will have to do (very nicely).

    • Julius was a sometime colleague of mine back in the seventies. Harry Messel used to bring him out to Australia from the States. He wasn’t a “great” physicist but was very good at making people think. Dr Karl, also associated with the School of Physics at Sydney University, is his modern day successor.

  12. Marvellous what a Senate enquiry can do

    The remaining directors of the accounting body CPA Australia are all set to quit by the end of the year.

    The announcement was made late on Friday, as directors faced a growing push from dissident members for a spill of the entire board.

    The CPA board members also faced the prospect of intense questioning about the organisation’s governance, as they expected to appear before a senate committee in Canberra within the next fortnight.

    Key among those questions will be how the current board decided on a payout of almost $5 million to controversial CEO Alex Malley when he was dumped by the board in June.

    Seven other board directors resigned ahead of the boardroom decision to get rid of Mr Malley, who used his CPA position to build an international profile as The Naked CEO, complete with his own advice book and TV program.

    Now, for Malley …

  13. Onya Ms Moore!

    Tent City Standoff: Sydney Mayor Refuses To Move Homeless On From Martin Place
    The political spat has continued over the future of the settlement.

    Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has refused to forcibly move homeless people from a tent settlement that has been set up outside of the Reserve Bank in Martin Place and will only agree to any action from the state government provided five measures aimed at safe and affordable housing are met.

    In a letter to NSW Minister for Family and Community Services and Social Housing Pru Goward and NSW Police Commissioner Michael Fuller, Moore said she does not support the movement of homeless and vulnerable people from public spaces without access to further support and housing services

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/08/04/tent-city-standoff-sydney-mayor-refuses-to-move-homeless-on-fro_a_23064277/?ncid=fcbklnkauhpmg00000001

    • Good on Clover! that’s a very neat assembly of tents. In Melbourne in cold foggy 9 degree max temperature day in day out, the homeless are not allowed to shelter in tents. Those flimsy tents can keep you snug in 3 degrees

  14. ‘Fake deal, fake process’: Manus asylum seekers angry over Trump-Turnbull transcript

    Asylum seekers being held in Australian immigration detention on Manus Island have responded to the release of a phone call transcript in which the PM told the US president he could decide who to take or not take in the refugee swap.

    The publication of the transcript of the first phone call between the then new US president Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been met with anger on Manus Island

    http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/08/04/fake-deal-fake-process-manus-asylum-seekers-angry-over-trump-turnbull-transcript

    • Well that makes everyone unhappy about the release of the tape of THAT phone call.
      Columnists in the New York Times were appalled at how slow Trump was on the uptake
      World politicians are aghast that the machinery of state is exposed
      Australians are unimpressed that Turnbull cynically connived, but we’re not surprised
      The poor souls stuck on Manus and Nauru are upset about the cruel fraud perpetrated upon them
      It’s a pity that Gillian Triggs is no longer head of the Human Rights Commission, she could have forensically dissected Turnbull on his admission that Australia runs those gulags as a deterrent

      I attended a Stop Adani rally outside my local member of Parliaments office today. The protestors were all over 60, same chort as the MP, had green outfits to save the Tarkine, red raincoats to wear with black pants to protest about Adani and purple tops to support the Asylum Seeker Refugee Centre. we were observed by 2 tall plain clothes police in black North Face rain jackets who gave up and returned to the MPs office

  15. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.

    More is coming out about the money laundering through the CBA. Not at all a good look!
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/eleven-already-jailed-over-cba-money-laundering-syndicates-20170804-gxps8l.html
    Meanwhile one of the money laundering syndicates linked with the Commonwealth Bank compliance scandal worked with drug smugglers who imported methamphetamine worth $315 million, the largest ice seizure in West Australian history.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/commbank-atm-scandal-syndicate-linked-to-the-biggest-ice-haul-in-wa-history-20170804-gxppf2.html
    Not surprisingly Adele Ferguson writes about the growing calls for a banking royal commission. She says that CBS’s Ian Narev will have to think long and hard about what he will say at the AGM next week.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/growing-calls-for-a-bank-royal-commission-20170804-gxpfbr.html
    Laura Tingle on the idiots Turnbull has to deal with. Google.
    /news/politics/if-only-coalition-mps-were-as-manageable-as-a-crazy-world-leader-20170804-gxpdph
    Paul Bongiorno on Turnbull’s conviction problems.
    https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2017/08/05/turnbulls-conviction-problems/15018552005017
    Mark Kenny begins this article with “A compromise plan to resolve the Coalition’s internal split over marriage reform is the most likely outcome from Monday’s special policy meeting. After all, the alternative could lead to the ugliest divorce in the Liberal Party’s history.”
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberal-party-room-showdown-the-selfish-marriage-deal-to-avert-an-ugly-divorce-20170804-gxpfop.html
    And to inform the party room debate a new poll shows majority of voters in six seats held by Liberal MPs who are undecided on marriage equality support same-sex marriage and a free vote in Parliament.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/voters-in-key-liberal-seats-back-samesex-marriage-and-free-vote-poll-shows-20170804-gxpgqj.html
    Pontificating Paul Kelly compares apples with oranges with respect to plebiscites. Google.
    /news/inquirer/tale-of-two-plebiscites-as-turnbull-shorten-jostle-for-advantage/news-story/b10797f6eb46de2798e483c1a0b15bd1
    Karen Middleton has a look at what the party room meeting might bring.
    https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/08/05/parliamentary-push-same-sex-marriage/15018552005023

  16. Section 2 . . .

    Peter Hartcher reckons the ridiculous postal vote will get up in the party room because is would be a “pragmatic solution”. What a muppet!
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/samesex-marriage-going-postal-the-best-solution-for-plebiscite-20170804-gxpni3.html
    Peter van Onselen reckons Turnbull will be cornered into the postal plebiscite and says the Coalition deserves a slow handclap. Google.
    /news/inquirer/turnbull-may-be-forced-to-put-stamp-on-postal-marriage-plebiscite/news-story/12116fff9e21824d168024958358063c
    Nicholas Stuart writes that three critical fault-lines are currently ripping their way through the Australian political landscape: all converge in Canberra on Monday. He says Turnbull’s grip on power is approaching a final, defining crisis.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/malcolm-turnbulls-fragile-grip-on-power-approaches-a-final-defining-crisis-20170804-gxpe3h.html
    Centrelink is at it again with intimidating letters, this time in league with the AFP.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/centrelink-accused-of-intimidating-clients-with-afp-letters-20170804-gxpait.html
    Phil Coorey concludes that the government is on course to become a “quivering blob by Christmas”. Google.
    /news/malcolm-turnbull-in-the-middle-of-a-factional-mess-over-climate-samesex-marriage-20170802-gxo850
    Wendy Squires reckons our spin doctors are as bad as Trump’s! Quite amusing.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/dont-laugh-too-hard-at-donald-trumps-spin-doctors–ours-are-just-as-bad-20170803-gxonjs.html
    Richard Ackland writes that the television spinoff of Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Taleis an allegory of life under a type of Abbott-Abetz-Andrews-Bernardi-Shelton totalitarian Christian theonomic regime, run by cold-hearted biblical nutters who have women enslaved and minorities cast into vats of bubbling oil.
    https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2017/08/05/gadfly-hardmans-tale/15018552005014
    What a rotten mess the CPA has gotten itself into!
    http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/2017/08/04/cpa-directors-resign/
    The White House has gone in hard on the culture of leaks, with four investigations started already.
    http://www.theage.com.au/world/arrests-made-as-the-us-triples-investigations-into-culture-of-leaks-20170804-gxpwxl.html

  17. Section 3 . . .

    A good contribution from Katharine Murphy on the now famous phone call.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/04/turnbulls-call-with-trump-pulls-back-the-curtain-and-its-not-a-pretty-sight
    Our country should drop its head in shame. and it’s all down to Abbott and his cohort of RWNJs and a weak prime minister.
    http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australias-carbon-pollution-soars-government-data-shows-20170804-gxpd71.html
    How Australia narrowly escaped two “sophisticated bomb plots”.
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/catastrophic-how-australia-narrowly-escaped-two-sophisticated-bomb-plots-20170804-gxpk4f.html
    The bomb materials came through the post, leaving authorities wondering how much more has come here this way.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/how-many-times-has-this-happened-border-force-faces-questions-over-terror-bomb-mailed-from-turkey-20170804-gxpqtw.html
    And airport workers at Perth and Canberra airports say there are serious security holes made worse by understaffing and cost-cutting. Hardly surprising.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/investigations/workers-point-to-security-flaws-at-canberra-and-perth-airports-20170803-gxousf.html
    Nick O’Malley says that after the leak of the Trump/Turnbull transcript no world leader will now feel safe in talking with the president.
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/donald-trump-call-transcript-reveals-little-new-but-it-confirms-a-great-deal-20170804-gxp9vi.html
    And following the leak the refugees in our hands are in deep despair.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/leaked-malcolm-turnbull-admission-to-donald-trump-leaves-refugees-in-despair-20170804-gxpluz.html
    Leaked records of Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Malcolm Turnbull reveal a dangerously scattered U.S. President and a coldly callous Australian Prime Minister.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/leaked-transcripts-reveal-trumps-crazy-approach-to-diplomacy,10574
    Tony Wright has some fun with the leak.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/malcolm-turnbull-gets-trumped-an-exclusive-from-inside-the-waterfront-mansion-20170803-gxp4r7.html

  18. Section 4 . . .

    Fake news is bad. Fake history is worse.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/04/fake-news-fake-history-turkey-china-rewrite-past
    The shady Netanyahu is in a bit of trouble.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/04/benjamin-netanyahu-suspect-fraud-investigation-israel-police
    Jack Waterford has penned a very good examination of the ICAC findings. It’s a long article well worth reading.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/icac-operation-credo-brings-out-textbook-villains-obeid-and-tripodi-20170804-gxphcn.html
    Alan Kohler writes ” The basic reason the National Broadband Network has gone pear-shaped — if not the full ¬pancake — apart from the fact there’s copper at the end of it ¬instead of fibre, is that the business has two conflicting mandates from its owner (us): to service everyone in the country and make a profit.” He says there are only three ways to make it work. Google.
    /business/opinion/alan-kohler/how-to-fix-nbn-take-your-pick/news-story/2923f9ab3e58a6661082359212308f06
    At the same time An internet service provider has broken ranks to blame its own industry for the slow download speeds being suffered by many customers of the National Broadband Network, as the Government calls in its watchdog to get to the bottom of a spike in complaints about the service. Google.
    /technology/isp-aussie-broadband-blames-own-industry-for-nbn-woes-20170804-gxpjnp
    A political storm is brewing as the NBN fails to connect with Australians. Slow speeds and poor performance are causing consumer complaints to soar while leading to others choosing not to sign up to what voters have been told is nation-building and transformative broadband technology. The rising dissatisfaction could lead to the NBN becoming a major issue at the next federal election if Communications Minister Mitch Fifield, and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are unable to address it.
    http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2017/08/04/nbn-customer-complaints/
    New York pharma giant Pfizer has engaged in a series of paper transactions to create artificial share capital and a $936 million loss in Australia. It is, for all intents and purposes, a billion dollar exercise in tax avoidance. Michael West reports.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/pfizers-billion-dollar-sham-audited-by-kpmg/
    Elizabeth Farrelly looks at the issue of the risks of social housing done on the cheap.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/social-housing-done-on-the-cheap-a-combustible-issue-20170803-gxog9w.html

  19. Section 5 . . .

    The Coalition Government spent years demonising Gillian Triggs for daring to prick their conscience on Australia’s abysmal recent human rights record. a seven years crucifixion no less.
    https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/gillian-triggs-human-rights-and-ideology,10573
    Jacqui Maley outlines the three reasons why the republic will get up one day.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-queens-interests-are-not-ours-three-reasons-why-the-republic-will-get-up-one-day-20170803-gxos68.html
    Anna Patty writes on the war on wages where Australians are working harder but going backwards. She has written a very well researched piece here.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace-relations/war-on-wages-australians-are-working-harder-and-going-backwards-20170803-gxoh9c.html
    Jess Irvine follows through with more supporting evidence. Shorten is on a winner with the inequality issue one would think.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-six-charts-that-prove-why-workers-are-feeling-the-pinch-20170803-gxp2ha.html
    Mike Seccombe on family trusts and tax dodges.
    https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/08/05/family-trusts-and-tax-dodges/15018552005022
    The SMH’s editorial rounds off this discussion and says business must play its part in turning things around.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/scope-for-wages-growth-but-business-needs-to-do-its-bit-20170804-gxpbll.html
    As the Victorian government makes the case for assisted dying legislation, a strategic campaign from social conservatives and religious groups hopes to torpedo the proposed amendments. Still, for politicians, the message on anti-euthanasia flyers can be read two ways: “Remember the life you save may be your own.”
    https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/08/05/the-assisted-dying-campaign-victoria/15018552005024
    The future of the Powerhouse Museum is proving to be quite a handful for the NSW government.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/powerhouse-in-the-state-government-firing-line-again-20170803-gxonag.html

  20. Section 6 . . . Cartoon Corner

    Jim Pavlidis and the SSM marriage breakup.

    Alan Moir and Trump’s legacy.

    Broelman farewells Laurie Oakes.

    As does Paul Zanetti.

    Cathy Wilcox and a very welcoming Border Force.

    Sean Leahy celebrates the end of the cricket pay saga.

    David Rowe is really into nudity these days as emperors shed their clothes.

    David Pope bemoans the plight of the political pawns on Manus Island.
    http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0
    Ron Tandberg and a political parallel.
    http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/ron-tandberg-20090910-fixc.html
    Mark Knight on the phone call leak.
    http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/2188115c510badc37fa865f0bbe8f27a?width=1024
    Jon Kudelka and the art of the (refugee) deal.
    http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/289ad0e54f4c998574c55fd31117dd14

  21. BK

    The White House has gone in hard on the culture of leaks, with four investigations started already.

    People will tut tut over this just because it is Trump but when it came to going hard on leakers Obamarama was THE champion. It was a regular complaint made against him

    If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama

    By JAMES RISENDEC. 30, 2016

    …….leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting, not to prosecute spies but to go after government officials who talked to journalists.

    Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal case

  22. The AFP and Centrelink letters.

    When I saw the first reports yesterday I just thought someone was dragging up old news, as often happens, especially on Twitter. Then I realised it was new outrage.

    This is not something new. The letters that were being sent out in January in the Robodebt debacle had the AFP logo on them too. This was the first time that logo appeared on Centrelink correspondence and it was and still is clearly intended to intimidate innocent people into assuming they have in some way committed fraud.

    If you can’t penalise people into abandoning their welfare payment then perhaps you can intimidate them until they decide it’s less stressful to live in a tent in Martin Place, eat food provided by charities and beg for small change than to put up with daily harassment by and constant intimidating letters from Centrelink and the AFP.

    Most of us never knew about the AFP/Centrelink alliance, because the media didn’t bother to tell us. The AFP and Centrelink joined to form ‘Operation Integrity’ aimed at cracking down on welfare fraud, in early 2016, that’s why the damn logo now appears. Is the cost of this alliance is far greater than the money actually clawed back from the dozen or so real, genuine welfare fraudsters in the country? I think we can all work out the answer with minimum effort.
    https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/social-media-helping-police-to-crack-down-on-centrelink-fraud/

    No wonder the AFP refused to investigate Alan Tudge and Robodebt!

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