The Big Budget Bribe.2018

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The 2018 Federal Budget will be announced tomorrow ( or what little parts already haven’t been) but a desperate Government hoping to bribe the voters into re-electing them.

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By all reports they are going to spend big on infrastructure as well as any other items the think will be looked upon favourably as well as giving tax cuts and other sweeteners immediately to the lower classes while the more affluent will have to wait a few years.

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Morrison and Mal are indeed trying to be Santa Claus. The hypocrisy is astounding by them as well as the complicate media,

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What happened to the DEBT AND DEFICIENT disaster   we were warned about day in and day out when it was much lower than what it is now? What about the Sovereign Risk to Australia,? WE were all going to be ruined unless it was bought back under control.

 

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This is the biggest bribe in place since Costello’s last one, which was the last trick to save their tired old Government from losing. This coming budget is about saving Turnbull/Morrison and the rest of Coalscums jobs.It will be talked up as brilliant by their sprukers and lickspittles , Labor will pillared from post to paddock if they don’t immediately agree to pass all the measures in the budget and then get out of the way and let the rightful rulers get on with their agenda with out question.

 

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Will the Public fall for it, or are they more savvy than given credit for?

Time will tell.

3,079 thoughts on “The Big Budget Bribe.2018”

  1. Last week Craig Laundy said Big Trev’s lies about his war service medal were probably due to “an administrative error”. That good old Coalition excuse dragged out yet again.

    It turns out the “administrative error” didn’t exist, it was Trev lying from the start. He had a chance to check the information he submitted before it was published on the Queensland parliament website. Trev signed off on it.

    Clerk quizzed after Big Trev medals claim
    Labirhas quizzed Clerk of the Parliament Neil Laurie over the checks made to biographical information about MPs uploaded to the Parliamentary website in the wake of revelations Longman LNP candidate Trevor Ruthenberg wrongly claimed he was awarded a distinguished military honour.

    The Courier-Mail revealed last week Mr Ruthenberg had listed on the parliamentary website and a personal website as well as the now defunct former Newman government website that he was awarded a distinguished Australian service medal rather than another Australian defence medal that is awarded to people who have completed four years of military service.

    He has since apologised for what he described as an “honest mistake”.

    Pine Rivers MP Nikki Boyd asked during this morning’s Budget Estimates session what process was followed before such information was uploaded.

    Mr Laurie told that the House MPs first filled out a form and then Parliament compiled that information into a document and sent it back to the MP for checking and sign-off.

    “We don’t publish anything until we send back to the member the first version or the amended versions and they sign off on it,” he said.

    Leader of Opposition Business Jarrod Bleijie took issue with the question.

    “Worried about the polls are you?” he interjected in reference to the Longman by-election this weekend.

    Committee chair Linus Power ruled it was in order and allowed it

    https://outline.com/Jh5Cbv

    And on another Big Trev lie –

  3. The way Buzzfeed and Fairfax are ramping up their reporting on Emma Husar is truly disgusting. Would anyone care if a male Liberal MP was under investigation by his own party? Of course not. Being female and Labor, winning a Liberal seat by a tiny margin and being a single mum as well means Ms Husar is an obvious target. To me it looks very much as if a disgruntled former staffer, probably sacked for being incompoetent, has decided to get revenge.

    Emma Husar has taken personal leave until things calm down. She says she has been threatened with violence, as have her children. There are some real scum out there.

    The internal investigation has been underway since March, but in what seems an incredibly convenient bit of timing the MSM have broken the story only over the last few days, at the same time as the LNP and Liberal candidates in Longman and Mayo are looking likely to lose.

    I’m not going to give links, I’ve been relying on Twitter to tell me all I need to know about this. I’m not giving clicks to grubs.However, I will post Ms Husar’s statement.

  4. Hadn’t thought about Gibraltar. Interesting

    Spain has warned the British government that a “cliff-edge” Brexit must be avoided for Gibraltar, with negotiations over the future of the Rock said to be stalling.

    The outcome of talks between Spain and the UK over the future of the British overseas territory will determine whether its residents enjoy the benefits of the transition period after Brexit, in which the UK will stay in the customs union and single market for an additional 21 months.

    The other 26 member states were given a veto in April 2017 when the EU published its guidelines on the Brexit negotiations.

    Madrid has maintained that veto over the last 15 months. Its minister, in a meeting last Friday with the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, along with the other EU member states, made a prolonged intervention on the issue.

    A senior EU diplomat said: “They said the talks with the UK were not going anywhere, there was a lack of engagement and they emphasised that the pressure should be maintained on the British government to talk productively with them. It was one of the reasons that the meeting on Friday was three hours long.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/24/gibraltar-spain-vents-frustration-with-uk-in-brexit-talks

  5. Corbyn says schools are not being properly funded. It is “grim” for head teachers who have to consider that they can’t do. If schools are not funded properly, children are failed.

    He says Labour would set up a national education service, and stop people having to pay fees for university or college.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/jul/24/brexit-dominic-raab-white-paper-growth-minimal-and-going-backwards-for-millions-of-poorer-families-says-thinktank-politics-live?page=with:block-5b56f9b8e4b09bbd5297c79d#block-5b56f9b8e4b09bbd5297c79d

  6. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.

    Millions are set to opt out of My Health Record as the backlash builds. I suspect there is quite a trust deficit in play.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/millions-to-opt-out-of-my-health-record-as-backlash-builds-20180724-p4ztb0.html
    Jennifer Wilson writes that it is extremely alarming to witness the Turnbull Government engage in a deliberate campaign of misinformation regarding who has access to our My Health Record data.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/turnbull-government-misinformation-on-my-health-record-data,11718
    Michael West angrily writes that hook, line and sinker. Mainstream media has swallowed the government’s latest PR stunt on tax as if it were the most unimpeachable of peer-reviewed scientific formulae. When it comes to rewriting political press releases, they’ve put Pravda in the shade.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/how-australian-media-put-pravda-in-the-shade/
    Christiane Barro says the Institute of Public Affairs is growing but the tank remains tight-lipped about its donors.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/07/24/ipa-membership-donors/
    Mtt O’Sullivan reveals that bungled technology projects that were supposed to slash expenses by centralising IT systems for the NSW’s transport agencies have, in fact, led to a surge in annual operating costs. Looks like it’s [part of an IT omnishambles.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bungled-it-projects-see-costs-blow-out-for-nsw-transport-agencies-20180706-p4zq0o.html
    Michelle Grattan has written about Emma Husar’s travails.
    https://theconversation.com/labor-mp-emma-husar-takes-personal-leave-as-party-investigates-conduct-towards-staff-100471
    Peter Hannam tells us that the final design report, produced by the Energy Security Board and sent to state governments this week, projects an emissions target that would be 97 per cent fulfilled before the NEG policy starts in 2021, leaving it with little work to do. So what’s the use?
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/electricity-plan-would-all-but-hit-emissions-goal-before-it-starts-20180724-p4zt8o.html
    Wavering Labor states have been warned that they will deny consumers lower power prices and spark a collapse in green energy investment if they fail to support Malcolm Turnbull’s signature electricity reform, in a final pitch to break the nation’s energy policy deadlock.
    https://outline.com/xATxUH
    Activist groups are intensifying efforts to persuade Australia’s states and territories to demand the 26% emissions reduction target in the national energy guarantee be ramped up, with new analysis suggesting jobs in renewable energy will be lost.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/25/renewables-jobs-at-risk-unless-emissions-reduction-target-ramped-up
    Paula Matthewson recons Shorten and Turnbull are test driving their general election strategies with Super Saturday.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/25/shorten-and-turnbull-test-drive-their-policies-for-the-next-federal-elections
    Nicholas Stuart has an excellent essay on the positive role of good journalism.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/in-pursuit-of-the-elusive-truth-whatever-that-may-be-20180724-p4ztcz.html
    The tangible reforms flowing from the royal commission into financial services took a big leg up this week with BT Financial Group becoming the first major superannuation platform to significantly cut its fees – by a staggering 40%!
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/bt-throws-a-curve-ball-at-an-already-shaken-super-industry-20180724-p4ztcb.html
    The Australian says that Pauline Hanson is at sea as her party drowns.
    https://outline.com/cSvhjA
    This SMH editorial wants court cases to be open to the media.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/keep-courts-open-to-the-media-20180724-p4zt9w.html
    Ivanka Trump’s clothing brand is shutting down.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/ivanka-trump-shuts-down-her-namesake-clothing-brand-20180725-p4ztek.html
    Ross Gittins has written about our social fragmentation.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/slaves-to-the-god-of-technology-20180724-p4zt7z.html
    Stephen Bartholomeusz tells us that Wesfarmers has done it just right with its excision of Coles.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-goldilocks-effect-wesfarmers-gets-coles-plan-just-right-20180724-p4zt9x.html
    A road congestion tax could replace car registration fees under a Melbourne City Council plan to manage the city’s worsening traffic – and it would cost even more at peak commuter times.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/no-rego-fee-no-petrol-tax-melbourne-council-in-user-pays-road-push-20180723-p4zt2x.html
    Jennifer Hewett writes that Australia’s foreign and defence ministers certainly appreciate that the presidency of Donald Trump has upended any real sense of comfort or certainty in the stability of the US alliance.
    https://outline.com/ngGrxU
    The health minister, Greg Hunt, was wrong to claim that patients’ My Health Record could only be accessed by police with a court order, according to advice from the parliamentary library.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/25/police-can-access-my-health-record-without-court-order-parliamentary-library-warns
    Have you heard about Afterpay?
    https://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/afterpay-a-great-innovation-but-the-shares-are-too-expensive-20180724-p4ztah.html
    The AFR editorial tells us that Kenneth Hayne’s focus on the ethical failings in Australia’s financial system echoes the efforts by Pope Francis to call out the allegedly immoral activity in global financial markets by high-frequency traders and speculators in complex interest rate derivatives.
    https://outline.com/npKZp2
    Jane Caro unloads on Channel Ten’s week of comedy pilots..
    https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/guys-this-isn-t-funny-20180724-p4ztaa.html
    Julie Bishop has used high-level meetings with her US counterpart, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to urge the Trump administration to exempt Australia from a potential 25 per cent tariff on automobile parts that would have a devastating effect on Australian manufacturers.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/australia-lobbies-trump-administration-for-auto-tariff-exemption-20180724-p4ztb6.html
    Magellan boss and Rich Lister Hamish Douglass is preparing for the possibility that the US 10-year Treasury yield breaks through 4 per cent in 12 to 18 months’ time, sparking a 30 per cent sell-off in global equities, should the US Federal Reserve find itself surprised by resurgent inflation.
    https://outline.com/U8Mmke

    Cartoon Corner

    David Rowe has another serve at Trump.

    Great work from Fiona Katauskas!

    A cracker from Peter Broelman.

    And here’s his Tuesday cartoon.

    Zanetti and Turnbull’s selfie.

    From the US.

    More from Mark Knight on AFL crowd behaviour.

    Jon Kudelka goes cruising with Porline.
    https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/229875e339fdac6dbdd7b2caa8759afa
    David Pope’s latest is a good one.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/act/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0.html
    More in here.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-july-25-2018-20180724-h133ms.html

  7. Wow, the abc is really going after Emma H, two news bulletins 15minutes apart. Anyone would think she had committed murder.

  9. Today’s “Well, derr!” moment –

    “Paula Matthewson recons Shorten and Turnbull are test driving their general election strategies with Super Saturday.”

    Well, who would have thought! What an original thought – NOT!.

    I don’t read Ms Matthewson’s wafflings, I don’tr know why anyone would. From that header I can understand that Ms M is just saying what everyone else has been saying for months. It’s pretty damn obvious, isn’t it, The Super Saturday campaigning shows us what we are in for once the real election campaign ramps up. I can’t say “starts” because it’s clear it has been going on for at least a year now. Labor is getting out there talking to voters, putting out policies, telling us how they will be paid for, and making promises, has been all year, while Turnbull, having no policies at all except for “give more to the wealthy”is running on fear and racism.

    As anyone with a bit of interest in politics would have worked out ages ago, that’s how the next election campaign will play out.

  10. Compare the Emma Husar feeding frenzy from the media with the “we don’t want to intrude” attitude the very same journalists showed during Barnaby’s cavortings. His carryings-on in his office became so unbearable for staff that the then chief of staff demanded he tell Turnbull about the affair and Ms Campion be moved out of the office. The Press Gallery knew about this and the pregnancy, as well as the other alleged pregnancy which ended with a staffer having an abortion, but deliberately kept quiet. They did not want voters in New England to turn away from the government in the New England by-election, especially not when a win was vital for their adored Turnbull. Two indie sites – True Crime Weekly and Independent Australia – released the story before that by-election, but the Press Gallery and the entire MSM stayed quiet until the electorate was safely back in government hands. Then, once the Daily Smelly went public with the pregnancy we endured a lot of “we cannot possibly comment on private matters”.

    Ms Husar has had no such concern shown for her privacy, not a shred of media protection or consideration. Maybe she is a dragon to work for, maybe she has been the victim of vengeful staff. We just don’t know, but surely she deserves the same level of protection from the MSM that Barnaby was given. Instead we have every article about her telling us she is a “single mother”. That alone is damning. For decades single mums have been demonised by governments and by the media. When a media story uses those words in a context like the stories about Ms Husar then it is a deliberate attempt to influence public opinion, to portray the object of media attention in the worst way. You might have noticed the MSM is not referring to Natalie Joyce as a single mother, although that is exactly what she now is. To do so would go against the “St Natalie” image the MSM is pushing.

    I think the government spin doctors and dirt file managers. desperate to win some votes in Mayo and Longman, and reeling from the revelations about Big Trev’s lies and Baby Fishnets’ disastrous polling have tried to find a Labor scandal to use as a last-minute weapon. They have trawled through everything and found nothing, all they could come up with was a quiet little inquiry into alleged office staff complaints about Emma Husar. We don’t know if the dirt unit has passed information to Buzzfeed, who started this rubbish, or if it came from a disgruntled former staffer, but every media busybody is now onto it like that proverbial rat up a drainpipe. Like blowflies, they are drawn to muck.

    I suspect the Liberal Party Dirt Unit is behind this because various ministers, including Dutton and Birmingham, have been very quick to give their thoughts to the media.

    If Ms Husar is guilty of bad behaviour (fancy asking a male staffer to wash dishes!) then is that a reason to boot her out of parliament? If she used an alleged $2000 worth of Comcars is that a criminal offence? Notice how the MSM are referring to “Luxury Comcars” and “Comcar limousines”, to make the crime sound even worse.

    If we are supposed to demand the sacking of Emma Husar for using Comcars then what about Julie Bishop’s constant rorting? If the same standard is applied to her she should be hung, drawn and quartered as well as forced to resign. Jules has charged us far more than $2000 worth of expenses. There’s her groupie-like stalking around the country of her favourite footie team, her “family expenses” for The Handbag, her taxpayer-funded flights to family events like her sister’s birthday party, the $30,000 VIP flight she ordered to take her and the not-my-partner from Perth to Canberra after a charity event and her trips to the Portsea Polo, but somehow she remains free of all media criticism. Once again we see yet another instance of “one strict rule for Labor, a different, far more lenient one for the Liberal Party”.

    The media pursuit of Emma Husar has the same stench about it as the Peter Slipper witch-hunt.

    • The Daily had a picture of a dog and a cage and Emma, with part of the heading: “A dog in a cage”. It’s shocking!!

  12. The PHON candidate for Longman, telling us how confident he is about Pauline being present on Saturday —

    “She will be on the polling booths and you can get a selfie.

    She will be there on the ground in Longman on Saturday with you. Come down and grab a photo with Pauline Hanson on the booth,”
    https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/one-nation-candidate-matthew-stephen-questioned-about-owing-money-to-subcontractors/news-story/da3f0e8b14d59805290f9819bd7ca73d

    She will need to have some sort of heavenly chariot or maybe the Tardis if she’s going to be in Longman on Saturday.

    There is a point to all this, just stick with me and we will get to it, or jump straight to the end, if you’d rather.

    Because I have time to waste on trivia and because I’m a sticky-beak I did some searching. I’m assuming Hanson told Bolt the truth about where she has been. I know, it’s dangerous to assume Hanson tells the truth, but maybe, just this once, that’s what she has done.

    The only cruise ship anywhere near Belfast Harbour around 23 July, when Bolt claims he spoke to Hanson, was the “Queen Elizabeth”, in port on 22 July as part of a two week cruise taking in parts of Scotland, Ireland and England. The ship had left Belfast and was on its way to Liverpool by the time Bolt spoke to Hanson.
    http://crew-center.com/belfast-cruise-ship-schedule-2018

    It fits with what we know of Hanson’s movements – disappeared just in time to hop on a plane to Europe to meet the ship, and in Scotland and Belfast at the right times according to what she told Bolt.
    https://www.cunardline.com.au/cruise-search/book-a-cruise/cruises/qu/2675-q821b-rtm1-rtm2/ports-and-excursions/

    So there you are – If I’m right the cruise doesn’t finish until 29 July. If Hanson has told the truth about her whereabouts, if she really is on that cruise, then she’s either going to have to jump ship early and fly home, or she will have to time travel to get to Queensland in time for Saturday’s voting.

    Hanson says she booked the trip back in February, which I believe. It’s timed to coincide with the long parliamentary winter break, politicians love to go overseas at this time. At the beginning of the year no-one knew there would be by-elections during the break. I just hope she isn’t planning on claiming her fare as expenses for a “study tour”. And – who is this “partner” Bolt and Stephen both mentioned? We haven’t heard of him before. Could there possibly be a man left in this country who would be daft enough to take up with Hanson?

    Here’s the point, after all that. Hanson has financed herself for twenty years through her parliamentary pension, now suspended while she is a senator, and more importantly, by running in elections, losing and pocketing the AEC funding she always gets for having the required number of votes. Her lovely cruise around the British Isles was financed by us, via her parliamentary pension, by her senatorial salary and by the buckets full of electoral funding she has received over the last twenty years. She doesn’t want to win in Longman, she just wants media attention and that precious funding. The constant focus on what she says and where PHON preferences will go is playing right into her hands. Her party will receive enough votes to give her a nice amount of electoral funding and somehow, as always, that money will find its way into her own bank account. This, people, is why she always chooses shitty candidates. She doesn’t want to win seats (except in the Senate, where seats give her power she does not deserve). She just wants the money.

  14. Reading an article about the ABC I came across this Menzies quote.Truffles would lead a long list of Coalition pollies about whom it could apply

    A Man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

  15. Just how dumb do they think we are?

  16. In contrast to the saturation coverage being given to Emma Hussar, this isn’t being reported anywhere but The Oz, and in Blot’s column today. Blot says it’s just an innocent “OK’ sign. Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he.

    Young LNP accused of posting white-power sign

    Labor has called on Malcolm Turnbull to launch an inquiry into “extremist behaviour” in the Liberal National Party after members of its youth branch were pictured giving an “OK” hand gesture, which can be associated with white supremacist movements.

    A group of Young LNP members were photographed alongside LNP senator James McGrath this month while campaigning in Longman, with some making the “OK” sign. The photo also was tweeted by Senator McGrath but later taken down.

    However, it had not been removed from the Young LNP Facebook page by deadline last night.

    LNP sources said Senator McGrath’s post was deleted because the photo contained a corflute with a message the party had not yet decided to use and did not want released. The hand ­gesture had not been noticed.

    The three fingers in the air are said to make a “W” while the sign turned upside down creates a “P”, for white power

    https://outline.com/Z56V9j

    https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1021899917495742465/_aObvA-n?format=jpg&name=600×314

  17. Health warning: very ugly picture

    Australia will not sign a United Nations migration agreement it helped negotiate “in its current form”, Peter Dutton has declared, insisting it is a matter of sovereignty.

    Confirming the contents of an article which appeared in the Australian earlier this week, the home affairs minister told Sydney radio 2GB that Australia would not sign the UN global compact for migration, which aims to address migration issues in a “safe, orderly and regular” way, if it stayed in its present incarnation.

    Australia has taken umbrage at parts of the final draft, which insist “migration detention” should only be used “as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/25/dutton-says-australia-wont-surrender-our-sovereignty-by-signing-un-migration-deal

  18. Just as well this chap isn’t going to be elected –

    Braddon candidate was declared bankrupt

    A candidate running in the Braddon by-election was declared bankrupt in 2008 and is unlikely to be eligible to sit in parliament.

    Court records show Australian People’s Party candidate Bruno Strangio was declared bankrupt a decade ago – undischarged bankrupts are ineligible to sit in parliament.

    Mr Strangio was one of 13 candidates across five by-elections who refused to sign optional forms setting out how they are eligible to enter parliament if they win.

    Comment is being sought from Mr Strangio

    https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/5547210/braddon-candidate-was-declared-bankrupt/?cs=7

    This party is running candidates in all of this weekend’s by-elections, which is more than can be said about the Liberal Party.
    http://australianpeoplesparty.com/

    Here’s a thought. If Braddon goes down to the wire with a few votes deciding the win, and preferences from this allegedly ineligible candidate give the winning candidate the numbers needed, then would there be a legal challenge from the losing side?

  21. Yet another collapse event at Kilauea summit – but worth watching to see the effects of the sound pressure wave on the steam plume:

    A collapse event occurred at the summit of Kīlauea this morning (July 24, 2018) at 6:41 a.m. HST, releasing energy equivalent to a magnitude-5.3 earthquake, which is similar to that released by previous collapse events. In this video, watch as today’s event unfolds from the perspective of HVO’s live-stream camera. At 6:41:08 (time stamp at upper left), a small tree along the right margin of the video begins to sway. At 6:41:10, a pressure wave passes through the steam plume in the crater, and light is reflected back to the camera (highlights the passage of the expanding sound energy through the air. At 6:41:11, a rockfall begins on the South Sulphur Banks, a distant light-colored scarp on the left.

    https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/multimedia_uploads/multimediaFile-2489.mp4#video

    It reminds me somewhat of this video, where an Atlas V rocket, carrying the Solar Dynamics Observatory, disrupted a “sundog” (parhelion):

    Shock waves from the rocket scattered the orderly, hexagonal ice crystals; this is a fantastic site for everything atmospheric:
    http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/dogfm.htm

    • Pele has her sights set on the boat ramp at Isaac Hale (pronounced Ha-lee) Park:

  23. Barnaby Joyce, anyone?

    Bill Shorten has pleaded for space as the investigation into Emma Husar’s treatment of staff continues, declaring the western Sydney MP to be a “good person”.

    Husar announced she would take personal leave on Tuesday night, saying the publication of the investigation into her behaviour and treatment of staff, first reported by Buzzfeed, led to “threatening messages including threats of violence”, which she has referred to police.

    “I’m a single mum and my first priority is the safety and wellbeing of my children,” she said in the statement announcing her leave.

    “The best thing for me and my family right now is for us to be out of the spotlight, so I can access support.”
    Labor MP Emma Husar takes personal leave after bullying allegations take toll
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    Among the allegations, which are being investigated by barrister John Whelan who has been engaged by the NSW Labor party, are Husar’s staff faced bullying, harassment and verbal abuse, and were made to perform tasks outside of their usual duties, including picking up after her dog.

    Shorten, who said he was not made aware of the investigation until last Wednesday, said he would wait until the investigation was complete before looking at what action to take.

    “But let me go to the heart of where I think your question is going,” he said at a Caboolture press conference, where he was repeatedly pressed on the issue.

    “First of all, I think that Emma Husar is a good person. I certainly think that she’s going through a very tough time. I also think that other people have a right to fair treatment in the workplace and respectful relationships.

    “What Emma has done, is she is putting her family first with all of this attentions. She’s going to take a little bit of leave – that’s not unprecedented – and I think that’s the appropriate course of action.

    “Having said that, I do think that people are entitled to respectful workplaces and respectful treatment. Clearly, there are complaints, and so there are protocols in place and there is an independent investigation.

    “Emma has been through a pretty tough family law process. That doesn’t make her an unusual person. What is hard to see, is the personal distress dragged out publicly.”

    Network Seven broadcast vision of one of Husar’s staff members picking up after her dog during a walk on Tuesday night. Shorten did not explain why the animal was at her electorate office, but said it was not just a pet.

    “The reason why I did choose to explain a little bit about Emma Husar’s circumstances is that she’s a single parent – one of her kids is diagnosed with and living with autism,” he said.

    “The animal is a part of her son’s therapy and treatment.

    “I suspect there’s more to this whole situation, and if I can, perhaps, just indulge you with one point here – there’s been a lot of family law stuff dredged out and circulating, I’m finding out in the last day or so.

    “I don’t know if any of you have ever been through a messy breakup, and this doesn’t excuse any waste of taxpayer money and doesn’t excuse anything else. But I do get the sense that there is more to this situation than meets the eye. That is why I actually think it’s respectful to all the complainants, to Emma Husar and her family, to let an independent investigation take place.”

    Labor figures have by and large fallen behind Husar with support, with Anthony Albanese and Mike Kelly both publicly defending the Lindsay MP.

    Government MPs have called on Husar to be sacked, if the investigation finds against her, with Simon Birmingham saying Shorten must show leadership on the issue.

    “If any of the allegations are true, then Emma Husar has no place on Bill Shorten’s team,” Birmingham told ABC radio.

    “He should go to Sydney and dismiss her as an MP, disendorse her as a candidate and ensure that he takes responsibility for a member of his team where the allegations are clear, that they have been doing the wrong thing with their taxpayer funded staff.”

    The workplace minister, Craig Laundy, encouraged Husar’s staff to take any of their claims to the fair work ombudsman, telling Sky News he did not believe it was “appropriate” for parliamentarian staff to be performing domestic duties.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/25/emma-husar-is-a-good-person-and-needs-space-bill-shorten-says

    • Fracking journalists and their weasel words. Dragging in Albo (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, we know what’s being hinted at there) and quoting government ministers who should not know a thing about what happens in a Labor MP’s office, unless the leaking is coming from their offices.

  24. Dutton would have sent in his Black Shirts

    A lone student activist on board a plane at Gothenburg airport has prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden by refusing to sit down until the man was removed from the flight.

    Elin Ersson, whose Facebook page says she is a student at Gothenburg University, bought a ticket for the flight from Gothenburg to Turkey after she and other asylum activists found out that a young Afghan was due to be deported on it, according to Swedish press reports.

    As she entered the plane Ersson started to live-stream her protest in English. The video received more than half a million hits on Tuesday.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/swedish-student-plane-protest-stops-mans-deportation-afghanistan

  25. More for Mueller to chew on

    Donald Trump can be heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how to purchase the rights to former Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story about her alleged affair with Trump, in a recording obtained by CNN.

    The tape, which aired late Tuesday, was released to the network and public for the first time by Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, who argued that its contents proved his client tried to handle the payment legally whereas Trump instead sought to pay in cash.

    The conversation took place in September of 2016, two months before the presidential election.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/24/michael-cohen-trump-tape-karen-mcdougal-payment

  26. Still having fun

    Quite early in the Brexit process Theresa May declared that no deal would be better than a bad deal. Critics in the UK said she was wrong (on the grounds that no deal would be a very bad deal indeed), this rhetoric was deemed unhelpful in Brussels, and for a while the government toned down the no deal talk. But last week May announced the government would be publishing around 70 papers with information about no deal planning and yesterday, at two separate select committees, Dominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, and Matt Hancock, the health secretary, revealed that the government was considering how to guarantee food and medical supplies in the event of a no deal Brexit.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/jul/25/brexit-uk-cannot-afford-not-to-have-a-deal-says-irish-government-politics-live

    I can’t see anyone wanting May’s job before Brexit is resolved.

  27. Listening to 7.5.

    Seems Twitter Boy and Malfeasance have a good relationship.

    Perhaps because Mal the Coward has never done anything but agree with him and never say an unkind word.

    Mr Turnbull repeatedly stressed that Mr Trump did not have to actually accept any of the individuals on Nauru or Manus Island to honour the deal, saying he only had to vet them for resettlement.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-04/donald-trump-told-malcolm-turnbull-refugee-deal-was-stupid/8773368

  28. The whole point of organising a charity fundraiser, be it a ball, a dinner or just a school fete, is to make money, not to spend money.

    There were only three donations on this night – a big one for $1000 and three much smaller ones of $50 each, proving that nobody sponges like the rich. Next time – if there is a next time – the organisers should skip the tight-fisted “celebrities” and just invite plebs.

    Jules was there, with, of course, The Handbag. I bet she didn’t donate a cent.

    Powerhouse Museum uses public money to prop up fashion fundraiser, FOI reveals
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-25/powerhouse-museum-uses-public-money-to-prop-up-fashion-party/10026264

    • Despite the reported success, the museum — which posted a $10 million deficit last year — is not planning to repeat the extravagant event.

      Jewels is looking younger every day. Nice dress. Pity about the contents.

    • In March, Minister for the Arts Don Harwin told parliament the so-called MAAS Ball — named after the Powerhouse Museum’s new name, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences — raised more than $70,000.

      And why change a well-known and respected name?

  29. Someone who would be right at home with Dutton’s mob

    The centre right thinktank Policy Exchange has published a report today saying the law on treason should be updated so that it can be applied to jihadis. The Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat is one of the co-authors of the report, and here is a summary of what it says.

    The authors recommend that:

    Parliament should enact a new offence which would revive the law of treason and recognise that betrayal – treason – is a clear moral wrong.

    This would specify that it is an offence to aid a state or organisation that is attacking the UK or preparing to attack the UK or against which UK forces are engaged in armed conflict.

    This should apply to the actions of anyone in the UK; it should also apply to the actions of British citizens or settled non-citizens anywhere in the world.

    In most cases, people convicted of treason should be sentenced to life imprisonment, a sentence which reflects the gravity of the wrong of betrayal, deters others, and incapacitates the offender.

    At a minimum, parliament should reform our law to follow Australia and New Zealand and thus make it clear that it is unlawful to aid the enemy either in an international armed conflict or in a non-international armed conflict.

    But the Conservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman (originally a Ukip MEP, but he defected in 2011) thinks this does not go far enough. He says a new treason law should also cover those “actively working undemocratically” against the UK “through extreme EU loyalty”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/jul/25/brexit-uk-cannot-afford-not-to-have-a-deal-says-irish-government-politics-live#comments

  31. I’m not sure this is the best time for Daddy Fishnets to be saying stuff like this, not when Baby Fishnets is failing dismally at winning the Fishnets Feudal Kingdom back from the commoners.

    How Australia avoids the West’s populist contagion

    It was me who came up with the plan to use Nauru to try to stop people smugglers circumventing our immigration policy. It’s not been a perfect solution. I accept there have from time to time been problems there. But it has maintained the integrity of our immigration policy

    https://www.afr.com/opinion/columnists/how-australia-avoids-the-wests-populist-contagion-20180722-h12zj0

    He said that on Sunday, i suppose he’s hoping the good voters of Mayo have goldfish-like attention spans.

  33. Dale Carnegie wrote a book …

    Donald Trump issued a fresh threat to the EU hours before a meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker at the White House, where the European commission president is to make a last-ditch effort to avert a transatlantic trade war.

    In a tweet, the US president suggested that it was the EU that stood in the way of free trade, and that his tough talk was forcing Brussels to the negotiating table.

    The US administration has already applied high tariffs to EU steel and aluminium exports, and is embroiled in a trade war with China.

    Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose further tariffs on European cars being imported into the US over a perceived imbalance in trade between the two economic blocs.

    The US president tweeted: “Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that — and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great!”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/25/tariffs-greatest-tweets-trump-before-meeting-juncker-eu

  34. As Hyacinth would say: leave it, leave it. (as in don’t fix it)

    Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been destroyed again.

    Local reports suggested a pickaxe had been used to obliterate the pink stone star.

    The marker was previously damaged in 2016.

    The terrazzo and brass star was installed at 6801 Hollywood Blvd, near the Dolby Theatre where the Oscars are held.

    It was laid in in 2007 to mark Mr Trump’s lengthy stint hosting The Apprentice.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-pick-axe-los-angeles-a8463001.html

    • I have noticed a preponderance of purple shirts when Mr Turnbull [visits/is seen with] people who might be considered “poor”.
      A quick google for “meaning” suggests:

      Combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. Conveys wealth and extravagance.

      I’m not sure whether I hope it is an unconscious colour choice or if someone is trying to send a message …?

    • I’m certain he is trying to tell us he is much, much better than everyone else on the planet, royalty included.

      From what I’ve read about him he has had these delusions since he was a kid.

  37. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.

    Leyonhjelm has written an op-ed in which he boasts how tough he is.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/david-leyonhjelm-when-i-step-out-of-my-suite-it-s-game-on-20180725-p4ztge.html
    This farmer tells us why the Nationals must accept and adapt to climate change.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nationals-must-accept-and-adapt-to-climate-change-20180720-p4zspc.html
    Madonna King asks, “What does Bill Shorten have to do to be liked? Is it his short hair that has voters shunning him in droves? Or his socks? His voice?”
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-perception-of-bill-shorten-that-won-t-go-away-20180725-p4ztm8.html
    John Warhurst says that Super Saturday is likely to to be an unpredictable a game-changer.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/super-saturday-to-be-an-unpredictable-a-game-changer-20180724-p4ztdh.html
    Mark Kenny reckons there is a truce in sight in the climate war but has wonders what price Turnbull will pay.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/truce-in-sight-on-climate-wars-but-what-price-peace-for-the-pm-20180725-p4ztj3.html
    The Australian’s Ben Packham reports that a hardened federal Labor has condemned Malcolm Turnbull’s national energy guarantee, declaring its “pathetic’’ emissions cuts will stifle renewable energy investment, threatening to extend a decade-long policy deadlock that has sent electricity prices soaring.
    https://outline.com/c3LdbK
    David Crowe writes that leader Pauline Hanson has run out of time to sway thousands of Australians in the Queensland seat of Longman, with up to 34,000 votes already decided while she has been on a luxury cruise in the British Isles.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/ship-sails-on-thousands-of-votes-as-pauline-hanson-stays-away-20180725-p4ztlt.html
    Peter van Onselen says that if the Longman and Braddon results are close, but see Labor’s candidates returned to parliament, a lot of the credit can go to grassroots efforts to inflict damage on opponents and maximise the preferences flowing its way — either by discrediting minor party opponents or diddling up to third parties who might send preferences Labor’s way.
    https://outline.com/hT4L9k
    Michael Koziol on Abbott’s latest intemperate outburst (on 2GB of all places!) on African migrants.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/there-is-a-problem-tony-abbott-questions-all-african-immigration-amid-gang-violence-debate-20180725-p4ztmh.html
    This is a world I want no part of. Mesma seems quite at home in it though.
    https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/she-should-go-calls-for-powerhouse-museum-director-to-resign-over-fashion-ball-20180711-p4zqs1.html
    Recruiter Andrew Hanson explains where the skill shortages are how we are relying on migration.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/immigration-the-answer-to-ending-turf-war-over-workers-20180725-p4ztim.html
    The by-election campaign for the federal seat of Mayo has been “very dirty” but nothing less than she expected, Centre Alliance candidate Rebekha Sharkie has claimed.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/sa/2018/07/25/by-election-dirty-rebekha-sharkie/
    Michael Pascoe explains why household debt is not as scary as it’s made out to be.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/finance-news/2018/07/24/household-debt-overstated/
    Ian Harper writes that Australians will need to get used to the idea of paying for how much they use public roads, or risk getting stuck with an unfair system that favours city-dwellers and the wealthy.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/current-system-of-paying-for-roads-will-unfairly-benefit-tesla-drivers-20180723-p4zt1p.html
    A damning assessment of the $50 billion National Broadband Network by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has added pressure on the Turnbull government to write off billions of dollars of its investment in the broadband network. Ouch!!
    https://outline.com/gYYBV4
    Jennifer Hewett says Turnbull will pay dearly for this debacle.
    https://outline.com/hM4aGD
    The SMH editorial says the latest data shows the fizz has really gone out of Sydney’s housing market but braver home buyers might draw the conclusion that now is perhaps a much better time to buy than a year ago.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/home-buyers-must-keep-their-cool-20180725-p4zthb.html
    Greg Hunt’s claims that a warrant will be required to access My Health Record has been contradicted for the second time in two days – this time by the Queensland Police Union.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/26/my-health-record-greg-hunts-warrant-claims-contradicted-by-police-union
    Industrial gas buyers are angrily warning of large-scale plant closures and job losses and have renewed calls for the federal government to curb LNG exports from Queensland after a warning that east coast gas prices are heading north whether import terminals are built or not.
    https://outline.com/Lf6Z3d
    A return to more-normal monetary policy settings was pushed further into the future, as inflation growth fell short for a record seventh consecutive quarter.
    https://outline.com/L4k6HP
    Dog whistle politics are great at playing on people’s fears and anxieties but not so good at solving any problems. Santilla Chingaipe says ,“Instead of ‘African gangs’, let’s discuss the complex causes of youth crime.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/instead-of-african-gangs-lets-discuss-the-complex-causes-of-youth
    Ross Garnaut has a good look at what he thinks will happen in China over the next decade.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/ross-garnaut-the-future-of-chinese-economic-growth/
    Australia now spends 1.88 per cent of GDP on research and development, well below the OECD average of 2.38 per cent. And for the first time since records have been kept, OECD figures show that Australia’s business R&D declined in 2015-16.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/worrying-trend-in-australian-research-and-development-20180705-p4zpnh.html
    According to the UK Guardian there is no point in handing over the Brexit decision from a deadlocked parliament to a deadlocked public, again.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/25/second-brexit-referendum-toxic-waste-time
    Tony Featherstone explains how a lot of clueless companies are creating cybercrime risks for customers.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/clueless-companies-create-cybercrime-risk-for-customers-20180725-p4ztkd.html
    Victoria police chief Graham Ashton backed the right of priests to retain the seal of the confessional over mandatory reporting of child sex offending in explosive answers to the inquiry that sparked the national abuse royal commission.
    https://outline.com/mUG4d8
    Bloomberg says the Trump Brand is hurting – just ask Ivanka.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/international-pariah-the-trump-brand-is-hurting-just-ask-ivanka-20180725-p4ztfh.html
    This university heavy says robocalls are simply not working.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/hello-this-is-your-byelection-candidate-calling-20180724-p4zt90.html
    Jonathan Freedland writes that the latest Trump scandal would have destroyed any other president.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/25/trump-scandal-president
    Lithium mining and processing is taking off in WA.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/batteries-charge-516-million-investment-in-wa-lithium-mine-20180725-p4ztj7.html
    The Independent Australia reveals that deportations of New Zealand citizens convicted or simply accused of crimes in Australia, but with no genuine connection to their country of citizenship, have become commonplace in the activities of the Home Affairs Department.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/duttons-venal-policies-turn-on-closest-neighbour-new-zealand,11722
    Australia Post is responding to the large increase in online shopping by rolling out big investments in parcel processing.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/australia-post-s-mega-machine-part-and-parcel-of-modern-christmas-rush-20180725-p4ztgz.html
    Queensland koalas have been translocated under the guise of “scientific purposes” without any evidence of resultant scientific studies.
    https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/the-big-koala-extinction-cover-up,11723
    The Coalition government’s order fulfilling Barnaby Joyce’s promise to move the pesticides authority to his electorate may be invalid following a decision to keep a fifth of its staff in Canberra, Labor says.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/apvma-change-may-have-invalidated-order-to-move-north-labor-20180725-p4ztj6.html
    A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Trump’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of unconstitutionally accepting gifts from foreign and state governments through his Washington hotel while occupying the White House. US District Judge Peter Messitte’s decision clears the way for the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia, who brought the case, to pursue interviews with Trump Organisation employees and review financial records to learn if the president broke the law.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/north-america/historic-decision-judge-greenlights-emoluments-case-against-trump-20180726-p4ztnf.html
    The ACCC has launched Federal Court proceedings against Europcar in its first legal action under laws banning companies from imposing excessive surcharges on customers paying with credit and debit cards.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/finance-news/2018/07/25/credit-card-accc-europcar/
    Sacha Baron Cohen has claimed the political scalp of this Republican idiot.
    https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/us-politician-to-resign-in-wake-of-who-is-america-pants-dropping-debacle-20180725-p4ztmu.html

    Cartoon Corner

    An artistic contribution from David Rowe.

    Great work from Alan Moir!

    It must be payday at News Ltd judging from this Zanetti effort.

    Cathy Wilcox reminds us.

    Sean Leahy has had enough of the current climate in Queensland.

    David Pope hits the mark with this one.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/australia-post-s-mega-machine-part-and-parcel-of-modern-christmas-rush-20180725-p4ztgz.html
    More in here.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-july-26-2018-20180725-h134z3.html

  38. Bey you can’t guess which newspaper this headline is in ?

    The brutal dark side to stopping the boats

    Dutton’s asylum stance combines fearmongering and dog-whistling, without a drop of humanity. What’s never mentioned is the men who have died in detention,

    Pay walled and Outline comes up with an ‘Error Page’ message. Which as it turns out is very LOL appropriate. The article is from the Daily Telegraph ! Definitely there by error 🙂
    https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/the-brutal-dark-side-to-stopping-the-boats/news-story/6b0174b11b2be794c6a05d1510f2a4ef

  39. Thanks Leone. The Daily Telegraph and 2GB ‘demographics’ would see the article as a puff piece promoting Dutton 🙂 😦

    • They’d see it as promotion of Dutton’s “strength” – but only if they could read the big words. Not many of them would be able to manage that.

      It’s a fabulous article. Syvret covers everything including the deaths resulting from our boat turnback policy.

  40. The other day there was this, in The Guardian –

    Australia sailed asylum seekers to remote reef to prevent them accessing mainland
    By sending asylum seekers to Ashmore Reef, government wanted to ensure boat arrivals could be legally detained offshore
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/24/australian-customs-deliberately-sailed-asylum-seekers-via-ashmore-reef

    Labor’s hands are just as bloodstained as the government’s when it comes to shameful treatment of asylum seekers. No wonder Labor politicians don’t want to talk about the issue.

  41. This is big!

    Nine Entertainment Co (Channel 9) and Fairfax Media are to merge.

    https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_5813844868001

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-26/fairfax-and-nine-announce-merger/10037712

  42. There goes the neighbourhood

    Nine Entertainment has announced a takeover of Fairfax Media in a surprise deal worth an estimated $4bn.

    The merger, which the television network claims will create Australia’s largest integrated media player, was announced to the stock market on Thursday.

    Nine will acquire all of Fairfax’s shares and take a controlling 51.1% share in the new business, which will be called NEC.

    The cash and scrip deal represents a 21.9% premium to Fairfax’s closing share price of 77c on Wednesday.

    It will also “review the scope and breadth” the newly merged business with job losses expected at Fairfax in backroom roles such as finance and human resources.

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/26/fairfax-and-nine-network-agree-to-merge-in-estimated-4bn-deal

  44. Thank you, Nick! Not!

    Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff has expressed his support for the takeover, after his party helped usher in media law changes in 2017.

    The Nick Xenophon Team, as it was then known, was crucial in passing the reforms that made this merger possible. At the time, they traded their vote for a $60m “innovation fund” to support regional journalism. All eyes will be on Fairfax’s regional newsrooms to see whether the NXT’s deal results in a net good or harm.

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2018/jul/26/fairfax-to-lose-name-and-control-in-4bn-takeover-by-nine-network-live

    • No-one seems to know when the Sky/WIN thing will happen, just “later this year”.

      It’s not going to have anything to do with the Fairfax/Nine merger anyway, Nine has nothing to do with WIN. WIN hooks up with Channel 10.

      This might be an interesting development to keep an eye on, although it will only be shown on Foxtel. Maybe some of the Fairfax journalists will get some work there.

      Nine Entertainment Co and Sky join forces for 24-hour business channel
      https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/nine-entertainment-co-and-sky-join-forces-for-24-hour-business-channel-20180601-p4zizu.html

      Just a bit of myth-busting –
      There’s an idiotic idea floating around Twitter that says Nine is owned by Murdoch. It isn’t. It’s just another Twitter myth that people keep on accepting and retweeting because they are too stupid to do a few seconds worth of Googling.

    • I also meant to say this – Foxtel has been trying to find ways to get into free-to-air TV for quite a long time, the WIN deal is the first deal organised.

  47. A few people guessed that might happen, it’s on Wayback Machine
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180725071831/https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/FlagPost/2018/July/Law_enforcement_access_MHR_data

  50. From Tony Burke:

    The next Labor Government will ban super trawlers. In 2012 the FV Margiris tried to fish in Australian waters, there was no environmental power at the time able to stop it. Labor changed the law and then the ship left Australian waters.

    Super trawlers have been an issue in a massive fishery called the Small Pelagic Fishery. It’s bait fish which provide essential food for so many of the larger fish of the ocean. A super trawler risks localised depletion which has knock-on effects for all other marine life.

    The next Labor Government will ban all super trawlers from this fishery regardless of their length.

    Our ocean needs protecting so it can be restored to health. The last thing we should be doing is welcoming these massive vessels which simply vacuum everything in sight.

    Please click here for more detail on the announcement.
    [ https://www.tonyburke.com.au/get-active/bansupertrawlers ]

    Tony.

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