It is with great pleasure that Inform Pubsters that Leonetwo and TLBD have agreed to take over management duties of THE PUB
THE PUB needs a more hands on team that I can offer now and I can’t think of 2 other people that are more suited to this than Leone and The Duck.
I am sure that they will continue THE PUBS traditions of respect ,information and fun that has the made it a popular place with all Pubsters.
I along with all of you I’m sure look forward to their first posts and wish them all the best in their stewardship of THE PUB
My Thanks go to Fiona and Bushfirebill for their valuable contributions to THE PUB over the years.
I will still be around as a occasional contributor
I’m sure you all wish them well and will forgive any minor mishaps during the transition.
THE PUB 
About Sussan Ley and Sarah Henderson voting against the debate on live sheep exports –
It was very clever of ScumMo to put both women into his ministry as assisaant ministers. That ensured they would not be able to vote against the government should there be a debate on live sheep exports. ScumMo, or more likely one of his wormtongue advisers, knnew this debate would be moved as soon as parliament returned and whispered to the boss about ways to kill it off.
Solidarity among ministers is just a convention, not a rule, but it makes it very unlikely any minister or assistant minister would cross the floor during a vote.
Whether or not Ley and Henderson still want to stop live exports is something no-one seems to have asked them. Someone should ask.
They put out a statement. Labor’s fault, it would seem (stop me if you’ve heard that before)
Labor’s actions today were a disingenuous attempt to disrupt parliament masquerading behind the cause of animal welfare.
As members of the ministry, it is no longer open to us to support any Private Member’s Bill or the Bill passed by the Senate today.
Our personal conviction on this issue remains and we will continue to advocate for a change in Coalition policy and for a phase out of this awful trade.
The Private Member’s Bill we introduced on 21 May 2018 to phase out long haul live sheep exports is currently being debated in the House of Representatives.
Combined with advocacy from many thousands of Australians, we are pleased our strong stand along with the minister for agriculture’s determination to hold the regulator to account, has resulted in the shutting down of the industry’s biggest offender. The impending release of the Moss Review provides the government with a further opportunity to impose tough new rules relating to live exports.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/sep/10/scott-morrison-bill-shorten-coalition-labor-dutton-politics-live
I thought their bill was withdrawn?!
Their bill was withdrawn. The one being debated today was moved in the Senate by the Greens’ Derryn Hinch & Tim Storer, this morning.
Some journalist needs to take them to task for these women to task for their dishonesty. Or for their stupidity in thinking we would fall for their lies. Or both.
Someone should certainly ask, Leone. I am sure, however, that both MPs would respond with weasel (or stoat) words.
Leone, do you think this is where ScumMo sends his daughters?
De La Salle Catholic College Cronulla
Nope.
He would never, ever send his kids to a Catholic school. Pentecostalists see the Catholic church as an abomination.
He sends his kids to a Baptist school. The only one i can find in the Shire is this one –
https://www.inaburra.nsw.edu.au/
Leone and Ducky, my sincerest congratulations on your new enterprises. I hope you have as much fun – and education – as I have enjoyed over several exciting years.
Thank you, kind lady.
I’m not sure what we have got ourselves into yet.
And I thnak you too, Kind lady.
Hi Fiona
I am glad to see you here again. You contribute interesting perspectives on issues.
I suppose this will be talked up as a major win for ScumMo – a one point rise for the government in tomorrow’s Essential.
Tonight’s QandA is brilliant.
I thought Penny Wong would be the start: she isn’t: the two blokes and the girl are.
Jones did well, really well.
We just watched it on iview, it was excellent. Let us hope for a change in government before these kids are crushed by this mob so called running Australia.
Fiona,
I think a Wagga Wagga by-bye post may be imminent.
Leone?
Sounds good to me.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Here are all the details of the latest Essential poll.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/11/voters-punish-coalition-over-leadership-change-in-guardian-essential-poll
Phil Coorey writes that Labor will take the National Energy Guarantee or something similar to the next federal election as business and industry clamoured for certainty and new data showed power prices had jumped since the NEG was scrapped.
https://outline.com/TmsnbD
Tony Wright on that unanswerable question put to Morrison. Why?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-this-simple-query-to-the-coalition-remains-unanswered-possibly-because-it-is-unanswerable-20180910-p502ws.html
Michelle Grattan writes that Wentworth looks scary for the Liberals who are having trouble explaining why they sacked a PM.
https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-wentworth-looks-scary-for-liberals-having-trouble-explaining-why-they-sacked-a-pm-102940
Paul Bongiorno reckons Morrison is counting on voter amnesia.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/09/10/pm-morrison-voter-amnesia/
Eryk Bagshaw reports on how the RBA has warned that Australian households and the financial system are over exposed to an economic shock with the country’s debt levels rocketing to the top of global standings.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/a-problem-for-one-is-likely-a-problem-for-all-rba-sounds-australian-debt-warning-20180910-p502uv.html
And Stephen Bartholomeusz concludes this worrying contribution with “The central banks may (or may not) have averted another Depression by kicking the can down the road with their post-crisis policies but their decision to prioritise the maintenance of economic growth above all else means they have created a new complacency, a new set of risks and the potential for a new, albeit different, outbreak of financial and economic stress.”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/one-word-that-created-the-gfc-shockwave-is-on-everyone-s-lips-again-20180910-p502ud.html
Greg Jericho tells us how the Parliamentary Budget Office has very clearly shown the government’s sales pitch for the income tax cuts to be false. He says the PBO has shown that the tax cuts are overwhelmingly targeted towards giving the wealthiest the biggest cut.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2018/sep/11/dont-believe-the-marketing-the-biggest-tax-cut-are-not-for-middle-australia
Karen Maley reports that the Hayne royal commission began its latest round of hearings with a tawdry tale of unchecked greed and duplicity that would make even a banker blush. And it didn’t even make much money for the perpetrator, the financial group ClearView.
https://outline.com/chYaSN
The SMH tells us that Dutton pressed then Customs chief Roman Quaedvlieg to help two Queensland policemen get jobs in the new Border Force agency Mr Dutton was setting up – a revelation set to escalate the political furore surrounding Mr Dutton’s decisions as immigration minister. Quaedvlieg is playing a blinder.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-asked-quaedvlieg-to-help-his-mate-get-a-border-force-job-20180910-p502vm.html
Fergus Hunter reports that Dutton has released fresh evidence that confirms a pre-existing relationship with a former colleague who asked him for help with a detained au pair, while still strongly rejecting claims he misled Parliament over the saga.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/peter-dutton-releases-email-shedding-new-light-on-au-pair-saga-20180910-p502xb.html
The SMH editorial comes out strongly, saying that rather than focusing on threats at the margins Morrison would do better to spread a positive message about Australia’s strong record of religious tolerance.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/please-explain-how-is-religious-freedom-under-threat-20180910-p502v0.html
And Geoff Thompson says that Scott Morrison’s claim to be ‘on God’s side’ is fraught with danger.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/scott-morrisons-claim-to-be-on-gods-side-is-fraught-with-danger
Elizabeth Knight explains how National Australia Bank has a new product for sale – it’s called trust. Its decision to separate itself from the banking pack and not increase mortgage rates won’t deliver customer trust, but it might buy it some market share.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/can-national-australia-bank-buy-trust-and-at-what-cost-20180910-p502ti.html
John Passant says the massive voter desertion of the Liberal Party in the previously safe seat of Wagga Wagga will take some explaining.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/wagga-waggas-message-for-the-morrison-muppet-show,11873
The Australian gas market sits once again on the cusp of government intervention as the nation’s two major political parties appear determined to go head-to-head over energy prices rather than focus on the fundamentals of supply that actually shape what the nation is paying. Canavan’s got his work cut out.
https://outline.com/dbK48F
Woolworths is facing a potential $100 million payout to aggrieved shareholders who saw the value of their investments plunge when the supermarket delivered a shock downgrade to its profit outlook in 2015. Oh dear!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/woolworths-hit-with-100m-class-action-over-shock-downgrade-20180910-p502w6.html
Jennifer Hewett explains Morrison’s big problem in Wentworth.
https://outline.com/P6Ydr3
This huge international investor sees no sovereign risk at all in Australia.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/what-risk-multibillion-foreign-investor-gives-australia-big-tick-20180910-p502we.html
Alexandra Smith writes that he NSW Nationals will need standalone policies to differentiate themselves from the Liberals if they are to hold on to country seats in next’s year NSW state election.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nationals-can-no-longer-be-seen-as-lap-dogs-party-sources-20180910-p502wk.html
Doctors for the Environment say that climate change denial is the denial of many public health casualties.
https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/the-morrison-government-an-extraordinary-health-hazard,11876
Here’s Kate McClymont’s second piece on the recent drug ring bust.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/tax/murderers-mayhem-and-missing-millions-20180910-p502wi.html
Jenna Price says, “I thought conservative parties had a woman problem. I was wrong. They’ve got man trouble.” Ouch!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-liberal-party-does-not-have-a-woman-problem-20180910-p502v3.html
Peter Hartcher writes about China’s hubris and forms of aggression,.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/let-me-buy-rio-tinto-china-s-brazen-bid-to-buy-our-companies-20180910-p502rz.html
Roy Masters is pleased to report that television ratings for the NRL season have eclipsed the AFL’s audiences for the first time since 2010, reflecting the closeness of games in the rugby league competition compared to AFL, where the frequency of one-sided matches continued with last weekend’s three semi-final blow-outs.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-trumps-afl-in-tv-ratings-war-20180910-p502u1.html
Greg Baum describes Serena’s quadruple fault.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/serena-s-quadruple-fault-20180910-p502vp.html?crpt=homepage&crpt=article
The Australian renewable energy industry will install more than 10 gigawatts of new solar and wind power during 2018 and 2019. If that rate is maintained, Australia would reach 50% renewables in 2025.
https://theconversation.com/at-its-current-rate-australia-is-on-track-for-50-renewable-electricity-in-2025-102903
Three-quarters of people in New South Wales are unaware that abortion remains a criminal offence in the state and almost as many believe it should be regulated as a healthcare service, a study has found.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/11/three-quarters-of-people-in-nsw-unaware-abortion-remains-a-criminal-offence-in-state
Priests who fail to report suspected child abuse revealed through confession would face up to five years’ jail, if a push by SA Best to toughen penalties is supported.
https://outline.com/xGtzwc
Nicole Hemmer tells us why so many Americans believe in an all-powerful ‘deep state’.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/why-so-many-americans-believe-in-an-all-powerful-deep-state-20180909-p502ng.html
That’s America for you!
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/australian-firefighters-shot-at-while-battling-us-wildfire-20180910-p502x6.html
For several reasons these guys deserve nomination for “Arsehole of the Week”.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/xavier-old-boys-from-prominent-family-charged-over-brutal-finals-assault-20180910-p502wv.html
Cartoon Corner.
Beautiful work from David Rowe.
Mark David has Morrison and a Muppets worked out.
A reminder from Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight and Melbourne’s suburban rollout.
Zanetti serves it up to Serena Williams.
As does Mark Knight.
Sean Leahy sums up the Newspoll results.
From Pat Campbell.
Johannes Leak joins in.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/eafed6287719765b5652aa89a4321e79
David Pope hits Morrison with coal and prayers.
https://static.ffx.io/images/$width_828/t_resize_width/t_sharpen%2Cq_auto%2Cf_auto/abde4e43d94f090889ad1c81be87a964ccf65efd
More in here.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-september-11-2018-20180910-h157a4.html
That Mark Knight cartoon is causing a stir in the good old USA.
The Williams incident will play out in its own way, there is no gain in putting any view forward that won’t potentially backfire, no matter how good your intentions are.
I think you should be able to express your view about Serena without immediatley thinking of her colour. I’m sure I can.
In case you missed it – ScumMo, yesterday in QT, taking inspiration from a US general.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/4e7f1988-471a-4bf6-b192-88428bdd117e/&sid=0000
We should be very worried. ScumMo is great for joking about, but don’t forget the serious side. He’s dangerous, more dangerous than Dutton would have been as PM because of his loopy religious beliefs. Morrison wants to be an authoritarian, hard-right leader led by some god or other who he believes is with him.
ScumMo isn’t the first leader to claim a special relationship with God. (Has anyone asked God if he wants ScumMo on his side?)
The Nazis were very big on claiming a similar relationship, insisting God was with them. They even wore that claim on their belt buckles.
You read Quaedvlieg’s latest accusations about Dutton and it feels like “The Moonlight State, the Sequel”. The same names pop up, the Vasta family, the Lewis family. It’s like a flashback to the Joh era and the Fitzgerald inquiry. .
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/the-moonlight-state—1987/2832198
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/11/peter-dutton-asked-roman-quaedvlieg-to-help-two-police-officers-get-abf-jobs
“Nice ministry you have here… It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.”
Whether or not Lucy Gichuhi would reveal the names of the bullies in the ranks of the Liberal Party was a big question this morning. Turns out she won’t be doing that. To me this implies she has been bullied into keeping quiet. She has proved her point without naming names. There is rampant bullying withing the ranks of the government. The chief bully is the prime minister.
By staying silent these women are enabling the bullying to continue. They have the perfect avenue to name names and shame them.
For what it’s worth, today’s full Essential results.
http://www.essentialvision.com.au/category/essentialreport
How anyone could form an opinion on what ScumMo’s attributes as leader might be after just two weeks and no parliament until yeasterday is beyind me.
I know how Essential does their polling, it’s not what I’d call reliable, but at least the results are close enough to Newspoll to support it. Either both are wide of the mark or both are a fairly accurate depiction of voter intention. Take your pick, any guess would be as valid as either poll.
Shouty McShoutFace is back. That didn’t take long.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-11/cartoonist-mark-knight-defends-serena-williams-depiction/10230044
That cartoon has nothing to do with racism: it has everything to do with a tennis player going troppo.
In my humble opinion, it is racist. And this cartoonist has form in racist caricaturing of black people. in my opinion.
Ouch!
Things not going well for P.Dud the spud. Accusations of bullying in the LNP. Royal commission digging up all kinds of shit. I wonder when the “look over there” it’s a terrorist will happen.
I have to admit to being awfully conflicted over that Mark Knight cartoon. I don’t know that it’s racist per se, but I do think it’s insensitive. Knight always provides the most simplistic, reactionary take of any current cartoonist, and I almost always find his stuff crude and juvenile. I am almost being forced to take his side here though, simply because of the sheer bulk of people carrying on about Osaka being portrayed as a white woman. She’s clearly not, and it’s been annoying to see people stretching the argument so thin in order to make their point.
My take on it is, “oh well, there’s another idiot Knight cartoon.” It hasn’t added anything to the conversation, and I reckon he’s done it to needle people who in general don’t need a lot of needling. i really prefer a cartoon to provide a fresh take on a topic.
On the question of Williams’ behaviour: it’s complicated. I don’t like seeing anyone acting like a prat on the tennis court because things don’t go their way, and if it was up to me every single one of them would be penalised. She spoilt the final as a spectacle and made it highly embarrassing for everyone involved. I would have liked to have seen her show some remorse for that, no matter how hardly done by she feels she was. The game is bigger than her. But she decided not to do that. Conflating it into a feminist or racial issue now means everyone has to tread very carefully when commenting, which is also a shame. It’s really all about appalling behaviour and how it ought to be dealt with. That’s what I think, anyway.
And her attempts to smooth things over at the presentation were cringeworthy. Her message to Osaka was fundamentally, “this is a difficult situation, but we’ll get through it.” As if she was in no way responsible for what had happened. She should have been apologising to Osaka, not jollying her along. Show some humility in defeat instead of continuing to make it all about you.
I’ve seen far more people take issue with him making Serena Williams look like one of those racist caricatures of African Americans from the 1930s.
All these Coalition people constantly whimpering and screaming about how awful it would be to have Bill Shorten as Prime Minister should ask the 2010-13 Labor government how well that went for them when they said the same about Abbott. Only of course in Labor’s case they were correct.
Still though, here’s hoping they keep it up until election day, I’d like the wipeout to include at least Hastie and all the other grubs on a lower margin than that.
When she played against Serena Williams Naomi Osaka had her hair pulled back into a pony tail. The ends of her hair are bleached.
So Knight is correct in drawing her with a blond ponytail.
Here’s Naomi with her hair out.
Did anyone bother to check this before they jumped straight into being outraged?
I don’t think Knight’s cartoon is racist, you could argue it was sexist, but it’s just typical Knight. Never forget – he works for NewsCorpse and follows editorial directions.
for those silly enough to think Tim Storer is a good bloke because he voted against the government on Turnbull’s company tax cuts, think again.
Today his vote was the decider in extending the cashless welfare card into Queensland.
https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/cashless-welfare-card-set-for-qld-trials/news-story/975d0dfdc13ca02b7cc782997b12f284
The Quad Bike a gunnin’ for the Spud
.
Leigh asked ScumMo why. His answer should be interesting. Not as if he didn’t expect it …
“It wasn’t me”
“It was the party”
How are you different from Abbott / Turnbull?
waffle, waffle, waffle …
Quotas?
No: on merit.
No bullying; just intense lobbying.
“It’s all Labor’s fault.”
Religious freedoms?
OK atm but we have to protect it in the future
That was the sound of one hand happy-clapping.
More bullying, this time in the Queensland LNP.
LNP MPs warned they risk political future voting for Labor’s abortion bill
https://outline.com/NJzq35
Why are so many male politicians afraid to agree women should be able to have safe, legal terminations? I just don’t get it.
It’s quite frequent that it’s actually males who ask their partners to have an abortion, or just put it in their mind.
What the Libs really think of women – “dregs”.
Morris apologised, and it was actually a proper apology, not just the usual “If you were offended then i’m sorry for that”.
Sky might as well set aside a special time each week for apologies, there are so many being made. It would be a better idea for Sky to sack these aging RWNJs. Sky is home to far too many failed politicians and former staffers of politicians.
Pray for Morrison. Psalm 109.8
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
A M E N 🙏
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
As I said last night heaven has no fury like a Quadbike scorned! This will not quietly fade away.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/this-is-not-what-privilege-is-for-ex-border-force-boss-complains-to-speaker-20180911-p5035s.html
Tony Wright goes into the all out war between the two former colleagues.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-versus-quaedvlieg-old-border-force-warriors-go-to-war-20180911-p50349.html
Here’s Michelle Grattan’s take on the spat.
https://theconversation.com/dutton-accuses-quaedvlieg-of-grooming-a-young-woman-in-new-angry-clash-102989
Katharine Murphy writes that climate poll shows Morrison is politically vulnerable as more voters back action,
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/12/climate-poll-shows-morrison-politically-vulnerable-as-more-voters-back-action
More from Murphy as she tells us that Abbott has reignited his push to scrap subsidies for renewable energy, taking on the new energy minister, Angus Taylor, at his first meeting of the government’s backbench energy and environment committee yesterday.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/11/tony-abbott-reignites-push-to-scrap-subsidies-for-renewable-energy
Peter Lewis explains why the election will be fought on the big issues about the future of the nation, not who is the more likeable prime minister.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2018/sep/11/a-new-skipper-alone-is-not-enough-to-steer-the-government-to-safe-harbour
Adele Ferguson takes us through the appalling behaviour perpetrated by the Freedom life insurance crowd,
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/easy-peasy-smash-400-lives-by-lunchtime-cold-call-victims-didn-t-stand-a-chance-20180911-p5034p.html
The AFR says that as soon as commissioner Kenneth Hayne decided to investigate life insurance he should have ordered a pair of gumboots for counsel assisting Rowena Orr, QC, to protect her from the disgusting mess inside the Augean stables.
https://outline.com/zezUpj
The was nothing accidental about the seething Rowena Orr’s demolition of Freedom Insurance.
https://outline.com/6k7Ee6
ClearView’s chief risk officer Gregory Martin has admitted that it is virtually impossible to sell life insurance over the phone in compliance with the relevant financial services laws.
https://outline.com/PhK7Hr
David Crowe tells us that Tony Abbott will move this week to cement his hold on the Liberal Party in his electorate, bringing in former Woolworths chief Roger Corbett as a key ally in another sign he has no plans to leave Parliament. What has our country done to deserve that?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/tony-abbott-set-for-the-long-term-as-he-cements-his-hold-on-seat-20180911-p5034z.html
And Crowe explains that Morrison has heard a direct account of bullying within the Liberal Party in a meeting with senator Lucy Gichuhi that intensifies debate about the party’s treatment of women. So how come he’s denying that he doesn’t know anything about it?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lucy-gichuhi-gives-direct-account-of-bullying-to-pm-but-will-not-name-names-in-parliament-20180911-p5030u.html
Here’s why conservative voters fail to see gender as an obstacle to political success.
https://theconversation.com/shell-be-right-why-conservative-voters-fail-to-see-gender-as-an-obstacle-to-political-success-102905
John Passant wonders if Scott Morrison is the best the Liberals can do.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/is-scott-morrison-really-the-best-the-liberal-party-can-do,11877
And Corinna Elaine, who spent nearly 40 years ensconced in the Pentecostal Christian faith, questions whether Scott Morrison will be able to lead Australia forward when his church believes the end of the world is nearly here.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/prime-minister-morrison-and-the-pentecostal-agenda,11878
The AFR editorial says that talking about power prices won’t bring them down.
https://outline.com/H6j3WS
Richo says that the Liberals can’t stand the pressure to win. (Outline has been tweaked now to work on The Australian).
https://outline.com/JMcspK
Nicole Hasham reports that taxpayers have forked out $10 million to bankroll the expert board responsible for the Coalition’s aborted energy plan, and states that contributed thousands of dollars to developing the policy are now being stonewalled by the Morrison government.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/taxpayers-spend-10-million-on-expert-board-but-still-no-energy-plan-20180911-p5032a.html
Florence could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the US eastern seaboard in decades.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/north-america/mass-evacuation-ordered-for-florence-s-bull-s-eye-20180911-p5032x.html?crpt=homepage
Ross Gittins says that it is inevitable that at some time in the future the pension age will rise to 70.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-great-delusion-of-middle-age-20180911-p502zt.html
Doctors suspected of rorting Medicare could lose their luxury houses and cars, under a dramatic escalation of compliance efforts. Bring it on!
https://outline.com/Km5T7G
The pay gap between departments is wider than it was four years ago, with some powerful voices suggesting the public service should look to unify its approach to pay and conditions in a bid to increase movement around the APS.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/the-pay-gap-between-aps-agencies-is-growing-and-it-s-causing-problems-20180907-p502h1.html
Thomas Friedman has penned a very good, but frightening, article on what Trump and the Republicans are doing to the future of the US.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/the-new-york-times-anonymous-is-hiding-in-plain-sight-20180912-p5035v.html
Trump has cancelled his Ireland trip after groups announce planned protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/11/trump-cancels-ireland-trip-after-groups-announced-planned-protests
California’s governor Jerry Brown says that Trump’s ‘gross ignorance’ is the main obstacle in the climate change fight.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/11/jerry-brown-california-governor-climate-change-trump
Anna Patty writes that employers have sounded the alarm over the low literacy and numeracy abilities of job seekers as skills shortages start to bite across the economy.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/99pc-of-employers-report-low-literacy-and-numeracy-skills-study-finds-20180910-p502xp.html
Qantas has accused the major airport corporations of fee gouging and blatant profiteering.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/blatant-profiteering-qantas-accuses-airports-of-fee-gouging-20180911-p5032w.html
Cartoon Corner – it appears Mark Knight’s Twitter page has been taken down.
A very dark contribution from David Rowe.
From Matt Golding.
Sean Leahy and the modern cartoonist’s lot.
Fiona Katauskas in Liberal Party HQ.
Jon Kudelka declares children overboard.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f03f724bb5c5c19e8e6745c1b8bf4057
More in here.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-september-12-2018-20180911-h1596o.html
What the hell is Labor doing?
Labor drops opposition to Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
Caucus and shadow cabinet agree to pass TPP, but also change the way Australia negotiates on trade
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/11/labor-drops-opposition-to-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal
Adani is in trouble again.
Now they are drilling bores and squandering water without any Queensland government approval. I bet Premier Annastacia is regretting all those happy snaps she posed for with Gautam Adani. We tried to tell her it was a bad idea, she wouldn’t listen.
Adani groundwater bores investigated amid claims they were sunk without approval
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-12/adani-groundwater-bores-investigated-by-queensland-department/10231752
The Muppet Show continues in Question Time.
Counting is proceeding veeery slowly
https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/09/12/12/53/wagga-wagga-by-election-result-joe-mcgirr-aec-delays-result
Ms Orr is not letting up
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-12/banking-royal-commission-live-blog/10236040
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-12/wentworth-by-election-called-for-october-20/10237212
Ian the Climate Denialist Potato appears before the Senate in defence of Peter Dutton
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/12/whats-the-go-with-the-au-pairs-you-cant-handle-the-truth
Was phone polled by the Victorian Liberals tonight. 1st question was what state issues I was concerned about, 2nd was my voting intention, 3rd was whether or not Daniel Andrews was too close to the Greens.
It’s probably a private poll so we might not know the results, but I have to say the Liberals are really going for that hypermasculine he-man image all the way in everything, the prerecorded bloke sounded like Alan Jones on one of his puffed up monologues.
I hope in response to question 1 you said “Safety when going to a restaurant’ 🙂
I was always under the impression that an unbiased Poll always asked who you would vote for before any other question so as not to influence your response to any further questions.
Three years ago yesterday this happened.
http://junkee.com/peter-duttons-been-caught-joking-about-pacific-island-nations-getting-drowned-by-rising-sea-levels-6/65283
One thing that really stands out now – Morrison looks much the same, just less hair. Abbott looks much the same too, maybe just a few more wrinkles around the eyes. But Dutton – oh my lord! How much he has changed!
From the normal human being in that photo to this –
He’s a sort of reverse Dorian Grey, he keeps ageing and looking more and more like Voldemort while his photos from only a short time ago remain young and far more human.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Peter Hartcher tells us how Turnbull has been active in New York by encouraging Liberal MPs to refer Dutton to the High Court. And Turnbull’s not denying it!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/turnbull-plots-against-dutton-over-eligibility-to-sit-in-parliament-20180912-p503di.html
Meanwhile John Hewson has declared that Morrison has been a failure in the handling of the Peter Dutton issues. He says voters have been treated with contempt as Morrison attempts to paper things over. It’s quite a spray.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-has-failed-in-handling-of-dutton-controversy-20180912-p5039g.html
John Warhurst tries to work out where Morrison fits in to the spectrum of Prime Ministers.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hawke-howard-menzies-where-does-scott-morrison-fit-in-20180911-p5034i.html
Nikki Savva writes about what a difficult task faces Morrison. Quite a good read.
https://outline.com/YxSUqy
Greg Jericho says that the housing boom is over and we are in huge danger if the economic tide turns.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2018/sep/13/the-housing-boom-is-over-and-we-are-in-huge-danger-o9f-the-economic-tide-turns
Adele Ferguson outlines the dismantlement of Comminsure by Rowena Orr at the royal commission yesterday. Its heartless core was laid bare.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/the-heartless-core-of-cba-s-insurance-business-laid-bare-20180912-p503cx.html
NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton’s office has been described as a “toxic environment” with contempt for bureaucrats in a complaint sent to the Premier’s office.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/weakest-performer-in-cabinet-nsw-environment-minister-under-threat-20180912-p503bo.html
Phil Coorey reports that federal opposition MPs have been instructed to emphasise the unity in their ranks and to reach out to people who would not normally vote Labor, after internal party polling laid bare the public’s anger with the Liberal leadership spill.
https://outline.com/VBZVct
Alexandra Smith reports that Morrison has made it clear to the NSW Liberals that Wentworth is to have a female candidate, leaving one-time deputy mayor Katherine O’Regan as the frontrunner.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/katherine-o-regan-the-frontrunner-in-wentworth-preselection-20180912-p503d7.html
Sam Crosby confesses that he opposed a gender quota and was 100 per cent wrong.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-opposed-a-gender-quota-and-was-100-per-cent-wrong-20180912-p503cg.html
Professor Andrea Carson says that the Coalition parties have little incentive to introduce gender quotas.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-parties-have-little-incentive-to-introduce-gender-quotas-20180912-p50392.html
Dave Donovan writes that it seems strange to think, but only a few short weeks ago, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton came within three votes of becoming Australia’s prime minister.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/a-potato-of-integrity,11888
Michael West continues his exposure of the blight of poker machines with this contribution which says there is a mass transfer of wealth afoot, a transfer of wealth from the poorer city suburbs and rural regions to the wealthier parts of Sydney.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/pokies-the-rise-of-the-machines/
Need a morning purgative? Then read Greg Sheridan telling us that Morrison’s faith is a blessing for us.
https://outline.com/uHgxCC
The Washington Post’s Paul Waldman writes about Trump’s long history of lying about 9/11 and exploiting it for personal gain.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-s-long-history-of-lying-about-9-11-and-exploiting-it-for-personal-gain-20180912-p5037x.html
Bloomberg declares that Trump’s economic ‘magic wand’ is a myth.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/trump-s-economic-magic-wand-not-as-powerful-as-he-thinks-20180912-p50360.html
The SMH editorial questions the political acumen of the premier.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/premier-needs-to-show-she-can-play-politics-20180912-p5039z.html
And Sue Arnold says that the non-elected Premier of NSW, Gladys Berejiklian, has finally been exposed at the Wagga Wagga by-election. So have the lies and misinformation which are the hallmark of this woman’s Government.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/gladys-berejiklian-the-environmentally-unfriendly-premier,11880
Julia Banks has taken aim at “appalling” behaviour in federal parliament including bullying, intimidation and harassment. The first-term Victorian MP, who is quitting politics at the next election, said the parliament was a decade behind the business world in promoting women to leadership positions.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/13/julia-banks-lashes-appalling-behaviour-against-women-in-parliament
New legislation being introduced to parliament means that travellers could face fines of up to $4200 or imprisonment if they do not comply with new police powers to request identification at Australian airports, eject people from the premises and ban them from flights.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/fines-or-imprisonment-for-travellers-if-they-do-not-comply-with-new-police-powers-at-airports-20180912-p5038i.html
Jenna Price gives some advice on how to handle sexual harassment at work and that’s “Don’t go to HR”.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-to-stop-sexual-harassment-at-work-don-t-deal-with-hr-20180912-p503bg.html
Madonna King rejoices over the hefty defamation verdict against Alan Jones and says he and others like him should continue to be called out.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/wagners-verdict-shows-the-likes-of-alan-jones-can-be-called-out-20180912-p503du.html
A leaderless world is sleepwalking towards a repeat of its near meltdown in late 2008 and early 2009 because it has failed to remedy the causes of the financial crash of a decade ago, former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/12/we-are-in-danger-of-sleepwalking-into-a-crisis-gordon-brown
The Archbishop of Canterbury gets this one right.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/evil-gig-economy-amazon-leech-off-state-top-uk-archbishop-20180913-p503eb.html
Will anything concrete come from this meeting of bishops called by the Pope to address clerical abuse?
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/pope-francis-summons-bishops-for-summit-on-clergy-sex-abuse-20180913-p503e2.html
Fergus Hunter with the latest tit-for-tat on the au pairs issue.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/new-stoush-as-departmental-evidence-questions-roman-quaedvlieg-s-claims-20180912-p5039w.html
Esther Han tells us how corrupt police once tried to plant spies in the NSW corruption watchdog.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/corrupt-police-once-tried-to-plant-spies-in-nsw-corruption-watchdog-20180912-p503bh.html
Elizabeth Knight writes about the train wreck that is Myers.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/done-with-discounting-new-myer-ceo-tries-his-predecessor-s-old-trick-20180912-p503ao.html
Peter FitzSimons examines both sides of the Serena Williams argument. It’s well written.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/no-right-or-wrong-answer-in-serena-case-but-gillard-had-a-point-20180912-p503cz.html
Proposed changes to China’s taxation system which will make it easier to tax foreign employees’ offshore income have alarmed Australian businesses operating in the world’s second-largest economy.
https://outline.com/BUcN8k
These figures prove that harsh penalties are often costly and counterproductive.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/reduced-penalties-unlicensed-drivers-nsw-roads-20180912-p5037k.html
Thousands of the SA’s registered trucks are not safe enough to be on the roads and are failing a new testing system. Of the 3009 second-hand trucks sold since the scheme began last year, 60 per cent failed at least one aspect of a safety inspection.
https://outline.com/Ua9vm2
Stormy Daniels has announced that she will launch a memoir next week that will “blow minds”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/12/stormy-daniels-trump-memoir-full-disclosure
The novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ has been charged with murdering her husband!
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/novelist-who-wrote-about-how-to-murder-your-husband-charged-with-murdering-her-husband-20180912-p503dx.html
A former Victorian principal ran his school as a “personal fiefdom” by employing relatives and using “public funds as he saw fit”, a scathing Ombudsman’s report has found. Surely a contender for “Arsehole of the Week”.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/case-study-in-nepotism-principal-ran-school-as-own-fiefdom-says-report-20180912-p5038f.html
Cartoon Corner
Mark David turns to poetry to go after Morrison’s religiosity.
A ripper from Sean Leahy on the Parrot getting its just desserts.
And similar treatment for the Parrot form David Rowe.
Peter Broelman goes after the spud.
Glen Le Lievre on the government’s gender balance problem.
Jon Kudelka and the kids singing the national anthem.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/21505b12ca129b4e821440b5f31042cc
More in here.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-september-13-2018-20180912-h15awp.html
The full USGS public lecture for those that are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSF6UZ0Mh5E
Jaeger – thanks.
Canavan ridicules climate health report, days after climate health expert wins Liberal safe seat
https://reneweconomy.com.au/canavan-ridicules-climate-health-report-days-after-climate-health-expert-wins-liberal-safe-seat-73431/
And –
Typhoon Mangkhut is bigger and stronger than HurricaneFlorence, but is not getting much mention in our US-focused media.
Super Typhoon Mangkhut bears down on the Philippines and Hong Kong
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/12/asia/super-typhoon-mangkhut-ompong-wxc-intl/index.html
But not to worry about any of that. Our climate change denying Pentecostalist PM will see it as a sign of the impending Rapture, he will be rejoicing at the thought of finally meeting whatever god it is he says he is beside.
Yep.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/13/adani-ditches-plan-to-build-rail-line-for-carmichael-coalmine