I am sorry to report That This sites dog Overlord has passed away
NED ON HIS FIRST DAY HOME
After a few years living with Diabetes which saw him lose his sight 3 times and enduring the operations to restore it as well as a couple of bouts of Pancreatitis and the torments of his little brother Neds little body had had enough .He was a champion dog always happy no matter what . Everyone who got to meet Ned loved him . He didnt have a mean bone in his body. In the end it was the hardest decision of my life but as silly as this sounds the easiest. Neddie was going to suffer and he didn,t deserve that. To have kept him going a bit longer would have been unbelievable selfish on my part.
NED COOLING OFF
HEALING AFTER A EYE OPERATION
NOT HAPPY
NED AND HIS BROTHER ON THEIR BED YESTERDAY
Goodbye Ned . The best mate I ever had.
Sorry my return post is indulgent But Ned deserves his Pub Goodbye.
There's been a stunning backflip in Clive Palmer's push to open WA's border, the Commonwealth withdrawing its support for the billionaire's High Court challenge. #auspol | @nat_forrestpic.twitter.com/CfI9r3krMn
It’s probably paywalled, and not worth reading, except for this bit, which had me laughing.
“People generally don’t trust news found on the internet, but prefer to go to the mastheads they trust,” she said. “There is too much bad information out there. Small publishers which have strong links to their communities – be it geographical or by interest – need to continue to build that.”
There are severe implications for Australians if Google walks away from news. When searching for “coronavirus”, for example, users may not be referred to information from verified news outlets. If Google is unable to reach a deal with News Corp, its users would be unable to view any of the Herald Sun’s exclusive “Lawyer X” stories, or The Australian’s groundbreaking COVID-19 coverage
That from a media empire that gives daily misinformation on the virus and targets the Victorian government’s efforts to contain it.
If Google is unable to reach a deal with News Corp, its users would be unable to view any of the Herald Sun’s exclusive “Lawyer X” stories, or The Australian’s groundbreaking COVID-19 coverage
😆 As Herbert Morrison would say “Oh, the humanity,”
The global rollout of 5G has spawned wild conspiracy theories, and the coronavirus pandemic was the perfect environment for them to spread. https://t.co/2omFX0ldtS#4corners
The global rollout of 5G has spawned wild conspiracy theories, and the coronavirus pandemic was the perfect environment for them to spread. https://t.co/2omFX0ldtS#4corners
Continuing his track record of "having a normal one": Australian MP Craig Kelly has posted 16 times since Saturday about hydroxycloroquine, the unproven & not-very-promising drug promoted by Donald Trump, including asking whether Dan Andrews should be jailed for not promoting it pic.twitter.com/ZYojdUDWYa
I’m so sick of right-wing lunatics promoting hydroxychloroquine just because Trump pushes it.
As I’ve said before, I’m actually able to take this drug because of an autoimmune condition. It was one of a list of drugs – all of them with very nasty side-effects – that my eye specialist considered as possible treatment. He ended up going with methotrexate, and I was all set to refuse it when he rang one night to say he thought that level of treatment was not needed as I was responding well to the treatment he was using. I went into remission not long after and have not needed any drugs for five years.
So why was I going to refuse to use an immunosuppressant? Because of the side effects.
Autoimmune conditions are caused by an immune system that has gone into overdrive and is actually attacking the body. It makes sense to prescribe an immunosuppressant, which calms the immune system but unfortunately also produces dangerous side effects.
It also makes sense that researchers trying to find a treatment for COVID-19 have tested some of these drugs, they know the lungs are affected by a drastic over-reaction of the immune system. The problem with hydroxychloroquine is tests have proved it does nothing for COVID-19. Other drugs like remdesivir and dexamethasone are more promising. You don’t hear Trump or Craig Kelly talking about those drugs though. Why not?
Many people around the world rely on hydroxychloroquine for relief of symptoms. This drug is used to treat not only my condition – sarcoidosis – but also lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune conditions and malaria.
Craig Kelly and his kind, by continuing to promote and demand the use of a drug that has been proven useless against COVID-19 are creating a shortage of this drug. Those who need it are now unable to get their regular supplies, especially in the US where Trump’s lies are treated as gospel truth by far too many ignorant people.
So go ahead, Craig, promote this drug if you want, but spare a thought for those battling life-long conditions who may not be able to get the relief this drug provides because of loons like you who insist on spreading lies.
Paywalled but incognito can get you over,or under, the wall.
Why the Working Class Votes Against Its Economic Interests
One of the mysteries in politics for decades now has been why white working-class Americans began to vote Republican in large numbers in the 1960s and 1970s. After all, it was Democrats who supported labor unions, higher minimum wages, expanded unemployment insurance, Medicare and generous Social Security, helping to lift workers into the middle class.
Of course, an alternative economic view, led by economists like Milton Friedman, was that this turn toward the Republican Party was rational and served workers’ interests. He emphasized free markets, entrepreneurialism and the maximization of profit. These, Friedman argued, would raise wages for many and even most Americans.
But wages did not rise. And yet many in the working class kept voting Republican, still seemingly angered by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, which was dedicated to helping the poor and assuring equal rights for people of color. In the 1980s, under Ronald Reagan, income inequality began to rise sharply; wages for typical Americans stagnated and poverty and homelessness increased…………………..
While our new wood heater was being installed today, I slipped down to the bakery to get some bread. Everyone I saw was wearing a mask. In the bakery the women were all wearing masks and a sign on the door said “No Masks, No Service”. Grandson called in after school, wearing a mask, he is pleased to be going back to home learning, can sleep in for longer.
Our little town has about 500 people, or maybe a bit more. I love our little town.
Sounds like a sensible town 🙂
So many stupid people!
First, this mass stupidity. Why anyone would want to go near a cruise ship now is a mystery to me.
Next – in Australia we have more than our fair share of dingbats.
A man playing Pokemon Go is among the 172 fines issued in Victoria for coronavirus restriction breaches. Police say officers found the Sunshine man out and about in Melbourne.
Among those fined include 27 people failing to wear a face covering when leaving home for one of the four approved reasons.
There were also 22 infringements issued at vehicle checkpoints.
Police did 4,366 spot checks on people at homes, businesses and public places across the state on Sunday.
Among other breaches were a Keilor man on the Surf Coast who admitted he travelled there on Friday to stay at his holiday home, a woman at Southern Cross station attempting to travel to Bendigo, two men at a fast-food outlet in Hobsons Bay admitted staying at a friend’s house in Altona overnight and a group of people at a Point Cook birthday party
And from Mullumbimby, the anti-vaxxer capital of Australia, there’s this loon –
A 53-year-old man was fined after hosting a house party at his home in Mullumbimby. He told police he was aware there were too many attendees but wasn’t worried because he believes Coronavirus is just a flu
I read an article in a NZ paper which was about kiwis now stuck in Melbourne. A common comment from the people they spoke to was how effing slack observance of the previous restrictions were. People were not taking it seriously.
I have seen a lot of slackness in Adelaide, people getting complacent because our figures good.
I only go out when it is essential.
People are really slack here too. I go out only when there is no alternative – medical stuff and last Friday to take my poor, neglected car for its rego check. (My insurance company is giving me a $50 gift card because they say no-one is using their car much now and we deserve some compensation.) I have all the shopping delivered now, even my prescription drugs. Friday was the first time I have left the house/property for three weeks.
No 1 Son tells me the shops are crowded on Saturdays, almost like Christmas. No-one wears masks or bothers with social distancing.
We have not had a case here since May, so everyone has become very complacent. There are cases in Newcastle now, just a bit under three hours drive away, so it won’t be long before an outbreak happens here, especially as the winter tourist influx is well under way.
Leone, All the selfishness of the Survivor, Big Brother, vote- the-best-rival-off-the-island tv shows are coming home to roost, imo. When Big Brother first started showing and my youngest daughter got hooked on watching it, I said it rewarded the very worst human attitudes and behaviours.
First day of compulsory face coverings in Ballarat. It’s been pretty relieving so far to see that roughly 95% of us are complying.
A lot of us are nervous and unhappy, but, everyone I’ve encountered today has been friendly, supportive and accepting of the new situation. Hopefully there won’t be too many clusters breaking out here.
David Rowe
Peter Broelman
Cathy Wilcox
John Shakespeare
Andrew Dyson
Matt Golding
Mark Knight
John Spooner
From the US
My how things have changed since this was written 🙂
“Many people, particularly scientists, believe that we are suffering in the U.S. from a national epidemic of irrationality—what Senator J.W. Fulbright of Arkansas has called the ‘swinish blight of anti-intellectualism.
The CrimeMinister is encouraging these attacks on Labor state governments and Labor premiers, his refusal to censure the rubbish and dangerous opinions being touted by Kelly proves that.
he uses his backbench to attack Andrews he hasn't stopped a single one from having a go at him, he is the biggest coward that lives
Yes and Morrison dared to say "We all must drop the ideological wars", then immediately continued to undermine experienced communicable disease experts, unions, and States trying to protect their citizens.
We have no national leadership in this crisis, we just have a party hack with an agenda to demonise Labor premiers. He uses the pandemic for political point scoring. The MSM cheer him on, agree with him and promote his attempts at divisiveness.
Deb Frecklington two months ago –
.@AnnastaciaMP’s border chaos is closing businesses & costing jobs. I met with businesses on the border today & they are hurting. All they’re asking for is @QLDLabor to open the border as originally promised in July, instead of the Premier’s thought bubble of Sept #qldpol#auspolpic.twitter.com/nCxLH8Z2Hz— Deb Frecklington MP (@DebFrecklington) June 1, 2020
Deb Frecklington today –
A third person has now allegedly entered the state with coronavirus through @QLDLabor's border controls. We need to keep Queenslanders safe to protect lives and livelihoods. The @LNPQLD is calling for mandatory maximum penalties for those who break the rules. #qldpol— Deb Frecklington MP (@DebFrecklington) August 4, 2020
So what does she really want? Open borders or closed borders? No-one does mental confusion like a Queensland LNP leader.
Angry, angry, angry. Got home in time to watch todays presser with Dan Andrews. At 11.59 abc cut him off, to talk about the news or something. Flicked the tv to Ch7 for the midday movies, lo and behold Dan and crew were still being televised. What is the effing point of having an abc news channel that cuts of live interview???????
Before I go angry I was going to say, we had to go into town for an appointment, then Razz badly needed shearing, and while that was occurring I sat in the car. I did not see one person that was not wearing a mask. I was very very pleasantly surprised.
Glad that this part of Victoria has got the message.
No matter what happens politically in Victoria, I will forever be grateful that we have Dan Andrews as our Premier right now.
Yes, I was surprised how well the mask wearing is going in Bendigo too, at the local ish Woolies and Aldi everyone, people walking and cycling too, about half the people in cars, no sign of panic buying.
Reading that thread made me angry – so many incorrect assumptions were made. I need to set the record straight, having once come perilously close to being homeless (with three kids) many years ago.
Not all homeless people want to be homeless.
Not all of them are mentally ill.
Not all of them are unemployed
We need to get right away from these myths.
One of my sons posted this article on Facebook this morning. I’m posting it here to illustrate the real homelessness problem in my part of Australia.
And a related problem – people (mainly women with children) being forced into homelessness because of greedy landlords and victimisation by Indue and the federal government.
I cannot believe people are refused accommodation because the rent is more than 30% of their income.That is a disgusting decision by greedy, discriminatory estate agents and landlords.
Seth Meyers –
Chris Hayes –
Brian Tyler Cohen –
Daniel Andrews’ full presser today, all 1 hour and 20 minutes of it.
This is painful to watch. How can a leader be this stupid? How did he become leader?
.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”Swan: “Why can’t I do that?” pic.twitter.com/MStySfkV39— Axios (@axios) August 4, 2020</a
Guess who Fiona Katauskas has aimed this at
“To relieve capacity pressure across the detention network” Border Force confirms “detainees will be temporarily transferred” to the Christmas Island immigration detention facility “in the weeks ahead” #auspol@SBSNewspic.twitter.com/P40mWqaPy1
While casual workers who are paid so little they have to work shifts at three or more nursing homes cop all the blame for spreading COVID-19 the real criminals/spreaders are never mentioned. Would being multi-millionaire Liberal donors have anything to do with that media silence?
This explosively hideous pile of extravagant bad taste is owned by the proprietor of the Epping Gardens Aged Care “home “ in Victoria. 90 Covid at last count, six dead, bodies left in their beds for hours. https://t.co/g0kAKRDmZ7
David Pope
David Rowe
Andrew Dyson
Cathy Wilcox
John Shakespeare
Simon Letch
Matt Golding
Fiona Katauskas
Peter Broelman
Mark Knight
Alan Moir
Johannes Leak
From the US
I’m finding the “who knew” surprised comments on Twoitter about Jonathan Swan being Norman Swan;s son highly amusing.
I think this relationship was mentioned at The Pub years ago when Jonathan was working for the SMH. I certainly knew. There is a family resemblance between the two men – how could anyone miss it.
There have been many articles written about Swan and his family. I don’t understand how anyone could not know they are father and son.
Is this another example of too many people spending too much time tweeting and not enough in the real world? Looks like it to me.
Behrouz Boochani makes the NYT.Paywalled so some jumping over needed.
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He Was Detained for 7 Years. Now He’s Reclaiming His Identity.
After he fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps from the inside, what’s next for Behrouz Boochani?
— 10 News First Melbourne (@10NewsFirstMelb) August 5, 2020
Coronavirus updates LIVE: Victoria expected to record more than 700 new COVID-19 cases as stage four business restrictions come into effect; QLD border closes to NSW, ACT https://t.co/QwdSiMpWwM#covid19vic#covid19aus
"The stimulus spending looks to be a down payment on future austerity budgets, and in the meantime, we have seen Morrisonism take a firmer shape. It is coherent. It has historical forebears. It is thoroughly ideological."
So tell me again why the Australian government is still pushing new coal mines and coal-fired power generation.
No answer required.
Now I may sound ever so slightly cynical here but I wonder if it might, just might be because of the donations that the coal conglomerates give to liberal party? Just thinkin’ out loud you know!🤔
The sooner money is taken out of politics and the process given back to the people the better.🤑
THE PUB 
Is Twitter down for everyone, or just me?
Working for me.
Thanks, Leone, must be just for me. I wanted to see how it reacted to the shut down and curfew.
On twitter, Dan is God or the Devil incarnate.
BK
The things ya come across in Glenelg .
A bit like Trafalgar Square 🙂
East meets west in Mongolia.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Sean Kelly says that Morrison is avoiding scrutiny at time when he most warrants it. He makes several good points.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-avoids-scrutiny-at-time-when-he-most-warrants-it-20200802-p55hs8.html
Shaun Carney says that it’s not rocket science that is needed to explain how the second wave in Victoria came about.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-did-the-second-wave-happen-it-s-not-rocket-science-folks-20200731-p55hab.html
Chip Le Grand writes that the latest COVID-19 restrictions will test the resilience of Victorian society and economy in a way it hasn’t experienced before.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-staggers-into-next-phase-of-pandemic-20200802-p55htt.html
And the SMH editorial says that it’s Victoria’s disaster but it’s a national emergency.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-victoria-s-disaster-but-it-s-a-national-emergency-20200802-p55hu8.html
Phil Coorey and John Kehoe tell us that the Morrison government will require Victoria to help fund new income support measures, including paid pandemic leave, for the state’s citizens after Daniel Andrews declared a state of disaster and a night-time Melbourne curfew.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/victoria-to-help-foot-the-bill-in-state-of-disaster-20200802-p55hrl
Anne Twomey explains what a state of disaster is and what powers it confer.
https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-a-state-of-disaster-and-what-powers-does-it-confer-143807
Anna Patty reports on what NSW and Australia has learned about epidemics and how aged care was and is at greatest risk.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-untold-story-of-how-the-nsw-health-system-avoided-disaster-20200610-p5513b.html
The Victorian government has declared a state of emergency and much tougher restrictions for at least six weeks as it tries to get the virus under some sort of control. Will even this prove too little too late asks Jennifer Hewett.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/down-the-rabbit-hole-with-dan-andrews-20200802-p55hr8
Does stage 4 ‘shock and awe’ in Melbourne mean we should have gone for elimination of coronavirus after all wonders Gay Alcorn.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/does-stage-4-shock-and-awe-in-melbourne-mean-we-should-have-gone-for-elimination-of-coronavirus-after-all
Daniel Hurst writes that the Australian government has the power to roll out paid pandemic leave via regulation, rather than having to pass new legislation through the parliament, according to advice from the parliamentary library.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/03/no-barrier-government-has-power-to-provide-coronavirus-financial-support-now
Phil Coorey writes about Morrison’s border backflip.
https://www.afr.com/politics/border-backflip-pm-drops-support-for-wa-court-challenge-20200802-p55hr6
And Mark McGowan has called Clive Palmer the nation’s “greatest egomaniac”, telling the billionaire to drop his case against his state government over its border closures.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/08/02/wa-premier-mark-mcgowan-says-clive-palmer-is-nations-greatest-egomaniac/
Top epidemiologists want the Victorian government to be more transparent with its coronavirus data, arguing a stark lack of detail is hindering their ability to properly analyse the crisis.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-virus-is-ahead-of-us-experts-call-for-transparency-on-victorian-covid-19-data-20200802-p55hp4.html
Julie Power writes that being a first responder is hardly a normal sort of job.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-virus-is-ahead-of-us-experts-call-for-transparency-on-victorian-covid-19-data-20200802-p55hp4.html
Ross Gittins points to the latest weak inflation figures to demonstrate that we have a demand side problem with our economy.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/weak-inflation-tells-us-it-s-the-demand-side-stupid-20200802-p55hpk.html
The Australian tells us that businesses that spend money on local expansion would get bigger tax concessions and incentives under reforms flagged by the head of the nation’s key economic advisory board.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/tax-boost-if-businesses-spend-local-says-national-covid19-commission-chairman-nev-power/news-story/c05d246e50ca4d70d045ac8dccf73bbf
Neil Chenoweth sets out to decode James Murdoch’s resignation letter.
https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/decoding-james-murdoch-s-resignation-letter-20200802-p55hqg
James Murdoch’s resignation is the result of News Corp’s increasing shift to the right – not just on climate opines Professor Rodney Tiffen.
https://theconversation.com/james-murdochs-resignation-is-the-result-of-news-corps-increasing-shift-to-the-right-not-just-on-climate-143799
Mark Kenny has a look at a new book “Morrison’s Miracle” and how leaders gain and grow into their job.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6860141/morrisons-miracle-just-keeps-on-rolling/?cs=14350
Bob Carr looks at Australia’s history on handling China and says that the US getting Australia all hot and bothered about China and then slipping into our markets may be one factor in Marise Payne and Linda Reynolds drawing a line or two in our vassalage.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-toes-party-line-between-us-and-china-20200802-p55hro.html
Michael Pascoe thinks Australia is caught on a China-US barbed wire fence.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2020/08/03/michael-pascoe-australia-caught-on-a-china-us-barbed-wire-fence/
Peter Hannam reveals how NSW’s main irrigator lobby group pressed the Berejiklian government to place the state’s water plans above the federal law and sought to tap water earmarked for the environment.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/irrigators-pushed-for-nsw-primacy-over-basin-plan-more-water-access-20200802-p55hqe.html
Rob Harris reports that Australia’s gambling addiction has propped up some of the world’s biggest corporate bookmakers during the pandemic, sparking fresh calls for a fresh federal government crackdown.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australian-punters-propping-up-global-bookmaker-profits-20200802-p55ht8.html
Shane Wright explains how, under the Coalition government, incomes in Sydney’s richest suburbs growing at twice the rate of poorest.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/incomes-in-sydney-s-richest-suburbs-growing-at-twice-the-rate-of-poorest-20200731-p55h8q.html
The AFT explains how ASIC has advised that corporations must calculate any leave owed to ‘regular’ casuals in their next financial statement as a result of a precedent court ruling,
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/corporate-watchdog-call-to-book-regular-casual-liabilities-20200802-p55ho4
According to Zoe Samios and Fergus Hunter, competition tsar Rod Sims has said he did not provide the Morrison government with advice on whether public broadcasters, ABC and SBS, should be remunerated by Google and Facebook because the matter was too complicated.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/abc-sbs-exclusion-from-tech-giants-payments-a-government-decision-20200731-p55hfh.html
Why Boris Johnson is suddenly spooked by the spectre of a second spike.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/02/why-boris-johnson-is-suddenly-spooked-by-the-spectre-of-a-second-spike
The painful truth about Covid-19 and the economy is that Trump is to blame writes Robert Reich.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/02/covid-19-coronavirus-us-economy-donald-trump-republicans
Nancy Pelosi has said she has no confidence in Deborah Birx over handling of pandemic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/nancy-pelosi-deborah-birx-coronavirus
Zona Black tells us that explosive court documents have revealed the victim at the heart of the Jeffrey Epstein saga claims she was forced to spend two days alone with Prince Andrew, where she was told to “entertain him endlessly”.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2020/08/03/prince-andrew-epstein-ranch/
Today’s nomination for “Arsehole of the Week” goes to a former UK Conservative MP arrested for the alleged rape of an employee.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/conservative-mp-arrested-in-britain-over-rape-accusation-20200803-p55hvn.html
Cartoon Corner
David Rowe
Jim Pavlidis
Peter Broelman
Matt Golding
Glen Le Lievre
Mark Knight
Johannes Leak
From the US
Will Google destroy NewsCorpse? We can only hope.
The Australian has a whining article today about what might happen (to NewsCorpse) if this threat is carried through.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/google-threatens-to-dump-google-news-in-australia/news-story/7a636c77916ba3260176a47405c1cf3d
It’s probably paywalled, and not worth reading, except for this bit, which had me laughing.
That from a media empire that gives daily misinformation on the virus and targets the Victorian government’s efforts to contain it.
😆 As Herbert Morrison would say “Oh, the humanity,”
A rant.
I’m so sick of right-wing lunatics promoting hydroxychloroquine just because Trump pushes it.
As I’ve said before, I’m actually able to take this drug because of an autoimmune condition. It was one of a list of drugs – all of them with very nasty side-effects – that my eye specialist considered as possible treatment. He ended up going with methotrexate, and I was all set to refuse it when he rang one night to say he thought that level of treatment was not needed as I was responding well to the treatment he was using. I went into remission not long after and have not needed any drugs for five years.
So why was I going to refuse to use an immunosuppressant? Because of the side effects.
Autoimmune conditions are caused by an immune system that has gone into overdrive and is actually attacking the body. It makes sense to prescribe an immunosuppressant, which calms the immune system but unfortunately also produces dangerous side effects.
It also makes sense that researchers trying to find a treatment for COVID-19 have tested some of these drugs, they know the lungs are affected by a drastic over-reaction of the immune system. The problem with hydroxychloroquine is tests have proved it does nothing for COVID-19. Other drugs like remdesivir and dexamethasone are more promising. You don’t hear Trump or Craig Kelly talking about those drugs though. Why not?
Many people around the world rely on hydroxychloroquine for relief of symptoms. This drug is used to treat not only my condition – sarcoidosis – but also lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune conditions and malaria.
Craig Kelly and his kind, by continuing to promote and demand the use of a drug that has been proven useless against COVID-19 are creating a shortage of this drug. Those who need it are now unable to get their regular supplies, especially in the US where Trump’s lies are treated as gospel truth by far too many ignorant people.
So go ahead, Craig, promote this drug if you want, but spare a thought for those battling life-long conditions who may not be able to get the relief this drug provides because of loons like you who insist on spreading lies.
Paywalled but incognito can get you over,or under, the wall.
While our new wood heater was being installed today, I slipped down to the bakery to get some bread. Everyone I saw was wearing a mask. In the bakery the women were all wearing masks and a sign on the door said “No Masks, No Service”. Grandson called in after school, wearing a mask, he is pleased to be going back to home learning, can sleep in for longer.
Our little town has about 500 people, or maybe a bit more. I love our little town.
Sounds like a sensible town 🙂
So many stupid people!
First, this mass stupidity. Why anyone would want to go near a cruise ship now is a mystery to me.
Two cruise ships hit by coronavirus weeks after industry restarts
Outbreaks of Covid-19 recorded on MS Roald Amundsen in Norway and the Paul Gauguin in Tahiti
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/03/two-cruise-ships-hit-by-coronavirus-weeks-after-industry-restarts
Next – in Australia we have more than our fair share of dingbats.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2020/aug/03/australia-coronavirus-live-update-daniel-andrews-stage-4-restrictions-victoria-curfew-nsw-queensland-covid-19-latest-news?page=with:block-5f2776018f08bb338d709f3e#liveblog-navigation
And from Mullumbimby, the anti-vaxxer capital of Australia, there’s this loon –
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-nsw-fines-wagga-wagga-woman-charged-with-coughing-on-police-mullumbimby-man-says-virus-is-just-a-flu/54b5e763-182e-4045-8ab1-6539378c8503
Australians have only themselves to blame for the latest outbreaks, they just won’t listen, they think it’s funny to disobey the rules.
I agree with every word of this –
leonetwo
I read an article in a NZ paper which was about kiwis now stuck in Melbourne. A common comment from the people they spoke to was how effing slack observance of the previous restrictions were. People were not taking it seriously.
I have seen a lot of slackness in Adelaide, people getting complacent because our figures good.
I only go out when it is essential.
People are really slack here too. I go out only when there is no alternative – medical stuff and last Friday to take my poor, neglected car for its rego check. (My insurance company is giving me a $50 gift card because they say no-one is using their car much now and we deserve some compensation.) I have all the shopping delivered now, even my prescription drugs. Friday was the first time I have left the house/property for three weeks.
No 1 Son tells me the shops are crowded on Saturdays, almost like Christmas. No-one wears masks or bothers with social distancing.
We have not had a case here since May, so everyone has become very complacent. There are cases in Newcastle now, just a bit under three hours drive away, so it won’t be long before an outbreak happens here, especially as the winter tourist influx is well under way.
Leone, All the selfishness of the Survivor, Big Brother, vote- the-best-rival-off-the-island tv shows are coming home to roost, imo. When Big Brother first started showing and my youngest daughter got hooked on watching it, I said it rewarded the very worst human attitudes and behaviours.
First day of compulsory face coverings in Ballarat. It’s been pretty relieving so far to see that roughly 95% of us are complying.
A lot of us are nervous and unhappy, but, everyone I’ve encountered today has been friendly, supportive and accepting of the new situation. Hopefully there won’t be too many clusters breaking out here.
F.M –
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/there-has-been-no-pandemic-leave-until-now-so-whose-fault-is-the-spread-of-the-virus
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Peter Hartcher has a god look at what a Biden win would mean to US-China relations and what it could mean for Australia.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/competition-without-catastrophe-us-policy-with-china-if-biden-wins-20200803-p55hxz.html
The NSW government will exhaust all options with restrictions before it shuts down the economy, with a key minister saying stubborn case numbers could force changes.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/stubborn-case-numbers-will-drive-nsw-s-response-to-covid-19-20200803-p55i5q.html
Greg Sheridan says that the state of emergency and extreme lockdown in Victoria is the right strategy for this horrible moment in the fight against COVID-19, and consistent with all international evidence.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/coronavirus-extreme-measures-required-to-conquer-extremely-vicious-enemy/news-story/5fde04e2690857f3a9a3b677dd58c7f0
Samantha Dick agrees.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2020/08/04/stage-4-stage-5-coronavirus/
Sally Whyte explains what Morrison has offered on paid pandemic leave and how we got to this point.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6861021/pandemic-leave-what-has-been-announced-and-how-did-we-get-here/?cs=17318
More on this from Paul Karp.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/03/morrison-announces-1500-pandemic-leave-disaster-payment-for-workers-with-no-sick-leave
Australia won’t recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up says the Grattan Institute.
https://theconversation.com/australia-wont-recover-unless-victoria-does-too-the-federal-government-must-step-up-143840
Katies Burgess reports that MPs from across Australia will still converge on Canberra later this month, despite the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Victoria forcing the state into stage four lockdown.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6862328/parliament-to-resume-despite-victorian-lockdown/?cs=17318
Caroline Overington writes that poorly trained security guards on a so-called “crazy floor” of the Rydges Hotel in Melbourne’s Swanston Street may have let COVID-19 escape into the community, after they became overwhelmed by hysterical guests who were screaming, crying and banging on walls, begging to be let out.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/coronavirus-on-the-crazy-floor-people-were-going-nuts/news-story/e20cfd913d6b518549e51105f58663db
Rather than leave an important public policy decision to the lawyers and regulators, or left to the veto of the ACTU, the law regarding casual worker needs to be urgently fixed urges the editorial in the AFR.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/end-the-casual-confusion-20200803-p55i4y
Jill Margo writes that top experts say the unprecedented restrictions being imposed on Victorians will succeed in suppressing the virus – if human frustration and community transmissions can be kept under control.
https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/two-things-could-bring-the-crackdown-unstuck-20200803-p55i25
As ‘lockdown fatigue’ sets in, the toll on mental health will require an urgent response says psychiatry professor, Ian Hickie.
https://theconversation.com/as-lockdown-fatigue-sets-in-the-toll-on-mental-health-will-require-an-urgent-response-143817
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission chair Rod Sims has warned of criminal cartels targeting COVID-19 support packages, including cyber scammers attempting to defraud the Morrison government’s early access to superannuation scheme.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/coronavirus-access-to-super-sees-criminals-move-in/news-story/763551373f2447431190c6ed7c45f2fe
Meanwhile superannuation accounts are dwindling as millions of Australians fund their own rescue during the pandemic, writes Tarric Brooker.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrisons-stimulus-with-your-retirement-savings,14163
Victoria is in its own world of pain with businesses and individuals now suffering an extreme lockdown that will decimate the economy and spread across borders says Jennifer Hewett.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/carpet-bombing-the-victorian-economy-20200803-p55i43
Victoria’s rise in Covid-19 case numbers is occurring so rapidly that contact tracing can no longer be relied upon to unearth all potential clusters in the state, according to epidemiologists who argue health detective work “won’t make much difference when you’ve got thousands of active cases potentially out there”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/04/victorias-contact-tracing-effort-buckles-under-the-weight-of-covid-19-cases
Tax reform architect Ken Henry has revived the mining tax debate, saying Australia’s economically ‘illiterate’ failure to tax the mining boom properly has cost the country dearly.
https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/henry-blasts-mining-tax-stupidity-20200803-p55hzj
Greg Jericho says that unlike previous recessions, Australia did not enter this one with a strong economy. His collection of charts is telling!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/04/unlike-previous-recessions-australia-did-not-enter-this-one-with-a-strong-economy
And Paul Bongiorno says that staving off a depression is Australia’s last best hope.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/08/04/paul-bongiorno-staving-off-depression-australia-best-hope/
An Adelaide man is due to front court charged with eight counts of breaching South Australia’s COVID-19 restrictions. He’s in a spot of bother, I’d say.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/sa/2020/08/04/south-australia-coronavirus-breach-court/
Ad Astra wonders if adversarial politics is damaging our democracy.
https://theaimn.com/is-adversarial-politics-damaging-our-democracy/
More follow up from Lisa Visentin and Alexandra Smith as the CEO of the NSW government’s troubled insurer icare has quit after it emerged he was stripped of a bonus for failing to properly declare his wife had been given a contract with the agency.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/icare-boss-quits-after-failing-to-declare-his-wife-s-involvement-20200803-p55i2i.html
And Adele Fergusson writes that the jaw-dropping revelations show icare must be overhauled. She says NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet needs to step up and take decisive action to arrest this disaster.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/jaw-dropping-revelations-show-icare-must-be-overhauled-20200803-p55i61.html
David Crowe explains how a former Coalition minister has slammed the federal government’s handling of aged care and called for major structural change in a submission that exposes years of failure to help older Australians. Connie’s gone rogue!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-chose-futile-bureaucratic-exercise-over-aged-care-reform-liberal-mp-says-20200803-p55i2g.html
Elizabeth Knight postulates that many businesses won’t survive Melbourne’s extreme lockdown.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/state-of-disaster-many-businesses-won-t-survive-melbourne-s-extreme-lockdown-20200803-p55i4s.html
Epidemiologist Catharine Bennett is of the opinion that the latest restrictions in Victoria became a self-fulfilling prophecy. She says the one advantage of a second wave is that we know exactly what we are capable of, and what we have already achieved.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/latest-restrictions-became-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-20200803-p55i0u.html
The editorial in the SMH says that the stage four lockdown in Victoria is increasing pressure on NSW to tighten its own COVID-19 restrictions but it should still be possible for that state to adopt a more carefully calibrated posture that balances jobs and health.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-must-stand-ready-to-toughen-covid-19-rules-20200803-p55i42.html
Supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open but almost all other retailing in Melbourne, including hardware stores, will be closed to customers.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/most-shops-apart-from-supermarkets-pharmacies-to-shut-under-stage-four-20200803-p55i3s.html
Anthony Galloway previews Richard Marles’ appearance at the NPC today. Marles will get stuck into the government over the submarines program and it’s handling of relations with China,
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/profoundly-compromised-labor-ramps-up-attacks-on-delayed-submarines-20200803-p55i2b.html
Andrew Tillett also writes about Marles’ speech.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/morrison-accused-of-monumental-failure-on-submarines-20200803-p55i1v
Idiot Andrew Laming has defended idiot Craig Kelly.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/liberal-mp-defends-colleagues-taking-on-medical-experts-20200803-p55i7j.html
This is what Labor thinks of Kelly – and they are not alone!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/03/labor-condemns-craig-kellys-suggestion-daniel-andrews-could-face-25-years-in-jail-for-hydroxychloroquine-ban
Cara Waters and Eryk Bagshaw say that any Microsoft deal to purchase TikTok would resolve many of Australia’s security concerns about the social media platform, according to government MPs and investors.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/microsoft-buying-tiktok-would-allay-australia-s-security-concerns-20200803-p55i5b.html
Darren Gray says that three corporate giants have combined to develop the country’s biggest PET plastic recycling plant in a $45 million deal in a boost to the waste industry after it was plunged into crisis when China imposed strict rules around Australia’s rubbish.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/recycling-plant-set-to-boost-waste-industry-after-china-blow-20200802-p55hpg.html
Brian Touhy writes that Peter Dutton is pushing a bill that would give Australia the right to force overseas companies to disclose data about Australian citizens. It would also give reciprocal rights to a number of foreign governments. He looks at the concerns about his being expressed by several parties.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/security-concerns-over-reciprocal-data-exchange-deal-20200731-p55h7w.html
Peter Leahy’s wife is a director of a company awarded $38 million in contracts from federal departments, mostly Defence and Foreign Affairs and Trade. The company had earned $2.2 million in revenue from federal government contracts before Leahy resigned as Chief. Michelle Fahy investigates.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/family-ties-defence-contracts-go-to-company-linked-to-wife-of-former-army-chief/
Trent Zimmermann has written an open letter to serial clown Malcolm Roberts about climate change. Unfortunately it will be like water off a duck’s back.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/yes-senator-climate-change-is-real-a-liberal-mp-s-open-letter-to-one-nation-s-malcolm-roberts-20200730-p55gww.html
Patrick Hatch reports that Crown Resorts is still working with a “junket” partner despite being warned in several due diligence reports that its owner has links to organised crime and even after being directly challenged about the relationship by the nation’s anti-money laundering watchdog.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/crown-did-not-review-junket-partner-despite-red-flags-inquiry-hears-20200803-p55hzi.html
The New York Times’ Tim Tankersley reckons Trump isn’t in any hurry to save his economy.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/trump-isn-t-in-any-hurry-to-save-his-economy-20200803-p55hvi.html
Unwilling to accept defeat or his declining popularity in the polls, President Trump is attempting to sow doubt and division among U.S. voters in a last-ditch campaign to regain control of the political narrative. Claire McMullen reports from Washington.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/president-trump-struggles-for-a-winning-image-as-losing-looks-likely,14165
Working people will pay the price for the Tories’ ideological pandemic response writes Ed Miliband.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/working-people-pay-price-tory-ideological-pandemic-response-furlough-scheme-ed-miliband
Today’s nomination for “Arsehole of the Week”.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/dr-ageless-fined-over-fake-breakthrough-covid-19-treatment-20200803-p55hyq.html
Cartoon Corner
David Rowe
Peter Broelman
Cathy Wilcox
John Shakespeare
Andrew Dyson
Matt Golding
Mark Knight
John Spooner
From the US
My how things have changed since this was written 🙂
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fluoridated-water-criticized-as-socialized-medicine/
Craig Kelly is one of the CrimeMinister’s pet thugs. Remember – Kelly was not going to be given pre-selection for the last election until the CrimeMinister intervened and “saved” him.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/03/nsw-party-bows-to-morrison-pressure-to-save-craig-kelly-from-preselection
The CrimeMinister is encouraging these attacks on Labor state governments and Labor premiers, his refusal to censure the rubbish and dangerous opinions being touted by Kelly proves that.
We have no national leadership in this crisis, we just have a party hack with an agenda to demonise Labor premiers. He uses the pandemic for political point scoring. The MSM cheer him on, agree with him and promote his attempts at divisiveness.
Deb Frecklington two months ago –
Deb Frecklington today –
So what does she really want? Open borders or closed borders? No-one does mental confusion like a Queensland LNP leader.
Angry, angry, angry. Got home in time to watch todays presser with Dan Andrews. At 11.59 abc cut him off, to talk about the news or something. Flicked the tv to Ch7 for the midday movies, lo and behold Dan and crew were still being televised. What is the effing point of having an abc news channel that cuts of live interview???????
Before I go angry I was going to say, we had to go into town for an appointment, then Razz badly needed shearing, and while that was occurring I sat in the car. I did not see one person that was not wearing a mask. I was very very pleasantly surprised.
Glad that this part of Victoria has got the message.
No matter what happens politically in Victoria, I will forever be grateful that we have Dan Andrews as our Premier right now.
Yes, I was surprised how well the mask wearing is going in Bendigo too, at the local ish Woolies and Aldi everyone, people walking and cycling too, about half the people in cars, no sign of panic buying.
This is my dream home. Sigh.
Reading that thread made me angry – so many incorrect assumptions were made. I need to set the record straight, having once come perilously close to being homeless (with three kids) many years ago.
Not all homeless people want to be homeless.
Not all of them are mentally ill.
Not all of them are unemployed
We need to get right away from these myths.
One of my sons posted this article on Facebook this morning. I’m posting it here to illustrate the real homelessness problem in my part of Australia.
Byron Bay region’s ‘hidden’ homelessness issues made worse by Airbnb and holiday-letting
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-04/byron-bay-hidden-homeless-worsened-by-airnbnb-holiday-letting/11485572
Part one, published yesterday –
NSW homelessness blamed on high rental costs, health issues and LGBTIQ stigma
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-03/nsw-homelessness-blamed-on-high-rental-costs-health-issues/11470472
And a related problem – people (mainly women with children) being forced into homelessness because of greedy landlords and victimisation by Indue and the federal government.
Here’s Kathryn Wilkes with her latest video.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-03/nsw-homelessness-blamed-on-high-rental-costs-health-issues/11470472
I cannot believe people are refused accommodation because the rent is more than 30% of their income.That is a disgusting decision by greedy, discriminatory estate agents and landlords.
Seth Meyers –
Chris Hayes –
Brian Tyler Cohen –
Daniel Andrews’ full presser today, all 1 hour and 20 minutes of it.
This is painful to watch. How can a leader be this stupid? How did he become leader?
Guess who Fiona Katauskas has aimed this at
While casual workers who are paid so little they have to work shifts at three or more nursing homes cop all the blame for spreading COVID-19 the real criminals/spreaders are never mentioned. Would being multi-millionaire Liberal donors have anything to do with that media silence?
Home of Areti and Peter Panagiotis.
More – this article describes the home as being “as fugly as it is ostentatious”.
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/peter-areti-arvanitis-toorak-mansion-home/
Jonathan Swan is son of Dr Norman Swan
I wonder if Mr Trump is functionally illiterate as well as possibly dealing with some form of dementia?
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Ross Gittins explains how the virus reminds us that governments need to be better, not smaller. He gives us something to think about.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/virus-reminder-governments-need-to-be-better-not-smaller-20200804-p55ics.html
The Australian economy is in for a more subdued recovery than previously predicted, the Reserve Bank says, but unemployment is set to rise.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/uneven-and-bumpy-rba-revises-jobless-to-10pc-20200804-p55ii8
Michael Pascoe explains how he RBA is paddling furiously to keep Australia afloat.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/08/05/michael-pascoe-rba/
Opposition parties have pressed the Morrison government to roll out government-funded paid pandemic leave for all Australians as data shows more than a million workers in Sydney and Melbourne do not have sick leave, and more than 800 reports of COVID-19 at workplaces in Victoria in the last week alone.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/quarter-of-workers-don-t-have-sick-leave-for-isolation-20200804-p55ibz.html
Katharine Murphy tells about what Chris Bowen has said about Labor’s approach to the next election.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/05/cant-do-it-all-chris-bowen-says-alp-must-narrow-its-focus-ahead-of-next-federal-election
Chris Uhlmann issues a plea to politicians and staffers to “Stop the Slogans!”, but the article does have some sinister angles.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/here-s-an-idea-for-politicians-and-their-staff-stop-the-slogans-20200804-p55ibe.html
Anthony Galloway tells us that Scott Morrison in a speech today will warn the pace of militarisation in the Indo-Pacific region is unprecedented, likening today’s challenges to the task faced by the world at the end of the Second World War.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pm-warns-of-threats-facing-our-region-revives-criticism-of-negative-globalism-20200804-p55ij9.html
Even in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the most important national security issue facing Australia is China, says Greg Sheridan.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/hardheaded-truths-in-catalogue-of-challenges-over-china/news-story/17b95ec8353fe04f155160c3f17cb94e
John Collett waves goodbye to hopes of a V-shaped recovery.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/reality-to-hit-markets-as-prospect-of-v-shaped-recovery-fades-20200731-p55hg8.html
Eryk Bagshaw reports that Australian exports to China have surged past expectations as trade with the rest of the world falls, adding an extra $2.6 billion despite the diplomatic rift between the two countries.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/australian-trade-with-china-surges-as-rest-of-the-world-falls-20200804-p55icy.html
According to the WHO, the proportion of those aged 15 to 24 who are infected with coronavirus has risen three-fold in five months.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/young-people-are-fuelling-a-second-coronavirus-wave-says-who-20200805-p55il7.html
Victoria’s tough stage four lockdown has shattered hopes of a swift economic recovery from the pandemic, with independent modelling showing state government debt ballooning to $60 billion next year.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/state-debt-set-to-hit-60-billion-as-virus-crisis-deepens-20200804-p55ij4.html
Jennifer Hewett says Victoria has shut the door too late.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/victoria-shuts-the-door-too-late-20200804-p55ii5
Michelle Grattan says that there is no case for keeping secret any aged care facility’s COVID details.
https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-theres-no-case-for-keeping-secret-any-aged-care-facilitys-covid-details-143920
Richard Baker and Clay Lucas look at what the Victorian government’s hotel quarantine inquiry will be searching for when it starts tomorrow.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/leaked-emails-show-victoria-s-hotel-quarantine-system-was-stretched-cobbled-together-20200804-p55ih1.html
Billions of dollars of projects from a new motorway for the Western Sydney Airport to an upgrade of Australian Institute of Sport facilities have been added to the nation’s infrastructure priority list to help the economy build its way out of the coronavirus recession, reports Shane Wright in this article about Infrastructure Australia’s latest report.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/infrastructure-tsar-plans-for-onslaught-of-spending-to-boost-economy-20200804-p55ief.html
Paul Keating has lashed the Morrison government’s decision to allow people to draw down on their superannuation due to the coronavirus crisis, saying that the decision forced young people to bear the brunt of bailing out the economy and robbed them of their retirement income.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/04/paul-keating-attacks-covid-19-super-withdrawal-scheme-as-unfair-burden-on-young
Preying on property owners in financial distress is a growth industry — but even these predators are being preyed upon by even meaner fish. Independent Austraia’s investigator Dave Donovan unearths another seedy cesspit.
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/domique-grubisa-the-dame-selling-distress,14172
According to the Adelaide Advertiser, South Australians worried about their privacy are lying on contact forms when attending venues including cafes and restaurants, risking their health and safety, and those around them.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/covid19-adelaide-residents-giving-wrong-details-on-contact-tracing-forms/news-story/9049c5d78497e32e8ee45053edb08c47
Nick O’Malley writes that crossbenchers have come out against government plans for a gas-led recovery, citing undue industry influence and worsening greenhouse gas emissions.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/crossbenchers-condemn-government-s-plans-for-a-gas-lead-recovery-20200804-p55ii9.html
Lisa Visentin reveals that NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet was forced to fast-track a statutory review into the besieged insurer while admitting he knew about a conflict of interest involving the CEO.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-treasurer-knew-about-icare-ceo-complaint-for-18-months-20200804-p55ifn.html
Samantha Dick writes about the one factor separating the rest of Australia from a Victorian disaster.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/08/05/separating-australia-from-disaster/
Anna Patty explains how plans to double university fees for social work degrees have prompted warnings that training needs to remain affordable to avoid the risk of an exodus of community service workers.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-m-now-thinking-of-retraining-uni-fee-hike-could-see-social-worker-exodus-20200803-p55hz3.html
Eryk Bagshaw and Fergus Hunter tell us that Chinese students in Australia are scared of speaking out about Hong Kong as the Chinese Communist Party ramps up new online portals for reporting dissent and UNSW is engulfed in controversy over academic freedom.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-fear-is-real-chinese-students-in-australia-dread-reprisal-from-beijing-20200804-p55iht.html
Families have been told childcare access will be limited to ‘permitted workers’, but are yet to find out what that term means writes Adam Carey. Perhaps they will get another presser from Tehan to announce that he doesn’t how either.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/families-on-the-edge-over-childcare-as-countdown-to-lockdown-begins-20200804-p55ii3.html
But Phil Coorey writes that Victorian childcare workers will be bailed out by the federal government after wide-scale shutdowns ordered by Premier Daniel Andrews raised the prospect of most centres going under.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/feds-to-bail-out-victorian-childcare-centres-20200804-p55ia9
Governments need to plan for the long term economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the International Education industry, writes Abul Rizvi.
https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/overseas-students–what-is-happening-and-why-it-matters-to-our-economy,14166
John Lard describes Morrison, Murdoch, Trump – a week of shambles.
https://theaimn.com/morrison-murdoch-trump-a-week-of-shambles/
Josh Butler tells us how anti-masker conspiracy theorists are baiting police.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/08/05/sovereign-citizens-mask-conspiracy-theorists-baiting-police/
Zoe Samios reports that publishers such as AFL Media and NRL Media and The New Daily could be ineligible to receive payments from Google and Facebook under a newly proposed code, because of the way news media businesses will be classified.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/new-daily-sports-media-could-miss-out-under-digital-code-20200804-p55iiy.html
But the SMH editorial says that these media law changes are in the public interest.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/media-law-changes-are-in-public-interest-20200804-p55ikk.html
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/legal-changes-needed-to-support-public-interest-journalism-20200804-p55igp.html
These dogs are trained to sniff out the coronavirus. Most have a 100% success rate say these two researchers from Adelaide Uni.
https://theconversation.com/these-dogs-are-trained-to-sniff-out-the-coronavirus-most-have-a-100-success-rate-143756
The stage four restrictions in the state will accelerate the rush to online purchases and that’s bad news for Victorian retailers stuck in the digital slow lane opines Elizabeth Knight.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/victoria-s-lockdown-will-disadvantage-retail-s-digital-laggards-20200804-p55iha.html
Meat processors are hastily drawing up plans to divert livestock to regional abattoirs and interstate ahead of the “spring flush” of animals to be slaughtered.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/meat-processors-plan-lockdown-livestock-shuffle-to-combat-covid19-restrictions/news-story/f8aff4c36c751f78dec133a1ea550ef4
Callum Foote writes on Closing the Gap and tells us how a captive media failed to question Scott Morrison on defunding.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/closing-the-gap-how-a-captive-media-failed-to-question-scott-morrison-on-defunding/
Nicky Ison tells us about the manufacturing opportunities for Australia with energy storage.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6863212/the-silver-lining-that-could-recharge-australias-manufacturing/?cs=14258
Clancy Yeates tells us that bank dividends are about to resume, but at a lower rate of return.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/bank-dividends-emerge-from-deep-freeze-20200731-p55h8j.html
Noel Whittaker explores the troubling effects of a recent court decision overruling a legal will.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/super-and-retirement/court-decision-overruling-legal-will-sets-troubling-precedent-20200803-p55i3d.html
More from Whittaker who says that, given the bleak state of affairs revealed in the national accounts in the economic crisis, the long-term future of the age pension is far from guaranteed.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/super-and-retirement/don-t-bank-on-age-pension-to-bail-you-out-in-retirement-20200803-p55i2a.html
Phil Coorey looks a the wash up from the complaint against Dyson Heydon.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/high-court-moved-on-heydon-after-receiving-legal-letter-20200804-p55iac
Commercial office property was on a roll before COVID-19 hit, with record growth in rental income. But a leading fund manager says this can’t be sustained.
https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/office-values-face-covid-19-heat-20200804-p55id9
Buoyant share markets have lulled leaders into a false sense of security that could see them turn off the stimulus taps too soon, placing the global economy in deeper peril than it already is in, writes The London Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/don-t-pull-out-the-rug-the-global-economy-at-risk-of-a-double-dip-recession-20200803-p55hvk.html
James Murdoch has left News Corp, but not much will change at the company’s Australian outlets says Dennis Muller.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/04/james-murdoch-has-left-news-corp-but-not-much-will-change-at-the-companys-australian-outlets
The petulance of Trump was on full display when he disparaged John Lewis for not turning up to his inauguration.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/donald-trump-bashes-dead-civil-rights-leader-for-skipping-his-inauguration-20200804-p55iks.html
The president’s incoherence and unchecked narcissism were given full rein for 40 long minutes in a TV evisceration writes the wonderful John Crace.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/04/donald-trump-tv-interview-john-crace-sketch
Trump can’t delay the election, but he can try to delegitimise it explains David Smith.
https://theconversation.com/trump-cant-delay-the-election-but-he-can-try-to-delegitimise-it-143747
Boris Johnson doesn’t seem capable of making difficult choices. Instead he is masking his ineptitude with bluster says Rafael Behr.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/04/boris-johnsons-rise-to-power-wrong-skills-covid-crisis
There can be no argument over this nomination for “Arsehole of the Week”!
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/mask-dodging-woman-allegedly-smashed-female-cop-s-head-into-concrete-20200804-p55ica.html
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I’m finding the “who knew” surprised comments on Twoitter about Jonathan Swan being Norman Swan;s son highly amusing.
I think this relationship was mentioned at The Pub years ago when Jonathan was working for the SMH. I certainly knew. There is a family resemblance between the two men – how could anyone miss it.
There have been many articles written about Swan and his family. I don’t understand how anyone could not know they are father and son.
Is this another example of too many people spending too much time tweeting and not enough in the real world? Looks like it to me.
Behrouz Boochani makes the NYT.Paywalled so some jumping over needed.
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He Was Detained for 7 Years. Now He’s Reclaiming His Identity.
After he fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps from the inside, what’s next for Behrouz Boochani?
So tell me again why the Australian government is still pushing new coal mines and coal-fired power generation.
No answer required.
Now I may sound ever so slightly cynical here but I wonder if it might, just might be because of the donations that the coal conglomerates give to liberal party? Just thinkin’ out loud you know!🤔
The sooner money is taken out of politics and the process given back to the people the better.🤑
You’re just guessing.
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