Playing Catch
Anthony Albanese
"This government had just two jobs this year. They had to roll out the vaccine, and they had to fix national quarantine.
Now instead of rolling out the vaccine to the Australian people, they just concentrated on rolling each other.
The rolling of Michael McCormack, a decent human being, by Barnaby Joyce, represents the sixth combination of prime minister and deputy prime minister under the eight long years of this government.
It’s a vote of no confidence in their own government. And the fact is if you want to end this circus, it’s time to end this government. I’ve seen governments be self-indulgent before and get punished. This is a government that is being self-indulgent at a time of the pandemic.
The last time there was a spill was in the middle of the bushfire crisis. This time it’s in the middle of a pandemic.
Witness K motivated by justice, so trial of his lawyer should be called off
the magistrate, who knows some of what was in the secret dossier about ASIS’s behaviour in East Timor, said Witness K was motivated by justice and concern for the international order.
It is strong confirmation that Witness K was not a traitor but rather a patriot who blew the whistle on serious misconduct which the federal government was determined to sweep under the rug even at the expense of robbing East Timor, a tiny country Australia has a duty to help.
The Commonwealth has shown vindictiveness in pursuing him for almost a decade. He was only charged in 2018, years after going public and once Australia had signed a new treaty with East Timor, tacitly acknowledging it had played dirty pool in 2004.
Yet the Commonwealth is still pursuing Bernard Collaery, Witness K’s lawyer, for sharing the same secret information to the court in The Hague and to ABC journalists who broke the story in 2014. Unlike Witness K, Mr Collaery has said he will not plead guilty and that he will fight to have his case heard in open court.
It sets a dangerous precedent that a lawyer is being charged for representing his client, especially since he was, like Witness K, a whistleblower motivated by justice and patriotism. He should not be facing criminal charges.
G7
Government’s “appalling” error, rejects offer of 40 million Pfizer doses in July 2020
After claiming “official” discussions with Pfizer had only started in December, Health Minister Greg Hunt has finally confirmed that the government met with Pfizer last July to discuss purchasing the Pfizer vaccine. Sources say Australia was given options for as many doses as needed to be delivered in January this year, yet government officials turned down
Flight Risk: pressure to bring back travel agent trust accounts, save travellers from insolvency
LNP Economic Management "Make People Pay not Companies"
In 2014 intensive lobbying by travel agents got rid of protections for the traveling public when companies went bust. When Covid hit, many thousands of people lost huge amounts of money. Pressure is now growing for travel agents to set up mandatory trust accounts. Tasha May reports.
Cordato says that under the liquidation process, he liquidator (Deloitte), secured creditors such as banks and directors, staff and shareholders are all paid ahead of customers.
An earlier report to creditors released in September identified an account that was referred to as a ‘trust’ account, but in fact did not operate as a trust account should. Deloitte found “a co-mingling of operating cash flows and customer monies”.
Flight Centre similarly does not hold customers’ money in trust.
On its website, the terms and conditions state:
“Monies paid by you to us will not be held by us on trust for and on behalf of you and we may hold such monies in any account as we see fit.”
Consumer advocate Adam Glezer says: “Covid has exposed a number of cracks in consumer protection, specific to the travel industry.”
And if nothing changes, people will continue to lose their hard-earned money.
Claims that power generators are behind electricity price spikes
Small electricity retail firm Enova claims that major power generators are withholding supply during peak demand in order to drive up wholesale electricity prices.
Fake News and misinformation exposed
KEN WYATT PLACES RACE CARD TO DEFEND WHITE BRICE PASCOE
I asked Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt to apologise for his role in the Bruce Pascoe hoax. Instead, he plays the race card to defend this "Aboriginal historian" and his deceitful book. How can anyone trust another word he says?Ken Wyatt last week played the race card to defend fake “Aboriginal historian” Bruce Pascoe, and played it like a shifty man. How can he now stay as our federal Indigenous Affairs Minister?
Last week I called on Wyatt to apologise for his role in pushing the greatest literary scandal in our history.
In 2019, I’d produced overwhelming proof that Bruce Pascoe was white – there’s not one Aboriginal ancestor in his genealogical record – and had fabricated evidence for his false claims in his bestseller Dark Emu that Aborigines were “farmers” living in “houses” in “towns” of “1000 people”.
Wyatt back then defended what was clearly a hoax.
For three weeks all we have seen on Andrew Bolt's blog is, little or nothing other than, a pathological rant about the dark cloud Brice (Bruce) Pascoe has had on his and your life. NSW has the Police's Fixated Persons Unit to deal with people like Andrew Bolt. They arrested the Friendlyjordies for less and called it "the stalking" of Barillo. It's far less than what Bolt has done over the years since Professor Bruce Pascoe published Dark Emu. Surely there is reason enough for Bolt the champion of free speech to be charged for stalking in NSW.
This Newscorpse mother of a hit man has turned on any public figure or voice that acknowledged Pascoe's freedom to tell us that Australia has oversimplified and whitewashed Aboriginal history by excluding and intentionally underestimating it's place on this land. Our ignorance of their culture and 40,000 year existence has by no means been accidental. We know and are better informed about Mayan,Egyptian & Aztec cultures than we are the ones Bolt denies are our own. Pascoe isn't the only voice to say so. Our past has more to offer as "tourism" for a lot longer than mining has and a lot more than the truncated 200 years of white settlement has like a Captain Cook's Cottage that he never lived in and the UK didn't want. We can only benefit in the pride of our history a pride Bolt has never had preferring the Netherlands even though he was born here.
Academics might argue from various perspectives whether Pascoe has or hasn't anything to offer but they all agree with the single premise that Aboriginal history is Australian and is more complex than has been previously been told. Even Pascoe welcomes the discourse that Bolt claims is done and dusted and not required.
There is nothing new in Bolt's arguments. They have all been heard before and are currently being revisited in all Colonial Settler Nations again. Canada, USA, etc. However, particularly where there is a Murdoch media presence resistance to reexamine and expunge the myths of history seems the loudest . Fox News's Tucker Carlson is the media's KKK grand master advocating that Critical Race Theory is Replacement Theory and Black Racism in disguise and simply doesn't belong in America's or any of it's schools. It's the new equivalent of Darwin's Theory of Evolution and a danger to the wholesome and generous life that white Christian America created on an otherwise barbarian continent.
Bolt is simply trying to put on Carlson's shoes on down under but hasn't the talent or audience given Murdoch media is the least trusted, fastest shrinking and least profitable of MSM here. On the July 1rst Bolt will no longer have a presence in Regional Australia as their contract with WINN is over. What will that do? His argument that he's the most read political blog in Australia is sure as hell bullshit. His podcasts don't rate on any podcast ladder. The Herald Sun is going broke and the papers to which he's syndicated aren't what they were either. They belong to yes Murdoch so Bolt is totally an in house crier looking for a town to cry to. It seems this Grand Poop of Murdoch's, a BFF of the IPA's Roxham and just a Camp follower of LNP is doing his best to stir up racial division via a Goebellian use of an Aussie media that's the least trusted in the country and he's the fast shrinking invisible man operating from a cheap home made set. Meanwhile Bruce not Brice is smiling.
VIRUS TURNS OUR LEADERS INTO HEALTH FASCISTS
Virus
panic has let our politicians and health bureaucrats act the bully,
without reason or compassion. The latest examples - including keeping a
dying man apart from his vaccinated son - show health fascists have got
us by the throat.
Now we know how close to fascism we are. Zach Freego spent his 17th birthday on Wednesday in hospital without his mum by his side.
In fact, Zach hasn’t seen his family since he woke up from his coma after a car crash last month.
Why? Because health fascists in Victoria say no. The virus!
“They’re pretty much saying that because he’s in a higher care ward that there’s no visitors whatsoever to the hospital,” said mum Candice.
Note: Zach’s family lives in Shepparton, which hasn’t had a coronavirus infection for eight months. The nearest known infected person is in isolation in Melbourne, 160km away.
Bolt believes in a pandemic without rules. However not so for Biloela family now that detention was always a "good rule" as far as Bolt was concerned and a detention well deserved. One that shouldn't have been broken.
The "common good", in the case of the Biloela family, isn't a populist one. Yet, populism is something that should dictate our "common good" when it comes to public health. So each case needs to be heard and dealt with separately and fuck the time money and expense form another queue. We don't go to doctors to listen to their advise we go health professionals to get verification to do whatever it is we want.
We really don't need health advice at all. However it provides a product, good for insurance companies, big pharma, and the business of private health which fills all the requirements necessary for a good public health system in a free market. After all Greg Hunt wishes ours was modeled on America's. Guess Bolt could have argued that Zach's family should have been free to take him home which would fit Bolt's concept of the "common good" public health and freedom of choice
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