Action against C10 and ABC pending.
Murdocracy and Sam Maiden off the hook
So … i assume whoever is funding Lehrmann’s legal fees asked him to lay off their media mates? Rinehart or Palmer do you think?
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You better have been wearing a tie when you posted this.
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Something about the settlement involving the payment of his legal bills, the Maiden stories stay on line.
FMD. On top of PWC connections to robodebt, the ATO, defence and finance department and ■■■■ knows what else, Our treasury has just admitted that PWC are there auditors. Basically under Scumbaggo, PWC were running the whole country and filling their boots with taxpayer money along the way. Morrison’s government basically outsourced everything to PWC, paid extortionate prices for there services, and new full well (at least since 2018) that they were basically selling and using the confidential information they were privy to, for financial gain, and to help their corporate mates (just one big cabal really) avoid paying the said tax that they were being paid to consult on the regulation of. And they are privy to all of Treasury information as well?
This is ■■■■■■.
They have blatantly ripped off every taxpayer in Australia.
Bring out the guillotine.
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Yesterday Gorman said selection involved the Party members and the Caucus.
So, if there is more than one candidate through the Party numbers, Caucus gets the say?
A-J said she had the support of the largest Union and is therefore a candidate.
They’re also neck deep in helping the govt design/overhaul the (stupid, ineffective, and destined-to-be-rorted) carbon offset market, at the same time they’re busily touting their consulting/advisory services to clients eager to profit from the carbon market. And lookie here what we see when we search ‘pwc carbon’ on twitter! It looks like someone’s indulging in a little light astroturfing, perhaps to help push more embarrassing search resuls down the results like a bit.
Na that’s just there employees. I have a heap of PwC people on LinkedIn and whenever some report is issued I’ll see all of them repost with the same text. It must be a deliberate thing. But it’s just there own people marketing not astroturfing.
One of them has 0 followers and only follows one account.
Hmm not sure about Twitter. I would suspect it’s a non Twitter user ticking their social media box in a performance review than astroturfing though.
Mainly because they wouldn’t give a stuff. They care about the next billable piece of work, not actually implementing change of opinion in the long term. Nefarious or positive.
Cook ended up getting the job
One option is to invest in the public service and reduce reliance on consults.
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After some faceless men Union shenanigans it seems
Long-serving WA Labor deputy Roger Cook will become the state’s next premier after an extraordinary day of backroom dealings.
Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson appeared to have all but locked up the top job earlier on Tuesday, after the influential United Workers Union-backed MPs endorsed her over another of their own in Mr Cook.
But a sensational split in the party’s left faction turned the race on its head.
A meeting of Labor MPs aligned with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union on Tuesday afternoon unanimously decided to back Mr Cook instead of Ms Sanderson infuriating the United Workers Union-backed MPs.
“They have torn apart the government for someone (Cook) who is not even one of theirs,” a
UWU backed MP said. “They would have to think (Mr Cook) is the greatest leader of our time to do that.”
Will be interesting to see if the god botherers flee from the Libs after the Moria Deeming expulsion.
Meanwhile in SA……………………
Toughened protest laws have finally passed parliament after Upper House crossbench MPs spoke all night, delivering hours-long speeches to stall their passage.
Speeches started about 4pm on Tuesday and continued into Wednesday morning in a marathon sitting lasting more than 14 hours.
By 6.30am on Wednesday, they were still debating amendments to the legislation, which finally passed just before 7am.
Greens MLC Robert Simms spoke for about three hours about the legislation, which had the support of both the government and the opposition.
After 9pm, he handed over to SA-Best MLC Frank Pangallo, who included in his speech – which lasted more than five hours – historical references, extensive radio transcript and a detailed defence of the right to protest.
At midnight, Greens MLC Tammy Franks moved that the House adjourn – but the government and opposition voted to continue sitting.
In the early hours of the morning, Mr Pangallo described the laws as a “faecal sandwich” and said amendments put forward by the crossbench would “go a long way to making this a lot more palatable”.
At 1am, Mr Pangallo was outlining a list compiled by TIME Magazine of the most influential protests, and by 1.30am he was quoting a speech delivered by Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.
Premier Peter Malinauskas has defended the changes and said it was misrepresentative to label them “anti-protest laws”.
He said the changes do not affect the practical application of current law, but increase penalties for people who are “deliberately obstructing people from being able to get on with their lives”.
“The penalty regime hasn’t been updated for a long time and that’s what this bill seeks to do,” he said.
The lengthy sitting comes after demonstrators from civil interest groups came together for another rally on Tuesday, calling for the state government to review the proposed “22-minute” anti-protest laws.
In the second protest in less than a week, civil society groups urged the government to review the rushed anti-protest legislation.
The protest kicked off at 9am on Tuesday, outside the Festival Plaza, and attracted several hundred demonstrators.
Protest organisers included members from the SA Unions, the Working Women’s Centre, Conservation SA, Rights Resources Network and Amnesty International Australia.
They were joined by Australian Democracy Network, Human Rights Law Centre and SA Abortion Action Coalition.
More than 80 civil society groups have already signed an open letter to parliament protesting the bill.
Before the protest, an “honest government ad” was released mocking the state government’s tougher protest laws.
The fake ad, which was uploaded to YouTube on Monday afternoon and racked up 40,000 views within a few hours, features an actor who plays a South Australian government representative.
“(I’m) here to introduce a new law to put an end to peaceful protests in our state,” she says.
“That might sound like a bad law, and civil rights groups, legal experts, even our unions are saying it’s a bad law.”
Invoking a Simpsons reference, she then says “but here at the South Australian government, we reflected on it and said ‘are we out of touch? No, it’s the people who are wrong’.”
The video was produced by The Juice Media as part of their series of Honest Government Ads.
It also takes aim at the state opposition, and features a clip of David Speirs calling protesters “greenie, leftie losers”.
The libs will get their preferences in the end regardless, but I reckon it’s more likely they’ll hang around and just branchstack harder.
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So he should. He is the best and most experienced candidate. AJ will get a chance in due course. Saffioti would have ruined Labor for the next decade