MILES AHEAD
Outgoing Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has endorsed her deputy, Steven Miles, as her successor, the Brisbane Occasions ($) experiences, after the nation’s longest-serving feminine chief introduced her resignation efficient Friday, ending 9 years on the prime. She’d been plagued with ailing reputation within the polls reverse LNP chief David Crisafulli. Right here’s what occurs now: nominations will open right this moment, with Well being Minister Shannon Fentiman (Labor left) and Treasurer Cameron Dick (Labor proper) anticipated to place their arms up. All three are reportedly making an attempt to work out a fast deal, The Australian ($) says, as a result of a contested poll may imply a months-long vote of members and unions. There’ll even be a byelection in Inala, which Palaszczuk holds by 28.2%.
Palaszczuk introduced her resignation yesterday — a Sunday, no much less — with no pre-planned media interviews or leaks from her cupboard, which Guardian Australia says was no accident. She was identified for surprises — three election wins after being appointed as a seat hotter in 2012 when simply seven Labor MPs had been in Queensland Parliament. A trailblazer for the gals, she was the primary lady to be reelected as chief in 2017 and the primary elected from opposition. Former PM Julia Gillard counseled her “many achievements” and “resilient management”, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated the “vibrant and affluent setting” of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics can be due to her, the Bendigo Advertiser provides.
DECLARING AN INTEREST
Curiosity will quickly be the federal government’s fastest-growing fiscal downside, our mid-year funds replace will present, with funds to overhaul the price of the bloated NDIS. The ABC experiences mortgage repayments will price the Commonwealth $80 billion over the following 11 years, or about 11.7%, due to excessive rates of interest. However NDIS spending will develop by solely 10.1% over a decade, the mid-year funds will proceed, not 13.8% as we thought final 12 months. We’ll see the papers on Wednesday, however don’t anticipate any new spending, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has vowed, as SMH ($) experiences — the precedence is getting debt down, although there may be “room for key investments in housing, in Medicare, in vitality, in abilities”.
In the meantime it prices $45,000 excluding college debt to grow to be a radiologist proper now, the SMH ($) experiences, after the Royal Australian and New Zealand Faculty of Radiologists raised the price of its closing trainee examination ($5,718) to $10,200 this 12 months. There’s additionally a $6,000 “admission to fellowship” charge — it’s necessary. The school stated it was inflation at work, however one trainee identified the ultimate examination has moved on-line, so the place is all this cash going? This comes because the paramedics’ union rejected a suggestion of a 19.5% enhance in salaries over 4 years, Sky Information Australia experiences, with 2,000 paramedics vowing to not renew their registration till a deal is reached. It’s prompted NSW Premier Chris Minns to warn of a “catastrophic” situation by January 1 the place “triple-O will go into meltdown”. Talking of Sky — Chinese language-Australian journalist Cheng Lei has joined Sky Information Australia as presenter and columnist after her three-year imprisonment in China for breaking a media embargo by a couple of minutes.
SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS
Residence Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has apologised that alleged crimes had been dedicated by former stateless detainees who had been launched after the Excessive Courtroom dominated they couldn’t be in detention ceaselessly. Chatting with the Herald Solar ($), she stated it was “distressing” to learn in regards to the allegations {that a} lady was allegedly assaulted in Adelaide, including that she feels “horrible” when anybody is the sufferer of against the law. It comes after Legal professional-Common Mark Dreyfus apologised to Sky’s Olivia Caisley for telling her her query asking if he wanted to apologise to alleged victims and households was “absurd”. Opposition Chief Peter Dutton informed 2GB if it had been a Coalition pollie, the ABC would’ve accused them of ‘misogynistic’ and ‘mansplaining’ and ‘speaking over a feminine journalist”, The Australian ($) experiences. The A-G’s spouse of 44 years, Deborah Chemke, died mere weeks in the past.
We’re going to halve our internet migration within the subsequent two years, the SMH ($) experiences, from the file excessive 510,000 right down to 250,000. That’s in response to the Albanese authorities’s new migration technique. Right here’s how: earlier than migrants can enter, they’ll should each go a harder English language check and show they’re genuinely a pupil. After they’re in, they received’t be capable to keep in the event that they don’t select jobs that plug our abilities scarcity (contemplating 36% of occupations are developing quick proper now, that’s a large remit). O’Neil says if these measures don’t work, she’ll take into account increased charges or a cap on college students. Guardian Australia continues that the 10-year technique may even introduce new visas for extremely expert employees who earn greater than $135,000 a 12 months, similar to in cyber or inexperienced know-how.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
Clear dinner dishes had been gleaming within the kitchen sink, the faucet was dripping from the children’ showers, and a mom was looking at her six-year-old’s homework in a quiet but consuming existential disaster. She’d learn the query so many instances she knew it by coronary heart, whereas a seemingly limitless variety of solutions flew previous in her head like she was perusing some kind of psychological teledex. Which phrase is the odd one out, she learn out loud slowly. Is it buddy, toothbrush, desk, egg or silver? Clarify why. Baffled, she took to a Fb group known as “household lowdown suggestions & concepts” to entry the hive thoughts.
Greater than 4,000 individuals weighed in. Some stated egg — it’s the one factor you may eat, and the one one which begins with a vowel. No manner, it’s buddy, others countered, as a result of it’s the one animate factor amongst a listing of objects. It’s toothbrush, some stated, as a result of it’s a compound phrase, and the one phrase that doesn’t include the letter “e”. Silver, extra individuals commented, as a result of it’s an adjective and the remainder are nouns. Not so quick, others stated — it may be a noun if it referred to the steel silver, quite than the color. There was an uproar after the mom posted that the trainer had informed the category the reply was certainly silver, the one non-noun. Egg voters, we had been robbed!
Hoping your thoughts feels sharp this morning.
SAY WHAT?
This can be a deceptive and inappropriate use of Margot Robbie’s picture. Moreover, we are able to verify that regardless of making her profession within the US, she has not resigned as a member of #MEAAequity — and he or she is a member of [the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union]!
Media, Leisure and Arts Alliance (MEAA)
The West Australian, together with enterprise teams representing BHP and Qantas, had been not pleased IR legal guidelines that’ll give employees extra rights handed final Friday. The paper ran a photograph of actor Margot Robbie in a shower (in reference to her explainer in movie The Large Quick) above the headline: “They’re a dud”. A easy google, nonetheless, would’ve revealed Robbie is a proud unionist who has appeared in advertisements for them.
CRIKEY RECAP
“You may see a recurring theme: prices are going to go up for enterprise, and can due to this fact push inflation up. However the place will these rising prices come from? Unmentioned by any of the employer teams or the Coalition is why, precisely, they’re so satisfied that it’ll push prices up: as a result of the entire level of the invoice is to stop employers from underpaying employees in contrast with the enterprise settlement making use of to the job they’re doing, simply by outsourcing to a labour-hire firm.
“Relatively than affect ‘each employee in Australia’, because the Enterprise Council claims, it’s going to in actual fact have an effect on round 327,100 individuals — that’s the whole variety of labour-hire employees, at June 2023, in response to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). That’s 2.3% of all employees. The truth is, it received’t even have an effect on that quantity, as a result of …”
“It was a historic 12 months for girls’s sport in Australia. We hosted a FIFA World Cup for the primary time, with bumper crowds at nearly each fixture and your complete nation rallying across the Matildas’ fairytale run to the semifinals, cementing their place as the brand new sporting face of the nation. Regardless of this, the ultimate in Sydney introduced with it a microcosm of the varied gendered challenges ladies in sport nonetheless face.
“The cricketers received the T20 World Cup earlier within the 12 months, and had been on the centre of a landmark pay deal. The netballers discovered themselves among the many Information Corp opinion columns for all of the unsuitable causes, with an ongoing pay dispute marring the top of the 12 months.”
“The fitting shift has gone pretty on to the Coalition, and most of it’s unlikely to come back again. The left shift might not come again to the diploma it as soon as did. Some socially conservative Muslims might vote Inexperienced or neighborhood impartial after which Coalition, simply to harm Labor for its betrayal of non-European Australians. So it’s fairly attainable that, over six months or so, Labor has actually wrecked itself for 2025 …
“The core financial/class initiatives have been the great labour legislation reform, the HAFF, and supporting a minimal wage rise within the Honest Work Fee. That’s actually about it, aside from tinkering. Getting a great chunk of the Safe Jobs, Higher Pay Act via the Senate is a considerable achievement, will enhance many lives and is one thing for the occasion to be happy with.”
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THE COMMENTARIAT
With Annastacia Palaszczuk gone, can Labor obtain the unachievable in Queensland? — Paul Williams (The Dialog): “Palaszczuk has already endorsed her deputy (and Left faction chief) Steven Miles as the following premier, regardless of her factional colleague and treasurer, Cameron Dick, typically being touted for succession. Given the Left has managed the Labor parliamentary occasion since 2015, Miles will inevitably grow to be premier, though there may be rising caucus assist for one more Left star, Well being Minister Shannon Fentiman. There’ll, nonetheless, be no poll. Given Queensland Labor rule adjustments in 2015 — the place ballots for management contests are shared equally amongst caucus, rank and file members and commerce union representatives — a drawn-out public brawl with a Labor Occasion in limbo can be prevented in any respect prices …
“That Miles is poised to take the premiership right this moment is arguably an accident of historical past. First, it’s uncommon for Queensland Labor to be dominated by the Left. Second, Miles was promoted to the deputy place in Could 2020 solely as a result of former deputy premier and Left chief, Jacqui Trad, resigned from cupboard following an investigation by the state’s corruption watchdog. Trad misplaced her seat to the Greens on LNP preferences in 2020. Miles was not initially properly acquired as deputy premier, with voters anecdotally disliking him, and particularly his makes an attempt on the ‘assault canine’ function deputies so typically assume.”
What the college presidents acquired proper and unsuitable about anti-Semitic speech — David French (The New York Occasions) ($): “First, let’s cope with the legislation. Harvard, Penn and MIT are every non-public universities. Not like public colleges, they’re not sure by the First Modification and so they due to this fact possess huge freedom to style their very own customized speech insurance policies. However whereas they don’t seem to be sure by legislation to guard free speech, they’re required, as instructional establishments that obtain federal funds, to guard college students in opposition to discriminatory harassment, together with — in some situations — student-on-student peer harassment …
“Because of this, what we’ve seen on campus is a combination of protected anti-Semitic (in addition to anti-Islamic) speech and prohibited harassment. Chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ or ‘From the river to the ocean, Palestine can be free’ at a public protest is protected speech. Tearing down one other particular person’s posters shouldn’t be. (My rights to free speech don’t embrace a proper to dam one other particular person’s speech.) Trapping Jewish college students in a library whereas protesters pound on library doorways shouldn’t be protected speech both.”
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