HOME TRUTHS
The Seven Community paid former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s lease for a full 12 months, the SMH ($) stories, and a back-of-envelope calculation exhibits that it may very well be a six-figure sum contemplating he now lives in a three-bedroom dwelling on the northern seashores with ocean views. Information.com.au provides that Lehrmann instructed the court docket in his defamation go well with that he didn’t know the overall lease quantity as a result of the “community dealt with the lodging preparations”. Have to be good. 7NEWS Highlight had beforehand mentioned it didn’t pay him for the interview however had “assisted with lodging as a part of the filming of the story”. The psychological gymnastics one must do to make that assertion match with the info…
The delightfully acerbic Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell proceed that “Seven’s piece of chequebook journalism” received nominated for a Walkley, and journalist Nina Funnell notes the foundations state you’ve gotta declare any funds or advantages. A Walkleys spokesperson has since mentioned it’s “contemplating its place”. 7News’s protection yesterday didn’t point out a factor about this. In the meantime, Guardian Australia has revealed a cracking explainer of the six lies Lehrmann has admitted to below cross-examination thus far — together with in a letter to his outdated boss, former defence minister Linda Reynolds, and mendacity about his purpose for mendacity about why he entered Parliament Home. A reminder that Lehrmann introduced this case himself. Brittany Higgins sat simply eight seats away, the SMH ($) stories, watching on as Lisa Wilkinson’s silk, Sue Chrysanthou, cross-examined him like a wily octopus, the paper says.
KEEPING THEIR VOICE DOWN
The Voice to Parliament most likely would’ve handed if Opposition Chief Peter Dutton had received behind it, Guardian Australia stories, as a result of there was a 30% dip in help from Coalition voters after he mentioned he wouldn’t. Additionally the explanations given in a survey have been virtually verbatim for the main speaking factors of the No marketing campaign. In the meantime opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Value says Australians didn’t desire a totally different mannequin, as an ANU examine deduced, however relatively a path to reconciliation by listening to the voices that individuals “utterly ignore”. She instructed Sky Information Australia the emails and feedback she’s acquired inform her that “Australians actually didn’t need the Voice proposal that the Albanese authorities had placed on the desk”. Erm, yeah, like I mentioned… ANU co-author Nicholas Biddle could also be considering this morning.
This comes as a whole bunch of Indigenous households are becoming a member of class actions that allege a repeat of the Stolen Generations by states forcing their youngsters into care. There are lodged or deliberate actions in Queensland, Victoria, NSW, Western Australia and South Australia, The Australian ($) stories. Some 58 out of each 1,000 Indigenous youngsters are in care — evaluate that with 4.7 per 1,000 non-Indigenous youngsters. In the meantime within the NT, Chief Minister Natasha Fyles “broke a promise” by altering grog legal guidelines this week, regardless that she’d vowed to not mess with enterprise working environments earlier than the following time period of presidency. Below the tweaks, NT Information ($) stories, bottle-os should open two hours later (at noon) within the Prime Finish and personal safety guards can carry capsicum spray. Cripes. However the hospitality business mentioned it’d value them jobs.
GUILT TRIPS
The 4 editors on the SMH and The Age who wrote a letter to workers barring them from Israel-Hamas protection if that they had signed a press release urging media to do higher have all been on paid journeys to Israel, Crikey has confirmed. They’re Tory Maguire, Patrick Elligett, Bevan Shields and David King. Guardian Australia’s editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor — who additionally went on a paid journey to Israel, Crikey notes — has additionally instructed 24 workers she’s involved they signed the letter, The Australian ($) stories, as a result of “open letters will be perceived as elevating questions on our reporting, even when that’s not the intention”. However thus far her workforce’s protection had been “complete, correct and honest”, Taylor certified. In fact, some could level out {that a} paid journey doesn’t routinely compromise the impartiality of those editorial leaders — accordingly, others would possibly argue, signing a letter doesn’t both. Your Worm editor is remaining neutral on that final sentence.
Talking of transparency issues, Queensland has simply modified the foundations so cupboard paperwork shall be launched inside 30 days from the primary half of 2024, The Courier-Mail ($) stories (an especially uncommon sighting of optimistic Annastacia Palaszczuk protection within the rag!). Politicians will mull over a change that’d defend them from civil proceedings, and a change to the Proper to Data Act to permit the redaction of paperwork. In the meantime in federal politics, laws rushed by way of the decrease home yesterday shall be tweaked so the federal government can lock up just lately launched stateless offenders in the event that they pose a “threat” to society, the AFR ($) writes. People, I urge you to learn the ABC story about Gus Kuster, one of many 141 just lately launched detainees, who mentioned he doesn’t be happy.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
Highschool pupil Izzy Miller was sitting back-to-front on a stationary bus squawking away with a buddy when she felt a sickening lurch. Whipping round, she observed the driving force’s seat was empty. The 20 or so schoolkids have been shocked because the bus started to roll, and Miller sprang into motion. She leapt from her seat, sprinted to the entrance, jammed herself in entrance of the steering wheel and observed the bus was headed instantly for a petroleum bowser at a mini-mart. Okay, assume, she instructed herself, surveying the mysterious levers and pedals. She hadn’t been taught to drive but — she’s 14 — however how arduous might or not it’s?
Miller held her breath and pushed down on one of many pedals. There was a 50/50 likelihood she’d both pushed the accelerator and sped up the explosive loss of life they have been most likely rolling in direction of, or the brake pedal that will excuse all of them from the fiery finish. Luck was in her favour — it was the brake, and the bus “truly stopped”, she instructed the ABC. Very cool. Her mum was beside herself with pleasure, saying the principal had instructed her the cellphone calls they’d made afterwards might have been very totally different had Miller not saved the day. The mini-mart proprietor was equally relieved, saying the bowser was in use and will nicely have blown up. The one factor that did blow up was the story of the teenager’s fast considering among the many NSW On line casino neighborhood and past.
Hoping you’re courageous like Izzy Miller at the moment.
SAY WHAT?
If I don’t keep sturdy on this and I pander to a loud minority, that’s not factor.
Pat Cummins
The Australian cricket captain has been accused of being too “woke” after his statements about local weather change, the Sure vote within the Voice to Parliament referendum and Black Lives Matter, however he mentioned: “You’ll be able to’t simply say, ‘I need to play cricket in entrance of thousands and thousands of individuals’ but in addition ‘I don’t need anybody to have an opinion on me.’ ”
CRIKEY RECAP
“It’s not proof of lengthy COVID, however it’s what we’d count on to see if lengthy COVID was taking folks out. The wrinkle within the concept is the rise is a little bit later than you would possibly count on if lengthy COVID have been the primary trigger — it pops up in late 2023. Until in fact COVID has been quietly ravaging our inhabitants this 12 months.
“It’s a small pattern, however it’s a clue {that a} blasé angle to COVID might, for some folks, be an issue. The danger is there — not excessive sufficient to be tearing the inhabitants aside, however most likely not at zero both. I don’t assume we must always sneer at anybody who needs to masks up or keep away from crowds — not till we get much more knowledge.”
“Sure, there’s a decline in public housing provision as an ‘outdoors choice’ to flee the non-public rental and home-buying market. I utterly agree right here and assume that a greater vary of public housing choices, drawing on workable methods from overseas, and even at dwelling, like defence housing in Australia, must be tremendously expanded.
“On the concept that getting folks out of cities and into the areas will make properties cheaper, I’m cautious. It would make some infrastructure provisions extra environment friendly. However we noticed what a flight to the areas was like throughout COVID, which made housing there costlier by way of lease and costs. Are increased rents and costs within the areas and decrease rents and costs within the cities consequence? I’m undecided.”
“Let’s assume [Greg] Sheridan isn’t simply one other man sulking that not everybody with a uterus considers it their God-given goal to make use of it to procreate, and let’s take a beneficiant studying of Sheridan’s interpretation of the F-word, trusting that he understands it as a constellation of various actions with typically totally different priorities.
“Maybe within the pages of The Australian, nonetheless, he’s most regularly uncovered to a form of mainstream neoliberal girlboss ‘feminism’ through profiles of mining she-E-Os, a feminism more and more out of step with social beliefs of equality, rights and justice — and as American research Professor Catherine Rottenberg factors out, yet one more typically appropriate with the political and financial agendas of free-market capitalism, consumerism and privatisation.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Israel arrests virtually as many Palestinians because it has launched throughout truce (Al Jazeera)
Ukraine spy chief’s spouse poisoned, says Kyiv (BBC)
Hunter Biden prepared to testify on Capitol Hill in December, his legal professionals say (CNN)
Highly effective Koch group endorses [Nikki] Haley’s 2024 Republican presidential bid (Reuters)
Finland to shut all borders with Russia after migrant surge (euronews)
Geert Wilders should scrap most of manifesto to enter authorities, say consultants (The Guardian)
The ten greatest books of 2023 (The New York Occasions) ($)
THE COMMENTARIAT
Sensible: a COP28 to avoid wasting the planet — staged by oil barons who imperil it — Marina Hyde (The Guardian): “Both manner it says quite a bit concerning the displacement actions of the age that this explicit media story is at the moment garnering extra feverish curiosity than Thursday’s convention, supposedly convened to move off an existential menace to life as a lot of the world is aware of it. If solely they might make the local weather disaster extra like Succession, possibly it will pique the eye of The Telegraph’s considerably distracted below-the-line commenters. Not that I didn’t have an enormous period of time for one judgment that ‘GB Information would be the final redoubt of the free press if Islam buys The Telegraph’ …
“Actually, COP28 appears to be taking up the character of a kind of late-stage FIFA tournaments, the place World Cups are actually simply a world bribery change to which the soccer merely serves because the backdrop. How else to clarify Monday’s revelation by the BBC and non-profit Centre for Local weather Reporting that Al Jaber and the UAE deliberate to make use of the convention to pitch and promote oil and fuel offers to overseas governments together with China, Brazil, Germany and Egypt? We have now to say ‘deliberate’, as a result of COP28 spokesfolk now say the paperwork detailing the technique ‘weren’t utilized by COP28 in conferences’ and that ‘non-public conferences are non-public’. Little question, little doubt.”
Troubling letter a brand new low for media at struggle with fact and purpose — Rita Panahi (Herald Solar) ($): “By all means scrutinise each bit of data, however what kind of anti-Israeli zealotry would see any media skilled deal with Hamas and the Israeli authorities as equally untrustworthy. Do they neglect that Hamas are subhuman savages who just a few weeks in the past burnt households alive, beheaded infants, raped and tortured girls and intentionally used their very own folks as human shields. The assertion additionally claims ‘the battle didn’t begin on October 7’ and that audiences must be given context corresponding to ‘the expulsion of a whole bunch of hundreds of Palestinians from their native lands in 1948 to make manner for the state of Israel’.
“If you happen to maintain Israel to a special normal than each different democratic nation then it’s possible you’ll be an anti-Semite. Certainly, that’s one of many definitions of the phrase in keeping with the Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. One other is denying the Jewish folks their proper to self-determination and claiming that the existence of Israel is a racist endeavour … The media is stuffed with activists masquerading as neutral journalists however that is one other low for a occupation that’s typically missing ethical readability and at struggle with fact and purpose.”
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