I'm not sure why, as a secular country, we need a church service to mark the new Parliament. Or why the Speaker recites the Lord's Prayer every sitting day
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese giving every reporter a question at his opening press conference. A sharp contrast with Scott Morrison who spent about 10 minutes taking questions from reporters this morning
"It's a free country" says Scott Morrison when asked about Assistant Minister for Women Amanda Stoker's attendance at a recent anti-abortion rally
#auspol
One reason it's funny Morrison didn't know the price of petrol is just two months ago he was running lines about how a Labor government would increase petrol prices
My colleagues and I are striking because Nine won’t offer us fair wages. Meanwhile the CEO is living his best life at the Olympics and refuses to answer questions about the terrible optics of this
Taxpayers are helping fund minister Michael Sukkar's defamation defence. But A-G Michaelia Cash still won't answer questions in
#Estimates
about who is suing him and why, while hinting more ministers might be getting taxpayer funded legal help
Shane Stone is paid $591,904 to run the National Recovery and Resilience Agency, which is responsible for responding to disasters like the floods. Here's what he had to say about climate change a couple of years ago:
New Drought Co-Ordinator General Shane Stone when asked his view on Climate Change on
@rnbreakfast
by
@hamishNews
: "My view is the climate's always been changing. If you want to draw me into that debate you've really asked the wrong question."
Nine recently gave a boss accused of misconduct a $1 million payout. It’s putting up Scotty Cam in a five star hotel for the Paris Olympics. But this very profitable company refuses to offer its journalists fair pay. That’s why we’re striking.
@withMEAA
#DontTorchJournalism
Days before an election announcement, the Morrison government announced a flurry of appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, many of whom are former Liberal MPs and staffers
@crikey_news
Good morning. Labor now leads in Bennelong, Deakin (listed by the ABC a “likely” gain) and Gilmore. The Greens are closing in on Brisbane, which would give them a third lower house seat
#ausvotes
Hi all, today's my last day
@crikey_news
after nearly four years. I've loved my time here, and am so grateful for the opportunities I've had to work with some some truly brilliant colleagues (or more accurately, friends). Really damn proud of everything we've achieved together
Been out and about in Sydney the last couple of days. Things are very much quieter than normal but it is also absolutely nothing like lockdown. For one nobody is getting fined for leaving their home
Former Immigration Minister Alex Hawke is fighting to save his seat with one of the worst photoshops we've ever seen. Real school captain election energy.
When Scott Morrison showed up at a Trump rally, many progressives, Anthony Albanese included, were scathing. It’s not clear how the PM’s appearances with Modi are all that different
Update: ABC has Griffith and Ryan both down as Greens gains. If the party wins Brisbane, that gives them four lower house seats. A lot of people will have to rethink their assumptions about Queenslanders
#ausvotes
The Walkley Foundation has revoked the finalist status of Seven's Bruce Lehrmann interview after discovering the network paid his rent for a year to the tune of over $100,000
Josh Frydenberg talks briefly about the government's pathway to Net Zero, but look closely at the
#Budget2022
and there's a cool $50.3 million to accelerate the development of priority gas projects
The state of play:
- Labor inching toward a majority
- Liberals record their worst election performance since 1983
- Senate could have a clear progressive majority with Pauline Hanson on track to lose her seat to the Greens
#AusVotes
Josh Frydenberg debating independent challenger Monique Ryan in
@SkyNewsAust
Kooyong People's Forum. Can't imagine the Treasurer doing this if the Liberals weren't worried about the seat
#auspol
Just a few hours ago, we heard from the Hindu Council of Australia who were calling for the religious discrimination bill to be scrapped. Lots of non-Christian faith groups still have concerns about the bill
#Auspol
Labor’s Sam Lim is on track to win the WA seat of Tangney off special minister of state Ben Morton, Scott Morrison’s right hand man in parliament. Another huge result for Labor out west
#AusVotes22
Meanwhile, the Walkley Foundation is “considering its position” after learning Seven paid for its Lehrmann interview. It was a finalist for Scoop of the Year at last week’s awards
JUST ANNOUNCED:
@PeterDutton_MP
&
@BOConnorMP
, the Minister & Shadow Minister for Defence, will make their '2022 Defence Debate' on Thursday the 5th of May, in the lead up to the Federal Election. See more details on our website:
As Australia flooded, the IPCC released a report warning such catastrophes will only become more regular and severe. The response from the government? *crickets*
So the Liberals were smashed in Reid and Chisholm, and could lose Bennelong. Will have to see more on this, but it looks like the Coalition's language on China could have seriously alienated the diaspora
#ausvotes
At the Canterbury RSL for Labor’s election night event. If Albo gives a victory speech here it’ll be the biggest moment at this venue since I got presented the match ball for taking a double hat-trick in under-9s cricket
Scott Morrison met John Howard for a private lunch at Sydney's all male Australian Club last week, before skipping the first sitting of Parliament to head to a conference of conservative has-been leaders.
With
@noeltowell
Shadow A-G
@markdreyfusQCMP
: "Rather than calling the election, the Morrison Government is hanging on to power so they can hand out as many lucrative, taxpayer funded jobs to themselves and their mates."
Four fellow members of Australia’s highest civilian order — Companion of the Order of Australia — want former High Court judge Dyson Heydon’s appointment terminated
Good story from
@JGanko
Back in 2018 the Global Times praised Scott Morrison’s “Confucian wisdom”. A good reminder of how stupid some of this week’s discourse has been from
@theshufflediary
Before Monday’s defamation judgment, Bruce Lehrmann was seen hanging out at the Point Piper mansion owned by Penny Street, wife of late former NSW chief justice Sir Laurence Street
I was in Poland this morning when Nick Tabakoff rang me at 5:21am to ask if I’d like to respond to people in “the newsroom” who thought my massage posts were “tone deaf”. All I’ll add now is it sounds like Nick needs a massage too. I recommend it!
Monique Ryan says the Liberals are in a minority government with the Nationals, and says Frydenberg is "a hostage to Barnaby Joyce and to his own political ambitions"
#auspol
As the Federal Court rejected Novak Djokovic's appeal, vaccine sceptics in the Coalition party room continued to attack their own government's decision to deport him
@crikey_news
"This morning NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet admitted the disaster response hadn’t improved since the Black Summer bushfires. But he couldn’t really say why."
@crikey_news
On this analysis, WA won't be 80% boosted until May 16. The Federal election is likely to be May 14 or 21. Which means no campaigning from Albanese or Morrison at all in the west unless McGowan reopens sooner
Kerry Stokes could end up forking out nearly $40 million on Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation suit because a cost order against him is accruing interest every day
This thread is well worth reading. The Indian community is growing and all sides of politics are trying to court it. But that means politicians need to wise up about the kinds of Hindu groups they’re meeting with and what those groups stand for:
Labor supporters are jubilant as Antony Green calls Goldstein for independent Zoe Daniel. And the jubilation continues when Green points to early results showing a whopping 8.4% swing to Labor in WA
#ausvotes
Anyway this is unsurprising but kinda petty stuff from the PM. It’s just a shame that a few of our colleagues in the media/press gallery seems to share these views. All power to the gun team of journalists
@crikey_news
who produce stellar work every day
ADF boss Angus Campbell received a $14,000 watch from the Sultan of Brunei. The non-response from the Department of Defence is *highly* relatable.
Via
@TomMcIlroy
Hillsong holding an all-staff crisis meeting this morning to address rumours of an alleged "significant moral transgression" within the church. New from
@d_hardaker
So Tudge has been stood down as Education Minister but he’s still got a warrant as minister and he will be Education Minister again if the government is re-elected
#leadersdebate