Peter Dutton posts false claims on Voice advocate Marcia Langton

TELLING BLACK LIES

Opposition Chief Peter Dutton has falsely claimed in a social media submit that Indigenous chief and Voice advocate Marcia Langton mentioned No voters are racist and silly. Chip-off-Dutton’s-old-block Sussan Ley, the deputy Liberal chief, received up yesterday and in addition incorrectly declared Langton had “accused No voters of opposing the referendum due to, quote, ‘base racism or sheer stupidly’”, Guardian Australia studies. Langton’s recorded quote referred to each Advance and Honest Australia foyer teams, studying thus: “Each time the No circumstances raises one among their arguments, for those who begin pulling it aside you get all the way down to base racism. I’m sorry to say it however that’s the place it lands, or simply sheer stupidity.” Dutton, Ley and the No group’s devious tactic to vary her phrases to “voters” is unsurprising — all have been accused of spreading misinformation, and everyone knows how Hillary Clinton’s election misstep in calling Donald Trump supporters “deplorables” turned out. Langton is searching for authorized recommendation concerning the false claims. Crikey’s Cam Wilson screengrabbed headlines from The Australian and Sky Information wrongly referring to “voters” too.

In the meantime Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and “each member” of the caucus will marketing campaign for the Voice to Parliament, The Courier-Mail ($) studies, despite the fact that her state leans in direction of a convincing “No” vote (53%) and it may dent her recognition. She blamed conservative voices for the polling — the paper notes Dutton, One Nation’s Pauline Hanson, and Nationals chief David Littleproud are Queenslanders — however the Sunshine State has been referred to as “floor zero” of the Voice referendum by Cape York chief Noel Pearson. And eventually, a pretend letter has been stuffed in letterboxes in Victoria, The Age ($) studies, claiming to be from the First Peoples’ Meeting of Victoria and urging the landed gentry to guard their property from Indigenous conventional homeowners taking it again. It’s signed Dylan Clarke, a Wotjobaluk man and an meeting consultant, who confirmed he didn’t create the letter and referred to as the scare marketing campaign “terribly unhappy and very irritating”.

SLOW BURN

Firefighters are burning some 684 hectares round a smoky Sydney forward of the mercury set to climb this weekend, the SMH ($) studies. Lower than 1 / 4 of the hazard discount burn goal (280,072 hectares) was burned final yr, RFS commissioner Rob Rogers mentioned. It’s going to be a sizzling, dry spring — and mixed with the soggy circumstances of three La Niñas creating lots of inexperienced development, it’s sizing as much as be the worst bushfire season since Black Summer season, as Crikey reported. Individuals on Sydney’s northern seashores and elements of the higher north shore, the Hills Shire and southern Sydney that border bushland are most in danger. In the meantime the richest particular person in Australia, Gina Rinehart, is throwing luggage of money at inexperienced mineral lithium, some $500 million, in truth. Hancock Prospecting acquired a 7.72% stake in lithium miner Liontown Sources, information.com.au ($) studies, bringing its worth to $6.65 billion.

This comes as Australia’s largest coal producers — similar to Glencore, Peabody, TerraCom and Macquarie Group — are reportedly set to obtain a discover to sue from subsidiaries of state-owned Korea Electrical Energy Corp (KEPCO), Michael West Media studies. The Korea Herald article says it’s coming after ALS particularly — the coal testing group allegedly boosted coal high quality outcomes to make them cleaner, and it’s not the primary time this has come up. In February, ASIC accused TerraCom of utilizing studies that have been allegedly amended by ALS too. The company watchdog added TerraCom received PwC in to do an investigation, however the embattled Large 4 advisor reportedly didn’t converse to any ALS workers or administrators.

ON THE HOUSE

The Greens will proceed to struggle for a hire freeze, with Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather to connect the demand to a invoice introducing a shared fairness scheme for housing. The minor occasion was holding out for the freeze within the housing stoush, however agreed to go the contentious invoice when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese provided $1 billion for social and reasonably priced housing. In the meantime unbiased Allegra Spender is lobbying Senate crossbenchers to assist a residents’ meeting on housing — it’d be a gaggle of on a regular basis folks of all ages who would work on the issue and provides their ideas to the federal government, the AFR ($) explains, however the idea doesn’t have an awesome historical past. The final time a residents’ meeting got here up was when then PM Julia Gillard prompt one for local weather change again in 2010.

In the meantime Greens candidate for Brisbane lord mayor Jonathan Sriranganathan is slinging mud at Greens chief Adam Bandt, tweeting at him it was “a kinda shitty factor” that he’d “given up your leverage with out extracting sufficient concessions”. The SMH ($) provides Sriranganathan most likely wished them to seek the advice of the rank-and-file membership earlier than taking Albanese’s deal, in any other case politicians grow to be too highly effective. It comes as 1091 “distressed dwelling listings” have been listed in NSW within the final week of August — which means individuals who have been compelled to promote as cash received too tight. It’s up from 722 in January final yr, however down from 1779 in October 2020. In Victoria, there have been 814 distressed listings in August — down from 1096 in October 2020. Various things are serving to of us climate the charges storm, Area says — spending much less, renting out rooms, refinancing loans, or promoting funding properties.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE

Mark Dickey and two others have been practically a kilometre underground in Turkey’s third-deepest cave when he began to really feel just a little bit beneath the climate. Dickey, a much-loved explorer, had been mapping the intricate cave system within the Taurus mountains for the Anatolian Speleology Group Affiliation, and it was a slightly inopportune second to grow to be sick. The claustrophobic underground tunnels of Morca Cave are stuffed with steep vertical sections, The New York Occasions ($) studies, with mud and freezing water complicating issues additional. When Dickey began throwing up blood and questioning whether or not he’d dwell, one of many trio resolved to make the troublesome ascent by means of the maze to get assist.

The predicament of Dickey, himself a well-respected cave rescuer, unfold all through the worldwide caving neighborhood quick, and immediately no fewer than 190 medical doctors, paramedics and cavers had poured into the distant area to assist. One Hungarian physician volunteered to go straight all the way down to deal with Dickey — from then on, a health care provider was continually by his facet. Above floor, rescuers have been sizing up his evacuation — they ended up widening a number of of the slender passages of the cave, rigging ropes to tug him up shafts, and even organising makeshift medic camps alongside the best way. In the end Dickey emerged from the depths Tuesday morning native time, very weak however secure, to elated cheers throughout. He’s doing a lot better now, a Turkey official confirmed, and his dad and mom say they felt “unbelievable pleasure” for his neighborhood’s rescue effort.

Hoping you’re feeling the love round you in the present day.

SAY WHAT?

[Peter Dutton] is aware of that the authorized nonsense that he has repeated for month after month has been dismissed by the previous chief justice of the Excessive Courtroom of Australia, Robert French, by the main constitutional lawyer, Bret Walker, who mentioned of that form of query that it was too foolish for phrases.

Mark Dreyfus

The fired-up attorney-general mentioned Dutton knew the constitutional provision was clearly worded, however was stopping at nothing in his “marketing campaign of disinformation and misinformation” in backing the No facet of the Voice to Parliament debate.

CRIKEY RECAP

Peter Dutton bids for the mantle of conspiracy-theorist-in-chief

“Nonetheless factually unsuitable Dutton was, it’s as critical an allegation because it’s potential to make about Australian democracy. The parallels with, and derivation from, Donald Trump and the Republican Social gathering’s election denialism within the US are apparent. US-derived conspiracy theories concerning the AEC and state election our bodies are already rife throughout the far proper in Australia, together with the previous trope of voter fraud — which can be a persistent declare from the Liberal Social gathering — resulting in harassment of election employees.

“With the AEC now a part of the elite conspiracy to impose a Voice by referendum (Dutton himself desires to impose one by laws, however that’s a minor element), he leaves the best way open to claiming the subsequent federal election will probably be rigged as effectively, within the occasion the Coalition loses. The Voice isn’t the one conspiracy idea put ahead by Dutton …”

A coup in Canberra because the Greens grow to be the actual opposition

“Labor caught to its plan for months, regardless of the ample proof that the occasion had been busted. A part of this wasn’t strategically rational; it was an expression of the management’s protecting narcissism, sustaining the residual perception that Labor was the occasion of the battlers, and the Greens have been a bunch of nine-pronouned tree tories.

“Labor hadn’t absolutely sussed the Greens’ transfer right into a extra materials politics beneath the Bandt management, or believed that the occasion may extricate itself from a few of its wilder cultural shenanigans, such because the Victorian gender politics civil warfare. However the sturdy give attention to housing has been each about shifting public perceptions of the Greens, and chopping by means of to a wider part of youf who may again them as generational variations in situation start to amass class traits.”

No marketing campaign techniques word-for-word raise of the identical previous fearmongering

“Again in 2017, six years in the past nearly to the day, Crikey received maintain of the No marketing campaign script for volunteers within the marriage equality debate, and boy does lots of it sound acquainted: ‘The grassroots NO marketing campaign engages folks’s pure sense of warning and suspicion … If unsure, vote no’, it says within the intro. Participating this pure sense of suspicion was hammered into the dialog from the opening traces, with doorknockers inspired to say they’re voting No as a result of they ‘don’t belief what the federal government will do’.

“Additionally word the prompt dialogue when making an introduction: no point out of a particular marketing campaign, volunteers to easily establish themselves as ‘a volunteer serving to with the postal plebiscite’ … And simply because the Voice No campaigners are advised to introduce ‘dangers’ that aren’t truly a part of what’s being proposed, similar to reparations, the anti-marriage equality motion was inspired to inform voters who expressed assist for marriage equality that the change would by some means result in ‘260 new genders’.”

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THE COMMENTARIAT

I’m a advisor, however I assist a $3bn spend on the general public service — Christopher Pyne (The SMH) ($): “Coalition governments have a tendency to chop the general public service as a result of it saves cash within the quick time period and makes the price range bottom-line look higher. For the Coalition, decrease authorities spending is an finish in itself; it proves the federal government is getting smaller and largely, the Coalition likes small authorities. Labor governments, then again, are likely to care much less about small authorities and, as such, solely make cuts to the general public service after they don’t have any different alternative. In addition they typically achieve extra assist from public servants, not least as a result of the general public service is among the most unionised workforces in Australia. For Labor, a bigger public service isn’t precisely an finish in itself, however they actually aren’t averse to it.

“Coalition politicians are keen on calling the general public service ‘bloated’ at any time when Labor is in energy. Not a time period I’d use, lest somebody accuse me of being the pot calling the kettle black. All this chopping and altering, nevertheless, has the unlucky end result of creating becoming a member of the general public sector as a long-term profession a much less enticing prospect. That’s to not point out the remuneration and merit-based promotion alternatives throughout the non-public sector are often way more enticing than within the public service. There’s additionally a long-term societal change that has been occurring over many many years that’s largely ignored on this debate. All through the Sixties, ’70s and ’80s, when Australia was a lot much less prosperous, sensible younger women and men of the working- and lower-middle lessons noticed the general public service as a worthy option to spend their skilled lives.”

Rinehart raid one other case of eleventh hour M&A antics — Peter Ker (The AFR) ($): “The sample is now clear: anybody making an attempt to purchase a West Australian essential minerals asset ought to anticipate an eleventh hour name from one of many state’s billionaire mining magnates. Gina Rinehart’s veiled menace on Monday to dam Albemarle’s $6.6 billion takeover of Liontown Sources until given a seat on the lithium desk comes straight from the identical playbook that Andrew Forrest and Chris Ellison have used to nice impact over the previous 21 months … Forrest began the pattern in January 2022, when he purchased shares in nickel miner Western Areas at greater than 2% above the provide worth that IGO had lobbed only a month earlier than …

“Slightly, he was shopping for relevance; Forrest’s 9.8% stake could be nearly sufficient to dam the takeover if turnout on the deciding vote was low, and his star energy had the potential to show different shareholders in opposition to the deal. A month later, Forrest had extracted a promise from IGO to work collectively on a battery-grade nickel precursor manufacturing unit in WA, in trade for supporting the deal. Many Western Areas shareholders felt the settlement with Forrest sailed very near guidelines which are supposed to make sure no shareholder is handled in a different way from one other throughout a takeover bid. However Forrest is a talented sailor; the deal went by means of and his non-public corporations are actually working with IGO on a nickel manufacturing unit south of Perth at Kwinana. Ellison deployed an identical tactic in April …”