Bruce Lehrmann to talk at Bettina Arndt event

JUSTICE AND JUST-NOT-NICE

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will communicate concerning the justice system at a $100-a-ticket occasion organised by males’s rights advocate Bettina Arndt known as Restoring the Presumption of Innocence, the SMH studies. Reporter Kate McClymont stated it’s being hosted by Australians for Science and Freedom, which describes itself as involved concerning the authorities response to the pandemic, and it’ll happen in the identical month as Lehrmann’s committal listening to for an alleged sexual assault in Toowoomba (he’s pleading not responsible). McClymont additionally notes Arndt, who has an Order of Australia, as soon as described his one-time accuser Brittany Higgins as “a mendacity, scheming bimbo who destroyed a person’s life to avoid wasting her profession”. That rape cost towards Lehrmann, who maintains his innocence, was dropped amid worry for Higgins’ well being. Additionally within the information this morning — former Seven producer Taylor Auerbach claimed Lehrmann counseled him for not sitting “with the remainder of the feminazis within the press pack”, Guardian Australia studies.

Again to the pandemic for a second and WorkSafe has accepted 130 COVID-19 vaccine-related claims from Victorian staff, the Herald Solar studies, paying out $6.8 million. Reactions like extreme fever, blood clots, allergic reactions, seizures, and strokes are all lined by laws. Nonetheless, the ABC studies COVID vaccines saved about 20 million lives within the first 12 months of the pandemic, and The New York Instances provides that 900,000 People would have lived if the US had Australia’s decrease dying charge. Elsewhere, the SMH studies sexual abusers, rapists and paedophiles with mental disabilities and/or psychological sickness are receiving funding from the NDIS to dwell underneath supervision in the neighborhood after they’ve served their sentence. The federal government responded that each Australian can entry assist programs from the federal government, and it could possibly imply the distinction between them reoffending or not.

UNFAIR POINT

Nearly half (45%) of the youngsters in care in NSW are Indigenous, Guardian Australia studies, although they make up simply 4% of the state’s youth. The federal government will evaluate a toddler safety instrument known as “structured resolution making” that screens youngsters, the place caseworkers ask inquiries to gauge a toddler’s danger of hurt. Queensland ditched it in 2022 when researchers discovered it was biased towards First Nations youngsters as a result of any prior involvement with the kid safety system was a danger issue, even when it wasn’t mistreatment-related. Staying within the public sector and The Age studies the Victorian authorities’s plan to bin a panel that oversees the state’s official information may see the state watchdog or the ombudsman lose entry to proof, critics say. The Public File Workplace Victoria is in control of 100 kilometres of laborious copy information and 600,000 digital information courting all the way in which again to 1836, and the panel scrutinises it.

In the meantime, NSW preschool lecturers need equal pay to public college lecturers, and so they’re getting in to bat utilizing new guidelines within the Truthful Work Act that permit workers in an business to achieve the identical enterprise settlement as others, irrespective of their employer. The SMH studies there’s a $35,000 pay hole between essentially the most skilled lecturers and their counterparts in neighborhood preschools (they’re run by not-for-profit suppliers). “A graduate public college trainer now earns about $17,000 greater than a preschool trainer, who begins on about $67,000 a 12 months,” the paper notes. It comes as a rising variety of of us aren’t reporting their revenue to the tax workplace in any respect, as a part of a sovereign citizen offshoot known as “monetary sovereignty” that spruiks pseudo regulation inflicting massive penalties, the ABC studies.

DRUNK ON POWER

Coles, Woolworths, ALDI, and Metcash could possibly be fined as much as $10 million for anti-competitive behaviour underneath a brand new grocery code of conduct that might substitute the voluntary one, Guardian Australia says. It’s per a report ordered by the federal government that additionally discovered smaller suppliers don’t complain about dodgy massive 4 grocer behaviour out of worry of the results like their merchandise being moved to a worse shelf or a worse place within the retailer. However AFR notes the report doesn’t agree that watchdog the ACCC ought to have the ability to break up the Woolworth-Coles duopoly’s market energy just like the Greens, Coalition, and former ACCC chair Allan Fels all need, as a result of that would see “better market focus” if one chain merely bought to a different.

In the meantime, the Enterprise Council of Australia (BCA) says jobs “aren’t protected” amid the federal government’s incoming merger reform plans. BCA boss Bran Black wrote in The Australian ($) that giant enterprise employs nearly one in three staff and companies making lower than 5% had “considerably worse employment outcomes” — so cease coming at us (BHP, Rio Tinto, Qantas, Woolworths, Coles, Woodside, Santos, and so on) with anti-business-policy. Keep tuned for Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s speech on Wednesday. In the meantime, do you know wine manufacturers Wynns, Pepperjack, Lindemans, Rawson’s Retreat, Sterling Vineyards, 19 Crimes, and Squealing Pig are all owned by the identical enterprise, Treasury Wine Property? They’re contemplating de-merging them as a result of drinkers are ditching the $10-$15 per bottle value vary, AFR says.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE

Caiden MacGibbon is a six-year-old who owns no fewer than 100 birds. It means the neighbours of his West Auckland household residence dwell day in and day trip with the chaotic cacophony of overlapping hen songs, however no-one complains. Actually, no-one minds a bit. That’s as a result of the candy, chubby-cheeked youngster has DIPG, an incurable and aggressive mind tumour. However you’d by no means comprehend it, seeing him sitting on the lounge flooring cracking up with one in every of his favorite feathered buddies — a hand-raised child Bourke. Stuff’s Amberleigh Jack watched on because the little hen took flight across the room earlier than touchdown on Caiden’s smiling head. His dad Karl says all the birds are so at peace within the firm of his awe-struck son. Nearly as in the event that they know in some way.

Caiden at all times liked birds, mum Jasmine says, describing how spellbound he was after a duck had infants on their property. Remarkably, she remembers, the mom duck didn’t thoughts a bit when Caiden performed with the ducklings. Chicken Barn is, no doubt, his favorite store — Jasmine stated they as soon as went day-after-day for 2 weeks straight when he wistfully informed his mum he’d like to personal one sometime. Why not in the present day, she requested Karl, and the mother and father launched Caiden’s Chicken Haven in a close-by storage to promote hand-raised birds in addition to do-it-yourself toys and swings. Karl says the time he spends along with his son turning lumps of wooden into stunning hen equipment is invaluable. They’re abilities he would possibly’ve taught Caiden as an grownup, however “you already know you’re going to overlook out on loads”. Nonetheless, so long as he’s blissful proper now, Karl says, “we’re good”.

Hoping you cease to take heed to the hen songs in the present day.

SAY WHAT?

The ‘gender card’ is nothing however a grievance narrative, constructed by the activist media and a disgruntled political class. We’d like the most effective particular person for the job no matter race, gender or sexuality.

Alex Antic

Maybe essentially the most perplexing a part of the “advantage” argument is that its logic suggests males are the most effective of us the overwhelming majority of the time, contemplating only a third (31%) of Liberal and LNP parliamentarians are ladies.

CRIKEY RECAP

If Peter Dutton actually desires to guide the social gathering of staff, right here’s what he may attempt

Peter Dutton (proper) (Picture: AAP/Darren England)

“A very liberal social gathering would elevate competitors as its main purpose in its financial administration and set about reintroducing it throughout the various Australian industries which might be characterised by oligopolies and abuse of market energy. Whereas that might go towards the Liberals’ historical past of appearing because the puppets of their massive enterprise donors, it will present some substance to being a celebration of staff, and cut back one of many key causes of diminishing dwelling requirements for Australians.

“There’s one other approach during which Dutton will help make the Liberals extra like a celebration of staff. It’s additionally long-term, like enabling better competitors. Presently the Liberals don’t resemble the Australian workforce in any approach, form or kind.”

‘Mourning can’t be an endpoint’: James Bradley on dwelling in an Age of Emergency

“A temperature rise of simply two levels can have catastrophic results on the planet and human life. Heatwaves and excessive climate occasions will enhance considerably. Greater than half the world’s inhabitants will probably be affected by water shortage. Meals manufacturing will decline markedly, particularly in areas similar to sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South America. The distribution and incidence of tropical illnesses similar to malaria and dengue fever will enhance considerably.

“The impacts on the non-human world will probably be much more drastic. Extinction charges will soar. Collapses in insect populations will speed up, severely disrupting ecosystems and meals manufacturing. Coral reefs will all however disappear.”

Israel’s risk to ban Al Jazeera exposes its illiberalism

“In 2014 I used to be one in every of three Al Jazeera journalists convicted of terrorism offences in Egypt, so Israel’s argument is acquainted. Again then, we have been masking the unfolding political disaster that flowed from the Arab Spring rebellion. We had fulfilled our skilled duties by speaking to all events of the battle, and that included the group that had shaped the final authorities, the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Like all first rate reporters, we had their contact particulars, and whereas we have been cautious to not broadcast incitements to violence, we additionally had an obligation to current their tales, political arguments and views as pretty and critically because the Egyptian authorities’s. In different phrases, it was not propaganda. It was good journalism.”

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THE COMMENTARIAT

Obligatory grocery code strikes proper steadiness — Craig Emerson (The AFR): “Smaller suppliers could be incomes inadequate returns to warrant new funding in innovation and tools that might allow them to supply better-quality merchandise at decrease costs. Some would possibly describe this as fascinating inventive destruction, after economist Joseph Schumpeter, however that refers back to the emergence of disruptive, new, productivity-raising applied sciences that take away poor adopters from the market. When the grocery store business tends in direction of monopsony — the place a small quantity have market shopping for energy over their suppliers, the destruction of these suppliers is just not inventive.

“After all, this doesn’t imply that each provider, no matter how inefficient it could be, deserves a dwelling; they should compete with one another and with new market entrants to enhance their effectivity, innovate and decrease their costs. But, they don’t have any hope of doing so if their margins are so low that the most effective they will hope for is white-knuckled survival. Whereas there’s an financial case for presidency intervention to counter monopsony energy within the grocery store business, the one customised coverage instrument at current is a voluntary code of conduct that accommodates no penalties for breaches, leaving the watchdog chained to the again porch. Since 2021, solely six disputes have been initiated by suppliers and none has resulted within the awarding of compensation.”

Israel is making the identical mistake America made in Iraq — David French (The New York Instances): “Actually, that was the central failure of the primary section of the Iraq conflict. Our forces — very like the Israeli navy — proved remarkably deadly and efficient in city fight. However we have been ineffective in sustaining civil society or the rule of regulation. Iraqis’ starvation and thirst didn’t make the information as a lot because the Gazan plight does in the present day. They did expertise anarchy, although, and that anarchy nearly value America the conflict. We went for the fast win, and we ended up embroiled in one in every of our longest conflicts. Even worse, that anarchy would possibly properly have represented our most consequential violation of the legal guidelines of conflict throughout your complete battle.

“Whereas mistaken strikes, tragic accidents and scandals just like the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib marred the American navy effort, our fight operations as an entire have been exact and focused and infrequently exceeded the necessities of the regulation of armed battle. Our preliminary occupation, nevertheless, was a catastrophe, and that catastrophe didn’t simply lay the groundwork for the years of conflict that adopted; it additionally represented a failure to uphold our authorized obligations to the individuals who have been quickly underneath our jurisdiction and management. The American navy turned the tide through the surge by adopting a basically completely different method.”