TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
An ABC TV crew filmed a protest outdoors Woodside Vitality boss Meg O’Neill’s lavish beachside mansion in Perth the place at the very least three individuals allegedly “invaded her property”, The Australian ($) experiences. Two males, 34 and 31, and a girl, 19 had been charged. The Oz, which wouldn’t dare miss a chance to slam the broadcaster, says the ABC was “below strain” to clarify why workers had been there filming — presumably strain from The Australian itself, which seems to have accused the ABC of “collusion” with protesters, one thing a spokesperson referred to as false. Disrupt Burrup Hub tweeted that the protest was “peaceable”, however O’Neill proclaimed it needs to be condemned by anybody who believes “individuals needs to be protected to go about their enterprise at residence and at work”. One may counter to the American-born CEO, who might make as much as $12.5 million this 12 months from fossil fuels, that local weather change is additionally making individuals unsafe at residence and at work — significantly contemplating heatwaves are the only largest pure killer in Australia, and July was the most popular month ever recorded, the BBC experiences.
In the meantime, billionaire Andrew Forrest has warned UK PM Rishi Sunak he’ll pull his main investments out of the UK if it begins “steering itself over a cliff backing fossil fuels”, The Guardian experiences. Sunak has been copping it after he introduced 100 oil and fuel drilling licences can be granted for the North Sea — Forrest says he has to speculate the place management isn’t on a “clickbait cycle”. To a different billionaire now and mining matriarch Gina Rinehart’s messy household drama continues after a 40-year-old letter exhibits Lang Hancock and Peter Wright needed to share billions in royalties from their iron ore discoveries, The Age ($) experiences. The Wright household desires a few of the dosh, as does the household of fellow prospector Don Rhodes, from the profitable Hope Downs tenement.
FROM THE COCKPIT
Dozens of Qantas workers have contributed to a sexist on-line chat discussion board the place they described girls as operating “their breeding program”, “spawning offspring” to get versatile work and accusing the brand new feminine CEO Vanessa Hudson of being a variety decide, the Herald Solar ($) experiences. Qantas chief pilot Dick Tobiano was pissed, saying aviation has traditionally had a girls drawback that evidently lingers, including he hopes feminine pilots wouldn’t be deterred by the discussion board. Solely 7% of Qantas pilots are girls and 15% at QantasLink, although it’s higher than the 5% worldwide. Dismal.
Talking of variety, Equality Australia has taken the charity watchdog, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Fee (ACNC), to court docket over its refusal to classify it as a public benevolent establishment (PBI) — being a PBI permits individuals to make tax-deductible donations, as The New Every day explains. However the ACNC discovered Equality Australia desires to vary legal guidelines and authorities insurance policies that have an effect on the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood, and it didn’t match with PBI necessities to be aiding individuals struggling poverty, illness, destitution, helplessness, misfortune or misery. That’s regardless of Past Blue discovering LGBTQIA+ individuals resist twice as a lot abuse or violence than their heterosexual counterparts, whereas the trans neighborhood faces limitations “gaining employment, sustaining employment, rejection from household, bodily violence [and] verbal abuse”, as an professional tells the ABC.
TREATY TALKS
The Albanese authorities will pursue a treaty with Indigenous peoples if draft modifications to Labor’s election platform are ratified on the occasion’s nationwide convention later this month, The Age ($) experiences. If it’s greenlit, it’d enable the federal government to pursue a treaty course of earlier than the following election — although it doesn’t have to. Labor sources say the wording, “Labor will take steps to implement all three parts of the Uluru Assertion from the Coronary heart on this time period of presidency,” is deliberately ambiguous. It comes after Opposition Chief Peter Dutton attacked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for saying in interviews two weeks in the past the Voice isn’t about treaty whereas additionally committing to implement the Uluru Assertion in full.
However Dutton has no reminiscence of being briefed by the AFP about Nauru contractor Mozammil Bhojani who was charged with bribery one month after he signed a contract with the Defence Division. The newest revelation from a 9 newspapers’ sequence is that the AFP additionally seemed into Queensland firm Canstruct amid allegations of “company wrongdoing, bribery or the misuse of Commonwealth funds” inside its $1.82 billion Nauru offshore processing contract, although the AFP wouldn’t affirm it. The paper is cautious to say it’s not accusing Canstruct of something, solely saying the AFP launched a “secret probe”. In the meantime, Solomon Islands newspaper the Solomon Star was paid by Beijing for constructive protection, the ABC experiences. At the very least one front-page story was equipped by a gaggle with buyers linked to China’s police and army, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Mission discovered. Editors on the struggling Solomon Star additionally wrote up a proposal to China’s embassy in Honiara asking for about A$206,300 for printing and broadcast tools.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
It was simply one other lengthy day for Radha MP, a sanitation employee within the southern Indian state of Kerala, when she heard the lottery jackpot had ballooned to 100 million rupees (A$1.8 million) in honour of the Indian annual summer season monsoon season. It was exhausting to overlook — individuals had been positively buzzing about it, chattering about what they’d do with the prize cash and methods to enhance their possibilities. Tickets had been about $5, however Radha didn’t have it — that’s how a lot she makes a day whereas gathering family rubbish and constructing public bogs, as The New York Occasions ($) tells it. It’s soiled work, however an actual heat and closeness had fashioned between her and fellow feminine employees on the native recycling program.
So Radha collected some spare change from every of 10 colleagues and acquired a single ticket. Not solely was it a statistical lengthy shot, however it was additionally a cultural one — half the ladies had been from social lessons shunned by society, together with the Dalit neighborhood. However Radha, who had not too long ago misplaced large in a monetary rip-off and was buried in debt, figured why not us? She determined to attend for her buddies earlier than checking their ticket the morning after the numbers had been launched. The group couldn’t imagine their eyes: an ideal numerical match. They’d gained $1.8 million, and there have been tears throughout. Okay Binduhad had misplaced her husband to kidney failure after they couldn’t afford a transplant, because the BBC continues — now she had the cash to coach their 15-year-old daughter. Cherumannil Child had her residence washed away in 2018 floods — now she may, in the end, rebuild. “Luck was by no means on my aspect,” she mentioned. Till now.
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SAY WHAT?
Blinken confirms that after making ourselves a nuclear goal and committing to the most important ever switch of wealth abroad to subsidise their shipyards, the US won’t drop proceedings towards Assange — for exposing US struggle crimes. The type we’re prosecuting in Afghanistan.
Bob Carr
The previous international affairs minister and former NSW premier put it plainly after the US secretary of state indicated there was no hope of the US dropping the costs towards Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who stays in a UK jail.
CRIKEY RECAP
Morrison misleads Parliament but once more — and says he’s the true sufferer of robodebt
“Morrison’s self-portrayal as an harmless gulled by bureaucrats falls away solely on the cost that he misled the royal fee about his perception that revenue averaging was a part of the best way DSS had at all times operated. [Catherine] Holmes forensically particulars Morrison’s proof and exhibits there may be merely no method that Morrison may plausibly declare to have believed that when he permitted the NPP in 2015.
“Morrison admitted to the royal fee that he was by no means informed in writing there was a longstanding apply of revenue averaging, saying ‘It could have come up in verbal briefings’ — besides he couldn’t say who informed him. He started claiming he’d been informed verbally solely throughout his proof to the fee, not in his formal assertion beforehand.”
Local weather ‘doomism’ is the one rational response to Anthony Albanese’s denial
“Take into account the Albanese authorities’s signature local weather coverage, which allows fossil gas initiatives to proceed and develop below the guise of local weather progress by the rip-off of carbon credit — a ploy described by specialists as ‘environmental and taxpayer fraud’ and probably unlawful. Take into account too his authorities’s underreporting of annual greenhouse fuel air pollution; its refusal to purge from the Local weather Change Authority all these with hyperlinks to the fossil-fuel business …
“its multibillion-dollar funding in discredited, fossil-fuel appeasing know-how, comparable to carbon seize storage; and the way it’s employed inexperienced language to rebadge the extremely contentious and irresponsible fossil-fuel initiatives, such because the Center Arm fuel improvement in Darwin harbour, as ‘sustainable improvement’. Now flip your thoughts to Albanese’s worldwide greenwashing, his unconcealed vassalage to the fuel sector …”
That Sharri Markson ‘pit bull’ insult and different excruciating scorching mic moments
“In the meantime, at a Pacific Islands Discussion board in Papua New Guinea in 2015, then-PM and gaffe-a-tron 3000 Tony Abbott was heard commenting on conferences operating delayed. In reply, then-immigration minister Peter Dutton undermined the long run humanising profiles he was to obtain by joking about our allies’ probably inundation by the hands of the local weather change we’ve carried out a lot to speed up: ‘Time doesn’t imply something whenever you’re about to have water lapping at your door.’
“The prime minister has a chuckle, just for the merriment to instantly drain out of the dialog after Scott Morrison, on the time social providers minister, mentioned: ‘There’s a increase up there.’ No matter embarrassment they undoubtedly really feel, maybe these above will console themselves with the information that it may have been a lot worse. There was after all Donald Trump bragging of his potential to sexually assault girls …”
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Capturing at Swedish consulate in Turkey’s Izmir injures one (Al Jazeera)
Phoenix simply endured the most popular month for any US metropolis as historic warmth streak involves an finish (CNN)
Drone hits tower housing Russian ministries for second time in three days (Reuters)
Bother brewing: Rishi Sunak heckled on pint-pulling picture op (The Guardian)
Auckland CBD shootings: gunman Matu Reid’s household say they’re ‘sorry and scared’ (NZ Herald)
This EU nation [Hungary] is now the one one with out a single feminine minister (euronews)
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