Chinese satellites have been tracking Australia's war games

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A whole bunch of Chinese language satellites are hovering over Australia accumulating intelligence on our navy coaching with the US and others, the ABC stories. EOS Area Techniques adopted three that manoeuvred into place over our Talisman Sabre struggle video games in northern Australia, and 300 smaller satellites have been tracked since August 10 Australian, US, Indian and Japanese warships in Sydney Harbour. So what kind of data may Beijing be accumulating? Our capabilities, tools and navy exercise processes, an professional stated. The Defence Division was like, yeah, we all know — we monitor them too, as a part of our “broader area area consciousness efforts”. However we don’t have any navy satellites, the ABC provides. It comes as China’s military has launched a propaganda video the place troopers appear to be making ready for battle within the Taiwan strait, The Guardian stories. Gulp.

In the meantime a video of an Indigenous man being thrown to the bottom in Taree whereas he had a seizure has prompted a NSW Police investigation. His household informed Guardian Australia no-one known as an ambulance, although the 18-year-old was allegedly bleeding from the top. He has “consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction and foetal alcohol spectrum dysfunction, and had been on the incapacity pension since he was 16”, the paper provides. He was charged with possessing suspected stolen items. Some 549 Indigenous folks have died in police custody or jail for the reason that 1991 Royal Fee into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the federal authorities says, 49 folks this 12 months alone. It comes because the Central Land Council says there isn’t any such factor as a “progressive” No vote on the Voice to Parliament referendum — historical past won’t distinguish the 2, the council’s Josie Douglas says. The democratically elected council represents greater than 30 main Indigenous communities and 100 homelands/outstations.

WATER, VAPER, GAS

1 / 4 of the general public submissions to the federal government’s vaping reform session interval parroted the tobacco and vaping business’s marketing campaign, Guardian Australia stories. The Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change’s Michelle Jongenelis went by means of 2385 submissions and located 26% have been phrase for phrase with an unnamed astroturfing marketing campaign (astroturfing is when a “grassroots” motion is pushed by an enormous multinational). Vaping has inspired e-cigarette customers to reject reforms — mainly, to foyer on their behalf — usually guided by “unsubstantiated claims and misinformation”, Jongenelis says.

To a different poisonous vapour now and being anti-gas is simply too woke, in line with Coalition Senator Andrew Bragg by way of The Age ($). He’ll warn immediately that “if we lose electrification to a tradition struggle, we might by no means get to internet zero” and recommend incoming bans on gasoline connections ought to get replaced with tax breaks for family batteries (in Victoria, for example, from 2024 new builds can’t have gasoline — and it’ll save a Melbournian $12,000-$14,000 over 10 years, the Grattan Institute discovered). Bragg is pro-household electrification, however simply doesn’t need to see it “misplaced in a political bunfight”.

CLIVE CALLED THE SHOTS

Billionaire Clive Palmer bankrolled an deserted class motion lawsuit towards Telstra over COVID vaccine mandates, the SMH ($) stories. A former Telstra installer-repairer tried to argue that the mandate breached enterprise agreements and work well being and security legal guidelines, however the case was aborted as a result of “the funder” pulled his bank card. Seems it was the United Australia Celebration founder. In the meantime his former political foe, WA Premier Mark McGowan, is in “talks” to hitch BHP, The West ($) stories. The filthy fossil-fuel big wouldn’t affirm, however the paper says he’ll in all probability be part of the board or be an adviser. McGowan was an enormous supporter of preserving mines open in the course of the pandemic, with the dosh pouring billions into our state and federal budgets. And all we needed to commerce for it was the well being of the planet as we sweated by means of the most popular month ever recorded after which witnessed the deadliest bushfires within the US in a century.

It comes as former PM Malcolm Turnbull says we have to ditch gray hydrogen (created from fossil fuels) and get behind clear hydrogen. Writing for Guardian Australia, he says we want it in steelmaking, delivery and aviation, however it’s obtained to be renewable electrolytic inexperienced hydrogen, not blue (made with pure gasoline with carbon seize tech used alongside the way in which). Blue prices an excessive amount of, and doesn’t minimise sufficient CO2 or methane, Turnbull says. Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest agreed by way of The Washington Publish ($) final 12 months, saying “blue hydrogen” is simply advertising communicate. Lastly, Labor is forming a plan to repeat US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Discount Act, which’ll see US$3 trillion for renewable tech, Local weather Change and Vitality Minister Chris Bowen confirmed. It was handed on the ground of Labor’s convention in Brisbane, The Australian ($) says.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE

Vale Parky. Chat present king Michael Parkinson has died, aged 88, after a brief sickness. He was described as “the very best interviewer within the enterprise” by environmentalist David Attenborough, who all the time “introduced out the easiest” in his company, musician Elton John added. British actor Michael Caine agreed, saying Parky “all the time needed the interviewee to shine”. Parkinson was born to a miner dad and developed a love for cricket early on that led to him reporting sports activities outcomes for his native Cudworth rag. After two years within the military, Parkinson joined The Guardian after which the Day by day Categorical earlier than shifting to BBC TV to host his eponymous first present in 1971. His favorite interviewee? Boxer Muhammad Ali, he stated (watch right here). The one which obtained away? Cricketer Donald Bradman — Parky informed the SMH final 12 months the Don wasn’t impolite about it, simply by no means needed to be interviewed. Revisit extra of his memorable interviews right here by way of the ABC.

Parkinson noticed Australia as considerably of a second dwelling — it’s possible you’ll keep in mind swimmer Ian Thorpe’s 2014 TV particular when our greatest-ever Olympian revealed he was homosexual, as Guardian Australia reported. Parky interviewed additionally former PM Bob Hawke on Parkinson in Australia (1979-83) and was good mates with the late Shane Warne. He described an “mental aspect to Australians that’s fascinating”, and loved the “nice sense of humour right here”. He preferred the straightforward firm of Aussies: “I’ve all the time fitted in with them.” The key to his success? Easy, he informed the SMH: “Do your analysis, discover out the whole lot you possibly can, after which get them to inform the story — their story.” It’s about steering them to “clarify the beforehand inexplicable, the place their skills come from, to try to clarify the good thriller”. Nice recommendation for any aspiring conversationalist. Go properly.

Hoping you are feeling heard immediately, and that you’ve a restful weekend.

SAY WHAT?

You’ve been proudly supporting England all match. Not a phrase for Australia. Not that we count on it. We choose the honesty. With out the patronising pat on the top in defeat. Assist the Lionesses & allow us to get on with our enterprise, mate.

Craig Foster

Shut the hell up, the co-chair of the Australian Republic Motion informed the long run king, after Prince William tweeted his “commiserations” to the Matildas, calling them “implausible co-hosts”.

CRIKEY RECAP

Brian Houston discovered not responsible of expenses he hid his father’s intercourse crimes

Hillsong founder and former pastor Brian Houston (Picture: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)

“The query of precisely what Brian Houston knew about his father’s crimes and what he ought to have finished with that data adopted the pastor for greater than 20 years as his energy and affect unfold. On the identical time, Houston’s razzamatazz fashion of Pentecostal Christianity grew in reputation as the standard religions struggled to draw attendees.

“For a lot of the time, the element and extent of the scandal surrounding Frank Houston was recognized to solely a choose group of senior Pentecostal figures. When Frank Houston died in 2004, his funeral was attended by as much as a thousand mourners, together with politicians and a future NSW police commissioner. He was farewelled as an ideal man of faith. The secular world solely caught on to Hillsong’s darkest secret in 2014 …”

‘Gina needed to clear up’: highlights of the Hancock royalties case to this point

“When it was reported that Western Australian Individual of the Yr, comic, poet, Trumpette, mining billionaire and frequent court-case-haver Gina Rinehart’s firm Hancock Prospecting was dealing with a number of challenges over royalties and possession of the Hope Downs mine — each from the corporate of her father’s late enterprise associate, Peter Wright, and two of her personal kids — we knew that the contemporary insights into how actually, actually ridiculously wealthy folks stay can be priceless. Listed below are a couple of of the wildest particulars to emerge to this point …

“It’s a shock to the system to be reminded simply when these doubtlessly ruinous dealings in Romania have been happening. The person Hancock was negotiating with was Nicolae Ceaușescu, presumably probably the most brutal and repressive Stalinist dictator for the reason that unique, who was at the moment including ‘hunger’ to the checklist of privations and brutalities he had inflicted on his folks …”

Albanese gives $3.5bn to beat NIMBYs — however builders would be the actual winners

“This isn’t about governments constructing additional housing themselves. There’ll, nevertheless, be rigidity between state and territory governments and builders. The previous will need the inducement funds, so will need builders to construct and promote as rapidly as potential. Builders, nevertheless, aren’t essentially concerned with constructing and promoting as rapidly as potential — they’ll construct and promote when it makes probably the most cash for them.

“Many will choose to purchase newly launched land, and even acquire growth approval for initiatives, however will then sit on the land and wait till housing costs rise even additional. Opposite to all of the commentators who’re insisting builders would remedy our housing scarcity if solely we obtained out of the way in which, builders have zero curiosity in fixing that scarcity.”

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Most of West Africa prepared to hitch standby drive in Niger: [Economic Community of West African State] (Al Jazeera)

H&M says it’ll ‘section out’ sourcing from Myanmar (Reuters)

Mortgage charges soar to their highest stage in 21 years [to 7.09%] (CNN)

EU to achieve winter gasoline storage goal months forward of latest deadline (euronews)

Video selling $2000 [monthly] hire for 200-square-foot Vancouver house extensively criticised (CBC)

Sweden raises terrorist menace stage after Qur’an burnings (The Guardian)

THE COMMENTARIAT

Self-determination can’t be achieved by means of compromised finance — Ben Abbatangelo (IndigenousX): “It’s confronting to see mob take cash from Andrew Forrest and his Minderoo Basis. The Forrest household has a properly documented historical past of paternalism and has generated its wealth from trampling throughout our communities. Forrest and his Fortescue Metals Group’s Solomon Mine, the businesses most profitable iron ore mine that has been working illegally on the Yindjibarndi’s Peoples Nation for greater than a decade, has been syphoning tens of billions of {dollars} out of their lands. This unlawful challenge, as adjudicated by the very best court docket within the land after greater than a decade-long authorized battle, is the topic of what’s anticipated to be one of many largest compensation claims in Australian historical past. Initiatives just like the unlawful Solomon Mine are the backbone of Forrest and his basis’s wealth.

“We have to ask how we will in good conscience finance our initiatives and aspirations with the blood cash that was extracted from different Indigenous peoples lands? What are the strains and the place are they drawn? Whereas there’s compromise in the whole lot, are these compromises those that we’re prepared to make? Sure, the dialog is uncomfortable, significantly as the prevailing pool of presidency, company and philanthropic funding is dwarfed by the size of challenges that our communities face, however it’s one which we have to have. I don’t faux to have all of the solutions, however I do consider that we have to suppose deeply concerning the present financial paradigms and maintain ourselves and one another to a better account.”

Ardern nemesis key to new period of NZ conservatism — Craig Greaves (The Australian) ($): “One among New Zealand’s most essential politicians is an earnest and enthusiastic Aucklander whose actions as soon as famously provoked Jacinda Ardern into calling him a ‘prick’ throughout parliamentary debate. The politician in query is David Seymour and he’s having a whale of a time, regardless of being a political minnow as a pacesetter of the minor social gathering. Seymour helms ACT New Zealand, which sits comfortably on the fitting wing of politics as a basic libertarian social gathering. ACT sees worth in custom and a restricted authorities, in addition to advantage in private accountability and freedom.

“Seymour, 40, is having fun with his new-found station as a result of the social gathering he has led for seven years has by no means been stronger. It’s primed not simply to assist usher within the subsequent authorities however to sign its path. Latest polling suggests a change of presidency in what remains to be more likely to be a keenly contested October 14 common election. The opposition centre-right Nationwide Celebration’s polling benefit has lately strengthened, whereas the centre-left incumbent Labour Celebration is struggling to achieve floor, partly due to a barrage of ministerial scandals and a dogged cost-of-living disaster. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is usually polling across the 30% mark, with the Christopher Luxon-led Nationwide Celebration constantly about 2-3 factors increased.”