Dutton accuses Rio Tinto of hypocrisy for backing Yes vote

THE PETER PRINCIPLE

Opposition Chief Peter Dutton has accused Rio Tinto of hypocrisy over its help for the Voice to Parliament when it additionally blew up the Juukan Gorge, The New Every day studies. He instructed Sky Information the mining large did “vital harm to Indigenous tradition” and was atoning for it retroactively for cred. It got here as BHP, Rio Tinto and Wesfarmers (which employs 4000 Indigenous individuals) every donated $2 million to the Yes23 marketing campaign, because the AFR ($) studies. Dutton went on to say some pro-Voice huge corporations “lacked a major spine” concerning the Voice to Parliament as a result of they’re “craving reputation” and making an attempt to impress Twitter. Or possibly they suppose Indigenous people must be heard on legal guidelines that have an effect on their very own peoples? Only a wild guess. Dutton claimed some leaders have privately mentioned they’re fearful about “ESG [environmental, social and governance] and remuneration packages being voted down at AGMs”.

In the meantime, Robert Menzies will win us the following election, Opposition Treasury spokesman Angus Taylor will say right this moment, as The Australian ($) studies, citing the previous PM’s strategy to inflation, labour and energy shortages, and a housing provide disaster in his 1949 win over the Chifley Labor authorities. Taylor says the Coalition ought to deal with house possession, supporting enterprise, fiscal self-discipline and freedom of alternative in distinction to Labor’s supposed huge authorities strategy… so mainly his social gathering’s eponymous libertarianism repackaged? Anyway, Taylor additionally needs to raise our low productiveness similar to conservative governments abroad equivalent to these of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did, calling it, in addition to inflation and over-regulation, “aspiration killers”, because the AFR ($) continues. He’ll additionally say Labor spent $185 billion extra in its two budgets than the Morrison authorities spent in March 2022’s funds, saying it was “no marvel” rates of interest went up inside weeks.

GOING FOR BROKE

Playing corporations must be pressured to pay for rehab and authorized providers, hurt discount advocates say through Guardian Australia. There’s already speak within the parliamentary inquiry of a levy to create a regulator and to disempower playing corporations within the creation of regulation, although it’s not clear but how a lot it will be or whether or not the federal government will implement one. Monetary Counselling Australia’s Lauren Levin says playing corporations have put the onus on the gambler for too lengthy whereas additionally spruiking jobs they create, their contributions to tax income and junior sports activities help. However peak physique Accountable Wagering Australia says huge playing paid $1.9 billion in taxes that fund healthcare and training, presumably angling for a gold star for obeying tax legislation.

From playing to pork-barrelling, and transparency crusader Rex Patrick says Labor’s solar energy program was a “taxpayer-funded rort”. Writing for Michael West Media, the previous senator says new FOI paperwork present the $200 million Neighborhood Batteries for Family Photo voltaic program for 400 neighborhood batteries noticed Labor decide 58 websites “with out due diligence” as a part of an effort to win seats… although there was no breakdown within the story of what number of websites had been Labor held or marginal. Patrick says this system has benefit — it’s designed to chop family energy payments by permitting them to attract upon extra photo voltaic power in neighborhood batteries — however impartial Rebekha Sharkie “smelt a rat” with the best way it was introduced and has written to the auditor-general asking him to look into it additional. Lastly, the NSW Labor authorities is scrapping the general public sector wage cap, the SMH ($) studies, which has held again the salaries of lecturers, nurses and paramedics.

THAT SINKING FEELING

Australia reportedly opposes a plan from a number of Pacific Island nations to slash carbon emissions from the transport trade, in line with sources the SMH ($) spoke to. The plan would see a $100 a tonne levy on maritime emissions to encourage the trade to undertake cleaner gasoline. Oz, with China, Russia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, have expressed concern, despite the fact that the Worldwide Chamber of Transport and the World Transport Council help it. One thing for senior Overseas Affairs Division official Ewen McDonald to take a look at? He’s our new particular envoy for the Pacific and regional affairs, the ABC studies, in addition to the brand new excessive commissioner to the Republic of Fiji. He was appointed to assist strengthen our bond with the Pacific, naming the area’s priorities within the 2050 Technique for the Blue Pacific Continent as a prime precedence.

In the meantime Ukrainian ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko has invited Overseas Affairs Minister Penny Wong to go to Kyiv, Guardian Australia studies. He praised the ever-diplomatic Wong’s understanding of Ukraine however mentioned experiencing it first-hand is essential. Intestine-wrenchingly, Myroshnychenko instructed a narrative a couple of mom looking for wedding ceremony attire to bury her twin 14-year-olds in, a practice to suggest the ladies won’t ever get the chance to develop up and marry. Talking of Ukraine, the AFR ($) has printed a very mind-boggling line in a narrative about how common Ukrainians supposedly communicate fluent weaponry now. “Reasonably than complaints about Taylor Swift tickets, inside Ukraine you’ll discover residents debating the deserves of F-16 fighter jets, ATACMS missile techniques or Abrams tanks, and which international locations have out there inventory,” Misha Zelinsky writes. Cripes.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE

Former electrician Graham Jahne felt it was time for a special profession, so now a median day’s work can contain being set on hearth, leaping off a six-storey constructing or operating in entrance of a truck. It’s the perfect job on the planet, he tells the ABC — Jahne is a full-time stunt man, having appeared in The Matrix Revolutions, Ghost Rider, Underbelly and Blue Heelers. Sparkie to huge display fixtures may seem to be a little bit of a soar, thoughts the pun, however the Melbourne man had lengthy stuffed his spare time with martial arts, circus, snowboarding and motorcycle driving, positioning him completely for the brand new profession (and maybe for James Bond-esque spy work too). So he hung up his instruments and went alongside for an audition at a stunt company within the early ’90s. There have been a whole bunch of aspiring stunt individuals there, he remembers, however he was considered one of simply 15 who had been fortunate sufficient to be signed.

Nevertheless it wasn’t till 1996 that he received his huge break — Hong Kong actor and stuntman Jackie Chan had come to city, and Jahne turned as much as slightly flat in South Yarra to audition. Chan was sitting proper there — it was “one of the surreal experiences” in his life, Jahne says, having spent years watching Chan’s iconic flicks. He shortly learnt and carried out a combat scene in entrance of the person himself, and was elated to listen to he’d scored a component within the 1997 movie Mr Good Man. It’s form of a bizarre factor, he says — you’re not on the billboards, regardless of months of gruelling work on the movie. Nevertheless it’s fairly cool to rub shoulders with stars, and in what different job would you put on frozen underwear, be doused in gasoline and set alight? Evidently, in terms of your nether areas, “you decide your security crew very fastidiously”, he says.

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SAY WHAT?

It doesn’t matter what your earnings is, everybody feels the ache, and the gradual lack of hope about previous aspirations.

Angus Taylor

The opposition’s Treasury spokesman says the 1% are in simply as a lot ache as the remainder of us in periods of excessive inflation. One may counter that being unable to place meals on the desk is slightly totally different from promoting your spare yacht.

CRIKEY RECAP

Penny Wong and the thousand cuts of the Kimberley Kitching saga

“Wong’s character was formed by the bullying she suffered as a baby. Maybe because of this, she is extremely delicate to any suggestion that she will herself be a bully. After the publication of the primary version of Penny Wong, I used to be instructed by her mates that the elements she disliked most — that damage her — had been those who talked about her shows of mood, together with in direction of her workers.

“She is a warrior with a pointy wit and tongue — in addition to that uncanny capacity to decrease the temperature in a room along with her quiet anger. But she has additionally retained key workers members for years. She builds deep and loving relationships. Those that know her greatest reject the concept that she is a bully. They are saying that her shows of aggression and mood could be seen otherwise, and extra favourably, if she had been a person.”

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Lithuania’s Pleasure defies counterprotests, regardless of gradual march to equality (euronews)

Canada’s wildfires: the place they’re, how a lot has burned and the way it’s altering air high quality (CBC)

South African Zulu king’s entourage denies ‘poisoning’ rumours (The Guardian)

THE COMMENTARIAT

Indonesia might assist carry China and America again from the brink — John McCarthy (The AFR) ($): “As of 2021, every was solely the opposite’s Thirteenth-largest buying and selling companions. Indonesia ranked twenty seventh as a vacation spot for Australian overseas funding. Indonesia was the Thirty eighth-largest supply of overseas funding for Australia. Australian enterprise has all the time been risk-averse about Indonesia. However different international locations generate profits there. We have to do one thing about it. Partly given the openings created by the 2021 Indonesia-Australia Complete Financial Partnership Settlement, alternatives exist throughout the board — however significantly in healthcare, meals and agriculture, training, and sources and power providers.

“Then there may be the function we want to see Indonesia play when it comes to regional safety. Indonesia has tended to be first amongst equals in South-East Asia — significantly so when Suharto’s authority was at his peak and the gifted Ali Alatas was overseas minister. Traditionally, Indonesia has not all the time used its pure company as an enormous nation with an clever management as successfully as it would. Its overseas coverage has generally been clothed within the nebulous rhetoric of non-alignment or subsumed below the carapace of ASEAN solidarity. It has even been referred to as a ‘small, huge nation’ for having fallen wanting its promise within the worldwide area. Though Jokowi is named a home president, he has accomplished higher than that.”

Dutton’s disturbing defence of Berejiklian — Sean Kelly (The Age) ($): “For this reason Dutton’s rhetorical technique is so disturbing. Sure, he mentioned, there’s a particular person — however what issues just isn’t what that particular person selected to do, it’s who I believe she is. He sought to switch a cool, evidenced, thought-about judgment of Berejiklian’s actions along with his personal impression. In impact, he was saying: sure, anyone did this stuff, however not Gladys, not the Gladys I do know. Who was it then? We’re left once more with an impersonal machine, by which no person with energy ever has to take duty for what they’ve accomplished.

“Politicians will all the time search to inform us tales about who they supposedly are in personal. However they need to not anticipate us to consider there may be some ‘actual’ model of them hiding simply over there, away from the actions they’ve taken. We all know sufficient about Berejiklian now to make up our personal minds. If Dutton needs us to know one thing new about him, it’s his proper to make an advert. But when he needs us to consider he’s anyone apart from who he has thus far seemed to be, then it’s as much as him to display it in his management of the federal opposition. Pretending the ICAC findings aren’t as critical as they’re just isn’t a great first step.”

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WHAT’S ON TODAY

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• The New York Instances’ Damien Cave and The Lowy Institute’s Meg Eager and Hervé Lemahieu will unpack the findings of the 2023 Lowy Institute Ballot, on the institute.

• Opposition Treasury spokesman Angus Taylor will communicate at Zurich Monetary Companies.