How’ard can or not it’s to Google somebody? Former prime minister John Howard is here to help on a regular basis Australians save themselves “from the looming monetary threats” with a few free occasions on Wednesday. We surprise if Howard’s plan entails spending many years in Parliament underneath a pension system that nets you roughly 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 a yr and getting all of your journey paid for the remainder of your life? As a result of I’ve usually thought if I might implement that form of passive revenue, it’d give me a little bit of respiration area.
Much more eyebrow-raising is Howard’s co-host alternative. He’s becoming a member of Pat Mesiti, whose bio on X (formerly Twitter) describes him as an “revenue acceleration coach specialising in serving to folks shift their mindsets to create extra wealth and dedicated to serving to elevate 10,000 millionaires”.
However he’s most likely greatest identified for his historical past. Mesiti was convicted of assaulting his spouse in 2016, and previous to that, the Hillsong Church dumped as a minister the self-described former intercourse addict when he was caught participating intercourse staff in 2001. His final brush with politics was his “prayers and pushback” occasions the place the COVID-19 sceptic cohort of Parliament acquired collectively: Senator Pauline Hanson, then United Australia Get together chief Craig Kelly, then LNP MP George Christensen and Senator Alex Antic.
We’ll be fascinated to see how this coheres right into a concept of economic safety.
The nice e book We’ve by no means been extra sure our serial truth-dodging former PM Scott Morrison was being honest when he promised, in September of final yr, that his memoir could be “fairly in contrast to another e book written by a chief minister”. Properly, the clumsily titled tome, Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness, is now accessible for pre-order.
Morrison is explicitly concentrating on the profitable US evangelical market with this e book (value upwards of a billion a yr), although when it was first introduced our writer sources had been sceptical {that a} determine with Morrison’s, let’s assume, restricted profile within the US would make a lot of ripple.
However he’s managed to get one US politician to recollect his identify not less than, with a foreword by former US vice-president Mike Pence. He’s an apparent alternative, the person who at all times described himself as a “Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order” and managed for example quite a bit in regards to the state of all these appellations by spending 4 years between 2016 and 2020 gratefully accepting no matter humiliation Donald Trump threw his manner.
Sandy Grant, co-founder of Hardie Grant, informed Crikey final September that he doubted the e book would clear 100 copies within the US; I assume now we’ll see.
Brittany on the mind It’s just about a textbook model of a Freudian slip: Western Australian Senator Linda Reynolds, whereas grilling public servants final week in her function as deputy chair of the joint committee of public accounts and audit inquiry into probity and ethics within the Australian public sector, reached for a popular culture reference, but it surely someway acquired away from her:
… time after time after time on this committee, we maintain getting departments coming ahead and simply saying, oops, sorry, you realize, we did it once more. You realize, like Brittany Higgins’ music, you realize, oops, we did it once more. I’m so sorry. We’ll do higher subsequent time. However there’s little or no accountability for not delivering on outcomes.
Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins, for anybody who requires the clarification, didn’t actually launch the 2000 pop smash “Oops!… I did it once more” — that was Britney Spears. In all probability an comprehensible slip given how a lot of Reynold’s mind Higgins would have occupied in recent times. Apparently, the Hansard transcript from this session on March 12 will not be but up — we’ll have an interest to see in the event that they clear that as much as account for Reynold’s apparent intention.
Portray the town Redland Beneath the discover of a lot of the nation, a collection of Queensland native authorities elections have been taking part in out. And given one of many candidates for mayor is former Liberal MP Andrew Laming — who was in search of the highest job in Redland Metropolis Council within the state’s southeast — it would shock no-one to listen to issues acquired a little bit bizarre.
The state electoral fee was pressured to name for calm in the course of the “extremely acrimonious” marketing campaign, claiming it had obtained an unprecedented variety of complaints about candidate behaviour; although it’s value mentioning no single candidate — neither Laming, nor Jos Mitchell, nor Cindy Corrie — or their representatives was singled out.
There have been confrontations between Laming and candidate Jos Mitchell each in individual and in court docket, and the fee required safety in any respect three Redland polling cubicles. Mitchell seems to have had the final snort, with the newest rely (at time of writing) seeming to supply no path to victory for anybody however her.
Lest you suppose Laming’s failure means we’ll be disadvantaged of vibrant mayor content material, The Courier-Mail has a helpful record of the newly elected mayors, which it tells us is predicted to incorporate: “A former bankrupt, an alleged drink driver, a climate presenter who as soon as performed a witch, and a former neighbour of musician Keith City.”
