FIRST NATIONS FIRST
Certainly one of 17 principally Indigenous boys held inside a most safety Perth jail has swallowed glass, Guardian Australia experiences. It was security glass, and doesn’t trigger the kind of ugly hurt regular glass would, however he was rushed to hospital. Nationwide Suicide Prevention and Trauma Restoration Venture mentioned it was “gravely involved” for the boys, a few of whom are as younger as 14. “I’m fearful there will probably be a suicide involving a youngster for the primary time ever in a Western Australian jail,” venture director Megan Krakouer mentioned. She added “many” of the boys have a incapacity. It comes as a 32-year-old Indigenous father of two died on the jail after a suspected suicide on Sunday, as Perth Now experiences. He had reportedly been held in solitary, referred to as the SHU — the particular dealing with unit — within the lead as much as his dying.
In the meantime, an $11 million dedication to decreasing Indigenous incarceration within the ACT has been welcomed as a “big stress aid” by authorized teams, the Nationwide Indigenous Instances experiences. ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr mentioned his authorities is decided to slash the detainment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and cut back recidivism by 1 / 4 by 2025. The cash will bolster culturally protected assist in custody, a yarning circles program for ex-detainees to reconnect with group and Nation, rising websites for bail reporting, and a one-on-one strategy for individuals with cognitive disabilities, in addition to decreasing wait instances for court docket dates and making bail extra accessible. “The ACT justice system is considerably extra prone to arrest, prosecute and jail First Nations individuals than non-Indigenous individuals,” Legal professional-Common and ACT Greens Chief Shane Rattenbury mentioned, including it was excessive time to rebuild belief. It comes as One Nation’s Pauline Hanson has introduced she’s going to spearhead the “no” marketing campaign in opposition to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, claiming it will result in apartheid in Australia, The Courier Mail ($) experiences.
CLIVE GETS THE COAL SHOULDER
Atmosphere Minister Tanya Plibersek desires to dam billionaire Clive Palmer’s proposed coalmine, saying it will do “unacceptable” harm to the Nice Barrier Reef, Guardian Australia experiences. It’s simply 10km from the reef, and would dig up 18 million tonnes of coal. It’s the primary massive resolution from Plibersek within the portfolio — she’ll use the Atmosphere Safety and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) however requested the general public to weigh in with submissions closing on August 18. It comes after Labor’s local weather invoice handed within the decrease home with flying colors yesterday, 89 votes to 55 (4 amendments from the independents handed too). However Greens Chief Adam Bandt says we’ve acquired to have a look at a local weather set off for the EPBC Act, the SMH continues. It could imply all fossil gas tasks must go a world warming examine (and, the paper says, most wouldn’t). Prime Minister Anthony Albanese waved that away yesterday, saying environmental and financial causes are essential (which jogs my memory of my favorite New Yorker cartoon).
Nonetheless, The Australian ($) experiences considerably pointedly, hovering coal and fuel exports drove the nation’s commerce surplus to a document $17.7bn in June, which suggests our commerce stability for 2021-22 is 54% larger at an unprecedented $137.4 billion. Why? The struggle in Ukraine, principally — world markets are disrupted by a scarcity of grain, coal and fuel, based on the CBA. However new gamers trying to edge in in the marketplace may run into bother — final week Westpac mentioned it will slash lending to coal, oil and fuel firms by 1 / 4 within the subsequent decade, becoming a member of NAB and Commonwealth Financial institution within the push to defund the tasks, Reuters experiences.
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We’ve lastly acquired a take a look at a letter the Australian Federal Police (AFP) wrote to then house affairs minister Peter Dutton in June 2018 about George Christensen, former senator for SA Rex Patrick writes, some three years after the liberty of data (FOI) was lodged. What provides? “With Mr Christensen having now left the Parliament, the discharge of the letter now’s moot,” Patrick writes for Michael West Media. The letter suggested Dutton that Christensen “undertakes in depth worldwide journey to South-East Asia throughout non-sitting intervals and has engaged in actions that might doubtlessly place him prone to being focused for compromise by overseas curiosity”. Rex says he’ll keep away from musing on what Christensen’s “actions” had been, however did say it exhibits how the AFP delaying FOI requests — unintentionally or not — fails constituents.
Talking of the AFP, there’s an fascinating case taking part in out within the courts concerning the legality of a telephone that tricked alleged criminals into conducting their allegedly unlawful enterprise with out realising they had been CC-ing within the cops. Crikey experiences the AFP took over an actual firm that was promoting “safe” telephones and intercepted all of the messages being despatched. How? “A supply arrested for his involvement in one other encrypted app, Phantom, was given immunity and paid a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} to offer the grasp keys to the app to the FBI,” reporter Cam Wilson explains. It labored a deal with: 383 alleged offenders had been charged with 2340 offences, referring to issues comparable to medicine and firearms. However was it authorized? A rising variety of senior defence barristers are sceptical, Guardian Australia writes, and the matter will probably be heard in a Sydney native court docket in September.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
It’s one of many crucial pillars of well being, we spent a 3rd of our lives in pursuit of it, it’s the place we get to reside out our wildest fantasies, and but as a species we simply can’t appear to get sufficient dang shuteye. Whether or not it’s an upstairs neighbour who likes to tapdance to KORN at 3am, a canine bedfellow who’s considerably of a manspreader, or a companion sounding extra just like the honking of an oncoming freight practice than a tranquil sleeping magnificence, sleep may be infuriatingly difficult. Happily there are fast methods to feel and appear perky, even in the event you lucked out the evening earlier than. First, The Guardian’s Helen Hawkes says, de-puff. Place an icepack on the face, or go full Paul Newman by dunking your face into iced water for 30 seconds. If that sounds a bit a lot within the morning, chilly teabags will do in a pinch.
You could be tempted to squeeze in each potential minute of snoozing, however don’t skip the skincare regime — moisturiser and sunscreen will enhance and refresh your face. However extra long-term, it’s value wanting on the root reason for sleeplessness. For example, that 3pm espresso may assist make the afternoon extra bearable, however the caffeine is probably going nonetheless stimulating your system that night. Strive decaf or tea as an alternative. Equally, exercising and even consuming inside a few hours of bedtime will increase your core physique temperature, and should forestall you from dropping off. Lastly, the identical bedtime each (or a minimum of most) nights will allow you to really feel extra rested, since you’re working together with your pure circadian rhythm, slightly than in opposition to it.
Hoping you take care of your self like you take care of others, people, and have a restful weekend.
SAY WHAT?
Managerial roles comparable to human assets managers, variety officers, sustainability consultants, social media managers, communications officers, sensitivity readers and, extra lately, gender affirmation advisers allow a complete class of college graduates to proselytise their values whereas working in roles which can be largely insulated from market forces.
Claire Lehmann
The commentator says Treasurer Jim Chalmers ought to “take a purple pen to woke jobs” — together with, for some cause, HR and social media — to economize within the federal finances. The truth is, her op-ed for The Australian ($) mentions the phrase “woke” no fewer than 14 instances, proving once more that conservative Australia doesn’t fairly have a grasp on the that means of the phrase. It’s simply eight months since intercourse discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins discovered half (51%) of the individuals working in Parliament and parliamentary workplaces had been bullied, sexually harassed or sexually assaulted.
Why do politicians assume they’ll get away with no matter they need?
“These are political professionals, whose complete profession relies on understanding the electoral temper, who’ve at their disposal a big selection of instruments for studying that temper. However a public servant knew higher than them that Barilaro was poisonous. The truth is, any random particular person pulled off Macquarie St may have advised them that.
“That is what occurs whenever you’ve been in authorities for a very long time, when nobody is round who remembers not having the comforts and ease of incumbency, when being in energy appears the pure state of affairs that may by no means change, when taxpayer assets and the workplaces of state come to appear belongings to be disposed of as a political occasion sees match, irrespective of the general public curiosity.”
Denialism’s draw back: is Dutton now shedding even his fossil gas donors?
“Dutton, who took a unilateral resolution to oppose Labor’s local weather invoice, thereby dealing himself out of any efforts to amend it, is now ‘estranged’ not merely from massive enterprise however from key fossil gas donors with whom the Coalition has carefully labored for over a decade to stymie local weather motion.
“With out massive fossil fuels, who does Dutton have left in his nook? Solely the denialist rump of the Liberal and Nationwide events, and Information Corp. His opposition to local weather motion will make the already troublesome job of profitable again ‘teal’ seats even more durable — think about a Liberal candidate working in a metropolitan Sydney or Melbourne seat on a local weather coverage that even our largest fossil gas firms don’t assist? All of the Information Corp cheerleading on the earth gained’t be capable of get them over the road.”
Not studying the room, Information Corp struggles to attain with LGBTIQA+ exclusion
“Turned out, it was a entice. By Foxtel, Information Corp is the NRL’s cable and streaming broadcaster, reportedly paying over $200 million a yr for the rights. Certain, any controversy is nice for scores, however paying these payments requires an viewers properly past the right-wing tradition warriors who learn their pay-walled masthead.
“Inside 48 hours, Information Corp discovered it scuffling with the outdated query: what in the event you began a tradition struggle and no one got here? It began off okay for Information. Though NRL boss Peter V’landys brushed the difficulty off with ‘we’re inclusive’, he stumbled with sufficient both-sidesing to offer house to Information’ jersey critics. It was left to Manly’s rival on the evening, Roosters coach Trent Robinson, to wash up for the code’s management in his pre-match interview.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
China fires missiles in ‘unprecedented’ drills round Taiwan (Al Jazeera)
India withdraws a proposed legislation on knowledge safety (The New York Instances)
Brittney Griner: US basketball star jailed for 9 years on drug expenses (BBC)
Censorship fears as Solomon Islands authorities tightens management over state broadcaster (SBS)
Financial institution of England hikes charges, predicts 13% inflation and lengthy recession (The Guardian)
Wellington working out of water and going through outside bans and shorter showers (Stuff)
Taliban investigating US ‘declare’ of killing al-Qaeda chief (Al Jazeera)
Employees in Iraq get break day as temperatures go 50C (BBC)
4 present, former Louisville cops federally charged in Breonna Taylor’s dying (CNN)
THE COMMENTARIAT
Nobody can afford additional delays to significant local weather motion — Paul Sinclair (The Age): “Have you ever ever stopped to consider changing into extinct? Presumably not, and I’m unsure it happens to mountain pygmy possums both, but it surely is likely one of the most susceptible native animals to extinction due to local weather change. You gained’t discover pygmy possums in India, Indonesia or Eire. They’re distinctive — one of many creatures that make Australia like nowhere else on Earth. Now that it’s confirmed the Albanese authorities’s local weather invoice will obtain sufficient assist to turn out to be legislation, let’s be clear about what’s at stake if our legislators don’t work collectively for a lot better motion: there will probably be many extinctions within the subsequent 20 years, and the mountain pygmy possum may very well be among the many first to go.
“Nobody, actually, can afford additional delays to significant motion on local weather change. The nationwide State of the Atmosphere report launched final month documented how local weather change is worsening pressures on each Australian ecosystem, in addition to harming our well being. Too few Australians are conscious that Australia already has the worst mammal extinction document on the planet, however the report additionally warned us that extinctions in Australia had been rising and accelerating, pushed by local weather change, tree clearing and invasive species … Scientific proof says a 75% discount inside the decade is required to restrict temperature rises of greater than 1.5 levels. It’s nowhere close to sufficient for our wildlife or for us.”
For a giant concept that leads opposition to energy, go nuclear — Bob Carr (The Australian) ($): “As NSW planning minister between 1984 and 1988 I started to know how fiendishly troublesome it will be to find a nuclear energy plant. Australia had by no means been in a position to find a high-temperature waste incinerator. And never even that modest proposal for a nuclear waste repository within the desert of South Australia — free from earthquakes or floods — may win assist from both facet of SA politics or, even after the total airing of the concept by a royal fee, a good share of public opinion. However what about websites that for 40 years had equipped massive slabs of NSW and Victorian energy? If ever there have been a chance to resolve the massive query of finding nuclear crops the closure of the coal-fired fleet was going to supply it.
“Calling for expressions of curiosity would make clear business prospects. Proper now there is no such thing as a consortium of superannuation funds, non-public fairness, service provider financial institution and development firm volunteering to make the funding. Abroad companions? South Korea beneath an anti-nuclear president folded up its one nuclear energy firm even after a profitable development of a plant within the United Arab Emirates. There could be no American bidder for Hazelwood. Westinghouse, traditionally the most important builder of nuclear crops on the earth, was despatched bankrupt by crops in Georgia and South Carolina. The delays and price overruns that introduced Westinghouse to its knees are customary for a sector through which 175 out of 180 tasks exceeded their preliminary budgets by a median of 117% and took 64% extra time than projected. Presently within the US there may be one plant beneath development and 6 being decommissioned. Britain and Finland supply sorry examples.”
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