PM PLACES HIS BET ON ADS
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese thinks betting adverts through the footy are “annoying”, however he additionally finds it annoying that the Coalition did squat about it for 9 years, as Guardian Australia studies. (And it’s not simply playing adverts — try Local weather Change and Vitality Chris Bowen’s video asking, and answering, why Dutton didn’t act on nuclear when his celebration was in authorities: “As a result of it’s a really dumb concept.”) It comes after Opposition Chief Peter Dutton referred to as for playing adverts to be banned through the recreation and an hour both facet of it. Dutton mentioned watching sport can really feel like a “bombardment”, and simply normalises playing for teenagers. Might a playing advert ban develop into legislation? Albanese mentioned there’s a evaluate underway, however the paper notes the gaming sector is gearing up for battle.
It comes as Dutton’s suggestion that we increase the earnings threshold for JobSeekers to allow them to work extra earlier than their funds lower is described as a “thought bubble with no substantive evaluation behind it”, Social Companies Minister Amanda Rishworth mentioned, because the ABC studies. However we gained’t rule it out, Treasurer Jim Chalmers informed Insiders in not so many phrases, saying the federal government was taking a look at a raft of measures inside and past the funds. It appears voters aren’t totally satisfied, in line with Newspoll anyway. The Australian ($) says about 41% of 18- to 34-year-olds suppose the funds will likely be good for the financial system — however only a quarter of 50- to 64-year-olds agree. On whether or not it serves us, one in 5 mentioned they’d be higher off financially, 36% mentioned they’d be worse off, and the remaining have been undecided. On issues of management, Albanese gained 4 satisfaction factors to 56%, a mere speck within the distance forward of Dutton’s one-point carry to 29%.
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME
We’ve bought new perception into Governor-Normal David Hurley and bureaucrat Paul Singer’s involvement within the Morrison authorities funding the Australian Future Leaders Basis, because of an FOI. It comes from citizen journalist Ronni Salt — an nameless however in style Twitter commentator who has damaged some cracking tales, as Crikey reported final yr — and a public servant referred to as Jommy Tee. “The identities of the authors are identified to the editors of this publication,” Michael West Media provides mysteriously. The pair writes that paperwork present the muse was by no means at arm’s size, as Singer informed Senate estimates. It bought an $18 million grant with no aggressive tender below the Morrison tenure — that was scrapped by Labor final yr, as Guardian Australia explains.
Talking of non-partisan scraps — crossbenchers could possibly be part of the secretive bipartisan intelligence committee, and the Coalition is furious. A seat on the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and safety (PJCIS) is a scorching commodity as a result of the group will get top-secret briefings from ASIO, as Guardian Australia studies. The Albanese authorities needs so as to add two to the panel (taking it from 11 to 13) due to its workload — however deputy chair Andrew Wallace reckons it stinks of backroom offers with the independents. 5 Coalition members have lodged a dissenting report — the primary in 17 years — saying solely Labor and the Coalition ought to get to hitch.
LEARNING THE HARD WAY
The worth of highschool has virtually tripled since 2003, and preschool, main and college have all doubled, in line with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Training now accounts for 3 spots on the highest 10 largest value rises over the previous 20 years, the SMH ($) studies. Which means the price of highschool has grown quicker than electrical energy costs, property charges and water payments, and is barely simply behind the worth rise of tobacco, gasoline and medical/hospital companies. It comes as 46 authorities and non-government faculties in central Australia got $40.4 million within the funds, creating fairly combined emotions. Yipirinya college’s principal informed Crikey it was welcome, however “it prices us $650k a yr simply to run our buses”.
There was a very nice story over the weekend about Granville Boys Excessive College, as soon as notorious for violence and truancy, turning over a brand new leaf below a brand new principal, Noel Dixon. He informed Guardian Australia they’ve labored exhausting to make college a secure and thrilling area for the boys, and it’s seen NAPLAN and HSC outcomes enhance, in addition to college attendance and behavior. It’s manifesting in different methods too — the college’s 12 months 12 robotics staff gained a nationwide competitors in December and is headed to the US, and children are flocking to the barbershop program and bagpipes band. There’s a file variety of enrolments for subsequent yr — greater than 200 for 12 months 7 alone. It comes as Training Minister Jason Clare (the “boy from western Sydney”) did a sit-down with the SMH ($), however I’m struggling to carry you a prime line within the fluff piece, people. Clare says it’s the “yr of concepts” however gained’t put a value on any reforms, with “implementation” to occur subsequent yr. OK?
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
A quote usually misattributed to F Scott Fitzgerald, however really most likely written by screenwriter Eric Roth, begins: “For what it’s value: it’s by no means too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you need to be. There’s no time restrict, begin everytime you need … I hope you see issues that startle you.” A 99-year-old girl named Annie Duplock has executed simply that, reaching her lifelong dream of getting a number of extraordinarily sharp knives thrown at her, the BBC studies. The little previous girl, ensconced in a wise sky-blue cardigan and propped up by a strolling cane, walked on to the stage to the screams of the group on Friday. A knife-thrower, carrying a pink silk shirt with a ponytail almost all the way down to his butt, promptly attracts her profile with blades thrown on the board behind her, in a heart-stopping video you gotta see to imagine.
Duplock labored for the circus some 30 years in the past, placing up posters to promote the present in her native space of Sharnford, Leicestershire. When she noticed the acquainted posters round her neighbourhood final week, she instantly rang her daughter and urged her to contact her previous boss, Zippos Circus founder Martin Burton, about her lifelong dream. Burton listened to Duplock’s daughter’s impassioned request for somebody to throw daggers at her aged mum and was like, OK! The 99-year-old was ecstatic. She figured it was the proper technique to ring in her centenary in three months, and also you couldn’t wipe the grin off her face because the spectacle unfolded. “I’ve at all times needed to have knives thrown at me!” Duplock mentioned. “I’m prepared for the following one.”
Wishing you the braveness of Annie Duplock right now.
SAY WHAT?
It’s outrageous that the state is placing youngsters in solitary confinement after which performing shocked when it pushes youngsters over the sting.
Rosa Hicks
The Break the Cycle founder was astounded when WA Premier Mark McGowan doubled down on labelling incarcerated youngsters, lots of whom are Indigenous, as partaking in a “type of terrorism” after a riot at Banksia Hill jail. A category motion on behalf of 500 present and former younger inmates alleges mistreatment akin to torture, together with lengthy spells of solitary confinement.
CRIKEY RECAP
“Docs will likely be astonished to study that Dutton was championing his file as well being minister; again in 2015 he was notoriously voted the worst well being minister in 35 years. Nonetheless, he additionally dedicated to restoring psychological well being cuts to the ‘Higher Entry’ program that Labor’s Mark Butler has surprisingly carried out. He made particular point out of the necessity for higher dementia care. These are actual coverage commitments that needs to be taken extra severely by overlaying media.
“Dutton pivoted on welfare, fudging the difficulty of elevating the bottom price of advantages and as a substitute proposing a coverage growing the earnings threshold for jobseekers seeking to work part-time. The irony right here was scrumptious: after a decade of beating up on welfare recipients, instantly Dutton needs to unlock their potential to hunt additional work.”
“On this connection, Drumgold pointed to the ‘actually sturdy ardour’ with which police expressed their views, and the weird attendance of superintendent Scott Moller at his second assembly with police in April, which he believed, whether or not ‘proper or mistaken’, was designed to exert strain on him to accede to the view of police that the case was weak.
“Past this, he mentioned the extremely unorthodox resolution of a senior rating police officer to offer defence with an unredacted transient of proof, opposite to traditional follow and mere days after Lehrmann was charged, sounded additional alarm. The unredacted transient contained a number of protected confidences, together with unlawfully obtained counselling notes of Higgins, and a strongly worded abstract of police doubts as to Higgins’ credibility.”
“Anti-vaccine supporters of a lady denied a spot on the center transplant listing over her unvaccinated standing are fundraising to ship her abroad for a transplant regardless of her shortly deteriorating well being. Vicki Derderian has been on life assist since her coronary heart failed in 2020. She claims her refusal to take a COVID-19 or flu vaccine meant she has been denied a spot on the center transplant listing.
“Her high-profile case has develop into a trigger célèbre of the anti-vaccine motion and has featured on mainstream media platforms such because the At present breakfast program and 2GB’s Ben Fordham Reside. Alfred Well being has mentioned that vaccination standing is one issue within the resolution about whether or not to listing a affected person for transplants.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Distinguished Sudanese singer Shaden Gardood killed in crossfire (Al Jazeera)
Thai vote counting exhibits ex-PM’s daughter in lead (BBC)
Thailand’s opposition opens up large election lead as military events slide (Reuters)
Sweden’s Loreen takes Eurovision trophy for second time (BBC)
Russia might have simply misplaced 4 plane in at some point. Right here’s what we all know (CNN)
UK house secretary accused of breaching barristers’ code over ‘racist’ language (The Guardian)
THE COMMENTARIAT
Why is the Liberal Social gathering within the doldrums? It’s a query of geography — George Brandis (The SMH) ($): “The Liberal Social gathering is right now much less consultant of metropolitan Australia than it has ever been. Add to that the proportionately bigger affect inside the Coalition of the Nationwide Social gathering — whose electoral base has held agency whereas the Liberals bled marginal seats within the cities — and the opposition right now is overwhelmingly a celebration of regional voices.
“That is evident within the make-up of the Coalition management. Not one of many six who occupy management positions comes from Sydney or Melbourne. The most important metropolis represented within the management group is Brisbane (Peter Dutton’s citizens, Dickson, is on Brisbane’s northern outskirts). The 2 Senate leaders (Simon Birmingham and Michaelia Money) come from the smaller capital cities (Adelaide and Perth respectively).”
The 4 large funding calls going through our tremendous funds — Jonathan Shapiro (The AFR) ($): “Australia’s $3.4 trillion pension system, the fourth-largest on this planet, has been the topic of intense fascination from abroad asset managers eyeing a industrial alternative. However they’ve tended to share a standard lament: our tremendous funds will be stingy relating to paying excessive charges, even when they’re related to sturdy efficiency, whereas any methods that don’t match neatly into a selected asset class aren’t definitely worth the problem.
“Whereas some international funds might have pared again their Australian advertising and marketing efforts, tremendous funds have executed simply high quality in what has till not too long ago been a beneficial backdrop for shares, bonds and personal belongings. However as market circumstances change and our superannuation system grows ever bigger, tremendous funds and different massive asset house owners will encounter extra constraints and harder decisions. How they place themselves for the following decade could have multibillion-dollar penalties for members. Fund managers that may’t win mandates off the tremendous funds might resolve the chance is to wager in opposition to them.”
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Former justice of the Excessive Court docket of Australia Kenneth Hayne and Professional Vice-Chancellor Indigenous at UNSW Megan Davis will speak concerning the administrative and constitutional legislation implications of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, at Banco Court docket.
