COP THAT!
Bejing has arrange dozens of police stations in additional than 80 cities, together with Sydney, which are affiliated with native or municipal governments in China, the ABC reviews, in a bid to help residents dwelling abroad. Chinese language authorities reckon they’re simply serving to with nationwide identification playing cards, passports and driver’s licences, however human rights teams say they might be used to focus on dissidents or power folks to return residence for trials. Sydney’s was established in 2018 by the Division of Public Safety within the Chinese language metropolis of Wenzhou. ABC acquired the runaround when reaching out to the station — the police WeChat account pointed reporter Bang Xiao to the Australian Wenzhou Chamber of Trade and Commerce, which mentioned the station had closed, and so they weren’t affiliated, however then Wenzhou police in China informed Xiao it was very a lot open, and referred him again to the chamber. The AFP was tight-lipped, as was the Chinese language embassy. Bizarre.
It comes as China’s ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian is pissed off by how sluggish we’re at mending our frosty relationship, the SMH reviews. The ambassador named tensions over Taiwan and the therapy of Muslims in Xinjiang as the 2 main obstacles to a reset that, properly, aren’t precisely straightforward to neglect. However our commerce ties are price $245 billion to our economic system and Xiao says Australia “can’t discover a higher companion [than] China”. Once more, feeling somewhat gaslighted there, however anyway. However former prime minister Paul Keating mentioned it’s not simply us: “All over the place between Wuhan and Istanbul, within the subsequent 30 years, could have an enormous Chinese language affect,” he mentioned at La Trobe College’s Concepts and Society Program, as information.com.au reviews. In the meantime 32 law enforcement officials from the Solomon Islands have flown to China to coach in policing strategies and study Chinese language tradition, Reuters by way of The West ($) reviews, as ties strengthen between the 2 nations amid Australia’s rising concern.
THE TEAL DEAL
Teal independents are fundraising to allow them to afford extra employees after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused to extend their staffing cap, The Australian ($) reviews. Crossbenchers get one adviser on prime of their 4 voters workplace employees. The independents weren’t comfortable. Goldstein impartial MP Zoe Daniel employed a digital and communications officer utilizing fundraising from earlier than the election, and Warringah’s Zali Steggall, Kooyong’s Monique Ryan, North Sydney’s Kylea Tink, and Mackellar’s Sophie Scamps mentioned they’d have a look at fundraising too. Scamps mentioned a evaluation of the Members of Parliament Act confirmed that employees have been stretched and careworn.
It comes as Deputy Opposition Chief Sussan Ley is launching an audacious bid to win again Coalition supporters who defected to the independents in Might’s federal election, the AFR reviews. Ley can be in Tink’s territory of North Sydney at the moment to fulfill and discuss to folks. Tink has damaged unofficial ranks together with her teals in backing the stage three tax cuts — although she does symbolize one of many wealthiest electorates within the nation. Nevertheless, that appears to have escaped Ley. She mentioned the independents have been displaying an “outright refusal” to advocate for the legislated tax aid, a “central challenge dealing with their constituents”.
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EXCUSE YOU!
Australia is poised to join a world promise to slash cow burps and farts by a 3rd. The Australian ($) reviews an announcement we’ll join US President Joe Biden’s 30% methane emission discount may occur subsequent week after chats between business and authorities. Methane emissions make up 1 / 4 of our whole emissions — and of that quarter, half is the product of the digestive features of cattle and sheep (therefore the nickname “burp tax” throughout the ditch). Forged your thoughts again and it’s possible you’ll bear in mind the embarrassment when former prime minister Scott Morrison refused to affix 100 international locations on the Glasgow local weather summit vowing to slash methane emissions — that made worldwide information, as The New York Occasions reviews. Even Brazil, the world’s largest methane emitter signed; we sat alongside China, Russia and India with our arms crossed. You may additionally bear in mind then deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce saying on the time that we’d should “go and seize a rifle, exit and begin taking pictures your cattle” to attain a 30% discount by 2030, as Sky Information reviews.
For sure, we gained’t be doing that. The Nationwide Farmers’ Federation says the federal government has promised there’ll be no discount in livestock numbers, and Local weather Minister Chris Bowen’s spokeswoman pointed to an $8 million grant to feed the cattle seaweed, a low-emission feed complement. It comes as local weather activists are headed to the Supreme Courtroom to argue that the NSW authorities’s new anti-protest legal guidelines are manner too strident, Guardian Australia reviews. The legal guidelines enable fines of $22,000 and two years in jail for non-violent offenders. The Environmental Defenders Workplace introduced the problem on behalf of two knitting nannas — a self-described worldwide disorganisation the place folks sit alongside protest indicators urging local weather motion and knit. One thing tells me that placing folks in jail for wanting to avoid wasting the planet is basically not going to look good within the historical past books.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
The 2022 Fats Bear has been formally topped, people! However earlier than I get to that: the high-stakes competitors has been rocked by a dishonest scandal for the ages. Katmai Nationwide Park, the house of Fats Bear Week, confirmed the saga on Twitter. “Like bears stuff their face with fish, our poll field, too, has been stuffed,” it declared. An nameless malefactor spammed the votes of their favorite bear, even placing a small quantity in direction of one other bear in an try and throw organisers off the scent. Was it overseas interference from a shadowy state actor? A complicated coordination from a multinational community of villains? Or simply some laptop nerd child who actually wished his favorite teddy to win? The keen Fats Bear Week crowds howled with ache. “Insufferable,” one wrote. “An election fraud scandal within the bearverse!” one other exclaimed. “Actually wished to reside in a world the place we didn’t have to fret in regards to the integrity of Fats Bear Week,” somebody chipped in sadly. However by no means concern, the park continued: “Fortuitously it’s straightforward for us to inform which votes are fraudulent.” The totals have been amended and the present went on.
It was down to 2 chunky bears within the annual contest that celebrates the animal’s spectacular bulking in preparation for a comfy winter hibernation. In a single nook, we had Bear 901, a younger feminine who has a repute for being a no-nonsense defender of her fishing territory, because the BBC tells it. Her development was so spectacular that some puzzled if she was consuming for a couple of — may a litter of cubs be on the playing cards this Christmas? And within the different nook, the gang favorite, the aptly named Bear 747 — a giant boy who reached a beautiful 635 kilograms. With 68,105 votes to Bear 901’s 56,876 votes, he was topped the perfect fats bear of all of them. “Finally, 747 ripped aside the salmon — and the competitors — to grab his 2nd crown because the 2022 Champion,” the park tweeted after Tuesday’s vote. Bravo! But it surely nearly didn’t occur — 747 would’ve been knocked out of the semis had the voter fraud labored. Thank heavens for the Fats Bear Week workforce, whose oversight noticed him take his rightful place because the king. Till subsequent yr, people…
Hoping good prevails over evil in your world at the moment too.
SAY WHAT?
Proper right here, proper now, it’s unfair to place folks in that earnings bracket of round that $120,000 to $140,000 mark as wealthy.
Kylea Tink
It will depend on your perspective, I assume. Individuals in that tax bracket take residence about $8000 a month after tax, whereas almost two-thirds (62%) of the world lives on lower than $10 a day, in line with Our World in Information.
Mark Latham’s ‘devilishly intelligent’ plan to broaden One Nation
Geoffrey Watson SC, a former counsel helping the ICAC and a distinguished integrity advocate, mentioned: ‘I discover that Latham has mentioned he needs to take authorized recommendation on it. My preliminary view is that it’s most likely permissible. But it surely does contain a moderately cynical manipulation of electoral legal guidelines …’
Latham mentioned it was incorrect to say he had sought authorized recommendation. ‘I’ve acquired no real interest in Crikey,’ he mentioned, and added: ‘Watson is an fool. I’m not taking any authorized recommendation, that’s incorrect. I’m looking for reelection which is an expression of public belief’ … Watson mentioned: ‘Being referred to as an fool by Mark Latham is a badge of honour.’ “
The liberty motion is convoying by Melbourne. Why are they nonetheless protesting?
“Mission 2 Melbourne, spanning 5 days and a dozen occasions, was the motion’s plan to stir a mass civil rebellion in opposition to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews due to its perception that he’s bringing in a brand new world order underneath the guise of public well being restrictions.
“The official poster selling the demonstration demanded a right away finish to the state of emergency, which had ended almost a yr in the past. As soon as they realised their blunder, organisers amended the poster to as an alternative demand an finish to the state’s pandemic declaration which, coincidentally, can also be ending this week.”
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s imaginative and prescient for journalism is chilling
“So the paper is each riddled with errors, like a collection of profiles on native soccer gamers accompanying pictures of different folks, and padded out with press releases and tales suspiciously prone to favour Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters. When baffled readers look a bit nearer, they will see the disclaimer that that is paid for by the ‘Saving Arizona PAC’. The PAC has obtained greater than $13 million from Thiel.
“It’s not even clear if the Grand Canyon Occasions has an workplace within the state it purports to cowl, however that wouldn’t be a serious shock — it’s an affiliate of Metric Media, a community of 1300 ‘native papers’ operated by Brian Timpone, who has beforehand argued an area paper needn’t be all that native.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Pfizer didn’t know whether or not COVID vaccine stopped transmission earlier than rollout, government admits (information.com.au)
UN says Finland violated little one rights in Syria camps (Al Jazeera)
Sweden election: right-wing events miss deadline to kind new authorities (Euro Information)
Biden vows ‘penalties’ for Saudi Arabia after oil output cuts (Al Jazeera)
Particular report: US agency provided networking tech to maker of Russian missiles (Reuters)
About half of the entire [New Zealand] family wealth is owned by the richest 10% (Stuff)
Sinn Féin having ‘chilling’ impact on Eire’s democracy, says taoiseach (The Guardian)
Kanye West interview pulled over ‘extra hate speech’ (BBC)
THE COMMENTARIAT
I hope my Iranian sisters go down in historical past igniting a revolution — however condemning the atrocities isn’t sufficient — Tina Hosseini (Guardian Australia): “What began as a mass rebellion condemning the killing underneath police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini for a gown code violation has now amalgamated into widespread calls for a whole regime change in Tehran. With 60% of Iran’s inhabitants aged under 30, the present uprisings demonstrates the importance of Iran’s era Z, defying all guidelines and restrictions underneath an oppressive regime. They’ll not be suppressed by non secular clerics and are bravely rebelling in opposition to the regime.
“The homicide of two vibrant schoolgirls, 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh and 17-year-old Nika Shahkarami, proceed to hang-out many people. Each ladies had their lives minimize quick for protesting in opposition to the regime; Iranian authorities subsequently coerced their households to report their deaths as suicides and extracted false confessions from them. Any suggestion that this mass motion is barely in regards to the headband is limiting and flawed. The ladies of Iran need entry to the basic freedoms that we take pleasure in, particularly the fitting to self-determination and autonomy. These protests are traditionally distinctive for Iran: that is the primary time political defiance is fixated on girls’s freedoms, with Iranian males standing shoulder to shoulder with valiant Iranian girls.”
Accountable funds? Don’t depend on it — Peta Credlin (The Australian) ($): “Pre-election, it insisted the tax cuts have been secure, plus that it may responsibly spend much more than its predecessor on aged care, Medicare and childcare. Publish-election, regardless of extra income from stronger than anticipated phrases of commerce and continued low unemployment, the federal government is on the lookout for an excuse to substitute but extra spending for the Morrison tax cuts that may largely simply return the proceeds of bracket creep to everybody incomes greater than $45,000 a yr. What else may very well be anticipated from the primary Labor authorities that’s dominated by the left faction?
“Having examined the water on withdrawing the tax cuts, the federal government is now saying they’re secure for the second, but it surely’s not ruling out future adjustments as financial circumstances evolve. Someday within the subsequent 18 months it’s a close to certainty that one or different authorities precedence will turn into extra necessary than the 2024 tax cuts, regardless that decrease taxes on aspirational folks will nearly actually assist to develop the economic system quicker. To its credit score, the Albanese authorities appears no less than as anxious as its predecessor in regards to the deteriorating strategic state of affairs and decided to construct Australia’s strike energy with bigger and quicker defence acquisitions. However all this prices huge cash.”
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WHAT’S ON TODAY
Kulin Nation Nation (also referred to as Melbourne)
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Australian of the 12 months Dylan Alcott, Erin Brockovich, former overseas affairs minister Julie Bishop, CQURE founder Paula Januszkiewicz, and Captain Sully Sullenberger are amongst these showing at CyberCon on the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre.
Whadjuk Noongar Nation (also referred to as Perth)
Eora Nation Nation (also referred to as Sydney)
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The Australian Catholic College’s Sandra Thom-Jones will speak about her new e-book, Rising into Autism, at Glee Books.
Ngunnawal Nation (also referred to as Canberra)
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Journalist and educational Peter Greste will give a chat on how journalism and personal enterprise are intersecting, and what it means for democracy, at The Australian Nationwide College. You may catch this one on-line too.
Originally published at Gold Coast News HQ
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