LM; 'but why aren't the tax cuts reflected in the household figures then?'
KG; '...ummm bc they haven't come into effect yet?!'
Lisa Millar is so unintelligent it can actually be disconcerting. Katy Gallagher was just left stunned and staring.
#auspol
Penny Wong’s done more for our countries national security, defence & foreign relations in a week than Dutton, Payne, Abbott, Morrison et al. were able to do in a decade.
#auspol
hey
@PatsKarvelas
how much airtime have you given to the 'gas crisis' over the last 9yrs?? seems like its only become an issue since ALP got elected...
#rnbreakfast
#auspol
CSIRO: ‘The droughts will get hotter & the floods will get worse...’
Lisa Millar: ‘yes, but can I ask you, what’s the point if your report?’
#abcnewsbreakfast
#auspol
"... Ms Higgins was discovered half naked, semi naked, barely clothed or whatever you want t call it and no ambulance was called, these were crucial hours... I don't know what sort of workplaces you've worked in Mr Richardson, but i'd certainly call that a road block"
#Lehrmann
Laura Tingle calls out Dutton's immigration numbers lies, Speers hastily interrupts to run cover for Dutton, Tingle scoffs and calls the both out.
#insiders
#auspol
Miller snookered Tudge - she told
#RobodebtRC
that he ordered the release of victims personal details to media & at the end of the day her barrister sought leave to cross examine Tudge, knowing he planned to lie... 1/2
Morrison has sent in a team of lawyers to try and scuttle
#RobodebtRC
.. Commissioner Homes isn’t intimidated & methodically pulling them apart. Lol
#robodebt
#auspol
Lisa Millar: ‘It’s an interesting & bold decision for The National’s not to support
#VoteYes
, I’ve put my feelers out amongst the indigenous community & their decision has wide spread support..’ - how many First Nations folk does Millar actually know??
#abcbreakfast
#auspol
So in one day we’ve had a 5.2% raise in minimum wage and AEMO suspending the energy market in a move towards breaking up the energy cartel... more in one day of an ALP govt than in 10yrs under the LNP!
#auspol
#afternoonbriefing
#rnbreakfast
#ABCNews
Tudge cried about getting death threats in his resignation speech... but showed no remorse sicking debt collectors on vulnerable ppl threatening their lives & livelihoods.. bye 👋🏾
#RobodebtRC
#auspol
Wilkinson: "Orders were coming direct from the PMO's office... "
Richardson: "Are you suggesting systemic cover-up of a rape coming from directly from the PM?"
Wilkinson: "Yes i think i am.."
#Lehrmann
Someone might want to let
@PeterDutton_MP
know that in an environment of low wages/workforce casualisation, union bashing doesn’t have the effect he thinks it does
#QT
So Morrison’s illegal Robodebt scheme that created 400k victims and cost taxpayers $112m settlement & DSS Has NO records of any meetings, phone calls or minutes as to the scheme governance.. what a joke
#RobodebtRC
#auspol
Samantha Maiden is disgusting... Dutton claimed 'rampant child SA in NT" & she reframes it saying 'crime is higher in the NT... ' she then goes on to say it's worrying that Labor is ok with 'raping children'?? WTF
@RNBreakfast
#auspol
#VoteYesAustralia
#TheVoiceNo
On his original statement, Tudge said it was his office & he knew nothing about the release. This morning, knowing he was going to be cross examined by Miller’s barrister he was forced to amend his original statement admitting he was actively involved in the release to the media.
This was all set up by Miller yesterday - she knew exactly what she was doing, that’s why she bought her barrister in to cross examine Tudge today, ensuring there was no way for Tudge to wriggle out of this - someone call the AFP, Tudge is done.
#RobodebtRC
Wilkinson: "Again, I am really struggling with your question Mr Richardson... can you ask it again?" (for the third time)
Richardson: "No, no, we'll move on..." *sighs
Hahaha... Wilkinsons a pro!
#Lehrmann
Coming back after lunch having read the QT transcript..
Richardson: "Have you identified where Reynolds 'lied through her teeth?'
Wilkinson: "Yes, it's here on the first page, she contradicted her own evidence - she mislead parliament, would you like me to go on?"
#Lehrmann
Wilkinson has now been asked to spend the lunch break going back and watching QT to identify with specificity all the times she thought Linda Reynolds was 'lying through her teeth".... lol that should take long! you really couldn't make this up!
#Lehrmann
Whybrow: 'With all the cameras and security why would he take Ms Higgins back to Parliament house to have consensual sex?'
Justice Lee: 'Because he had a girlfriend at home...??"
Whybrow: 'ahhh, umm, that's not the issue here...'
#Lehrmann
So Karen Andrew’s conscience has a one week time limit - today she does a complete 180 and no longer thinks Morrison should resign...
#afternoonbriefing
The previous GOVT chose to settle
#robodebt
out of court - NOT bc they knew they’d done the wrong thing, but to AVOID the extent of their criminal activity becoming public..
#auspol
Justice Lee: 'It's never a good idea for judge to walk around and call people liars... but there are examples of cases, and i think this is one of them where it is required...'
#Lehrmann
“I was doing my best...”
- Brown can’t recall conversations about incident.
- Brown can’t explain not take notes of ph. calls w/ Reynolds.
- Brown can’t remember the events
- Brown agreed she didn't follow instruction to report to police.
what a shit show..
#Lehrmann
Richardson: "You mentioned a road block in your statement"
Wilkinson: "There were a number of road blocks to the police investigation, would you like me to go back to the start?"
Richardson: "No, no no...."
LOL - Wilkinson certainly came prepared!
#Lehrmann
so
@PatsKarvelas
doesn’t think you can read anything into the fact that Dutton wasn’t at the introduction of the constitutional amendment Bill for a Voice - arguably the most important piece of legislation in our nations history... ‘it’s not of any significance’
#auspol
#VoteYes
You know Lowe is in trouble when Coorey, Probyn & Speers are willing throw him under the bus to avoid blaming a decade of terrible LPN governance..
#Insiders
As Sussan Ley advocates for nuclear energy on behalf of ‘young ppl’ - let’s not forget she was the first govt minister to be taken to court for her negligence towards young ppl as environment minister..
#insiders
#auspol
I know Ms Miller is a media advisor but I find her tone & disposition to be partisan, glib and just generally disrespectful - both to
#RobodebtRC
and victims of the scheme.. it’s not the time for jokes or an opportunity for self promotion..
#Robodebt
Allyson Essex is the typical career bureaucrat, equivocating & full of self assurance she admitted knowing
#Robodebt
was unlawful, but she was in no rush to report it bc ‘it wasn’t important..’ She current holds a senior role at the dept of Health..
#RobodebtRC
Justice Lee: There are only two non-fanciful ways that Seven obtained those docs, one is that Mr
#Lehrmann
is lying and he provided them to Mr Auerbach as per Mr Auerbach's evidence... the other is a mystery person provided them.
#auspol
Responding to Whybrow calling BH a liar Justice Lee recounts Higgins testimony: "i couldn't have consented, it would have been like fucking a log" - it sounds like a young woman trying to grapple with what happed to her, i suggest you reflect on that" he warns Whybrow
#Lehrmann
Justice Lee orders
#Lehrmann
pay Network 10’s and Lisa Wilkinson indemnity costs (90%) based on the fact that he knowly maintained a truth defence based on a fanciful premise that he knew was false.
#auspol
Dutton’s chronic pattern of mistaking & misgendering Speaker Clayton may seem innocuous on the surface but the were a deliberate power move to signal to woman that they're less important, that they're less valued...
#auspol
Musolino is going to need to be very careful here - knowledge of legal advice (similar to that of the Solicitor General’s) and a failure to act enlivens a potential civil action for negligent misfeasance...
#RobodebtRC
#robodebt
Wilkinson is not mincing her words, testifying she believed there was 'damage control' going on in the PMO's office to cover up Higgins rape!
#Lehrmann
In reality, if Pell hadn't been a powerfull & connected white man the High Court would NEVER have even thought to weigh in... The jury, judge & CoA ruling would have stood & he would've been left to rot in prison just like any other convicted pedofile...
#auspol
‘As a lawyer you didn’t apply your own legal analysis to the 2017 advice?’ Musolino says she was entitled to only rely on the DSS advise & ignore HC rulings/Solicitor Generals advice.. FFS Musolino was Chief Counsel for DHS, she should be disbarred!
#RobodebtRC
#robodebt
Tudge has the nerve to sight his work on welfare reform as one of his greatest achievements in public office - after 1000’s of deaths &
#RobodebtRC
put an end to his career!! Delusional much?!
#qt
#auspol
Jacinta Price is bought and paid for by her wealthy donors... have a look at Country Liberals donor lists it's awash with IPA, mulitnational agriculture & developers...
#QandA
Elizabeth Bundy’s really in a pickle.. She’s a lawyer who on numerous occasions provided DHS advice saying
#robodebt
‘debt smoothing’ was legal, despite having received ample legal analysis/advice it wasn’t &
#RobodebtRC
has ALL the emails & receipts..
Susssan Ley throws a tantrum in
#qt
- admitting she’s asked the same question 100’s of times & never gets an answer... isn’t that the definition of insanity??
#auspol
Campbell’s asserting in 2017 she still thought Robodebt debt averaging was legal, but Pratt from DSS testified in block A that Payne, Porter & himself had advice as early as 2015 the process was likely illegal... 2yrs later she’s still unaware?? she’s lying
#RobodebtRC
#auspol
Wilkinson has now been asked to spend the lunch break going back and watching QT to identify with specificity all the times she thought Linda Reynolds was 'lying through her teeth".... lol that should take long! you really couldn't make this up!
#Lehrmann
It's being claimed that Fiona Brown would suffer adverse mental health consequences from giving testimony
"Can someone please cut to the chase...?' Justice Lee isn't impressed
#Lehrmann
#auspol
Karen Harfield confirms that Mark Withnell was the chief architect of Robodebt - Withnell testified last week he worked closely with Morrison on the program..
#RobodebtRC
Pratt’s busted! 2015 email from the Minister requesting info on Robodebt data matching, all Pratt’s previous testimony is that the scheme wasn’t on his radar at all...
#RobodebtRC
#auspol
Media are already trying to neuter Labor’s win. The Liberals only lost bc of retirements - victims of their own great success?... they think the constituency are mugs, blind to the privatisation, corruption & cronyism. Fuck off!
#NSWElection2023
#NSWvotes
#auspol
#Insiders
I understand not talking ill of the dead but what's with the revisionist history?? they way ppl are talking about Jim Molan you'd think the Dalai Lama just died!
#auspol
Chrysanthou: 'the notion that it was more complicated for Mr Lehrmann to just go home and buzz his flatmate to let him in then it was to get past security and into parliament house with a drunk girl is bizarre and ridiculous.."
#Lehrmann
so both Perrottet & Ayres knew Barilaro was ‘applying’ for a job he had created... and when the public service had found a candidate - someone within Govt cabinet pushed to make it a ministerial appointed position to circumvent the meritorious p/s appointment....
#nswpol
#auspol
‘I think that question is a little below the bar of what we should expect on
#afternoonbriefing
’ - Claire O’Neal embarrasses Jennett on his own show
#auspol
‘it is a tad odd… you spend your entire night with a girl and when you get her back to Parliament House you just leave her totally alone… & don’t even check in on her… ‘
Yes, Justice Lee knows exactly what’s going on
#Lehrmann
Documents tendered show that both Ministers Payne & Porter had questions regarding Robodebt’s debt raising as early as 2015... both need to front
#RobodebtRC
and explain who else knew (Morrison!) & why the Illegal scheme was allowed to run well into 2018..
#auspol
Tudge spends 20 mins arguing whether he knew ‘welfare compliance’ was an election commitment.. Greggery pulls up a press release in which Tudge announces a budget saving election commitment by ‘Curbing welfare cheats..’ gotcha - this guy is such a liar!
#RobodebtRC
#Robodebt
The last 6 months has seen QANTAS price gouge, exploited staff, received Govt handouts & provide the worst customer service... no coincidence they just posted $1b profits for the same period - QANTAS under Joyce are corporate criminals
#auspol