"The federal government is fighting for the right to destroy documents when it loses office, after a judge warned the practice of shredding paperwork to keep it from incoming opponents is possibly criminal and must stop." #auspol
Health insurance giant Medibank is facing a fine in the trillions of dollars, after the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court over its 2022 cyber attack. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/medibank-taken-to-federal-court-over-cyber-attack/103936664
The commissioner now alleges that Medibank seriously interfered with the privacy of 9.7 million Australians by "failing to take reasonable steps to protect their personal information". #auslaw#auspol#privacy
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"Electrons on the grid in a 10-year period." Shadow energy minister Ted O'Brien pledges nuclear reactors for Australia & is asked if the Coalition will release it's coal to nuclear energy details before the mid-winter parliamentary break. #auspol
"I've seen some chutzpah in my time in this place but that takes the yellowcake." Energy Minister Chris Bowen highlighting that Peter Dutton and Ted O'Brien are criticising the CSIRO over nuclear energy but still haven't released the details on their coal to nuclear plan. #auspol
Not being responsible for negotiating a contract and publicly defending an obscene waste of public money during a cost of living crisis are very different things
Tony Burke on RN Breakfast discussing a 3.75% minimum wage increase then defending Bill Shorten's speechwriter getting paid $600,000 as "it's a matter of the independence of the public service". Read the room, mate
“in Norway they tax the fossil fuel industry and give kids free university education, in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge kids a fortune to go to university.”
In all seriousness, this it a trial-balloon being sent-up to test people's opinions. This kerfuffle shows how divided the Liberal Party are. Factional infighting presents party members with two choices:
Those calling for Josh Frydenberg to replace Amelia Hamer as the Liberal candidate for Kooyong think it's okay to break their own party's preselection process, and are harkening-back to the "Good ol' days" of Scott Morrison. They've forgotten that Josh Frydenberg was one of the worst Federal Treasurers in living memory under the leadership of ScottyFromMarketing.
Those calling for Amelia Hamer haven't heard her say a word about policy, but they like her posh Oxford-educated credentials and good family-name. She gets to ride on the coat-tails of her grandfather, Rupert Hamer, the Premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981.
Neither group is in touch with reality. Dr Monique Ryan won the seat of Kooyong in 2022 with a 2.9 per cent margin. The seat of Kooyong has been considered a safe Liberal seat for generations. It's why it's given to people in important roles such as Treasurer. Monique Ryan beat Josh Frydenberg because he's a fucking idiot and nobody liked his bootlicking of ScottyFromMarketing.