FOLLOWING THE LEADERS
It’s musical chairs in Parliament at the moment as former Defence minister Peter Dutton will most likely turn into chief of the Liberal Social gathering (with former setting minister Sussan Ley as deputy), whereas the Nationals will weigh up whether or not both David Littleproud or Darren Chester ought to exchange Barnaby Joyce, The Australian ($) reviews. Joyce is combating for his life but it surely could be time to stroll — two in 5 Coalition voters see Joyce as an electoral weak spot, in accordance with a ballot in Guardian Australia this morning. Elsewhere former vitality minister Angus Taylor may turn into opposition spokesperson for treasury, whereas Liberals Bridget Archer and Andrew Bragg will most likely step ahead to fill the average exodus of Greg Hunt, Josh Frydenberg, and Ken Wyatt. Conservative Victorian senator James Paterson will most likely get a “vital promotion” too, the Oz ($) muses.
On the opposite aspect of the ground Labor MPs Clare O’Neil and Jenny McAllister will most likely turn into cupboard ministers, the SMH says, forward of this week’s official appointments. Deputy Labor chief Richard Marles (who took the Employment portfolio) will most likely take Defence too, whereas former opposition spokesperson for Defence Brendan O’Connor may take Dwelling Affairs. The Queensland proper will most likely put Anika Wells ahead to interchange Shayne Neumann on the Veterans’ Affairs portfolio. In the meantime, each events are vulnerable to a Greenslide, in accordance with The Courier-Mail ($). The Greens now have three Queensland seats — Brisbane, Ryan and Griffith — and a brand new senator Penny Allman-Payne. The paper spoke to 1 political skilled who stated the minor get together’s stronghold “might be exhausting to dislodge now” — threatening the LNP on a Brisbane council stage and Labor at a state stage.
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INVESTIGATION INTO REBURIAL
We didn’t green-light the reburial of Mungo Man and Mungo Girl, the NSW authorities says. The 42,000 12 months previous stays (among the many oldest ever discovered outdoors of Africa) have been exhumed within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, Guardian Australia explains, and have been within the custody of Heritage NSW since 1992 (her) and 2017 (him). In the previous couple of years, a stoush has arisen between between conventional custodians about reburying them, leading to a final minute courtroom software about 10 days in the past — regardless of this, they have been put again within the floor final week, inflicting “shock and outrage”. The NSW authorities says an exterior investigation is wanting into the reburial.
In the meantime, Australia has simply appointed our first Indigenous supreme courtroom justice — barrister Lincoln Crowley. As a boy, Crowley stated his faculty’s deputy principal informed him Indigenous Australians “find yourself in jail” –“I bear in mind pondering, ‘you wait and see, mate’,” he informed the Townsville Bulletin ($) in 2018. Crowley has labored on a couple of massive ticket circumstances — together with insider-trader Oliver Curtis, as ABC reviews, and Syrian struggle financier Omar Succarieh, as The Brisbane Instances reviews. And a Welcome to Nation may quickly open Catholic plenty, faculty assemblies, and conferences, The Australian ($) reviews, a key suggestion in a proposal given to the Church’s Plenary Council that might be voted on later this 12 months. It additionally endorses the Uluru Assertion from the Coronary heart. The proposal was the top product of a hefty 17,457 submissions from people and teams, representing greater than 222,000 folks throughout the church.
DIVIDE AND CONCUR
It appears like AGL is about to scrap its proposed break up, following stress from main shareholder and tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes. The AFR says the vitality big is in disaster after it turned obvious the demerger may not get the required 75% approval from shareholders subsequent month. If the deal falls over, it could most likely see chief government Graeme Hunt stroll, the paper provides. Cannon-Brookes has lengthy stated splitting AGL right into a coal power-focused Accel Power and retailer AGL Australia made no enterprise sense and is unhealthy for the planet — he’ll reportedly attempt to nab two board seats if the demerger fails.
From tech to crypto, and ABC has a cracking story this morning about Glauber Contessoto, who says he turned a millionaire in “two months” from digital cash. Contessoto was an early investor in Dogecoin, a meme-coin hybrid that “went to the moon” (elevated exponentially in worth) after billionaire Elon Musk hyped the coin on social media. At its highest level, the worth of the joke crypto hit $124.7 billion, the broadcaster says, exceptional contemplating the digital coin has “little real-world perform past hypothesis”.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
Two years on, it may be exhausting for a lot of working remotely to recall what it was wish to “go to work”. Some won’t ever must take care of the office wardrobe, the commute, the small discuss, and the costly lunchtime salads once more, as many organisations determined it’s WFH ceaselessly. However others — both voluntarily or begrudgingly — are headed again into the workplace, and it may be a little bit of a tradition shock for us. So The Guardian’s Nell Frizzell has written up some cheeky new guidelines for the workplace. Firstly, we should always all be having much less conferences — to make them extra streamlined, schedule them half an hour earlier than the lunch break so everybody has a tough out. In the event you’re dragged into one, you possibly can set your alarm for quarter-hour and act prefer it’s an essential name it’s worthwhile to take when it vibrates. Sadly you possibly can’t simply flip your microphone or digicam off if it’s worthwhile to “burp, fart, scratch, yawn or sneeze” — Frizzell says sneezing is ok in an workplace assembly, however the rest requires a toilet journey.
It’s a fact universally acknowledged that an workplace house with a kitchen will scent like fish round noon. There’s no getting round your colleagues consuming tuna from a can (until you burn a candle fairly near your pc) however you possibly can print an “out of order” signal and place it on the microwave to keep away from the reheated seafood dinner state of affairs altogether. In case your office has embraced the hot-desking life, Frizzell says it’s okay etiquette to depart a pen or notepad on a desk to say it anyway — so long as you’re the apex predator of the workplace. If extra senior folks share your house, sadly they get first dibs. Circle of life I suppose.
Wishing you a bit spring in your step this morning.
SAY WHAT?
The textual content messages concerning the liar and the hypocrite, not reining George [Christensen] in when he ought to have, not reining Matt [Canavan] in when maybe he ought to have. None of these issues helped and it truly gave these individuals who have been searching for to park their vote someplace apart from the Liberals the excuse to take action.
Michael McCormack
The Nationals backbencher had no issues skewering the get together chief ($) this morning as Barnaby Joyce fights to carry onto the highest job. It’s no secret they’re not precisely chummy, nevertheless — McCormack and Joyce have jostled for the management throughout the previous 4 years (although McCormack’s not difficult this time).
Libs crash headfirst into actuality with restoration plan to *checks notes* hate the wealthy
“The response of the precise to the Liberal Social gathering’s devastating end result final Saturday is a crucial occasion to check for political sociolog- OMG who I’m kidding? That is hilarious! These individuals are nuts! Overlook ‘get the popcorn’ — get your self a popcorn machine! They’ve spent the entire week planning to revive the get together in outer suburban seats they went backwards in, or mid-suburban working-class seats the place they get a 3rd of the 2PP.
“However wait, it will get higher. It’s clear that the precise is pushing for a kind of populism which not solely assaults the metropolitan cultural elites however goes additional and really attacking the well-off and the wealthy for being… well-off and wealthy. That is the get together of free enterprise doing this. It’s probably the most wack factor I’ve ever seen.”
Farewell 46: probably the most ridiculous moments of the final Parliament
“One in every of our favorite issues on the planet is the backbencher you’ve by no means heard of popping up, doing one thing extraordinarily bizarre after which disappearing again into historical past. The forty sixth Parliament gave us so many of those stunning moments …
“South Australia’s Rowan Ramsey studying the incorrect Dorothy Dixer; Western Australia’s Ben Small and his totally deadpan studying of a tweet about falling into a giant vat of manure in its entirety at Senate estimates — to make a degree about ABC bias, we predict; Liberal Senator David Van saying a combination of a “gruff” voice and his masks have been accountable after he was accused of constructing dog-like growling noises at Jacqui Lambie as she spoke within the Senate. This was the identical day as a scathing report on the therapy of ladies in Parliament was launched.”
No secure place for Morrison: how his coverage failings locked him right into a demise spiral
“Morrison couldn’t marketing campaign on his success in dealing with the pandemic, given the widespread view that he’d botched vaccines, COVID in nursing houses and speedy antigen checks. With well being, aged care, local weather, the NDIS and integrity all no-go areas, what may he speak about? Wages — the fifth most-covered difficulty — proved significantly problematic.
“Cheered on by the media, Morrison tried to grab on Albanese’s dedication to actual wage upkeep for low-paid staff as some kind of gaffe. It quickly turned clear the difficulty was a winner for Albanese, and Morrison — and far of the press gallery — had backed a loser. Inside days, Morrison was compelled to melt his language round wages progress.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Flight with 22 folks on board lacking in Nepal (Al Jazeera)
Inexperienced vitality complicates the Taliban’s new battle in opposition to opium (The New York Instances)
Zelenskyy makes first front-line journey to Kharkiv (BBC)
Sergio Pérez wins dramatic Monaco Grand Prix after heavy rain causes lengthy delay (CNN)
Cannes 2022: South Korea scoops report awards haul (The Guardian)
Extremely-nationalist Jews storm Al-Aqsa forward of Israeli flag march (Al Jazeera)
Colombia goes to the polls in historic election that would see flip to left (The Guardian)
Heavy rain kills 44 in northeast Brazil (CNN)
THE COMMENTARIAT
In the end, nation’s ‘it’s time’ second on Indigenous voice — Mark Leiber (The Australian) ($): “The victory speech delivered by our new prime minister late on election night time confirmed my unwavering confidence that constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, as introduced within the Uluru Assertion From the Coronary heart, might be realised. My confidence was by no means, and nonetheless isn’t, naive of real-world political obstacles, which stay whatever the change in authorities. Fairly the opposite, my studying of post-election politics is that the ultimate levels of the lengthy street to attain significant constitutional recognition can have the assist it wants throughout federal parliament to attain a profitable referendum, and a brand new daybreak for reconciliation …
“As such, it could most definitely not represent a 3rd chamber of parliament, a mischievous misrepresentation of the physique, initially proffered by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who wasn’t ready to state his actual purpose for rejecting such a modest, cheap proposition — his tenuous authority over extra conservative components of his personal joint get together room. Certainly, the ‘third chamber’ line was swiftly taken up by Barnaby Joyce although, to his credit score, Joyce stated two years later, in 2019, that he’d been ‘corrected by the specialists’, and apologised.”
I hid in worry whereas a gunman killed 17 at my faculty 4 years in the past. Why has nothing modified? — Dara Rosen (The Guardian): “After I was a sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas highschool, in Parkland, Florida, a gunman entered my faculty and murdered 17 folks. I hid in a closet, terrified that I used to be subsequent. As a survivor of a mass capturing, at any time when one other capturing occurs and will get broadcast within the media, your individual trauma begins to hang-out you once more. And so it was not too long ago, when a gunman entered Robb elementary faculty in Texas final week, and killed 21 folks: 19 kids and two academics. After the capturing at Parkland, we heard numerous chants like ‘by no means once more’ and ‘sufficient is sufficient’. Generally, it felt like we have been on the point of change, like this mindless tragedy could be the catalyst for gun reform. There was no scarcity of protesters or outrage.
“4 years has handed since then. Nothing has modified. There are nonetheless kids being gunned down of their faculties, like they have been in Texas. Simply this 12 months, 27 faculty shootings have taken place within the US. Faculties are purported to really feel secure. They’re purported to be locations the place you possibly can be taught and develop and thrive as an individual. Youngsters merely can’t concentrate on their training in the event that they reside with the very actual worry of being killed. There was a lot momentum after Columbine in 1999; after Sandy Hook in 2012; and after Parkland in 2018. However lawmakers in positions of energy have failed to guard us or make any vital strides in gun reform.”
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