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Meanwhile, ACT has had 52 cases of Covid today, so I've gone and received my second AZ shot at six weeks
Sure looking like a swell reopening in two weeks at this point
WHEE.
Edit: OK so individual states can set their own target - Tas is sticking to 90%
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Apparently the TGA is going to broaden its list of vaccines considered suitable for whatever regulation will govern international arrivals beyond just those administered in Australia. This is highly unexpected and definitely good news for me.
It'd be a massive slap in the face for people trying to return home to be told 'oh but we don't recognise that vaccine you were given champ just go fuck off and die elsewhere.'
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In some ways i'm actually sort of glad about the John Key stuff.
I mean, not because he's in the news - he's a cock who should be stripped off his knighthood and left on a remote mountain peak somewhere.
But because it's a very clear sign of how absolutley madly desprate national is, and this brings me great joy. (I mean, also frustration - i want a strong opposition, but i want a strong sane opposition and neither national nor act are that)
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Not guaranteed. It’s gone to a party vote and his public support is in the garbage after the FriendlyGeordies power trip.
Edit apparently the current front runner is Perrotet.
No Gladys, you chose to be corrupt. If you didn't you wouldn't me resigning.
And then missed out himself due to an errant bottle of Grange.
So even while we’ve been going through PMs faster than the Romans did emperors, the get the lifetime salary (taxed) as well as three staffers, office costs and 30 return flights a year domestically. Morrison after shanking Turnbull also opened it up to international travel, but only for PMs after he and Turnbull.
Tony Abbott got a $90k raise after he got the knife, since ex-PMs get paid higher than a backbencher rate.
The Independant Parliamentarian Expenses Authority thoughtfully wades through the six pdf files that cover this stuff and puts it into tables to read, which you can find here. (I only found this after doing some wading myself.
I took the '19-20 fiscal year since it was the most recent and least affected by covid. I knew there were entitlements but was unaware that I was helping pay Malcolm Turnbull pay for his officespace to the tune of $350,000 a year, with John Howard is right behind him. Both are consistently more than double that of the other ex-PMs.
3. Office Facilities
Expenses for former prime ministers’ offices including:
property operating expenses including lease, power and cleaning
office security
property repairs and maintenance (including fixtures)
fixed line telephone systems and services
office furniture and equipment
4. Office Administrative Costs +
Expenses for:
office stationery and supplies
printing, production, distribution and communications, for both printed and electronic material
purchase of, or subscription for, printed and electronic publications and associated service/administrative fees.
I had a look at Bob Hawke's in 2017, just out of curiousity and his are more in line/less than Rudd, Gillard and Abbott.
Sadly, looking for all this also led to me running into this.
Good to see that his standards for success haven't changed a jot.
Yeah, I've seen almost zero mention of what she did that caused this. And even if they did mention it, it's unfortunately one of those things where most people would react with 'so what?' because it takes more than a 2 minute news highlight to explain why it was bad.
There's even a change.org petition with petition which as of now has almost 55k votes to reinstate her, which means these people have the time to go online and find this thing and if they hadn't before, sign up to be able to vote. And did that instead of 'waste their time' doing a bit of research.
Pretty sure the free flights was removed over like five years ago, and was a remnant of Qantas being government owned.
.. went and checked, and the free flights for ex-MPs was ended, but not ex-PMs.
Perrottet is a Trump-loving, god fearing Opus Dei catholic who feels like he fell out of The Handmaid's Tale. Condolences to NSW.
Oh for fucks sake.
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Curious what prompted that. Did he get caught up in the ICAC?
Edit - he’s saying his lawsuit against FriendlyJordies is the reason?
He's being sued for defamation which has highlighted the significant flaws our country has regarding free speech and defamation lawsuits. His producer was also arrested by essentially secret police on bogus stalking charges pushed forward by Barilaro, despite his insistence he had nothing to do with it.
He may be insufferable but I think he deserves to enjoy this little moment of vindication. Barilaro was abusing not only our legal system but also perverting parlimentary priveledge so that he could step on a little guy on youtube.
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I understand. I didn't know about that. I mostly watch his political commentary. I feel like he has raised many issues that needed raising, but agree that he has also been quite a bit of a shitheel.
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You can't make this shit up.
Like.. is she extremely popular amongst moderates and undecided voters? Because I cannot see why else they'd be so keen on her.
Well known face, constant media coverage and so on. It might be based more on optics than anything else.
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She might just have enough popularity there to run against Zali Steggall. They’re still pissed that Abbott lost that seat after it being a safe seat for 50 years.
She's an amateur.