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Yeah, but that was before this happened. His vision became even more short sighted after that.
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Yeah, but that was before this happened. His vision became even more short sighted after that.
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SUSSAN LEY (IMAGE: AAP/MICK TSIKAS)
The preselection challenge against Deputy Liberal Leader Sussan Ley in her NSW seat of Farrer presents Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with a delicate conundrum: does he intervene to save her, or does he take advantage of the situation and allow a powerful factional rival to be taken out?
Ley says she has Dutton’s support, and Crikey understands she is right about that. It appears most Liberals are happy with the deal hammered out after the election that put the conservative Queenslander Dutton in the opposition leader’s job; Ley, a centre-right-winger from NSW, as his deputy; and Simon Birmingham, a moderate South Australian, as Senate leader. The set-up ensures a certain factional and geographical balance.
But the challenge in Farrer throws uncertainty into the mix, and some Liberals who’ve spoken to Crikey see both opportunities and risks for Dutton.
Should the challenge by conservative ex-NSW Liberal executive member and schoolteacher Jean Haynes be successful — and it appears she has gathered impressive numbers among local Liberals voting in the preselection — Dutton could go down the same route as former PM Scott Morrison did and intervene to save Ley.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/04/28/sussan-ley-liberals-stop-whingeing/
Morrison faced criticism that his intervention to stop rank-and-file Liberal members from voting out Ley in 2022 was undemocratic, but he defended the move as protecting his female team members from factional shenanigans.
Dutton could do the same, a move that Liberals hope would earn him credit among the public. Many in the party are acutely aware there’s a perception the Liberals have a “woman problem”, and agree it wouldn’t look good if its most senior woman was allowed to be taken out.
On the other hand, allowing party members to vote Ley out could allow Dutton to effectively eliminate a factional rival under the cover of a party-democratic process. Ley is closely allied with Alex Hawke, who is seen as the leader of the centre-right faction, and he, too, is facing a credible preselection challenge in his NSW electorate of Mitchell. Their faction is seen as somewhat rudderless after Morrison lost last year’s federal election.
Some other Liberals Crikey spoke to said the Farrer situation has little to do with Dutton and wider party politics, and everything to do with internal rivalries in the NSW division. News Corp’s Samantha Maiden has chronicled the intense and complicated factors at play in Farrer, including allegations a “nun from a silent order” was signed up to vote in a local Liberal branch, and claims a party powerbroker had been “hiding in a forest in a ski mask”.
One Liberal insider described the preselection situation, with the political consequences that would cascade from each possibility, as a “Game of Thrones” moment for the party.
Dutton, who Crikey understands is a Game of Thrones fan for the show’s depiction of politics, will surely weigh his options carefully.
In the HBO fantasy drama series, political decisions often led to actual beheadings — or worse. In Australian politics, fortunately, the worst that could happen is that some people will have to look for new jobs.
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Anton Nilsson is Crikey's federal political reporter. He previously covered NSW Parliament for NCA NewsWire, and before that, worked for Sweden's Expressennewspaper as well as other publications in Sweden, Australia and the United States.
Peter Dutton’s Game of Thrones moment as rivals gather to take out Sussan Ley
In the HBO fantasy drama series, political decisions often led to beheadings. Let's hope it doesn't go quite that far in Farrer.ANTON NILSSON
JUL 27, 2023
SUSSAN LEY (IMAGE: AAP/MICK TSIKAS)
The preselection challenge against Deputy Liberal Leader Sussan Ley in her NSW seat of Farrer presents Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with a delicate conundrum: does he intervene to save her, or does he take advantage of the situation and allow a powerful factional rival to be taken out?
Ley says she has Dutton’s support, and Crikey understands she is right about that. It appears most Liberals are happy with the deal hammered out after the election that put the conservative Queenslander Dutton in the opposition leader’s job; Ley, a centre-right-winger from NSW, as his deputy; and Simon Birmingham, a moderate South Australian, as Senate leader. The set-up ensures a certain factional and geographical balance.
But the challenge in Farrer throws uncertainty into the mix, and some Liberals who’ve spoken to Crikey see both opportunities and risks for Dutton.
Should the challenge by conservative ex-NSW Liberal executive member and schoolteacher Jean Haynes be successful — and it appears she has gathered impressive numbers among local Liberals voting in the preselection — Dutton could go down the same route as former PM Scott Morrison did and intervene to save Ley.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/04/28/sussan-ley-liberals-stop-whingeing/
Morrison faced criticism that his intervention to stop rank-and-file Liberal members from voting out Ley in 2022 was undemocratic, but he defended the move as protecting his female team members from factional shenanigans.
Dutton could do the same, a move that Liberals hope would earn him credit among the public. Many in the party are acutely aware there’s a perception the Liberals have a “woman problem”, and agree it wouldn’t look good if its most senior woman was allowed to be taken out.
On the other hand, allowing party members to vote Ley out could allow Dutton to effectively eliminate a factional rival under the cover of a party-democratic process. Ley is closely allied with Alex Hawke, who is seen as the leader of the centre-right faction, and he, too, is facing a credible preselection challenge in his NSW electorate of Mitchell. Their faction is seen as somewhat rudderless after Morrison lost last year’s federal election.
Some other Liberals Crikey spoke to said the Farrer situation has little to do with Dutton and wider party politics, and everything to do with internal rivalries in the NSW division. News Corp’s Samantha Maiden has chronicled the intense and complicated factors at play in Farrer, including allegations a “nun from a silent order” was signed up to vote in a local Liberal branch, and claims a party powerbroker had been “hiding in a forest in a ski mask”.
One Liberal insider described the preselection situation, with the political consequences that would cascade from each possibility, as a “Game of Thrones” moment for the party.
Dutton, who Crikey understands is a Game of Thrones fan for the show’s depiction of politics, will surely weigh his options carefully.
In the HBO fantasy drama series, political decisions often led to actual beheadings — or worse. In Australian politics, fortunately, the worst that could happen is that some people will have to look for new jobs.
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Anton Nilsson is Crikey's federal political reporter. He previously covered NSW Parliament for NCA NewsWire, and before that, worked for Sweden's Expressennewspaper as well as other publications in Sweden, Australia and the United States.
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Liberal Senator and former Minister Linda Reynolds has been widely condemned following revelation of comments she made
to an investigation into how her former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's rape trial was handled.
Senator Reynolds called for amendments to the ACT Crimes Act to deter individuals from using the media or parliamentary forums in relation to an alleged criminal offence that should be the subject of the criminal justice processes.
She also pointed to a section of NSW law that made it an offence for anyone who knew or believed a serious, indictable offence had been committed and failed to report it to police.
Senator Reynolds's comments were highlighted by Greens' Senator Larissa Waters this week at the Senate inquiry into sexual consent laws in Australia.
Director of Advocacy at Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy and rape survivor, Saxon Mullins said the former minister's comments were unbelievable.
'Survivors have lots of different experiences when they go through the justice system, and they'll have lots of different takeaways from it,' she told the parliamentary committee on Tuesday.
'But the one thing that will always stay the same is that your agency has been taken away.'
'To suggest that that should be done on your behalf and of some perverted view of what justice looks like is disgusting.'
ACT Attorney General has labelled the suggestions as tantamount to 'victim blaming'.
www.canberratimes.com.au
Senator Reynolds was and still is a key player in the aborted criminal trial of Bruce Lehrmann - sending texts to Mr Lehrmann's defence team during the trial and her partner attending court for the testimony of alleged victim Brittany Higgins. Reynolds is currently a frequent contributor for the Australian Newspaper which has mounted a toxic and targeted attack on both Ms Higgins and the ACT Director of Prosecutions Shane Drumgold.
An Independent Inquiry set up by the ACT Government into the Lehrmann trial is expected to be handed to the ACT Attorney General on Monday.
to an investigation into how her former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's rape trial was handled.
Senator Reynolds called for amendments to the ACT Crimes Act to deter individuals from using the media or parliamentary forums in relation to an alleged criminal offence that should be the subject of the criminal justice processes.
She also pointed to a section of NSW law that made it an offence for anyone who knew or believed a serious, indictable offence had been committed and failed to report it to police.
Senator Reynolds's comments were highlighted by Greens' Senator Larissa Waters this week at the Senate inquiry into sexual consent laws in Australia.
Director of Advocacy at Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy and rape survivor, Saxon Mullins said the former minister's comments were unbelievable.
'Survivors have lots of different experiences when they go through the justice system, and they'll have lots of different takeaways from it,' she told the parliamentary committee on Tuesday.
'But the one thing that will always stay the same is that your agency has been taken away.'
'To suggest that that should be done on your behalf and of some perverted view of what justice looks like is disgusting.'
ACT Attorney General has labelled the suggestions as tantamount to 'victim blaming'.
Reynolds' law change calls have 'victim blaming component': Attorney-General
Shane Rattenbury does not want ACT to 'constrain' victims.
Senator Reynolds was and still is a key player in the aborted criminal trial of Bruce Lehrmann - sending texts to Mr Lehrmann's defence team during the trial and her partner attending court for the testimony of alleged victim Brittany Higgins. Reynolds is currently a frequent contributor for the Australian Newspaper which has mounted a toxic and targeted attack on both Ms Higgins and the ACT Director of Prosecutions Shane Drumgold.
An Independent Inquiry set up by the ACT Government into the Lehrmann trial is expected to be handed to the ACT Attorney General on Monday.
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Interesting read. the following quote resonates. until the small ‘l’ libs regain ascendency they are electorally doomed. long may extreme right political failures like credlin carry sway.
to be fair. the 'new right' revolution had captured key figures within the hawke/keating govts long before howards ascension to the top job ..... 1980s ALP was very receptive to the moralising anti-welfarism of thatchers conservative party
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Given a self darkening welding helmet worth a over a grand. The dipstick doesn't even put it down before striking an arc.Yeah, but that was before this happened. His vision became even more short sighted after that.
A reminder of how shamelessly partisan Linda Reynolds is.
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Oh that snippet is gold.
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Public servants who hardly ever think of rorting the system for profit….unlike the private agencies the governments seem to prefer
Being overly soft providing for needy v shamelessly creaming off funds. Hmmm what to choose
Being overly soft providing for needy v shamelessly creaming off funds. Hmmm what to choose
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100%…
The LNPs purpose is to gut public spending and wash that money to private enterprise (their mates).
The NDIS was a dream come true …
And being a Sh!t government is a badge of honour for a party that believes in small government …
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i want this dodgy character and faux christian to do jail time so so much.
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Coalition will seek to block Labor plan for cheaper medicine after backlash from pharmacies
Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close
Just looking out for the
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Meanwhile public service forced to go through more and more bearocrtaic hoops even for the most menial boring procurement
I will watch with interest to see if there are any consequences for any of these people - Robert, Morrison etc.
I worry that despite all the optimism from the Lib wipeout, Teal wave & the establishment of a national anti corruption commission, at the end of the day there is still an unwritten agreement that pols from either side don’t go after each other or lay traps they, themselves might be caught in one day.
Guys like Robert who are so clearly corrupt just magically retire from politics when the walls are closing in & that is seemingly seen as the end of the matter.
I think of the likes of Pyne & Downer who were as down in the muck as it gets yet they walk off into the sunset with fat consultants jobs with the companies they were working for to get contracts while they were ministers.
Downer goes off to the UK as an ambassador & still has never faced any consequences for what he did in Timor.
I worry that despite all the optimism from the Lib wipeout, Teal wave & the establishment of a national anti corruption commission, at the end of the day there is still an unwritten agreement that pols from either side don’t go after each other or lay traps they, themselves might be caught in one day.
Guys like Robert who are so clearly corrupt just magically retire from politics when the walls are closing in & that is seemingly seen as the end of the matter.
I think of the likes of Pyne & Downer who were as down in the muck as it gets yet they walk off into the sunset with fat consultants jobs with the companies they were working for to get contracts while they were ministers.
Downer goes off to the UK as an ambassador & still has never faced any consequences for what he did in Timor.
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One difference here is that Morrison seems unemployable - so no golden parachute for him.
Robert, as dodgy as he is, has I suspect, accumulated a fair bit of moola over the years so expect he'll keep on keeping on.
As for legal consequences for the pair re: Robodebt - I'm not holding my breath.
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poor ‘ol irrelevant little johnny has finally lost his marbles. can’t recall being all-in for moving the reactionaries right, further right, then .........oh, and supporting the mad monk and scummo.
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What do pharmacists do? They seem a bit like a pub landlord in the UK, name's above the door but the point of them is often unclear.Coalition will seek to block Labor plan for cheaper medicine after backlash from pharmacies
Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to closewww.theguardian.com
Just looking out for thelittle guymassive liberal aligned lobby group
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Dispensing with pretence
The Coalition once again stands with business against everyday Australians
Disgusting - I thought the LNP were about free markets and opposed to union influence. PfftCoalition will seek to block Labor plan for cheaper medicine after backlash from pharmacies
Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close
Just looking out for thelittle guymassive liberal aligned lobby group
Sell expensive jelly beans?
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It's worse than that. He had it down and then lifted it so he could see better.
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If he can't see out of a non darkened helmet like that he needs his eyes tested
Junior to mid public servants in regions. Team receives a $20 food hamper for Xmas, by the time paperwork is done it is in the bin having spoiled.
Senior public servants in Canberra Formal ball paid for largely by contractors bidding for work they decide - all good. (google the Avalon 2023 defence dinner as one of many examples)
Pollies - overseas junkets and other benefits paid for bidding contractors and in some cases unfriendly governments. Nothing to see here except for the unusual procurement decisions that get made.
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