Christian Porter rejects premise of my question that there is some form of urgency in getting Commonwealth Integrity Commission oversight of pollies. Says there are already 11 public sector anti corruption bodies. #auspol
Porter confirms that law enforcement can be investigated for corruption of any kind, but public servants and pollies only 4 crimes. #auspol#auslaw
Porter says the breadth is "very large" includes abuse of public office. Concedes it's arguable the jurisdiction is broader for law enforcement but says the benefit is there is clarity of what counts as corruption is. #auspol#auslaw
Porter says crimes should be judged by "a court not a report". #auspol
Porter claims there is no double standard in the fact public sector integrity matters MUST come from referrals but law enforcement integrity matters can come from public referrals. #auspol#auslaw
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Every US presidential election is "hotly contested" @BreakfastNews. What's different this time is the president doesn't want all the votes to be counted. That's the news. Where is that?
So @davidlipson gives us a cross from the White House security fence, as if Trump needs protecting from us! Lots of focus on "violent protests on the street"...what about MAGA folks shooting people? Is that a concern?
Let's cut to Trump saying his rallies are really big without mentioning they're super spreader events!
Australian reporting of US election is pathetic, focusing on Trump's barnstorming 5 states in 1 day propaganda instead of him cheering Trump cars almost running Biden bus off road and widespread voter suppression.
The country is basically no longer a democracy but the Australian coverage still has the light and fluffy "where do I get my delicious democracy sausage?!" Tone
Im quite optimistic that Biden will win 270 electoral college votes if the votes are counted. But Trump is going to declare victory based on election night tallies, there will be demonstrations against him and MAGA folks are going to straight up shoot people.
THREAD on income tax cuts - the govt will trumpet the green column which gives a rolled up figure, but what's really going on is the yellow column is a one-off boost in 2020-21, and pink is the permanent increase. #auspol#Budget2021
Notice something? Green makes it look like everyone is about $2K better off. Yellow reveals middle income earners are getting a ONE-OFF boost in 2020-21; and PINK shows the RICH are getting the biggest cuts. #auspol#Budget2021
Why does this happen? Because for people earning $48K-90K the threshold changes only compensates for loss of low to middle income tax offset. So the middle are only ahead in 2020-21 because in that year they get BOTH.
So the ASD won't "collect" information but they will help AFP "identify" people (by accessing their information) Hmmmmmmmm...
Seems @annikasmethurst story was RIGHT ALL ALONG, not that it was ever in doubt. #auspol
@annikasmethurst Smethurst story said there was a push for ASD to get domestic powers. Dutton/Home Affairs denials were always nonsense, claiming that as long as their wasn't a mass information gathering power on all Australians, only on criminal suspects, that somehow made the story wrong.
Of course we'll have to see what actually limits this to identifying people allegedly accessing/distributing child abuse material.
Because most of the powers in the encryption legislation apply to ALL crimes punishable with a sentence of 3+ years in prison.
Who needs facts? If you had the intuition that BLM protests would cause a spike in cases then there was a spike, QED.
If you hate multiculturalism, blame the Eid dinner.
The world is not an objective reality external to me, the world is only my perception of it, so I can create my own subjective reality with my spidey sense, filter bubble and hostile media.
Lets give the most powerful elective office in the world to a lunatic because it makes great TV. What could go wrong.
The #COVIDSafe app legislation has landed. It mainly creates offences for stuff govt said would be banned - eg the main offence of collection/use/disclosure by those not conducting contact tracing (pen: 5 years prison, 300 penalty units or both) #auspol#auslaw
There seems to be a very small amount of leeway if the collection is "permitted under an Australian law" - provided info is deleted immediately.
But elsewhere the legislation says it "cancels the effect of a provision of any Australian law" that would permit or require something banned in it.