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!
"If one side is undermining democracy"? IF?!? What would that look like it's fucking already happening fucking report it. @BreakfastNews
There should be a super cut of Trump refusing to respect the result, failing to say mail-in ballots are illegal/foreign interference, stopping the count on 3 November. Is this normal? How is this not the news?
ARE WE CONFIDENT JOE BIDEN WILL CONCEDE TO TRUMP?!?! What are you clowns doing? @mjrowland68
Lisa Millar: people are so fascinated about what Donald Trump might do.
Rowland: Trump used the word losing, he doesn't like losing, not that he won't accept the result.
EXCEPT HE'S SAID THAT BEFORE MANY TIMES. MANY TIMES.
Of course you should interview Trump supporters, but not to get talking points about how unsafe they feel because some property has been destroyed at the margins of largely peaceful protests. Ask them if the votes should be counted?
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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
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.
#breaking Michaela Banerji has unanimously lost the High Court case against Comcare on freedom of political communication. Decision upholds decision to sack her and APS code of conduct restricting even private anonymous social media posts. #auspol#auslaw
The majority judgment of Kiefel, Bell Keane and Nettle is based on fact implied freedom doesn't give personal rights, and notes that code of conduct applies to ALL social media posts due to risk of de-anonymisation.
Although majority leaves door ajar for implied freedom to restrict some executive decisions/discretions