Not Good Enough

24 — Blaming families

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We chat about the News Corp beat up of Lydia Thorpe, the re-up of the lockdown in parts of Victoria and ginned up cyber attacks in the news.
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  • Victora has criminalised wage theft! Time to send George Calombaris to perma-jail.
  • Aboriginal activist Lidia Thorpe has been elected by the Greens to Federal Senate. News Corp immediately tried to concoct a smear campaign.
  • Crikey has a detailed run down of News Corp’s beat-up.
    • Not on the beers
    • Victoria has cranked the lockdown up a bit.
  • Victorian opposition leader has tried to score political points, saying that Dan Andrews has “reached a new low” in calling out families.
  • The Victorian Government is providing $1500 to people who test positive or their close contacts so they can self-isolate.
    • Crank hack attack
    • Australia was the “victim” of a “state-based” “cyber” “attack”.
  • David Speers clarified that this wasn’t an announcement of an attack, just some ongoing security concerns.
  • This news dropped at the same time as the Government moved to bypass parliament and effectively ban vaping.
    • Contemptuous Dutton
    • Peter Dutton has been threatened with contempt of court for refusing to release an illegally held asylum seeker.
  • We’ve covered this before all the way back in episode 13.
    • Taking from the Public Trust
    • In pun news, the Guardian has been running a deep dive series on the political expense system.
  • Stuart Robert, Dan Tehan and Simon Birmingham charged the taxpayers for flights to a $10,000-a-head fundraiser.
  • Michael McCormack took a free trip to the Melbourne Cup to announce a cancelled grant.
  • NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell resigned over a $3000 gift of a bottle of wine from Australian Water Holdings.
  • Tony Abbot’s daughter was given a $60,000 scholarship.
  • The Australian government is moving to make it twice as expensive to study arts and law at university.
  • University education was free from 1974-1989.
  • Former Treasurer Joe Hockey was once involved in a violent protest against a $250 annual university fee.
    • Actions
    • Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has a thread of MPs who received a free education. Call them!
  • Check out the Guardian’s Full Story podcast.
  • Listen to 7AM’s interview with the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance on organising the Black Lives Matter protest.
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