The Daily Breakdown

Josh Frydenberg will deliver his fourth Budget tonight. It will be crap. There will be 'tax cuts'. There will be cost-of-living 'relief'. But you'll be paying for it. Maybe not today, but tomorrow - and if the spending tonight is as bad as the spending over the past decade, your kids will be paying for it as well. It's time government treated us like the adults we pretend to be and told us, "sorry, but there is no money tree".

You've heard about misinformation. You've heard about disinformation. But have you heard about 'malinformation'? It's the new ugly tool for government to crack down on speech it doesn't like and it'll be coming to a social media platform near you any day now ... it just needs a bit of context.

Malinformation: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/rumor-control-startup-guide_508.pdf

Hunter in Ukraine: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652127/Hunter-Biden-helped-secure-millions-funding-military-biotech-research-program-Ukraine.html

A freedom of information request has lifted the lid on how bureaucrats worked to hide their inner workings not only from the public but also from government. If you think they treat you with contempt, tou're not alone - they have some epic disrespect for the MPs they are meant to serve.

Aaron Chen

https://youtu.be/YwTkh_XUA94

https://youtu.be/w0mIPtaRGvI

Maths is tough - but when your algorithms and your data are used to decide whether to lockdown millions of people, take away civil liberties and mandate vaccinations, you'd better be right. The problem is - a lot of the date and the 'science' was wrong. Now the truth is coming out, but it's a bit bloody late.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-atlantic-david-zweig-cdc-school-masking

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/22/nsw-liberal-mp-criticised-after-speaking-at-anti-vaccination-rally

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/reported-pediatric-covid-19-deaths-plummet-24-after-cdc-fixes-coding-logic-error

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10630753/Chaotic-death-recording-pandemic-mean-thousands-WRONGLY-blamed-Covid.html

Kimberley Kitching was buried yesterday before senators, MPs, a premier and a couple of 'mean girls'. More stories are emerging about how she was bullied. Surely that would infuriate people like Grace Tame, Lucy Turnbull and Julie Banks who just a month ago demanded the Morrison Government adopt all recommendations in the Jenkins review of the work culture at Parliament House, including bullying. But it seems only some bullying is wrong, only some bullying needs to be investigated and some bullying needs to be stopped ... when those claims can be used to attack conservatives.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/kate-jenkins-respect-at-work-report/100438496

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/samantha-maiden-to-release-a-new-book-into-toxic-canberra-bubble-culture/news-story/8727632cb23404d60a8a46f14a4805ce

https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_set_the_standard_2021.pdf

Don't shoot the messenger! Not true. Russian soldiers in Ukraine live longer than messengers - especially when they say something mean - and true - about the left. Today on The Daily Breakdown, we examine two stories - one that doesn't fit the narrative and must be neutralised, and another that was neutralised but shouldn't have been. There is a common thread.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-biden-laptop?s=w

The death of Kimberley Kitching has lifted the lid on the bullying culture in the ALP, their hypocrisy about women in the workplace and how the media is trying to cover for their actions.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/labor-partys-mean-girls-ostracised-kimberley-kitching/news-story/a708cccc76a66f7e7b5f6311e57f4f00

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-17/kitching-disclosed-bullying-complaint-senate-labor/100915602

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/30/revolting-and-humiliating-10-things-we-learned-about-working-at-parliament-from-kate-jenkins-review

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/16/extraordinarily-disrespectful-albanese-hits-back-after-labor-senators-dubbed-mean-girls

This week we have been addressing the horrors of Yuendemu, the horrific life of Kumanjayi Walker, the pain he inflicted on the woman he said he loved, and the fear he put into the nurses who travelled to the middle of nowhere to help the 1000 residents of the isolated town who suffered from his actions.

But at The Guardian, they saw something different. Their parallel universe tells you a lot about the left, and why the problems in Yuendemu, and 100 other towns like it, will never be fixed.

Imagine you're a nurse in the remote town of Yuendemu in the NT. As you try to fall asleep at night, you can hear your car windows being smashed. You can hear people trying to pry off the security grills from your windows. A few doors down, another nurse can hear her people trying to remove the roof. Then ask yourself: who would volunteer for that life? And would you let your loved ones live there?

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/secret-terror-of-nurses-who-fled-community-in-fear-of-kumanjayi-walker-shortly-before-he-was-shot-dead-by-cop-zachary-rolfe/news-story/8ccb066d89082b215a537c4280caf0bb

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/15/sussan-ley-does-not-have-duty-of-care-to-protect-young-from-climate-crisis-appeal-court-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/596304-investigate-russias-covert-funding-of-us-anti-fossil-fuel-groups

On Friday, 11 March, Constable Zachary Rolfe was found not guilty on three charges, including murder, related to the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker in the Northern Territory in November 2019.

As soon as the verdict was reported, the Blaktivists and the race hustlers sought to capitalise on the result.

Walker's life was horrific and he made the lives of those around him just as bad.

His life and the reaction to his death tells s a lot about how can't have mature conversations about race or Indigenous disadvantage. Instead, we patronise Indigenous Australians and avoid the harsh conversations we need to have.

Today, we have one such conversation.

Investigative journalist Kristin Shorten wrote the articles on which the bulk of this episode was based. This is journalism at its absolute finest: tough, difficult, uncompromising, truthful storytelling. It can't have been an easy assignment on any level. It's the reason you pay for journalism - these are the stories that need to be told. It is superb work.

Please consider a subscription to The Australian.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/the-unwanted-baby-who-became-a-violent-abuser-kumanjayi-walkers-tragic-life-before-he-was-shot-by-nt-cop-zachary-rolfe/news-story/df0b18829ac21cefc1c0e23b6c533a0a

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bashing-biting-choking-the-domestic-violence-horror-kumanjayi-walker-perpetrated-on-his-girlfriend-before-being-shot-by-cop-zachary-rolfe/news-story/2e3e6951755f840d1b1c0486f0ac3084

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-11/zachary-rolfe-not-guilty-murder-kumanjayi-walker-police/100895368

https://twitter.com/SenatorThorpe/status/1502130121070845952?s=20&t=Ao8OYvmlikMFk29YCUfwXQ

Deaths in custody definition: https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/indigenous-deaths-custody-0

Domestic and family violence statistics: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/domestic-and-family-violence