The Daily Breakdown

We're back and we're doing it daily! Today on The Breakdown ... Australia shows its pettiness on the world stage, Labor rolls out its scare campaign for 2022 and it turns out there's still a pandemic.

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Transgender:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/lia-thomas-beaten-by-fellow-ivy-league-transgender-swimmer-iszac-henig/news-story/5eebbac97a9fced52df16e71168c3331Reading 101:

Kamala Harris on Twitter

Kamala - strange bedfellows:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-kamala-harris-willie-brown-idUSKBN26Y2RQ

Today on The Breakdown: the questions that need to be answered about omicron, Treasury's economic fantasyland and The Guardian says Elon Musk is literally worse than Hitler. Is he really?

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/us-fed-and-frydenberg-joined-in-policy-lunacy/news-story/98554179b4a6557bdb02fc1f7c8fe029

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/10/spending-without-taxing-now-were-all-guinea-pigs-in-an-endless-money-experiment

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59639007

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/britain-records-first-omicron-variant-covid-death/100697628

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uks-first-patient-killed-omicron-25716888

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/victoria/adem-somyurek-leaks-secret-details-of-cabinet-meetings/news-story/7c97eb2b71b031134cf26897cbe75e24

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/curious-case-map-disappearing-taiwan-minister-us-democracy-summit-2021-12-12/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/14/elon-musk-time-person-of-the-year-worst-ever-choice-say-critics

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

China has been waging a decades-long war against the West. Today, with a weak (and incontinent) US President, an economically and patriotically strong China, a West that can barely get out of bed without therapy and totally lacking self-belief, China is on the cusp of victory. Bummer, eh. Sorry. There is no good news.

Attaboy

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/magistrate-rod-higgins-reaches-death-benefit-claim-settlement-with-ashleigh-petries-mother/news-story/60b880f6117f162dc835d51456ca4a3c

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9731913/Magistrate-Rod-Rocketman-teed-detractors-pom-pom-noggin.html

Omicron update

https://the-riotact.com/from-today-unvaccinated-or-omicron-close-contacts-will-mean-christmas-quarantine/520062

https://www.couriermail.com.au/coronavirus/coronavirus-world-uk-tightens-restrictions-to-battle-omicron-variant/news-story/5610b699fb4d6240b53673c07b7b0593

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/583339-doctor-who-discovered-omicron-explains-the

https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-most-43-omicron-cases-193717467.html

China

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/the-us-wont-fight-to-save-taiwan-or-ukraine/news-story/573dc355e2ccd490ae5b4b634f02f442

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/the-truth-is-china-will-stop-at-nothing-until-the-west-is-lost/news-story/32f1d301cef06441398608c9698caf8b

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jussie-smollett-verdict-alleged-hate-crime-hoax-trial

https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1469392145777893379

We're one week into the Omicron variant and it seems - come for the caveat, stay for the wiggle room - that we're scared about nothing. Surely that's good news? And the Jenkins Review into conduct in Parliament House has been released. The media is in a tizzy about it. But did you know your workplace is probably worse? You just aren't as important as people who know journalists (sorry, but they're special - just ask them!)

OMICRON

Will the Coronavirus Evolve to Be Less Deadly?

TGA provisionally approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11

Family 'deeply upset' over twin tragedy

Coronavirus (COVID-19) case numbers and statistics

Child under 10 becomes Australia's youngest Covid death

The Post Millennial on Twitter

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/rebel-lib-senator-alex-antic-vows-to-fight-back/news-story/bcdcb8db63f968db333da47ba7f3853c

Thousands rally against Victorian pandemic legislation as more protesters catch COVID

Jenkins Review

https://www.actu.org.au/media/1385284/a4_sexual-harassment-survey-results_print.pdf

'Revolting and humiliating': 10 things we learned about working at parliament from the Kate Jenkins review

Oh goody! Just when you thought we were out of the woods, another COVID variant is in the wings and it just landed in Australia! Why the left knows nothing about anything - the Rittenhouse trial is the case study. And we have a new Australian cricket captain who is going to tell you why you suck.

The biggest news out of Glasgow this week had nothing to do with climate change or Swedish Muppets - it was all about submarines, and ScoMo unleashed his inner brawler: about time! It also exposed how bitter, twisted and deformed the souls of Rudd and Turnbull are. Another arrest has also been made in the Russia collusion hoax - the hoax has fallen apart ... isn't it time the media reported it properly?

Morrison accused of worsening rift with French government after leak of Macron text

Lunch breaks and month-long holidays cause culture clash in sub program

Kevin Rudd on Twitter

The real 'collusion' was the creation of 'RussiaGate' out of absolutely nothing

Meet the Steele Dossier's 'Primary Subsource': Fabulist Russian From Democrat Think Tank Whose Boozy Past the FBI Ignored

ICAC has exposed the dirty secret of politics: politicians are self-interested parasites. Well, der. They are also motivated by self-interest. If that's what they're hot and bothered about, then they need a dose of reality. And if they can't justify the humiliation they are putting Gladys Berejiklian through, then it is time to shut it down. This isn't an investigation, this is a show trial. And just because the public is interested doesn't mean it is in the public interest.

ICAC

The public heard another Gladys Berejiklian at Icac - one who threatened to sack bureaucrats and bossed colleagues

Gladys Berejiklian at ICAC: When private becomes public

COP26

Joanna Lumley says wartime-style rationing could help solve climate crisis

Facebook steps up fight against climate misinformation - but critics say effort falls short

Today on The Daily Breakdown - the Week that Went: News Corp ramps up its climate activism and keeps it all in the family, Guess who's going to Glasgow? (And will ScoMo get a biscuit?) And we're all in this together, right? Well, not everyone. Especially at the ABC.

News Corp and Rupert drop all objectivity to paint themselves green - and they found a rich Sydney sider to be their poster child - and who's behind the Facebook whistleblower coming to lecture our parliament? Why, it's a group of foreign leftists! ... And mining magnate Andrew Forrest! Doncha just love getting lectured by billionaires?

Today on The Daily Breakdown - The Business Council of Australia releases a useless, pointless fact-free report into climate change - no wonder the left love it, and sanity returns to COVID policy as the experts are put back in their box. But all is not well in Queensland - just what has Unspellable been doing in the past 20 months?

Dan Andrews without a mask

Queensland hospitals in crisis

CHO Brett Sutton put back in his box

Singapore links

Singaporeans take fright at relaxation of Covid restrictions ($)

Singapore record cases not a bad thing

Record cases and vaccines

MOH Covid situation

Norway

Cases plunge after restrictions end