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TTT 117 Inflated Importance


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The new Australian Parliament sat this week with MPs resuming their political theatre show and inflated sense of importance. Outside of the political bubble inflation surges again as do rainbows and monkeypox. Join Tim Wilms and Stephen Berry tonight to review the past fortnight live at 6pm Melbourne time and 8pm Auckland time on Trad Tasman Talk.

Both Australia and NZ are at the peak of their Omicron BA5 wave. NZ is now reclassifying covid deaths as those dying exclusively from covid which has seen the official death tally drop by a third. ABS data released today stated that of all covid-related deaths in Australia 86% of them covid was the main contributing factor over other comorbidities.

Australia’s CMO Paul Kelly has declared monkeypox a communicable disease incident of national significance. ATAGI has recommended those currently most at risk, 98% of cases in the western outbreak are men who have sex with men, are given access to the 3rd generation sterilizing smallpox vaccine JYNNEOS.

In the new Australian Federal Parliament Labor, the Greens, and the Teals were wearing masks but Coalition MPs were largely unmasked. Pauline Hanson walked out when new Senate President Sue Lines opened proceedings with the indigenous welcome to the country, this was to also protest Lines’ plans to fly the indigenous flag permanently in the Senate. The new Father of the House Bob Katter also took aim at Lines’ other idea to ditch the Lord’s prayer at the beginning of Senate proceedings.

NRL Team the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles lost against the Sydney Roosters 10-20 and likely won’t make the finals after they did not allow seven Pacific Islander players to take part because they refused to wear rainbow pride jerseys. In Melbourne, the Shrine of Remembrance will be lit up in Rainbow lights on Sunday to recognize LGBTQ defense force members.

The Tenants Action Wellington is protesting outside property management company Quinovic’s Kent Tce office on Thursday with a list of 10 absurd demands. These include landlords providing evidence they are addressing repairs one week after being notified by tenants, all rents being permanently lowered to 25 percent of the lowest benefit, a minimum tenancy of five years with tenants able to exit earlier, abolishing flat inspections, one year notice before selling or reoccupying the house, a ban on evictions during winter months and emergencies and pets being allowed in all flats.  

Austalia’s inflation rate was 6.1% in the past year, fruit and vegetables prices rose by 7.3%, inflation grew by 1.8% in the last quarter. Treasurer Jim Chalmers stated inflation is projected to peak in December at 7.75%. The RBA meets next Tuesday with interest rates to rise by between 50 and 75 bases points. The Biden Administration is trying to redefine recession after the second quarter of negative growth for the US. The NZ Government is spending $14 million on ensuring 160,000 New Zealanders eligible for a cost of living payment have their bank account details up to date.

In the aftermath of their police state lockdown enforcement Victoria Police has had to apologize to Avi Yemini for false arrest and detainments, they have dropped incitement charges against Monica Smit, Solihin Millin, and Jamal Aabazi. They have paid compensation paid to Age photographer Luis Ascui for pepper spraying him when he was covering an anti-lockdown protest. The NSW Government has forced children to work off lockdown fines which were disproportionately given to children from disadvantaged areas. 

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