Tom

Live events, among other things. Northern Rivers NSW

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@Aelthemplaer Considered that they want it to go to Norfolk instead?

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

I think the reason they try to steer clear of dna has something to do with not being allowed race based laws, speculated on the idea after seeing various native title court cases being awarded to descendants of such and such or to a corporation. You still do see it sometimes in some govt docs but it seems rare.

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

The Murbah Swamp Beer Miracle
I love that they have a priest introduce the story.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

Thorpe claims it's racist violence when she's told to follow senate conduct rules. If this interview is irt the recent standing committee, it's no surprise that she claims to have found evidence of racism, as just about every question she asked was 'tell us about how racism has gotten worse'.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@Sargon_of_Akkad It's rather interesting, seemingly this is from quite some time ago, before Truss was PM, where she rubbishes Hitchens the Younger for, amongst other things, saying the party machines would chew them up and spit them out. One wonders how she would revisit such a conversation.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

quotes from the website:

"Recent History and the Indian migrant dominance in Harris Park!"

"Harris Park, affectionately known as ‘Little India’, has blossomed into a vibrant enclave rich with Indian culture, cuisine"

"The suburb of Harris Park reflects this trend with over 46% of the 5,800 residents born in India according to the 2016 Census"

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@craigkellyAFEE One presumes that were police complaints filed against everyone who said piss off back to [country], such as friendly jordies, those cases would suddenly be remembered.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

Got an email the other week saying that random doctor I went to on tour years ago had been hacked, got me thinking: what purpose is there for giving people personal data?

Verification, postage, billing, advertising.

First three can be done with tokens generated by the person and relevant authority, thus in the event of breach they are useless.

Eg/ If you want to put in your address feel free, but also auspost generates a code [xyz123] that then when that package hits their machines gets sent to your address. Make sense?

Relieves burden on the business except they miss out on advertising metrics, which they just have to cop imo.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

Interestingly, Australian is listed, separate to Aboriginal etc. Officially acknowledging that there is Australian ancestral group, or just that a lot of people wrote that in the last one, but either way.

As for India, Tamil is there, the linked site doesn't have a distinct list readily available but if the details are published the various subIndians or w/e could be summed.

Another interesting part of the site is that apparently Jervis Bay is an external territory of Australia.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@OMGTheMess Interesting sleight of hand to dismiss concerns as mere ideological purists.
Other guy falls into it instantly: 'I know it's budget purists but...'

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@Ryandally08 natintern

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@Ryandally08 How did this work? Did the Supreme Court decide to step in or were they asked to?
Or iow, would a regular person be forced to pay out for a sup court appeal or just have to deal with the bad decision to exclude the evidence?

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

The Australian govt used Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Celtic in its own documents, shameful dispray by the flack.

"Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) applies to groups and individuals who differ according to religion, language, and ethnicity, and whose ancestry is other than Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Celtic."*
*CaLD definition as noted in the Western Australian Multicultural Policy Framework (WAMPF) https://t.co/bBaMVgkWRx

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

My thoughts are that I think in an area where everyone does something, it's unfair to go after the one that admits to it.
Maybe the others, if asked again, might happen to remember some more details of their own practices now.
It'd be interesting to know whether or not the details on the individuals is to prepare differently, or whether it's basically used to find easy marks or w/e.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@RoadknightThe Seems strange that an exASIO source, seemingly under a pseudonym, did a 4 corners interview and has a pic of his face online. Dunno though.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@FootnotesGuy Isn't it more like this?
They at least are starting to openly talk about the heresy that there're tradeoff's to a netzero focus.

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

Cunning play: The govt prioritised netzero, everything else not looked at or secondary. They promised cost savings (for what a promise is worth to these people), but didn't ever mention availability.
You might think it was a given, like that a car comes with wheels and an engine, so yep got us there.

Incase it needs spelling out: Powers going to shit, get a personal battery. ~$1500 per year (~15,000 over 10 years). Or suffer price spikes and/or outages.

The captioned pic implying that an expectation that electricity be reliable means it's 'gold plated' instead of standard is funny. That electricity exists is a standard expectation, you can tell by it only being mentioned when travelling when it not.
Except for reputational reasons, it's never 'btw there aren't problems with the power grid', it's instead: 'plan around power being unreliable'.

'Gold plated', 'Envy of the world': Manipulative framing. That the plumbing works does not make your toilet gold plated, not does it make it the envy of the world. To some of the world, yes that's envious, but consider that the govts netzero priority, while still exporting the worlds coal etc, made it so that you should compare Australia with the 3rd world.

Last paragraph in pic below: Is that a rhetorical question? How is the answer not easily 'yep cut decarbonisation'? How has it even got this far?

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

The ABC contemplates the idea that there are trade-offs in electricity.

Their source describes the ‘trilemma’ of emissions, reliability and affordability.

That means ‘consider outages’ in ABC parlance.
Because compromising on emissions is unthinkable. https://t.co/2Sis3wZXvL

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@john_macgowan Theoretically these payments aren't just about 'money for friends' eg the advertising for fuel stuff recently, but also to keep a certain stability to [things that have normally been there that the general population would notice gone as a sign of things going wrong]

[Tom @ThomasFisherAus]

@ClareONeilMP Stop lying all the time and then we can talk about conspiracy theories.

[Peter Lyndon-James @PeterPerthWA]

THE REVOLVING DOOR: WHERE YOUR MINISTERS ACTUALLY END UP.

You elect them to serve you. Watch where they go when they're done. I've verified all 29 names, many more not listed. Every one on the public record.

Prime Ministers & Premiers
- Scott Morrison — signed AUKUS as PM, now advises DYNE Maritime, which invests in AUKUS-linked tech.

- Anna Bligh — Labor Premier, CEO of the banks' lobby.

- Gladys Berejiklian — NSW Premier, Optus executive.

- Mike Baird — NSW Premier, NAB, $2.29 million in one year.

- Barry O'Farrell — NSW Premier, CEO of Racing Australia.

- Nick Greiner — NSW Premier, coal lobbyist.

Treasury — the banks

- Josh Frydenberg — Treasurer, Goldman Sachs.

- Peter Costello — Treasurer, chairman of Nine for eight years. The bloke who ran the country's money ended up running a quarter of its newspapers.

- Joe Hockey — Treasurer, founded a Washington advisory firm riding AUKUS.

- Simon Birmingham — Finance Minister, ANZ, then CEO of the banking lobby. Left the Senate and landed at a bank, the same month.

Defence — defence money
- Christopher Pyne — Defence Minister, advising EY on defence within weeks.

- Peter Reith — Defence Minister, Tenix, a contractor that won work while he was minister.

Trade & Foreign Affairs
- Andrew Robb — Trade Minister, $880,000 a year, with Landbridge, holder of the Darwin Port lease. Quit just before the foreign interference laws kicked in.

- Julie Bishop, aid contractor Palladium.

- Marise Payne, lobbying firm.

- Alexander Downer → registered lobbyist, clients included Woodside.

- Craig Emerson — Labor, consultant for Santos.

Resources — mining and gas
- Ian Macfarlane — Resources Minister, CEO of the mining lobby, within weeks.

- Martin Ferguson — Labor's Resources Minister, oil and gas lobby, six months, after leaving. The cooling-off rule says eighteen. Nothing happened.

- Mark Vaile — Deputy PM, chairman of Whitehaven Coal.

- John Anderson — Deputy PM → chairman of Eastern Star Gas.

- Greg Combet — Labor Climate Minister, consultant to AGL and Santos.

Gambling
- Stephen Conroy — Labor Communications Minister, the online bookies' lobby, two months, after leaving.

- Mark Arbib — Labor senator, Crown.

- Karl Bitar — Labor national secretary, Packer's lobbyist.

And the production line:
- Nick Minchin, Michael Wooldridge, Richard Alston, all into lobbying.
- Bruce Billson, took the Franchise Council's money, while still sitting in Parliament. Censured. Kept the job.

Both parties. Every portfolio with money in it. Grattan counted it: 1 in 4 ministers end up working for the industries they regulated.

Penalties ever handed out: zero. They're not leaving politics. They're cashing it in.

None of it is illegal. That's the problem.

Cold hard facts. Sourced. Corrected when wrong.

What's your Thoughts…?

Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺

Sources:
- Register of Lobbyists; Grattan Institute; Senate ministerial standards inquiry; company and lobby group records.