For over a Hundred Years Australia Debt reached $235 billion. This Government has increased it to $562 billion. AND they don’t care, at all. @zoeaeleron They want to give the Banks & Big Business MORE!
They are looking after their ‘mates’, the Banks and Big Business.
They have scrapped the Penalty Rates. Stopped Pensioners getting Heating Allowance. Stopped Funding to Hospitals and more…
DON’T FORGET;
Barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Turnbull voted against the Banking Royal Commission 23 times.
These two claim to be the champions of regional Australia – but today the #bankingRC confirmed what everyone knew- big banks are unfairly driving farmers off their land- these two knew it too, but voted against the royal commission over 20 times- why not report this?
Queensland cattle farmer Elizabeth Handley – having suffered fire, flood and drought – asked ANZ to postpone a mediation meeting because she’d received adverse biopsies and, shortly after, would be diagnosed with cancer. ANZ declined…
Motorists are being warned of severe delays on the Kwinana Freeway in both directions after a car was crushed by a truck in a crash that left at least one motorist trapped.
Emergency services are at the scene of the crash in Success, which involved three cars and a truck.The Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) said one person had been trapped in a car under the truck, but had since been freed.The condition of the truck driver is not known…
The freeway is closed northbound at Rowley Road in Success and Main Roads said there were significant delays in both directions.
Australia’s largest banks may be forced to impose “out of cycle” mortgage rate hikes as global interest rates push higher.
There is speculation they cannot afford the political fallout of raising interest rates while the banking royal commission is underway.
But JP Morgan’s chief economist Sally Auld disagrees with the argument that the political cost would be “too high” for the big four banks.
Why the RBA can’t move
Some economists see the Reserve Bank hiking interest rates before the end of the year. Ian Verrender reckons they’re dreaming.
“What that [view] ignores is the fact that they’re businesses with a clear commercial imperative, at the end of the day, they care about their margins and preserving it,” she said.
Stark footage of WA prison staff using excessive force on inmates has been released by the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) as part of a damning series of reports about serious misconduct in prisons.The CCC said unreasonable force was used against prisoners in several incidents at jails in 2016 and 2017.
Dramatic vision from three such incidents has been released, two of them involving the use of chemical agents on prisoners at Eastern Goldfields prison in 2017.
Capsicum spray used on inmates In the first, on May 4, a guard was dealing with a 51-year-old minimum security prisoner who took hold of a door handle and would not let go.Within nine seconds of the prisoner holding the door handle, the officer “requested chemical agent from his colleague” and used it almost immediately.
The Commission said the use of the capsicum spray was not in line with Department of Justice policies and there was an “unacceptable risk of hydraulic eye damage”.The officer had placed his colleagues at risk, the CCC said, although evidence from other officers suggested the prisoner presented no threat.The officer’s own report did not explain why he deployed the agent.
These two claim to be the champions of regional Australia – but today the #bankingRC confirmed what everyone knew- big banks are unfairly driving farmers off their land- these two knew it too, but voted against the royal commission over 20 times- why not report this? #abc730
Bill Shorten’s decision on tax is risky – but the fairness fight has worked for him before #auspol https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-s-decision-on-tax-is-risky-but-the-fairness-fight-has-worked-for-him-before-20180626-p4znrh.html … via @theage
A Federal Court judge has criticised the ABC and Fairfax for attempting to use comments made by a federal MP as proof allegations of bribery against Chau Chak Wing were true.The Chinese-Australian businessman and political donor is suing the two media organisations, as well as journalist Nick McKenzie, for defamation over a Four Corners program and accompanying online story published on June 5, 2017.
Mr Chau argues that among some of the imputations the story conveyed were that he bribed or was involved in a scheme to bribe the former president of the United Nations General Assembly, John Ashe.
The ABC and Fairfax wish to file a defence relying on, among other things, a May speech by the Federal MP Andrew Hastie in which he used parliamentary privilege to name Mr Chau as a co-conspirator in the Ashe matter.When that was raised in an interlocutory hearing on Wednesday, Justice Steven Rares said it was “extraordinary” that the media companies were “trying to use that as evidence of truth” and that is was an abuse of parliamentary privilege.”The fact that Mr Hastie wants to say something doesn’t prove anything,” he said.
A twin-tower development up to 43 storeys high will be built on Perth’s iconic Scarborough Beach after a revised plan was given the tick of approval.
The project, put forward by Chinese-backed developers 3 Oceans, will see two mixed-use residential and hotel accommodation towers of 43 and 33 storeys built on Scarborough Beach Road near the main beach.
The towers will be more than double the height of the existing tallest structure along the beach, the 18-storey Rendezvous Hotel.The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority (MRA) initially rejected a proposed $400 million plan, which included two towers — one of 43 storeys and another of 35 storeys — over concerns it was a significant overdevelopment of the site.
A car has ploughed through the wall of a KFC in Morley coming to rest in the middle of the restaurant.It’s believed the driver was a 15-year-old girl, who has been taken to Royal Perth Hospital with minor injuries. It’s thought she was behind the wheel of her parents car at the time.
The four wheel drive came crashing through the side of the fast-food outlet on Walter Road West just after 5.30pm this evening.
Source: No one injured as 15-year-old crashes mum’s car through KFC on Walter Road West in Morley | PerthNow
A fiery and emotional debate has erupted in the Western Australian Parliament about the treatment of female MPs in the wake of an incident last week when a senior minister was accused of “feigning a headbutt” towards Nationals leader Mia Davies.
Ms Davies referred the alleged behaviour of Water Minister Dave Kelly to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly last Thursday, claiming it “bordered on intimidatory”.But on Tuesday Speaker Peter Watson said he would not take the complaint any further and was satisfied Mr Kelly “did not move his head in the Member’s direction”.
Mr Kelly has repeatedly denied the allegation and has the support of the Premier Mark McGowan who said the allegations were “fabricated”. But the response sparked an emotional plea from Ms Davies, who urged her colleagues to refer the matter to a powerful committee for further investigation.”I’m happy to come to this place, I am happy to be criticised, I am happy to have members opposite pull our policy apart … we expect that,” she told the chamber.”But I expect that when one member of this place says they feel uncomfortable, that it is not mocked by those opposite.”‘Extraordinarily offensive’
Twenty-five people were injured, four of them severely, in an explosion that destroyed an apartment building in the western German city of Wuppertal, according to police.
Police said the explosion rocked the several-story building shortly before midnight on Saturday (local time) with a large bang, scaring people in surrounding homes so much they ran out into the street in a panic.
The detonation was so severe it destroyed the building’s attic and the top three floors, the German news agency DPA reported.Fire then broke out in several different parts of the apartment building and firefighters had trouble dousing the flames as parts of the building kept collapsing.Firefighters were able to rescue four severely injured people from inside the building and transport them to hospital.Another 21 people were slightly injured and treated by emergency staff at the scene.
NICK Kyrgios has found himself in hot water once again after an inappropriate gesture was captured by television cameras during his Queen’s Club loss to Marin Cilic.
Just days after BBC apologised following Kyrgios’ swearing was picked up on the telecast, the broadcaster again had to apologise to viewers for the Australian’s behaviour.Kyrgios was filmed performing a lewd act with his water bottle during an on-court break.
It came as Cilic brought Kyrgios’s entertaining run in London to an end on Saturday with a 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-4) victory.
Source: Nick Kyrgios under fire for inappropriate water bottle gesture | PerthNow
