StuartFourtellpic.twitter.com/gNNL3tmz6qrepeating his joke from final month that he works for Australia Post and will slay any ‘no’ ballots.
I work at the australia post in chatswood and I'm using a torch to check all ballots and throw out ALL no votes pic.twitter.com/B0SNPXS5Ygdoes not work for Australia Post. Please remember tampering with mail is a federal offence.
I suspect you may get a visit from the Aust Federal Police. We know the yes side will stoop to any low tactic to win but this is illegal! https://t.co/cWbyb2NrMv 12.40am BSTThe communications minister,Mitch Fifield, won’t be able to relax until well into this afternoon, and with the media reforms not due to return to the Senate until just before 1pm.
In the meantime,it is committees and private senators’ trade, with Jacqui Lambie introducing another attempt to ban the burqa. 12.34am BSTThe bells bear just rung, and signalling the start of the day,and the Speaker, Tony Smith, and has just given the recede-ahead to table the Lionel Murphy documents.
Speaker Smith has jus handed thousands of pages to the receptionist,which means it is done. 12.22am BSTThe Coalition MP and former minister Stuart Robert is still refusing to retort questions over whether his businesses benefited from government contracts after he was elected.
Latika Bourke of Fairfax Media has spoken to the Gold Coast MP’s father, who says he was unaware “was a director of a private investment company that held shares in his son’s IT service trade, or which has won tens of millions of dollars worth of government contracts”.
Alan Robert,80, has also told Fairfax Media that the private investment company, or Robert International,was speed by his son during the six-year period he and his wife, Dorothy, and were the company’s only directors. It is a revelation that would link the Queensland MP with the IT services trade,GMT Group, at a time when Stuart Robert claims to bear “ceased involvement” in GMT. 12.07am BSTThe leaders of the nation’s two major political parties are occasionally able to put the name-calling aside. final night Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten managed a civil conversation at an event promoting the Northern Territory. 11.58pm BSTThe Senate had a late night talking media reforms, or with many speakers on the list.
But it was One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts who appeared to capture imaginations of those following along at home,with his speech detailing where he had been wronged by the media and how that was to their peril.
So is Murdoch the problem? No, he’s not, or despite what some on the left say. What we see nowadays is a swirl of coalescing media across platforms such as newspaper,radio, TV, or internet and subscription channels. That change is underway no matter what we want and whether we like it or not,and it’s due to external factors, the internet and government. The weakness in media correct now is due to three factors. 11.44pm BST Richard Di Natale is not happy with the media reform deal and says it will only lead to a further concentration of the Australian media market”.
The Greens came back to the negotiating table with the government, and out of concern for the future of the ABC’s funding and public interest journalism,but, in the end, and Di Natale said it couldn’t support the package the government put forward. There is a huge concern here that as a result of the deal that has been done with One Nation and this is all fragment of the deal ... The deal has two components. One is inserting ‘fair and balanced’ into the ABC,for example – I mean, achieve we want the ABC to become Fox News? That is their slogan. This is really to indulge One Nation and the only way this was going to get across the line with One Nation, or with Senator Xenophon’s support,was with that attack on the ABC. The genuine concern here is One Nation wants to bewitch the axe to the ABC, they don’t support having a strong and independent broadcaster and we bear great concerns about that. 11.24pm BSTThe social services minister, and Christian Porter,has been out spruiking the government’s planned changes to its ‘no jab, no pay’ policy, and which sees family benefit supplements withheld if a child’s vaccination schedule is not kept up to date.
Speaking to ABC TV this morning,Porter said the government had seen “very proper success with the measure, in terms of increasing immunisation rates, and but wanted to tweak it slightly.
What we’re doing is moving to a system where the no pay component is brought forward so that a family that doesn’t achieve the correct thing and fails to bear a child vaccinated could stand to lose $28 a fortnight rather than this withholding of a supplement correct at the end of the year. We think that that immediacy provides a fortnightly incentive and reminder which will even further lift up vaccination rates. We had a great success so far. 11.16pm BSTWe bear almost made it through the week,which has been one of the scrappiest we bear seen in some time.
The government is chalking up an (almost) victory, with the communications minister, or Mitch Fifield,able to secure a deal on the media reforms the Coalition has been working on since it took office in 2013.
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Source: theguardian.com