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#21251980 at 2024-07-20 14:05:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 33
Australian Politics and Society - Part 17
>>21049303 Video: Dutton reveals locations for seven nuclear power plants under Coalition plan - Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has unveiled long-awaited details of his pledge to build nuclear reactors in Australia, confirming that two nuclear plants would produce electricity by the middle of next decade and be built with public funding under a government-owned business model. The Coalition revealed seven nuclear plants would be built at the sites of former coal power plants: Lithgow and the Hunter Valley in NSW, Loy Yang in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, Tarong and Callide in Queensland, Collie in Western Australia and Port Augusta in South Australia. "We know the government has renewables only policy which is not fit for purpose. No other country in the world can keep the lights on 24/7 with the renewables-only policy," Dutton said at an announcement in Sydney on Wednesday morning. "Today we announce seven locations that we have looked at in great detail over a long period of time that can host new nuclear sites, and that'll be part of an energy mix with renewables and significant amounts of gas into the system, particularly in the interim period."
>>21049355 Peter Dutton has put the energy debate on its axis and radically reshapes the next election - "Peter Dutton has just radically reshaped the political contest. He has staked his leadership and the Coalition's election prospects on a contest over nuclear power. Anthony Albanese might well be thinking: "I can't believe my luck". But having on Wednesday announced the first phase of the nuclear plan - the seven regional locations - the Liberal leader has strongly signalled that he too wants a fight with Labor over energy. The electoral interpretation of the nuclear option is also not as controversial as some may believe. Voters like visionary leaders, even if they don't necessarily agree with the vision. And on nuclear, people are nowhere near as hung up about it as they once were. At another level, the nuclear plan is also a platform for the rebranding of Dutton as leader. It shifts the dynamic from a Coalition opposition always opposed to things as to one fighting for something. The politics of the voice proved that Dutton's negative approach was right for that policy. On energy, however, if the Coalition is going to maintain parity with Labor on net-zero, it needed a point of significant differentiation on delivery. Nuclear has given Dutton that option and completely swung the axis on the energy debate." - Simon Benson - theaustralian.com.au
>>21049530 What to expect from the Tucker Carlson, Clive Palmer roadshow - When asked how Clive Palmer had approached him to come to Australia, American uber-conservative commentator Tucker Carlson revealed his waggish side. "A text message. Which is an emerging technology in the United States where you use your phone to do some chat with people," he said. Of course there is more to Carlson than sarcasm. He has been called "the most influential voice in right-wing media". A former Fox News commentator who continues to argue that the 2020 US presidential election was rigged, Carlson now runs his own media outlet and broadcasts on X He recently became the first Western journalist to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin since the Ukraine war started, but was roundly criticised for his soft line of questioning. Now he's the star attraction at Palmer's Australian Freedom Conference tour, which begins in Cairns on Friday before travelling to Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. Carlson tops a bill of speakers that also includes Queensland GP and anti-COVID vaccination campaigner Dr Melissa McCann and American filmmaker and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza.

#21251328 at 2024-07-20 12:26:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#36 - Part 33
Australian Politics and Society - Part 17
>>21049303 Video: Dutton reveals locations for seven nuclear power plants under Coalition plan - Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has unveiled long-awaited details of his pledge to build nuclear reactors in Australia, confirming that two nuclear plants would produce electricity by the middle of next decade and be built with public funding under a government-owned business model. The Coalition revealed seven nuclear plants would be built at the sites of former coal power plants: Lithgow and the Hunter Valley in NSW, Loy Yang in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, Tarong and Callide in Queensland, Collie in Western Australia and Port Augusta in South Australia. "We know the government has renewables only policy which is not fit for purpose. No other country in the world can keep the lights on 24/7 with the renewables-only policy," Dutton said at an announcement in Sydney on Wednesday morning. "Today we announce seven locations that we have looked at in great detail over a long period of time that can host new nuclear sites, and that'll be part of an energy mix with renewables and significant amounts of gas into the system, particularly in the interim period."
>>21049355 Peter Dutton has put the energy debate on its axis and radically reshapes the next election - "Peter Dutton has just radically reshaped the political contest. He has staked his leadership and the Coalition's election prospects on a contest over nuclear power. Anthony Albanese might well be thinking: "I can't believe my luck". But having on Wednesday announced the first phase of the nuclear plan - the seven regional locations - the Liberal leader has strongly signalled that he too wants a fight with Labor over energy. The electoral interpretation of the nuclear option is also not as controversial as some may believe. Voters like visionary leaders, even if they don't necessarily agree with the vision. And on nuclear, people are nowhere near as hung up about it as they once were. At another level, the nuclear plan is also a platform for the rebranding of Dutton as leader. It shifts the dynamic from a Coalition opposition always opposed to things as to one fighting for something. The politics of the voice proved that Dutton's negative approach was right for that policy. On energy, however, if the Coalition is going to maintain parity with Labor on net-zero, it needed a point of significant differentiation on delivery. Nuclear has given Dutton that option and completely swung the axis on the energy debate." - Simon Benson - theaustralian.com.au
>>21049530 What to expect from the Tucker Carlson, Clive Palmer roadshow - When asked how Clive Palmer had approached him to come to Australia, American uber-conservative commentator Tucker Carlson revealed his waggish side. "A text message. Which is an emerging technology in the United States where you use your phone to do some chat with people," he said. Of course there is more to Carlson than sarcasm. He has been called "the most influential voice in right-wing media". A former Fox News commentator who continues to argue that the 2020 US presidential election was rigged, Carlson now runs his own media outlet and broadcasts on X He recently became the first Western journalist to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin since the Ukraine war started, but was roundly criticised for his soft line of questioning. Now he's the star attraction at Palmer's Australian Freedom Conference tour, which begins in Cairns on Friday before travelling to Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. Carlson tops a bill of speakers that also includes Queensland GP and anti-COVID vaccination campaigner Dr Melissa McCann and American filmmaker and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza.

#21049530 at 2024-06-19 13:19:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

>>20781023 (pb)
What to expect from the Tucker Carlson, Clive Palmer roadshow

Nick Dent - June 19, 2024

When asked how Clive Palmer had approached him to come to Australia, American uber-conservative commentator Tucker Carlson revealed his waggish side.

"A text message. Which is an emerging technology in the United States where you use your phone to do some chat with people," he said.

Of course there is more to Carlson than sarcasm. He has been called "the most influential voice in right-wing media".

A former Fox News commentator who continues to argue that the 2020 US presidential election was rigged, Carlson now runs his own media outlet and broadcasts on X.

He recently became the first Western journalist to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin since the Ukraine war started, but was roundly criticised for his soft line of questioning.

Now he's the star attraction at Palmer's Australian Freedom Conference tour, which begins in Cairns on Friday before travelling to Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

Carlson tops a bill of speakers that also includes Queensland GP and anti-COVID vaccination campaigner Dr Melissa McCann and American filmmaker and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza.

The magnate and the pundit joined forces in Brisbane on Wednesday to launch the tour, where an often-combative Carlson described Palmer as "refreshing".

"It's nice to see someone with billions of dollars who's asking honest questions about what the government is doing. No one else is doing that, at least in my country," he said.

The 55-year-old said one reason he wanted to visit Australia was his outrage over the lockdowns, vaccination mandates and quarantine hubs (which he described as "camps") that formed the country's response to the pandemic.

"Two years ago, when I watched the government eliminate freedom of movement for Australian citizens, and freedom of speech, and then put people in camps, I thought to myself, something really profound is happening," he said.

"The government can force you to take a drug against your will? Are you freaking kidding? That's insane ...

"And the media not only went along with it, they abetted it, and they attacked anyone who pushed back against it. It's one of the most shameful moments in the history of the West."

Carlson said he would vote for Donald Trump, despite the exposure in court of a series of text messages from 2021 in which the commentator wrote: "I hate him passionately ... I can't handle much more of this."

"That day I had received news about information that I'd gotten from the Trump campaign that dead people had voted. I put that on television ... and of the six, three turned out to be alive," he explained.

"I was humiliated, and I blamed the Trump campaign [when] I should have blamed myself."

Carlson said he was frustrated with the former president for not building his promised wall along the Mexican border, but that he was "affectionate towards Trump personally, and always have been".

As for Palmer, he used the launch of his conferences to weigh in on the federal Coalition's plan to build seven nuclear power plants, saying "nuclear power makes sense".

"There are no emissions with nuclear power whatsoever and, of course, Australia has got unprecedented resources in uranium, so this makes common sense," he said, arguing that nuclear power stations were now "very safe".

Carlson agreed that cheap energy was a good thing, but added that those concerned about climate change should be more worried about Ukraine.

"We are on the cusp of nuclear war, right now," he said. "That's also a form of climate change, nuclear war. It heightens the temperature pretty intensely."

When asked about local politics, Carlson admitted he did not know who Queensland Premier Steven Miles was.

"My purpose is not, of course, to lecture Australians on their country," he said.

"I do know who Steven Miles is," quipped Palmer. "And I think he's going to destroy the Olympics and destroy Australia's reputation."

Tickets to the Australian Freedom Conference originally started at $200 but have been reduced to as little as $80.

Palmer said the price reduction was possible because they had already covered their costs.

"We just want to get more people in there," he said. "I mean, I have got another income besides running these events, as you'll probably appreciate."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/what-to-expect-from-the-tucker-carlson-Clive-Palmer-roadshow-20240619-p5jn5o.html

https://iccsydneytheatre.com/event/australian-freedom-conference/

https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=TUCKERCA24

#20886303 at 2024-05-19 08:25:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#35 - Part 36
Australian Politics and Society - Part 28
>>20780890 Australian journalist named as co-conspirator in Trump hush money trial - The Australian journalist embroiled in a hush money plot to help Donald Trump become president has been named as a co-conspirator in the trial, with text messages read in court showing him discussing potentially being pardoned for electoral fraud if he was ever charged. Dylan Howard, the then editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer, also told the tabloid's boss David Pecker that he believed a story about Trump having sex with porn star Stormy Daniels was true and suggested paying $US120,000 ($183,900) to bury it, according to emails shown in court. The bombshell revelations were made during Trump's historic trial on Thursday (Friday AEST), in which the former president has been accused of falsifying business records to ensure his 2016 campaign to win the White House wasn't derailed.
>>20781023 Video: Tucker Carlson to tour Australia with Clive Palmer - Tucker Carlson is heading to Australia for the first time. The former Fox News host is teaming up with former federal MP and mining billionaire Clive Palmer to hit the public speaking circuit. The pair will front The Australian Freedom Conference, an event that will take place all around Australia from late June and host sessions in major cities as well as Cairns, Perth and Adelaide. Advertising for the conference with Mr Carlson as the headline act began airing on Friday on Sky News Australia and on social media. Mr Carlson appears, without his trademark tie, in the one-minute advertisements spruiking the event that is sponsored by Mr Palmer's company Mineralogy. "Why am I dressed this way? Because I'm so excited to come to Australia. I'm American, obviously. But I've been thinking about Australia my entire life as most Americans my age have. Australia always seemed like a place that was very much like where we lived, but maybe a little more exotic and interesting, but again, I've never seen it," a polo T-shirt clad Mr Carlson said. "We're going be talking about what is happening in your country and ours, countries with common histories, common values, and common threats. "Free speech is bigger than any one person or any one organisation. Societies are defined by what they will not permit. What we're watching is the total inversion of virtue," Mr Carlson added in a heavily edited clip.

>>20789168 Richard Marles unveils $100m new aid for Ukraine - Australia will hand new drones and air defence systems to Ukraine in a new $100m military aid package to help the country's flagging forces rally against Vladimir Putin's Russia. Defence Minister Richard Marles announced the new support in the western Ukraine city of Lviv on Saturday, a week after the US Congress unlocked $94bn in fresh funding for the country. The package, including $50m in anti-air missile launchers and missiles and $30m in unmanned aerial vehicles, bolster's Australia's support for Ukraine to $1bn. The fresh support includes a further $15m worth of much-needed equipment, including rigid hull boats, combat helmets and generators. It follows Kyiv's disappointment at the Albanese government's decision to junk Australia's fleet of 40-plus MRH-90 Taipan helicopters rather than donate them to its war effort.
>>20789170 Boat from Vietnam intercepted as arrivals continue to rise - Authorities have confirmed they intercepted a boat carrying three Vietnamese nationals, in what is believed to be the first boat to make the journey from Vietnam towards Australia in almost a decade. Australian Border Force on Friday said that it had "resolved" what it described as a people-smuggling venture and confirmed that the vessel was intercepted in March. "All three persons were safely returned to Vietnam in close co-operation with the Vietnamese government," Border Force said in a brief statement. It is the latest in a growing list of boats to be intercepted in the past two years and is the fifth vessel to arrive since September. The three on board the Vietnam vessel will not be sent to Nauru, with Australia and Vietnam having a longstanding agreement to return those who make the journey back to Vietnam.

#20482471 at 2024-02-27 08:27:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

>>20482468

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Lawyer Sam Iskander said some of his clients, who were police officers, ambulance staff, and healthcare workers, "refused" to take the vaccines due to health concerns and religious reasons.

"Thankfully, the court has seen that those mandates directions that were imposed were unlawful," he said.

"Some of them have been facing disciplinary proceedings, and hopefully now we'll see an end to all of that."

Clive Palmer told the media on Tuesday, he funded the legal action and thinks now is the time to "look at a class action for the ambulance and police workers".

Government considering ruling

Health minister Shannon Fentiman said the state government was "still considering the decision".

However, she did want to make it clear that the ruling was in relation to how the directives were made, not the directives themselves.

"His honour determined that the [police] commissioner did not give significant consideration of the human rights of employees in the Queensland Police Service at the time she made that decision," she said.

"That was his finding, therefore, that is now an unlawful direction.

"But he did find that the limit on people's human rights to have healthcare imposed upon them without consent was justified because of the pandemic.

"In the case of the Queensland Ambulance Service directive, he found that the directive was just of no effect, it was not unlawful.

"It was compatible with human rights, but there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that it was a reasonable direction under the employment contract."

In a statement, a QPS spokesperson said the service acknowledged the outcome and would "carefully consider the judgement and our options moving forward".

QAS referred the ABC to Queensland Health's statement, which said it was considering the decision. It said it did not impact doctors, nurses and other employees of Queensland Health.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-27/qld-vaccine-mandate-police-paramedics-frontline-workers/103515692

#19822111 at 2023-10-29 05:06:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

#32 - Part 52
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 16
>>19623899 The Voice changes Australian law and risks reparations - "Former ALP president later turned Liberal, Nyunggai Warren Mundine, has declared the Uluru Statement from the Heart a declaration of war against modern Australia. Immediately other Indigenous Australians disagreed. But this week I was privileged to receive a detailed legal opinion on the implications of the Uluru statement for modern Australia from Terence Cole, KC, one of Australia's best known jurists having been a judge on the NSW Supreme Court and presiding over a number of royal commissions. Cole does not endorse Mundine's war prediction but warns Australians about the future reparations they may face and the fundamental changes that implementation of the Uluru statement would bring to the Australia's legal system. He concludes: "The potential for great and irremediable harm to Australian society means that The Voice should never be incorporated in the constitution." Cole points out that some Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders want much more than recognition. They want the constitution changed to incorporate their Uluru claimed rights so that in the future, those Uluru rights cannot be abolished. And already three demands of the Uluru statement have accepted entirely by our Prime Minister - the Voice body, a Makarrata commission and "truth telling about our history". Cole concludes that when asked to vote to amend the constitution to incorporate the Voice, Australians need to understand that some will use it to support the demands for recognition of coexisting sovereignty, a Makarrata commission designed to produce a treaty, monetary compensation for past events, and a rewriting of Australian history. Cole might not attach Mundine's description of Uluru as a "declaration of war" but he shows how the proposed changes to property rights will create deep divisions among the population." - Robert Gottliebsen - theaustralian.com.au
>>19623907 Albanese government says far-right influencers are infiltrating the campaign against an Indigenous voice to parliament - Senior government minister Murray Watt has accused far-right influencers of "appearing to hijack the No campaign", as Fair Australia dismisses Yes camp warnings Warren Mundine was "encouraging violence" through a controversial tweet. Both sides of the voice referendum debate have accused each other of violence and abuse, with a clash between Yes and No supporters outside a No campaign event in Brisbane on Wednesday night the latest confrontation on the campaign trail. A member of the local chapter of the Proud Boys Ben Shand, known as the Dusty Bogan, was at the event headlined by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Mr Mundine. Government sources said this appeared to be part of a larger pattern of infiltration of the Proud Boys in the official No campaign, with Mr Shand asking his followers to "jump on the bandwagon boys" and volunteer for Fair Australia.
>>19631056 Indigenous voice to parliament: Clive Palmer pays out $2m to say No - Clive Palmer will spend $2m promoting the No vote, including a final-week advertising blitz in South Australia and Tasmania, amid rising concerns that Yes23's $50m war chest could fall short in swinging enough votes for a come-from-behind victory in the voice referendum. Yes23, No and third-party organisations are on track to spend more than $30m on advertising ahead of the October 14 referendum, with the bulk of funding quarantined for a final two-week push to win over soft and undecided voters. "We're spending the money to put our point of view forward. We're targeting Tasmania and South Australia. We'll be advertising in all the states but will be ?focusing on them. It's cheaper to spend advertising in Tassie and South Australia," Mr Palmer said. "I think the No case will win. My prediction is 30 per cent Yes when we get to the polling date. If you look at it in the proper context, the most important thing in Australia is not Yes or No at the moment, it's the cost-of-living and how the average Australian is going to make his way." The UAP founder, who confirmed he had not consulted with Indigenous leaders, said his campaign reflected a "personal view" and was not associated with the official No campaign.

#19822102 at 2023-10-29 05:04:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

#32 - Part 48
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 12
>>19581536 Anti-Voice rallies organised by pro-Putin conspiracy theorist - Rallies opposing the Indigenous Voice to parliament planned around Australia this weekend are being organised by a pro-Kremlin activist and anti-vaccination campaigner living in the Russian consulate in Sydney. The official No campaign has distanced itself from the latest iteration of the "world freedom rallies", which have long been organised by Simeon Boikov, who is also known online as "the Aussie Cossack". While posters for the rallies were originally framed around opposing Australian aid to Ukraine and an array of conspiracy theories, they have now been rebranded as anti-Voice events and are expected to draw crowds in the thousands. A spokesman for the major No outfit, Fair Australia, said the events scheduled for Saturday were "not supported, endorsed or funded by us in any way".
>>19587705 Clive Palmer loses bid to force AEC to count 'X' as 'No' in Voice vote - Mining magnate Clive Palmer and United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet have lost a Federal Court bid to force the Australian Electoral Commission to count crosses on Voice referendum ballot papers as a vote against the proposal. In a judgment delivered late on Wednesday night after an urgent court hearing, Federal Court Justice Steven Rares said an "X" was "inherently ambiguous" and could not be counted as a No vote in the historic referendum on October 14. Rares said that "a cross is used in daily life both as a means of selecting one of two or more choices and as indicating a negative choice". "Often one is asked to select a choice with a cross and ... this was an early form of voting after Federation," he said. "The use of a cross placed in the answer to the single question on the ballot paper for the referendum (namely, 'Do you approve this proposed alteration?') is inherently ambiguous as to the intention that the voter is intending to convey as to the proposal". Rares said a tick was unambiguous. "Unlike a cross, which has more than one signification as either a disapproval or a selection of an answer, being approval, the tick both approves or selects the affirmative as the voter's answer," he said. "A tick signifies assent or approval. It is not a symbol that conveys a negative response."
>>19587714 1.2 million postal votes could delay voice count - A record 1.2 million Australians have applied for postal votes and millions more are expected to vote at prepoll booths in the two-weeks ahead of Anthony Albanese's voice referendum, potentially delaying a final result in the event of a tight count. The Australian Electoral Commission has also put a call out for workers to staff booths across the country, particularly in rural and remote areas, with 63,000 out of a required 100,000 confirmed. After rolls were closed on Monday night, AEC Commissioner Tom Rogers on Thursday said more than 17.6 million Australians were eligible to cast their vote on October 14. Mr Rogers said the surge in postal applications could impact the count if the result is close.
>>19587731 Voice politics don't belong in our concert halls - "Across the country, concertgoers have been hijacked by orchestras that have used the opportunity of a captive audience to campaign openly for the Yes vote in the upcoming referendum. When my husband and I recently attended one of the dozen or so Sydney Symphony Orchestra concerts we enjoy each year, we were shocked that the usual acknowledgment of country was followed by a statement read out by an orchestra musician that the SSO supported the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Yes vote, and by implication exhorted us to do the same. To put it mildly, we were displeased by this blatant politicking in a most inappropriate place. When we enter the concert hall and take our seats, most of us are keenly aware that it offers us one of the last refuges where we as individuals of all backgrounds, faiths and political persuasions can come together and experience a human connection that transcends politics and borders on the sublime. Let us fight to preserve that sacred quality. We need it now more than ever." - Dr Rachael Kohn AO, award-winning producer and broadcaster, presenter of The Spirit of Things and The Ark on ABC Radio - theaustralian.com.au

#19822085 at 2023-10-29 04:58:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

#32 - Part 39
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 3
>>19518014 Palmer launches court bid to force AEC to count 'X' as 'No' in Voice vote - Mining magnate Clive Palmer and United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet have launched a Federal Court bid to force the Australian Electoral Commission to count crosses on Voice referendum ballot papers as a vote against the proposal. The urgent court challenge comes just five weeks before the historic Voice to parliament referendum on October 14. The Electoral Commission has made clear that a tick will be counted as a Yes vote but a cross, which may be ambiguous, will not be counted as a No vote on Voice referendum ballot papers, consistent with legal advice that has been provided for decades. Opposition leader Peter Dutton has previously claimed this would give the Yes campaign an advantage.
>>19518077 The latest poll for the Voice to Parliament shows Yes trailing No by greatest margin yet - With 34 days until polling day, advocates for a Voice to Parliament would almost certainly be wishing they were in a stronger position right now. From extremely high levels of support a year ago, when the referendum question hadn't been finalised and the Voice was a vague concept in people's minds, support has fallen a long way. The latest poll from RedBridge, published on Saturday, estimates 61 per cent of Australians are opposed to the Voice, while 39 per cent are in favour. It's the single lowest poll result we've seen for Yes (worse than the 38 per cent in Newspoll this week because that poll included 9 per cent undecided), albeit from a pollster which has tended to produce poorer numbers for Yes than other polls. With this new data point, along with Newspoll and Essential polls published this week, Yes is sitting at an average of 43.7 per cent across the polls. No is sitting more than 12 percentage points ahead on 56.3 per cent.
>>19518144 Labor voters abandon Albanese's bid to establish a Voice to Parliament - Aussies are abandoning the Prime Minister on the Voice to Parliament, with new polling revealing just 39 per cent of the nation plans to vote Yes in the upcoming referendum. The latest poll from RedBridge, released today, marks the lowest poll result for the Yes campaign so far - with an overwhelming 61 per cent planning to vote No. The poll was conducted in the first week of September, following Anthony Albanese's announcement the referendum would be held on October 14. Unlike some other polls, RedBridge requires voters to make a choice between Yes and No, rather than allowing them to reply that they are undecided. The poll also found that Labor voters are deserting the party line, with 57 per cent of its supporter base planning to vote Yes and 43 per cent No. By contrast, the RedBridge poll found that 87 per cent of Coalition supporters were planning to vote in line with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's No camp.
>>19523142 Anthony Albanese 'not sorry' after parking voice campaign for world stage - Anthony Albanese has defended his decision to be out of the country for an entire week of the voice referendum campaign, which he has described as "a once-in-a-generation chance to bring our country together". The Prime Minister, who attended the ASEAN, East Asia and G20 summits and squeezed in a side trip to the Philippines, refused to take questions during the trip on the foreign affairs implications of an Indigenous voice to parliament. Mr Albanese, who was due to arrive back in Canberra on Monday morning, said it was vital that Australia was represented at such international forums.
>>19523154 Pearson says Dutton's second referendum is a 'mirage' - and hopes the Voice isn't 'unrequited' - Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's proposed second referendum and expressed optimism that the public will accept Indigenous Australians' outstretched hand of friendship by backing the Voice. Dutton said last Sunday that if the Voice referendum failed, and he won the next election, he would call another referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians but exclude a constitutional Voice. The Coalition's Indigenous affairs spokeswoman and leading No campaigner, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, days later failed to declare support for the idea, which Pearson claimed had eviscerated the Coalition's reconciliation plans and proved it was not Dutton who set party policy.

#19821948 at 2023-10-29 04:27:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

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#32 - Part 1
Australian Politics and Society - Part 1
>>19499282 Video: Fearless Aussies put lives on Ukraine frontline - Josh Norman* is in daily pain from a shoulder injury he sustained during his time in the Australian Army. Fellow former soldier Damien Solomon* was medically discharged after losing much of the hearing in his right ear. Yet both men are on their way to the frontline in Ukraine, determined to help in the fight against Russia, despite the fear they could be punished by Australian authorities for choosing to make what they believe is the only ethical decision. "I'd like to think that if Australia were invaded we'd have a lot of foreigners come over and help us, guys just like us just like us from a different country," Mr Norman told The Australian, before travelling to serve in a Ukrainian unit with other foreigners. (* Names are pseudonyms)
>>19511987 'Great admirer': Victorian Senator Ralph Babet's letter declaring support to former US president Donald Trump revealed - Ralph Babet has declared his support to the legally-embattled Donald Trump. The former United States president posted a letter penned by the Victorian Senator to his social media Truth Social on Friday. Mr Babet, a Senator for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party, wrote how "pleased" he was to see Trump running for re-election in 2024 and wished him "every success". "I have always been a great admirer of the United States. But to see the deterioration in American over the past four years has been truly heart breaking," he wrote. "Watching the way the Biden Administration has brought the US into disrepute around the world through weak leadership, both at home and abroad, has been devastating for lovers of freedom everywhere. "America is meant to be a beacon of freedom and, I have no doubt, will be again under your leadership."
>>19511987 Donald J. Trump Truth: Thank you to Senator Ralph Babet of Australia!
>>19518173 How Australian cardboard drones became a critical innovation in the Ukraine war - Innovative design choices can have a massive impact in the theatre of war, so it is important to understand the principles behind their development. Recent use of low-cost cardboard drones by Ukraine, supplied by Australia, to attack targets in Russia is a good example of how this can work. Australia has been supplying Ukraine with 100 of the drones per month from March this year as part of an aid package deal worth an estimated $30 million, following an agreement struck in July 2021, according to the Australian Army Defence Innovation Hub. The Australian firm Sypaq, an engineering and solutions company founded in 1992, created the Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) for use in military, law enforcement, border security and emergency services, as well as food security, asset inspection and search and rescue. Ukrainian forces reportedly used the PDDS cardboard drones in an attack on an airfield in Kursk Oblast in western Russia on August 27. The attack damaged a Mig-29 and four Su-30 fighter jets, two Pantsir anti-aircraft missile launchers, gun systems, and an S-300 air surface-to-air missile defence system.
>>19518233 Video: Zelensky's frontline Aussie raining hell on Russia - Just over a week ago, Ethan McNamara was running through a field in a desperate attempt to avoid Russian artillery fire. It's become a common occurrence for the 24-year-old from Brisbane, who in late September last year travelled to Ukraine to join the fight on the frontline. Now he is a member of the Ukrainian military; second-in-command of a drone reconnaissance and attack unit, part of GUR - a secretive Ukrainian military intelligence service combat unit. Before this, McNamara had never worked with drones, which he says have completely changed the structure of modern warfare. The former Australian Army soldier is the first Australian to speak in-depth without the cloak of anonymity about his experience on the frontline in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

#19699336 at 2023-10-09 08:56:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

>>19699247
>>19699323
ANZ, CBA, Westpac and NAB donate about $7m to Indigenous voice to parliament Yes vote

ROSIE LEWIS - OCTOBER 9, 2023

The big four banks have donated around $7m to the Yes campaign for an Indigenous voice to parliament, sparking claims from the Coalition the case for change was "made by our elites, for our elites and funded by our elites".

The extent of the donations have been revealed to federal parliament for the first time just days out from Saturday's referendum, with Westpac contributing $1.75m, National Australia Bank donating $1.5m and Commonwealth Bank providing $2m.

The ANZ's roughly $2m donation was confirmed during a parliamentary committee on bank closures in regional Australia last month. If ANZ's donation was exactly $2m, the total amount from the major banks would equate to $7.25m.

Westpac also said it had agreed to requests from employees to provide in-kind support for the Yes campaign.

"At present there are 14 employees providing predominantly part-time support (to the Yes campaign)," the bank said in a response to questions from the committee's chair, Nationals senator Matt Canavan.

"These costs have not yet been calculated as the activity is still underway. These costs are considered 'in-kind' referendum expenditure and will be disclosed in full to the Australian Electoral Commission."

NAB provides Australian-based employees with 16 hours of volunteer leave per calendar year and this may be used to volunteer for the Yes and No campaigns. The specific organisations that employees volunteer for are not tracked.

The Yes campaign has furiously denied claims from the No camp that it's war chest will reach $100m but has said it expects to reach at least $50m through its Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition funding vehicle.

Senator Canavan, whose party opposes the voice, said of the big four banks' contributions: "The Yes campaign has been made by our elites, for our elites and funded by our elites. At a time of rising mortgage pressure, why are the banks spending so much money on a political issue supported by only a clear minority of Australians? The banks should focus on their customers, not on politics."

A Yes23 campaign spokesman said Senator Canavan appeared to have forgotten that billionaire businessman Clive Palmer was "pouring millions into advocating for a No vote".

Mr Palmer has said he will spend $2m promoting the No vote while Simon Fenwick, one of the top five donors to the No campaign, will donate $750,000.

"Thousands and thousands of everyday Australians, from all walks of life, have made grassroots donations to the Yes campaign," the Yes23 spokesman said.

NAB noted that of its $1.5m in donations, $1.3m of the money was sent through the NAB Foundation, which "uses philanthropy, social investment and in-kind support to fund social and environmental progress in Australia".

The Australian revealed last month that companies, individuals and groups including BHP, Rio Tinto, Anthony Pratt, Wesfarmers, the Paul Ramsay Foundation, NAB Foundation, ANZ and Qantas have publicly disclosed more than $26.7m in donations to Yes23, including subsidised travel costs and office space.

Leading Yes campaigner Noel Pearson on Monday said the referendum was a "moral choice" and a No vote would "bring shame to the country" and be a travesty the nation may possibly never live down.

He backed in Anthony Albanese's decision not to legislate the voice if the referendum failed.

Peter Dutton wouldn't outline a timetable for a second referendum solely on constitutional recognition, saying it would be worked out in time in the event of a No vote.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anz-cba-westpac-and-nab-donate-about-7m-to-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-yes-vote/news-story/9ba4ec8953c7738fc593263229c04c92

#19699326 at 2023-10-09 08:52:44 (UTC+1)
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>>19699323

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Mr Fenwick also said there was a distinction between opposing the Voice and supporting efforts to close the gap, saying that a lot of his philanthropic work was aimed at "moving the needle on Aboriginal outcomes".

Nine years ago, he established a scholarship endowment at Brisbane Grammar School for Aboriginal students and he sits on the board of the University of Queensland endowment fund aimed at providing opportunities to disadvantaged students.

Mr Fenwick said he was a supporter of the Yalari organisation, a not-for-profit organisation offering education scholarships for Indigenous children from regional, rural and remote communities.

"This struck me as an area where Australia was really lagging behind, because in many respects Australia had become a much wealthier country in the two decades I'd been away and yet outcomes for our most disadvantaged people were more or less flat," he said. "And so in speaking to a few people about it, it seemed the best way to undo this was via education."

Mr Fenwick, who started donating to Advance Australia (now known as Advance) after it was established in 2018 and sits on its advisory board, also confirmed that he had donated about $500,000 to political candidates backed by Clive Palmer, One Nation, the Nationals, the Liberal Democrats, and the Liberal Party since returning to Australia in 2014.

His approach was to back candidates whose policies he personally agreed with.

He said that he was not aligned with the Liberals on a range of issues from the target of reaching net zero by 2050 or on lockdown and vaccination mandate policies.

Before the referendum campaign, he donated about $1m of his own money to support campaigns run by Advance across "the gamut of issues" from energy to free-speech because he was concerned free market and ?conservative groups were "not only disorganised but missing from the field" and unable to ?compete with Left-wing activist groups such as GetUp.

"It felt that it was an unfair fight and to be frank conservatives were amateurish and not recognising the changing media landscape," he said.

The Australian has previously revealed that Clive Palmer would spend $2m promoting the No vote, including a final-week advertising blitz in South Australia and Tasmania, but this would not be funnelled through the Fair Australia campaign.

By late September, the No campaign had amassed more than $13m from almost 40,500 donations since November last year. From July 1, the No campaign's Australians for Unity funding vehicle collected $7.6m from 21,033 donations, with an ?average gift size of $361.

Yes23, which rejects being ?labelled a corporate-funded movement, received $1.6m in grassroots donations in September with average gifts of about $187.

However, the Yes campaign expects to raise at least $50m through its Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition funding vehicle.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/corporate-australia-has-misread-the-national-mood-fenwick/news-story/4a1e96f19681f1219caa1a6b87d3a19f

#19637828 at 2023-09-30 12:56:56 (UTC+1)
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>>19606805
Indigenous voice to parliament referendum fatigue is kicking in on the final run home

GEOFF CHAMBERS - SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As Australians fire up barbecues and stock eskies for the footy finals long weekend, Yes and No campaigners will have a brief reprieve from the gruelling slog of the voice referendum campaign trail.

Ahead of the Australian Electoral Commission opening early voting centres next week, voice campaigners are finalising preparations for the final two-weeks.

The road to October 14 has been a marathon for veteran Yes23 and Uluru Dialogue campaigners who have endured years of frustration, broken promises and internal disputes over what constitutional recognition should look like. On the other side, and from a standing start, the No campaign has pulled together an alliance of conservative forces.

While Anthony Albanese announced the October 14 referendum date on August 30, the starter's gun was fired when he took to the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club stage on election night and declared: "I commit to the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full."

The 16-month trek towards constitutionally enshrining a voice to parliament and executive government has worked against the Yes campaign. For many Yes campaigners, who reflect on polls last year showing emphatic support for an Indigenous voice, time has become the enemy.

ALP and Yes23 campaigners are not giving up. Backed by more than 40,000 volunteers, a $20m advertising blitz and a ground game assisted by unions and activist groups, the Yes side is working to pull off a come-from-behind win.

A senior Labor operative said the No campaign line - "If you don't know, vote no" - had started to lose impact as more Australians understood the voice concept. A No campaigner said many voters, particularly older and conservative Australians, were sceptical about a major change to the Constitution. The lack of detail on the voice has also helped.

Yes23 will likely shift the narrative to what defeat means for Indigenous Australians and the country. The tone of the debate, which turned uglier in recent weeks, is expected to become more negative as both sides seek to lock in soft and undecided voters.

Yes supporters will associate Clive Palmer's $2m ad blitz with the No campaign, despite no official links between the groups. Yes campaigners have sought to paint the No side as being funded by mining billionaire "villains".

With at least $26.7m out of an expected $50m Yes23 warchest underwritten by big companies and philanthropic groups, the No campaign will attack their opponents for being a vehicle for elites.

Both sides have sought to claim "underdog" status.

Just over two weeks out from referendum day, the Yes campaign can rightfully claim the tag.

The stakes for Albanese and Peter Dutton are high. Whoever lands on the losing side will carry residual damage all the way to the 2025 election.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-fatigue-is-kicking-in-on-the-final-run-home/news-story/a779da7b85e4f5c458fc796ebb570832

#19631062 at 2023-09-29 12:49:39 (UTC+1)
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>>19631056

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As the Liberal Party and Labor Party conduct their own fundraising drives, the Yes and No campaigns are ramping-up last-ditch efforts to raise money for advertising blitzes blanketing airwaves, digital and print platforms in key states. Yes23 has allocated up to $20m for its final five-week referendum push.

A Yes23 spokesman said "we are a people-powered and grassroots campaign".

"Our 40,000 volunteers are from all walks of life and we have the backing of hundreds of community organisations.

"The No campaign is also being backed by the likes of Clive Palmer who spent over $120m during the 2022 federal election, and is running advertising supporting a No vote," the Yes23 spokesman said.

"Whilst over 200,000 everyday Australians walked in support of a Yes vote two weeks ago, neo-Nazis, pro-Russian activists and sovereign citizen conspiracy theorists supported No campaign rallies last weekend."

A No campaign spokesman said "the lies won't stop from the Yes campaign ... their claims of big money propping up the No campaign has been shown up as an ?absolute lie".

"Their claim of being a grassroots-powered movement is another lie. The reality that they cannot avoid is that the Yes campaign is a corporate-sponsored behemoth set on dividing our country," the spokesman said.

If the Yes23 campaign raises $50m, the No spokesman said the "only question left is the total value of in-kind support they've been given and how far over their $100m budget this would take them".

The ALP, which is not directly running advertising, has informed donors that money raised will be put towards specific causes. Donations raised by the ALP for Yes advertising are being distributed to the Yes23 and Uluru Dialogue campaigns.

Similar to the ALP and unions, the Liberals and Nationals are organising supporters to hand out forms at prepoll booths and election centres on referendum day. The Liberals have also co-ordinated a postal vote drive, which has contributed to a record 1.2 million applications for postal votes.

Yes and No campaigners have exchanged barbs over the opaque involvement of political parties, unions and activist groups and whether funding could be redirected through third-parties.

Mr Palmer said the "big thing will be whether Australians get out and vote".

"It's a shocking proposition. All over the world, people like Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and others have fought to keep race out of the law and constitutions. If you're an Aboriginal person, you should have the same rights as all Australians to go to your member of parliament or start a legal action," he said.

"But once they bring in the voice, they say you're Aboriginal, you go over and see the voice people and they'll decide for you whether you've got a say or not. Aboriginal people have been run by committees since the First Fleet, they've never had a say."

The referendum expenditure period, requiring disclosure of campaigning expenses and donations exceeding $15,200, is between March 11 and October 14. The AEC has reached out to around 350 entities that will likely have funding disclosure obligations under the Referendum Act.

There will be a three-day advertising blackout from October 12 until polls close on October 14.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-Clive-Palmer-pays-out-2m-to-say-no/news-story/6b28f7970feb0fa6b1fabfb0514907e2

#19631056 at 2023-09-29 12:49:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

>>19606805
Indigenous voice to parliament: Clive Palmer pays out $2m to say No

GEOFF CHAMBERS - SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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Clive Palmer will spend $2m promoting the No vote, including a final-week advertising blitz in South Australia and Tasmania, amid rising concerns that Yes23's $50m war chest could fall short in swinging enough votes for a come-from-behind victory in the voice referendum.

Yes23, No and third-party organisations are on track to spend more than $30m on advertising ahead of the October 14 referendum, with the bulk of funding quarantined for a final two-week push to win over soft and undecided voters.

South Australia and Tasmania, where the fate of the referendum to constitutionally en?shrine an Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government is expected to be decided, will become ground zero for Yes and No campaigners as early voting begins next week. Ahead of Anthony Albanese taking his cabinet to Tasmania early next week, Mr Palmer told The Australian he would concentrate advertising in the "final week" of the referendum campaign and focus on the two southern battleground states.

The billionaire mining magnate, who secured one seat in parliament after spending $117m at the 2022 federal election, said his company Mineralogy and not the United Australia Party "would be directly spending a couple of million on the (voice) campaign".

"We're spending the money to put our point of view forward. We're targeting Tasmania and South Australia. We'll be advertising in all the states but will be ?focusing on them. It's cheaper to spend advertising in Tassie and South Australia," Mr Palmer said.

"I think the No case will win. My prediction is 30 per cent Yes when we get to the polling date. If you look at it in the proper context, the most important thing in Australia is not Yes or No at the moment, it's the cost-of-living and how the average Australian is going to make his way."

The UAP founder, who confirmed he had not consulted with Indigenous leaders, said his campaign reflected a "personal view" and was not associated with the official No campaign.

Sources close to the Yes campaign told The Australian they were "coming from a long way back" and conceded it would be difficult to shift ground in the final fortnight. No campaigners remain anxious that soft voters could peel off as Australians finalise their ?positions.

As the Australian Electoral Commission prepares to open early voting centres across the country on Monday and Tuesday, new donations figures reveal the big-spending, high-stakes battle being waged between the Yes23 and No campaigns, who are receiving direct and indirect support from third-party political organisations, unions and activist groups.

The Australian can reveal the No campaign has amassed more than $13m from almost 40,500 donations since November last year. From July 1, the No campaign's Australians for Unity funding vehicle collected $7.6m from 21,033 donations with an average gift size of $361.

Yes23, which rejects being ?labelled a corporate-funded movement, has this month received $1.6m in grassroots donations with average gifts of around $187.

Yes campaign sources said grassroots donations trends were consistent over recent months.

The Yes campaign expects to raise at least $50m through its Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition funding vehicle, which is half the $100m figure used by No campaigners to encourage donations.

While the overall size of the Yes23 war chest is unknown, companies, individuals and groups including BHP, Rio Tinto, Anthony Pratt, Wesfarmers, the Paul Ramsay Foundation, NAB Foundation, ANZ and Qantas have publicly disclosed more than $26.7m in donations, including subsidised travel costs and office space.

(continued)

#19617053 at 2023-09-27 10:26:49 (UTC+1)
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The Claremont showgrounds, where the Royal Show is held every September school holidays, sits smack bang in the middle of the blue-chip western suburbs electorate of Curtin.

The seat recorded the highest yes vote of any WA electorate during the gay marriage plebiscite and elected teal candidate Kate Chaney at last year's federal election, but according to recent polling from the No campaign is on track to reject the voice by ?almost two to one.

There is also hope among the Liberals that their opposition to the voice can help open the door to voters in mortgage-belt seats such as Burt and Brand.

Not all in the party are so encouraged by the inroads made on the voice. Moderates who believe the party erred both morally and politically in choosing to oppose the referendum believe the anecdotal increase in support on the ground in the west is a false dawn.

They say the party has simply attracted the fringe types who have previously been drawn to One Nation or Clive Palmer's United Australia Party - voters who can make a lot of noise but who typically don't stick - while further alienating the moderate middle who have gravitated to Labor in recent elections.

They say it is telling that, even as support for the voice has fallen, Mr Dutton's popularity hasn't improved and only a little bit of skin has been taken off Albanese's polling figures.

While the referendum's defeat would be most meaningful for the party's federal MPs, it could also have implications at a state level.

The looming failure of the referendum in WA has the fingerprints of Premier Roger Cook all over it, due to the short-lived Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act that was introduced and then swiftly repealed amid a widespread public backlash.

Mr Cook has been actively campaigning for the voice in the lead-up to October 14. He has done so without any support from his predecessor Mark McGowan, who has studiously avoided lending any of his still-considerable clout in WA to the Yes campaign.

But one source close to WA Labor says the damage to Mr Cook from a failed referendum will be minimal.

"When you see it fail in every other state in the country, you can't blame Roger for that," he said. "And the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act wasn't Roger's fault either, he inherited both the legislation and the regulation - he was just the guy left holding the turd at the end of it."

While the pain felt by the Liberals in WA in recent years could encourage a tendency to grasp at anything resembling a victory, many in the party are mindful not to read too much into a successful No vote.

The referendum result won't be fatal to the party, and nor will it be a panacea. Instead, those running the WA Liberals believe it could be a helpful marker on the party's long journey back.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous/stand-delivers-as-liberals-opposition-to-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-pays-off/news-story/116f8caf544b9c78b30de4be3e0068d7

#19587705 at 2023-09-21 10:08:02 (UTC+1)
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>>19518014
>>19529127
Clive Palmer loses bid to force AEC to count 'X' as 'No' in Voice vote

Michaela Whitbourn - September 20, 2023

Mining magnate Clive Palmer and United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet have lost a Federal Court bid to force the Australian Electoral Commission to count crosses on Voice referendum ballot papers as a vote against the proposal.

In a judgment delivered late on Wednesday night after an urgent court hearing, Federal Court Justice Steven Rares said an "X" was "inherently ambiguous" and could not be counted as a No vote in the historic referendum on October 14.

Voters will be instructed to write "Yes" or "No" on the Voice referendum ballot paper. However, under so-called "savings provisions", a referendum vote may be counted where a voter's intention is clear, even when they have not followed the formal instructions.

"The longstanding legal advice provides that a cross can be open to interpretation as to whether it denotes approval or disapproval: many people use it daily to indicate approval in checkboxes on forms," the AEC said in a statement last month.

"The legal advice provides that for a single referendum question, a clear 'tick' should be counted as formal and a 'cross' should not."

Babet and Palmer - the founder of the United Australia Party - sought a Federal Court declaration that "effect shall be given to any ballot papers containing a cross ("X") written alone in the space provided, by treating such ballot papers as clearly demonstrating the voter's intention that he or she does not approve the proposed law".

Alternatively, the men sought a declaration that any ballot papers containing a tick alone "do not clearly demonstrate the voter's intention" to be counted as a Yes vote.

Rares said that "a cross is used in daily life both as a means of selecting one of two or more choices and as indicating a negative choice".

"Often one is asked to select a choice with a cross and … this was an early form of voting after Federation," he said.

"The use of a cross placed in the answer to the single question on the ballot paper for the referendum (namely, 'Do you approve this proposed alteration?') is inherently ambiguous as to the intention that the voter is intending to convey as to the proposal".

Rares said a tick was unambiguous.

"Unlike a cross, which has more than one signification as either a disapproval or a selection of an answer, being approval, the tick both approves or selects the affirmative as the voter's answer," he said.

"A tick signifies assent or approval. It is not a symbol that conveys a negative response."

Palmer and Babet were ordered to pay the Electoral Commission's costs.

Rares shortened the timeframe for filing any notice of appeal from 28 days to a week.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/Clive-Palmer-loses-bid-to-force-aec-to-count-x-as-no-in-voice-vote-20230920-p5e6dc.html

#19518014 at 2023-09-09 15:47:50 (UTC+1)
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>>19417576 (pb)
>>19487613
Palmer launches court bid to force AEC to count 'X' as 'No' in Voice vote

Michaela Whitbourn - September 9, 2023

Mining magnate Clive Palmer and United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet have launched a Federal Court bid to force the Australian Electoral Commission to count crosses on Voice referendum ballot papers as a vote against the proposal.

The urgent court challenge comes just five weeks before the historic Voice to parliament referendum on October 14.

The Electoral Commission has made clear that a tick will be counted as a Yes vote but a cross, which may be ambiguous, will not be counted as a No vote on Voice referendum ballot papers, consistent with legal advice that has been provided for decades.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has previously claimed this would give the Yes campaign an advantage.

Babet and Palmer - the founder of the United Australia Party - are seeking a Federal Court declaration that "effect shall be given to any ballot papers containing a cross ("X") written alone in the space provided, by treating such ballot papers as clearly demonstrating the voter's intention that he or she does not approve the proposed law".

They are also seeking an order restraining the AEC from "instructing scrutineers or any other officer" to count ballots "other than in accordance with" that declaration.

Alternatively, the men seek a declaration that any ballot papers containing a tick alone "do not clearly demonstrate the voter's intention" to be counted as a Yes vote, and are to be treated as informal votes. They also seek a related order restraining the AEC from instructing scrutineers or other officers to count those votes other than in accordance with that declaration.

Federal Court Justice Steven Rares made orders on Friday listing the challenge for a hearing on Wednesday, September 20.

The AEC has previously made clear that "the formal voting instructions for the referendum are to clearly write either 'yes' or 'no', in full, in English".

"It is that easy: given the simplicity, the AEC expects the vast, vast majority of Australian voters to follow those instructions and cast a formal vote," the commission said.

It took aim at misinformation surrounding the vote count and noted that "more than 99 per cent of votes cast at the 1999 federal referendum [on an Australian republic] were formal".

"Even of the 0.86 per cent of informal votes, many would have had no relevance to the use of ticks or crosses."

Australians will cast their vote on October 14 on whether to enshrine recognition of the nation's First Peoples in the Constitution by creating a body that would advise the parliament and executive government on matters relating to Indigenous Australians.

Under so-called "savings provisions", a vote may be counted where a voter's intention is clear, even when they have not followed the instructions to write either "Yes" or "No" on the ballot paper.

"The longstanding legal advice provides that a cross can be open to interpretation as to whether it denotes approval or disapproval: many people use it daily to indicate approval in checkboxes on forms," the AEC said in a statement last month.

"The legal advice provides that for a single referendum question, a clear 'tick' should be counted as formal and a 'cross' should not."

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/Palmer-launches-court-bid-to-force-aec-to-count-x-as-no-in-voice-vote-20230909-p5e3ek.html

#19511987 at 2023-09-08 15:00:29 (UTC+1)
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>>19427525 (pb)
>>19427567 (pb)
'Great admirer': Victorian Senator Ralph Babet's letter declaring support to former US president Donald Trump revealed

Victorian Senator Ralph Babet has penned a letter to Donald Trump to assure the former United States president he has "friends in the Australian Parliament".

Yashee Sharma - September 8, 2023

Ralph Babet has declared his support to the legally-embattled Donald Trump.

The former United States president posted a letter penned by the Victorian Senator to his social media Truth Social on Friday.

Mr Babet, a Senator for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party, wrote how "pleased" he was to see Trump running for re-election in 2024 and wished him "every success".

"I have always been a great admirer of the United States. But to see the deterioration in American over the past four years has been truly heart breaking," he wrote.

"Watching the way the Biden Administration has brought the US into disrepute around the world through weak leadership, both at home and abroad, has been devastating for lovers of freedom everywhere.

"America is meant to be a beacon of freedom and, I have no doubt, will be again under your leadership."

Trump is currently embroiled in four criminal indictments and a number of civil lawsuits.

He is accused of allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election result, when he was voted out of office. He is the first president to be criminally indicted and have his mugshot taken.

Most recently, an American federal judge found Trump was liable for defaming E. Jean Carroll, who alleged he raped her in the 1990s.

Mr Babet said he could not "begin to image the forces aligned against" Trump.

"But I am confident that the American people will see through all of that to elect you once again as their President," he wrote.

The Victorian Senator then assured the controversial billionaire he had "many friends in the Australian Parliament".

"Australia may be a long way from the United States geographically, but we are not that far removed in terms of the issues we face," he wrote.

"I believe it is not only in the US interest for you to be in the White House, but it is in the interest of freedom loving people everywhere.

"So please be encouraged that you have many friends in the Australian Parliament, not least of all me, who will be cheering you on in the Presidential campaign."

Mr Babet was elected in 2020 and is a self-described "conservative and staunch patriot". As a Senator, he receives a taxpayer-funded salary of at least $198,839 per annum.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/great-admirer-victorian-senator-ralph-babets-letter-declaring-support-to-former-us-president-donald-trump-revealed/news-story/6031c61395651bd54b068da8bfb1b70b

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111025171296398109

https://twitter.com/senatorbabet/status/1699934857798049920

#16343594 at 2022-05-26 08:33:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition

#22 - Part 14
Australian Politics and Society - Part 14
>>16325691 Anthony Albanese sworn in as Australia's 31st Prime Minister in Canberra following historic Labor election victory - Anthony Albanese is officially Australia's 31st Prime Minister after a swearing in ceremony in Canberra ahead of a crucial international dialogue with the US, India and Japan
>>16325696 Video: Anthony Albanese sworn in as Prime Minister - Sky News Australia
>>16325710 Video: Albanese says Quad meeting will 'send message to the world' - 9 News Australia
>>16325727 Peter Dutton 'will be leader' amid pending stoush on Liberal direction, says Alan Tudge
>>16325738 West Australian Premier Mark McGowan labels Peter Dutton an 'extremist' and not 'that smart'
>>16325759 West Australian Labor Premier Mark McGowan launches post-election spray, attacking Peter Dutton, Liberals, Clive Palmer and press
>>16325763 Video: Premier McGowan launches stinging attack on Peter Dutton - Sky News Australia

>>16325838 Southern Jackaroo 2022: The Australian Army, United States Marine Corps (USMC) and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) are removing the barriers to success in combat during Exercise Southern Jackaroo 2022 at Shoalwater Bay training area near Rockhampton
>>16329018 Studio 10's Erin Jayne Plummer dies at 42 - Details about her cause of death have yet to come to light
>>16330378 Victorian Liberal MP Bernie Finn, who posted anti-abortion comments, expelled from party
>>16331772 PM Anthony Albanese attends first Quad meeting, pledges new government is aligned
>>16331797 Anthony Albanese signs up to Joe Biden's US-Asia alliance - The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity - a new US-led Asia-Pacific economic bloc aimed at countering Chinese regional dominance
>>16331825 British PM floats expanding AUKUS beyond defence in phone call with Albanese
>>16337709 Albanese's day one: change the climate - Anthony Albanese joins Joe Biden's climate change crusade and unveils Australia's new international approach on global carbon emissions at the Quad meeting in Tokyo

#16343523 at 2022-05-26 08:06:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition

#22 - Part 14
Australian Politics and Society - Part 14
>>16325691 Anthony Albanese sworn in as Australia's 31st Prime Minister in Canberra following historic Labor election victory - Anthony Albanese is officially Australia's 31st Prime Minister after a swearing in ceremony in Canberra ahead of a crucial international dialogue with the US, India and Japan
>>16325696 Video: Anthony Albanese sworn in as Prime Minister - Sky News Australia
>>16325710 Video: Albanese says Quad meeting will 'send message to the world' - 9 News Australia
>>16325727 Peter Dutton 'will be leader' amid pending stoush on Liberal direction, says Alan Tudge
>>16325738 West Australian Premier Mark McGowan labels Peter Dutton an 'extremist' and not 'that smart'
>>16325759 West Australian Labor Premier Mark McGowan launches post-election spray, attacking Peter Dutton, Liberals, Clive Palmer and press
>>16325763 Video: Premier McGowan launches stinging attack on Peter Dutton - Sky News Australia

>>16325838 Southern Jackaroo 2022: The Australian Army, United States Marine Corps (USMC) and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) are removing the barriers to success in combat during Exercise Southern Jackaroo 2022 at Shoalwater Bay training area near Rockhampton
>>16329018 Studio 10's Erin Jayne Plummer dies at 42 - Details about her cause of death have yet to come to light
>>16330378 Victorian Liberal MP Bernie Finn, who posted anti-abortion comments, expelled from party
>>16331772 PM Anthony Albanese attends first Quad meeting, pledges new government is aligned
>>16331797 Anthony Albanese signs up to Joe Biden's US-Asia alliance - The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity - a new US-led Asia-Pacific economic bloc aimed at countering Chinese regional dominance
>>16331825 British PM floats expanding AUKUS beyond defence in phone call with Albanese
>>16337709 Albanese's day one: change the climate - Anthony Albanese joins Joe Biden's climate change crusade and unveils Australia's new international approach on global carbon emissions at the Quad meeting in Tokyo

#16325759 at 2022-05-23 08:01:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition

>>16325738
McGowan launches post-election spray, attacking Peter Dutton, Liberals, Clive Palmer and press

Hamish Hastie - May 23, 2022

Western Australian Labor Premier Mark McGowan has questioned the intelligence of former defence minister Peter Dutton and launched an attack on the Liberals, Clive Palmer and the national press gallery after his party's strong election result on Saturday.

McGowan said he hoped the Albanese government would get Australia's relationship with China on a surer footing given how heavily WA relies on the superpower for trade.

Throughout the campaign, Dutton, who is in line to be the next leader of the Liberal party, warned Australia needed to prepare for war in the face of a more aggressive China.

On Monday McGowan suggested it was "absolutely crazy" to talk about conflict with a country of 1.4 billion people with nuclear weapons and accused Dutton of weaponising the China relationship for his own political gain.

He labelled Dutton an extremist and insulted his intelligence.

"He's an extremist and I don't think he fits with modern Australia at all, and he doesn't seem to listen, he's extremely conservative," he claimed.

"I actually don't think he's that smart, I've seen him present on things I don't really pick up there's much there as opposed to Scott Morrison who is a clever guy.

"I don't pick up that Peter Dutton is fit to be Prime Minister."

When campaigning in WA earlier this month Dutton said the rhetoric around China was simply his government being honest with Australians and McGowan's personal attacks said more about McGowan than him.

McGowan said the Liberal's party poor result at Saturday's election showed they were no longer appealing to mainstream Australia.

"They're out on the fringe, they're more inclined to pursue their own hobbyhorses rather than listen to what the public wants and I think that reflects in the voting," he said.

WA Liberal senator Michaelia Cash defended Dutton and said McGowan should focus on fixing the state's own health crisis and ensuring the Albanese government didn't reintroduce a mining tax.

"The arrogance and hubris of McGowan knows no bounds. If he is saying someone who is strong on defence and strong on border security is an extremist, then quite frankly, I strongly disagree and I think most Australians would too," she said.

"Mark McGowan should be smart enough to work out what's going on in the world and that this country needs to maintain a strong defence force and strong borders."

McGowan refused to take any credit for Labor's 7.6 per cent increase in its primary vote in the state despite recognition from his federal Labor colleagues and Cash that there was a McGowan factor at play that helped turn WA red.

McGowan lead his party to victory with a record 53 of 59 seats lower house seats at the 2021 state election and remains a hugely popular premier.

"I think the most important thing was Anthony Albanese, the federal team and the work they did to provide a positive alternative for the federal government," he said.

On Sunday Cash said voters at polling booths were telling her they were going to "vote for Mark McGowan" while Labor's newly elected candidate for Swan Zaneta Mascarenhas said the state Labor government had shown the WA public what a good Labor government could do.

The coalition cabinet had included four WA members and the premier said WA Labor MPs should have a stronger showing in Albanese's cabinet.

Shadow resources and trade minister Madeleine King is expected to be a shoo-in for cabinet while Burt MP and shadow defence industries minister Matt Keogh is also a good chance.

UAP 'misfits' and press gallery 'bullies'

McGowan blasted volunteers for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party who heckled him at a polling booth on Saturday.

"I'm pleased that West Australians and Australians more generally didn't elect any Palmer people," he said.

"That's a good thing for the country, I saw their actions on the polling booths, I saw how the Palmer people behave."

He said that in his view they were "misfits and losers and they scream and yell at voters, they shove things in people's faces, they're offensive and rude people and I'm glad that Australia hasn't supported them."

McGowan saved his final spray for Canberra press gallery journalists who travelled to WA during the campaign.

"The press conferences I went to [with Anthony], they were screaming and interrupting and rude and insulting, intimidating and bullying," he said.

"Sort of stuff that in the workplace, you get sacked for. They need to reflect on their behaviour, I've never seen anything like it."

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/mcgowan-launches-post-election-spray-attacking-peter-dutton-liberals-Clive-Palmer-and-press-20220523-p5anqo.html

#16325738 at 2022-05-23 07:40:34 (UTC+1)
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>>16325727
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan labels Peter Dutton an 'extremist' and not 'that smart'

ANGIE RAPHAEL - MAY 23, 2022

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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has labelled Peter Dutton an "extremist" and not "that smart", saying he is unfit for the Liberal Party leadership.

During the same press conference, Mr McGowan also launched a blistering attack on Clive Palmer supporters, whom he dubbed "misfits and losers", and the national press gallery for "bullying" new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Asked about Mr Dutton potentially becoming the new leader of the Liberal Party, Mr McGowan said he was not fit to be the Prime Minister someday.

"He's an extremist and I don't think he fits with modern Australia at all," the Premier told reporters on Monday.

"I've seen him present on things. I don't really pick up there's much there, as opposed to Scott Morrison."

Mr McGowan said it was important for the new Labor government to improve Australia's relationship with China.

"These things are difficult but it is an opportunity to get back onto a surer footing with our major trading partner," he said.

"We, as a state, export half of the nation's exports and the vast majority of that goes to China because it's the biggest market.

"Iron ore, gas, lots of other mineral products, lots of agricultural products go to China.

"So having a good relationship with your biggest customer is kind of important."

Security was the other major factor in having a diplomatic relationship with China, he added.

"The biggest power in our region is China," he said.

"Our strongest ally is and will remain the United States, but that doesn't mean you have a hostile relationship with China.

"What we saw over the federal election campaign was the Liberal Party tried to weaponise these things for political purposes ... that's what used to happen back in the Cold War.

"I just urge a reset on the relationship."

Mr Albanese told reporters on Monday that Australia's relationship with China would remain "difficult".

"It is China that has changed - not Australia," he said.

"What we should do is put Australia's national interest first and not attempt to play politics with national security issues."

Mr McGowan said he believed a major factor for WA voters in the election was the Liberal Party's opposition to the hard border, which kept the state safe during the height of the pandemic.

He said the Liberals essentially supported Mr Palmer's fight to bring down the border for about two months before backing down.

The Premier recalled he even received a phone call from Mr Morrison telling him the state would lose the court battle and should give up.

"Hopefully, they've learned a lesson that Clive Palmer is a bit like kryptonite - you don't want to touch him because inevitably with these things, particularly political things, it goes bad," Mr McGowan said.

"It was a terrible look and actually, not just a terrible look. It was just the wrong decision."

(continued)

#16313539 at 2022-05-21 01:03:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition

>>16047076
Newspoll: Labor in front of Coalition but lead narrows

SIMON BENSON - MAY 20, 2022

Popular support for Labor has fallen sharply in the final week of the campaign amid a rejection of both major parties as Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese head to the polls with voters unable to decide who would make the better prime minister.

But without a late swing to the Coalition, Labor remains on track to win the election with a two-party-preferred lead of 53-47.

According to an election-eve Newspoll, commissioned by The Weekend Australian, Labor would be positioned to form majority government if the results are replicated at the polling booths on Saturday.

It would confirm Mr Albanese as the first modern day leader from the Labor Left to win office from Opposition.

The final Newspoll of the campaign shows Labor 's primary vote falling two points over the past week to 36 per cent confirming a tightening in the electoral race in the final days of the campaign.

However, the Coalition's primary vote has failed to lift in response, remaining stuck on 35 per cent. If replicated today it would mark the worst result at an election for the Liberal and Nationals parties since Newspoll began in the mid-1980s.

Combined, the level of support for both major parties would mark a record low heading into an election.

The slide in support for Labor in the final days of the campaign follows another significant campaign gaffe for Mr Albanese after he wrongly claimed in an interview that Australia's borders were still closed.

The leakage from Labor's base of support has primarily gone to the Greens, which has increased its primary vote from 11 per cent to 12 per cent. This is almost a point higher than its last election result.

The Newspoll shows the Coalition has failed to engineer any lift in support from the record low unemployment numbers released on Thursday and its housing policy offering young home buyers access to their superannuation.

The Newpoll results show a primary vote swing of 6.4 per cent against the government since the last election and a 4.5 per cent swing on a two party preferred vote.

A 53/47 result in Labor's favour would represent a greater two party preferred result than the Rudd-slide of 2007 but result in potentially less seats due to the rise in support for independents and minor parties.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation will go to the polls with a primary vote of five per cent, a fall of one point on last week's Newspoll, while Clive Palmer's United Australia Party also fell a point to three per cent.

Support for independents and other minor parties increased two points to nine per cent, suggesting increased support for the Climate 200 candidates.

In a sign that Australians are divided on the choice they are faced to make today, in the head to head contest, Mr Morrison and Mr Albanese are now level pegged on who voters say would make the better prime minister.

Mr Morrison fell a point from 43 per cent to 42 per cent while Mr Albanese remained stable on 42 per cent. This marks a significant narrowing of the gap since the second week of the campaign when Mr Morrison led by nine points on the back of Mr Albanese's first week gaffes over the unemployment and cash rate figures.

Yet voters overall remained unimpressed with performance of both leaders.

Despite Mr Albanese's campaign controversies in the final days of the campaign, the Opposition leader's approval ratings improved in the final survey, on the back of some of his lowest ratings since becoming leader three years ago.

Satisfaction with Mr Albanese's performance lifted three points from 38 per cent to 41 per cent against a fall in dissatisfaction from 49 per cent to 46 per cent.

This resulted in a net satisfaction rating of minus five - marking a modest recovery from the minus 14 he recorded following the first week of the campaign.

Mr Morrison fell two points in his overall ratings with a one point fall in satisfaction to 41 per cent and a single point rise in dissatisfaction to 54 per cent, resulting in a net approval rating of minus 13.

The final Newspoll of the 2022 campaign was conducted between May 13 and May 19 and surveyed 2,188 voters across Australia. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 per cent.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/newspoll-labor-lead-over-coalition-narrows/news-story/937dbfe8479e9380d93da4121f63c09d

#16182300 at 2022-04-30 12:38:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition

>>16047076
>>16169338
Is Andrews a drag on federal Labor's vote in the outer suburbs?

Paul Sakkal - April 30, 2022

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Labor leader Anthony Albanese has campaigned alongside Labor premiers Peter Malinauskas and Mark McGowan. He will launch his campaign on Sunday in Western Australia, where state Labor is flying high, and is scheduled to stump up alongside Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk this week.

But the wannabe PM has so far been to Victoria just once since the May 21 election was called. He is yet to appear with Premier Daniel Andrews, whom the Coalition last week dragged into the federal campaign in a move the Coalition believes can help it unexpectedly snatch three Victorian seats in what is shaping up as a tight poll.

An advertisement released by the Coalition in Victoria portrays the COVID-interrupted Albanese, who is scheduled to visit Melbourne this week, as a puppet being wielded by a domineering Andrews.

"Little puppet Albo. You stand for everything I stand for," the fictional premier sneers before dropping Albanese - who, according to the ad, "can't stand for himself" - to the ground.

The real Andrews, speaking the day the ad was released, said: "Desperate people do desperate things."

While the cartoon-like video was intended to be slightly humorous, Coalition campaign gurus drew up the attack because they believe the premier - who presided over longer lockdowns than any other state leader - is dragging down support for federal Labor.

How accurate is this hypothesis? It depends on whom you ask.

The Liberal Party is fighting progressive independents on its left flank in inner-urban seats. In the outer suburbs, it is pitching to disengaged and often financially insecure voters who did it tough during the pandemic, many of whom are considering voting for minor parties such as Clive Palmer's United Australia Party.

Internal Liberal Party research in seats stretching across the metropolitan boundary from Frankston in the east to Geelong in the west shows Andrews' net favourability rating (those who like him, minus those who do not) is between negative 10 and negative 20. These are firm views: very few people are yet to make up their minds about him.

The Coalition reckons it is in with a serious chance in three of those seats: the Labor-held Dunkley (around Frankston), Corangamite (around Geelong) and McEwen (in Melbourne's outer-north).

(continued)

#16092011 at 2022-04-17 11:14:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition

>>16092010

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While both leaders have negative ratings, Morrison has a better result in another reversal between the two leaders since the Resolve Political Monitor conducted in the week after the federal budget on March 29.

"Like the apocryphal tale of two hikers approached by a bear, Morrison only needs to outrun Albanese, not the bear," Reed said.

"Voters don't have to like the Prime Minister, they only need to dislike him less than the alternative."

The Resolve Political Monitor surveyed 1404 eligible voters from Monday to Saturday over a period that included Morrison declining to commit to setting up a national integrity commission in the next term of Parliament while Albanese promised to pass laws to set up the watchdog this year.

The survey period also included a debate about transgender women, a Labor policy to spend $135 million on new health clinics, a pledge from Morrison to create 1.3 million jobs over five years and a Coalition policy to spend $219.5 million on the forestry sector.

The margin of error for the national results was 2.6 percentage points.

Because the Resolve Political Monitor asks voters to nominate their primary votes in the same way they would write "1" on the ballot papers for the lower house at the election, there is no undecided category in the results, a key difference with some other surveys. The survey puts the choices in a random order to each participant to avoid a "donkey vote" in the responses.

Support for the Greens was steady at 11 per cent and all other changes for minor parties and independents were within the margin of error.

Voters increased their support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation from 2 to 4 per cent, although the change was less than 2 percentage points because the results are rounded to the nearest whole number. Support for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party rose from 3 to 4 per cent.

While independent candidates are taking on Liberals with high-profile campaigns in key city seats, support for independents nationwide was unchanged at 9 per cent. Support for "other" candidates rose from 3 to 4 per cent.

The Resolve survey published on April 5 found that Morrison had fallen behind Albanese as preferred prime minister for the first time since the Resolve Political Monitor began last April. Albanese led on this measure by 37 to 36 per cent, with 28 per cent undecided.

The new survey shows Morrison leads by 38 to 30 per cent with an increase in undecided voters to 32 per cent.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-pays-price-for-gaffe-as-voters-swing-back-to-government-20220417-p5ae0m.html

#16053178 at 2022-04-11 08:46:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition

>>16047076
Media attacks on Scott Morrison could lead to a second 'miracle'

CHRIS MITCHELL - APRIL 11, 2022

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While some in his party seem to want Scott Morrison to lose next month's election, the media campaign against the PM may just help him to a second "miracle" win.

Several serving and former newspaper editors have told this column they have never seen such vilification of a national leader - they argue the treatment of Morrison by some sections of the media is worse than the Howard Derangement Syndrome aimed at John Howard between 1996 and 2007, and much worse than any of the sexist critiques of Labor's 2010-13 PM Julia Gillard.

At the ABC, the Guardian Australia and Network Ten, anyone who wants to air unsubstantiated claims against the PM is given a free pass to label him a bully or a liar without evidence. These news outlets are reflecting the left wing venom of Twitter. But Twitter is far from the national pulse.

Morrison in the past month has been blamed for delays in flood relief to northern NSW, even though this is a state function. He has been hit by regular criticism of his character from state and federal MPs on his own side of politics, often timed to coincide with days that Newspoll has been in the field, and to feed into Labor's "liar from the Shire" narrative.

Think of the media over-reaction to last Tuesday week's speech by right wing senator Connie Fierravanti-Wells, who said Morrison had "no moral compass". In much of the media it drowned out reaction to that night's federal budget. Normally derided for her conservatism by the outlets that pumped up her criticism, Fierravanti-Wells was aggrieved she had lost her spot on the Senate ticket to retired Major General Jim Molan, who is clearly a better candidate.

Morrison also suffered self-inflicted damage with ructions inside his own NSW branch that prevented the Liberals naming candidates until last week in 12 federal NSW seats, because of a failed legal action by a state party executive member. While this excited the Twitter crowd, it probably meant little to voters.

This column on February 14 concluded: "Morrison seems likely to lose the election, but if he pulls off another miracle win it will be largely because many in the parliament and the media have no idea that for most working Australians, the key issues are jobs, prosperity, buying a home, staying healthy and standing up to China."

Paul Kelly got to the heart of the politics. In a pre-Budget piece here on March 22 he contrasted the government's economic outcomes - unemployment forecast at 3.75 per cent by year's end, a Reserve Bank growth forecast of 4.25 per cent, inflation at half the levels of comparable countries and a world-beating pandemic death rate - with polls predicting an electoral wipe-out.

"The subjective mood contradicts the macro reality," Kelly wrote.

The high "undecided" figure in Newspoll may suggest many voters see this conundrum and are unconvinced they should throw out a government that is performing better than almost any in the OECD for an Opposition Leader who simply ticks off on everything the government does.

Newspoll also suggests some of the Coalition's conservative base may be parking their votes with Clive Palmer and One Nation, which are polling at 4 per cent and 3 per cent respectively.

These votes are probably a protest against Morrison's move to the left on climate change. But such voters may not preference Labor or the Greens - their preferences are likely return to the Coalition.

Unless the government implodes during the campaign - still a possibility - non-partisan voters on polling day are likely to have a fair-minded view of Morrison's flaws and achievements. Many this column has encountered during the past month resent what they see as the media's unfair personal pile-on. Resentment at perceptions of media bias was on show in the 2020 US Presidential election when then president Trump, despite a four-year media pile-on, managed 74.2 million votes in a losing re-election bid. Published polls in the lead-up over-estimated Joe Biden's vote by 4 per cent, although in the end he won 81.2 million votes.

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#16047438 at 2022-04-10 07:38:30 (UTC+1)
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>>16047076
Federal Election 2022: The key seats where it will be won or lost

The pathway to victory will not be easy for the Coalition or the Labor Party as "both have a murky path ahead of them".

Ellen Whinnett and Clare Armstrong - April 10, 2022

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The election will be fought through hand-to-hand combat, with the Coalition and Labor fighting for single seats across the country and a host of previously safe seats coming into play due to the retirement of well-known local Members of parliament.

The Coalition must stem its losses in Western Australia, cling onto at-risk electorates in Queensland and try to pick up a couple of marginals in New South Wales in order to win a fourth term in office when Australians go to the polls on May 21.

Labor needs to pick up marginal seats in Victoria and Tasmania, capitalise on its popularity in Western Australia and defend its coalmining seats in regional NSW if it is to win majority Government for the first time since 2007.

"The pathway to victory is wider for the Labor Party than it is for the Liberal Party but both have a murky path ahead of them,'' pollster Kosmos Samaras, from RedBridge Group, said.

To maintain its one-seat majority the Liberals would have to at least regain the south Sydney seat of Hughes, which they lost when sitting MP Craig Kelly defected to Clive Palmer's United Australia Party (UAP). This would help offset the loss of the abolished Liberal seat of Stirling in WA, and the creation of the new seat of Hawke in Victoria, which is on a notional margin of 10 per cent for Labor.

The Coalition would then have to hold all of its seats, or pick up something in NSW to offset potential losses in Tasmania and Victoria.

Taking into account Stirling and Hawke, Labor needs to win another seven seats to claim majority victory.

The most obvious of these likely gains are in WA, where two and possibly three seats are up for grabs, while the Liberals are vulnerable in the NSW marginal seat of Reid, Victorian ultra-marginal Chisholm, and the Tasmanian seat of Bass.

Both major parties are bleeding votes to minor parties, but the Liberals are copping it from several directions, losing conservative voters to the anti-vax, anti-lockdown appeal of the UAP, as well as progressive inner-city votes to the well-organised and funded "Voices of'' independents.

With the retirement of a number of well-known and established MPs, seats which were previously safe are now potentially in play. These include Lingiari in the Northern Territory, where Labor's Warren Snowden is retiring, Casey in Victoria, vacated by Liberal Tony Smith, and even Flinders, where Liberal Greg Hunt is retiring. In South Australia, the resignation of Liberal Nicolle Flint has made Boothby vulnerable.

(continued)

#15836667 at 2022-03-11 09:07:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition

Former far-right political candidate Teresa van Lieshout claims mental health defence, but no illness, in 'government overthrow' case

This far-right former political candidate, accused of trying to overthrow the government, insists she's of sound mind - but will take medication if it means getting bail.

Sean Fewster - March 11, 2022

A far-right political candidate may have a mental incompetence defence to charges she plotted to overthrow the government but does not accept she is mentally ill, a court has heard.

On Friday, the Adelaide Magistrates Court granted Teresa Angela van Lieshout electronically-monitored home detention bail under strict conditions.

Ms van Lieshout was banned from using the internet and social media to post videos or speak to her followers, who allegedly call her "the true governor-general" of Australia.

She must also make a weekly 200km round-trip, from Peterborough to Port Pirie, to check in with SA Police and have her mental health - now deemed "stable" - treated by doctors.

Magistrate Michelle Sutcliffe said she remained concerned Ms van Lieshout would refuse to take her medication and engage with doctors, given her insistence she was well.

But Ms van Lieshout - who called Clive Palmer "evil" after she was dumped as his WA candidate in 2013 - promised Ms Sutcliffe she would behave.

"I intend to report every week and go along with the treatment as well, just so that I can have home detention bail ... I give you my 100 per cent assurance on that," she said.

Ms van Lieshout, 49, has yet to plead to charges arising from federal counter-terrorism investigations into a viral video.

It allegedly shows a man, impersonating a senior Australian Federal Police officer, seeking to recruit an "alternative" police force.

Ms van Lieshout allegedly imported 470 fake badges from overseas for use by that force, and had online discussions about arresting politicians and public servants.

On Friday, Trish Johnson, for Ms van Lieshout, said doctors considered her client had a mental incompetence defence to the charges, meaning jail was "inappropriate" for her.

"It remains my client's position that she does not accept she has a mental illness but she is aware that, if granted bail, she has no choice but to continue with medication," she said.

Amelia McCormick, prosecuting, said she was not prepared to concede Ms van Lieshout was mentally incompetent.

She asked she be banned from speaking to Marcus Jensen - who has pleaded not guilty to similar charges - Shane Murphy, Jamie McBain and Sifu Uakusoljit while on bail.

"Jensen has been charged in WA in relation to his role in the offending," she said.

"The other three people were allegedly referred to, by Ms van Lieshout, as 'police commissioners'."

Ms Sutcliffe remanded Ms van Lieshout on bail to face court again in April.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-sa/former-farright-political-candidate-teresa-van-lieshout-claims-mental-health-defence-but-no-illness-in-government-overthrow-case/news-story/9a58824c12d866354dea733fc8e28324

#15640390 at 2022-02-16 09:13:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition

West Australian ban thwarts AUKUS submarines tour

BEN PACKHAM and PAUL GARVEY - FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A high-level AUKUS delegation to Australia to help fast-track the nation's nuclear submarines has been forced to postpone a planned visit to Western Australia's HMAS Stirling - home of the Collins-class subs - due to the McGowan government's strict quarantine requirements.

The delegation includes top US and UK officials, including Admiral James Caldwell, director of the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, and UK Defence Nuclear Organisation head Vanessa Nicholls.

The US co-ordinator for AUKUS initiatives, Dr James Miller, is also heading to Australia with the 10-person mission, hosted by the head of Australia's AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine task force, Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead.

The experts will arrive in Australia on Thursday to tour Adelaide's Osborne naval shipyards, and visit Australia's only nuclear reactor at Sydney's Lucas Heights.

They will also stop in Canberra to meet with Admiral Mead's task force, and visit Melbourne for further talks with Defence officials.

The delegation had hoped to inspect Australia's main submarine base at HMAS Stirling in Perth, where the planned nuclear boats would be based.

But Defence was informed its members were unlikely to receive exemptions to enter the state without quarantine, under WA's hard border rules.

The US and UK have vowed to help deliver Australia's planned eight nuclear submarines "at the earliest possible date" under the trilateral AUKUS partnership, after initial forecasts the first would not be in the water until at least 2040.

WA's hard border regime has been notoriously impervious for much of the pandemic.

Until February 5, when the restrictions were partially eased, people trying to return to WA from states to visit dying relatives or attend funerals were barred from entry if they were from a state experiencing a large-scale outbreak.

The rules were changed earlier this month to allow people with family connections or compassionate reasons to travel to WA on the condition they isolate upon arrival. That isolation period for people entering WA from overseas or interstate has since been trimmed from 14 days to seven.

Exemptions to that isolation requirement have proved all but impossible to obtain, although several sporting teams - most recently two AFLW sides from Victoria - have received special authority to enter the state on the provision they instead observe strict biosecurity protocols.

The requirement to isolate upon entry extends to the uppermost reaches of politics. Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese would both need to isolate for a week if they entered WA under the current rules, and have had to amend their election campaign strategies accordingly.

Even WA Premier Mark McGowan faces the prospect of being caught up in the isolation requirements, given he will have to travel to Sydney later this month to testify in his defamation battle with Clive Palmer. The Premier will be required to isolate for a week upon his return.

Mr McGowan on Tuesday flagged that the end of the border rules may be nearing, telling reporters a new date could be set by the end of this month.

"We are reviewing (the border restrictions) as we speak. We are going to review it over February and no doubt we will reach an announcement some time in February," he said.

"The reality is though that we are getting the third dose vaccination rate up, the eastern states appear to be coming off their peak, which is a good thing. We are getting children vaccinated, and every thing we are doing every single day is saving many West Australian lives."

Admiral Mead's task force has been given 18 months to examine every aspect of the nuclear submarine acquisition, including the planned design, regulatory issues, and how they will be built in Adelaide as promised by the Morrison government.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told The Australian last week the US was "focused very intensively on the pathways to the submarines, looking at what the most efficient and effective pathway would be".

"That's being very actively looked at by our experts right now," he said.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence/west-australian-ban-thwarts-aukus-submarines-tour/news-story/5613b85163de8b6fa35fcd5ab5aae039

#15592248 at 2022-02-10 08:41:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition

#20 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>15403917 Fears Australian writer Yang Hengjun could die in Chinese prison as medical condition worsens
>>15404139 Whip Tweet: Good to see everyone getting in on a water fight (Thumbs up) (Australia)
>>15412474 Billionaire Clive Palmer attempts a political comeback and runs for the senate in Queensland
>>15420667 Google doing 'everything in its power' to stop United Australia Party spreading misinformation
>>15427341 Australia, U.K. Work on Security Ties as China's Clout Grows
>>15455465 Hundreds of Western Australians reported feeling the ground move on morning of Jan 25, 2022 - 4.7 magnitude earthquake may not be peak of WA 'swarm'
>>15463520 Protests, citizenship festivities mark contentious Australia Day holiday
>>15471412 OZ Trucks To Canberra being organized on Telegram
>>15507808 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heading to Melbourne for meeting of Quad Foreign Ministers

>>15534400 Video: THE DEVIL'S WORK - Theft of human heads linked to 'satanic ritual' after remains go missing and letter to Satan is found at graveside - Footscray General Cemetery in Melbourne.
>>15534405 Video: Satanic ritual ruled-out as motive for stolen heads, while search for tomb raiders continues
>>15551303 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet with Australia, Japan and India in bid to counter China during Olympics
>>15559256 Defence Minister Peter Dutton Tweet: An important discussion yesterday with @Secdef to discuss continued progress in the #AUKUS partnership, our support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and mutual assistance to Tonga. #UnbreakableAlliance
>>15559256 United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Tweet: Good phone call yesterday with @PeterDutton_MP on issues facing our #UnbreakableAlliance. We discussed our strong cooperation to enhance a #FreeandOpenIndoPacific, forward momentum on implementing AUKUS, and our steadfast support for Ukraine against Russian aggression.
>>15559256 U.S. Department of Defense - Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call With Australian Minister of Defence Peter Dutton
>>15575034 Video: Scott Morrison apologises to Brittany Higgins over parliament's 'long-standing culture of abuse'
>>15575052 Members of US Congress consider creating an "AUKUS caucus" to sharpen Washington's focus on the strategic military pact to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines
>>15583796 Abuse campaigner Brittany Higgins says Australia's prime minister apology not enough
>>15583919 Alexander Downer called Timor-Leste an 'open book' for Australia in 2000, tribunal hears - Former foreign affairs department officer says Downer made comment in private conversation years before bugging scandal

#15592178 at 2022-02-10 08:21:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

#20 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>15403917 Fears Australian writer Yang Hengjun could die in Chinese prison as medical condition worsens
>>15404139 Whip Tweet: Good to see everyone getting in on a water fight (Thumbs up) (Australia)
>>15412474 Billionaire Clive Palmer attempts a political comeback and runs for the senate in Queensland
>>15420667 Google doing 'everything in its power' to stop United Australia Party spreading misinformation
>>15427341 Australia, U.K. Work on Security Ties as China's Clout Grows
>>15455465 Hundreds of Western Australians reported feeling the ground move on morning of Jan 25, 2022 - 4.7 magnitude earthquake may not be peak of WA 'swarm'
>>15463520 Protests, citizenship festivities mark contentious Australia Day holiday
>>15471412 OZ Trucks To Canberra being organized on Telegram
>>15507808 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heading to Melbourne for meeting of Quad Foreign Ministers

>>15534400 Video: THE DEVIL'S WORK - Theft of human heads linked to 'satanic ritual' after remains go missing and letter to Satan is found at graveside - Footscray General Cemetery in Melbourne.
>>15534405 Video: Satanic ritual ruled-out as motive for stolen heads, while search for tomb raiders continues
>>15551303 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet with Australia, Japan and India in bid to counter China during Olympics
>>15559256 Defence Minister Peter Dutton Tweet: An important discussion yesterday with @Secdef to discuss continued progress in the #AUKUS partnership, our support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and mutual assistance to Tonga. #UnbreakableAlliance
>>15559256 United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Tweet: Good phone call yesterday with @PeterDutton_MP on issues facing our #UnbreakableAlliance. We discussed our strong cooperation to enhance a #FreeandOpenIndoPacific, forward momentum on implementing AUKUS, and our steadfast support for Ukraine against Russian aggression.
>>15559256 U.S. Department of Defense - Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call With Australian Minister of Defence Peter Dutton
>>15575034 Video: Scott Morrison apologises to Brittany Higgins over parliament's 'long-standing culture of abuse'
>>15575052 Members of US Congress consider creating an "AUKUS caucus" to sharpen Washington's focus on the strategic military pact to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines
>>15583796 Abuse campaigner Brittany Higgins says Australia's prime minister apology not enough
>>15583919 Alexander Downer called Timor-Leste an 'open book' for Australia in 2000, tribunal hears - Former foreign affairs department officer says Downer made comment in private conversation years before bugging scandal

#15575149 at 2022-02-08 08:10:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

>>15575102
Activist who demanded Scott Morrison be sent 'to the gallows' escorted into Parliament House by Craig Kelly

Andrew Greene - 8 February 2022

An Indigenous activist recently filmed calling for the execution of the Prime Minister has been escorted inside Parliament House by former government MP Craig Kelly.

The woman identified online as "Cindy" has joined hundreds of protesters who have rallied outside parliament and other Canberra buildings, calling for an end to vaccine mandates.

In a video posted online this week, the activist warned Scott Morrison "your time is coming - it's the gallows, it's the gallows, it's the gallows".

"When the people win this battle - it's the gallows," she repeated, pointing to the camera while standing outside the Governor-General's residence in Yarralumla.

During the minute-long video, "Cindy" also demands Governor-General David Hurley remove Mr Morrison from office.

"You need to come out and speak to the people, don't be a coward, come and speak to the people, do your job and stand down the 'Crime' Minister," she said.

Before Question Time on Wednesday, "Cindy" and six other protesters were able to enter Parliament House after being escorted into the building by a member of Craig Kelly's staff.

The group included activist Simeon Boikov, the leader of the "Australian Cossacks", a pro-Vladimir Putin organisation.

Once inside Mr Kelly's parliamentary office, the group produced an open letter to the Prime Minister, Opposition Leader and Speaker of the House of Representatives, calling for an end to various COVID-19 health measures.

Their list of demands included ending the state of emergency under the Biosecurity Act, ensuring all State and Territory borders remained open, and compensation for jobs lost due to vaccine mandates.

The ABC has contacted Craig Kelly's office for comment, while ACT Policing declined to say whether the threatening comments directed to the Prime Minister were being investigated.

"ACT Policing is aware of a range of views being expressed by protesters against elected officials, including non-specific threats to parliamentarians and high-office holders," a spokesperson said.

"Where specific credible threats are received, then formal investigations may occur.

"For obvious operational reasons, we do not confirm if a person is the subject of an ongoing police investigation."

Mr Kelly quit the Liberal Party in early 2021 to sit as an independent MP, but has since announced he will run as a candidate for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party at the upcoming federal election.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-08/craig-kelly-escort-activist-parliament-threat-scott-morrison/100814222

#15420667 at 2022-01-20 09:08:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

>>15412474
Google doing 'everything in its power' to stop United Australia Party spreading misinformation

Lisa Visentin - January 20, 2022

Google Australia claims it is doing all it can to stop Clive Palmer's United Australia Party from spreading misinformation on its platforms, despite accepting more than $100,000 dollars for political ads that it ultimately removed for breaching its advertising policies.

The UAP has spent almost $5 million on advertising on YouTube - owned by Google - since September, with Google's own transparency report showing it had removed four of the party's 57 video ads after they had run on the platform for between four and eleven days, collectively notching up millions of views in that time.

At a federal parliamentary inquiry into online safety, Labor MP Tim Watts questioned whether Google's policies were failing if Mr Palmer's UAP could promote misinformation with advertising funding.

"We certainly are doing everything in our power to stop him - and every other person who might propagate misinformation relating to COVID or other [misinformation] - on our platforms. We do not seek to profit from that information in our ad policies and our enforcement is in line with that," Google Australia executive Lucinda Longcraft said.

Asked by Mr Watts what action the platform was taking to stop a repeat of the situation, Ms Longcraft said the company was increasing the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems, saying: "we are rectifying those mistakes and taking all available action" to combat misinformation.

She defended the company's policy of not publishing transparent information about the details of any strikes issued against UAP or former Liberal MP Craig Kelly, who defected to the UAP last year, saying the vast majority of people who received warnings did not mean harm and were given the opportunity to correct their work.

Mr Palmer, who is unvaccinated, announced on Wednesday he would lead the party's Senate ticket in Queensland, vowing to run the most expensive political campaign in Australian history at the next federal election, exceeding the $80 million it spent in 2019. Mr Kelly is seeking re-election in his seat of Hughes.

UAP's advertising spend on YouTube accounts for more than 90 per cent of all political advertising on the platform in Australia, with the Australia Labor Party a distant second having spent just $90,450. UAP forked out more than $100,000 on three of the four since-pulled ads. Google's transparency report does not state which specific policies the ads breached, and it is unclear what the ads claimed.

In October, Therapeutic Goods Administration boss Professor John Skerritt wrote to YouTube and Facebook with a complaint about a United Australia Party ad that included incomplete extracts of a TGA adverse event report on COVID-19, saying it painted a "seriously misleading" picture of vaccine safety and requesting the platforms remove it. Mr Watts also wrote to Google Australia last year flagging a number of videos by Mr Kelly and UAP, and received a response from the company saying it had removed a number of videos featuring Mr Kelly, including ones relating to unproven COVID treatments hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

Mr Kelly, who is a member of the parliamentary inquiry and has campaigned against many public health measures during the pandemic, used his position on the committee to question whether YouTube was "causing harm" by denying people access to information recommending the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

"No Mr Kelly," Ms Longcraft said, adding "our policies are devised in close consultation … with experts in different fields in which they are applied."

Mr Kelly posed similar questions to executives from Meta, formerly Facebook, which last year permanently banned him from their platform for breaching its misinformation policies, as well as TikTok executives.

"We don't allow people to make definitive claims about alternative treatments or cures, so that can includes claims that hydroxychloroquine is able to cure COVID," Meta's head of public policy in Australia Josh Machin said.

Julie de Bailliencourt, TikTok's head of product policy, said the platform's governing community guidelines were regularly updated based on expert advice.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/google-doing-everything-in-its-power-to-stop-united-australia-party-spreading-misinformation-20220120-p59pqh.html

#15412474 at 2022-01-19 08:56:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

Billionaire Clive Palmer attempts a political comeback and runs for the senate in Queensland

LYDIA LYNCH - JANUARY 19, 2022

Billionaire Clive Palmer has announced he will run for the Australian senate at the upcoming federal election.

The businessman and former federal MP will lead the Queensland ticket for his United Australia Party, putting himself in direct competition with Pauline Hanson and former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.

"We are very confident we will win senate seats in Queensland," Mr Palmer said.

"In February we will commence the largest and most extensive political campaign in the nation's history."

Mr Palmer said he would spare no expense to secure seats, having dished out a record $83 million at the 2019 election.

Despite the multimillion-dollar spend, the party did not win a single seat and secured 3.5 per cent of the national vote.

"Our objective at the last election was to ensure Bill Shorten did not become Prime Minister ... we got exactly what we wanted.

"The reason I've come back into politics and taken a key role at this important time is because of the state of the nation.

"I'd like to be on my boat but I'm not, I'm in this situation."

The senate team also includes former Deloitte Australia chief executive Domenic Martino in NSW and property executive Ralph Babet in Victoria.

Liberal defector and federal MP Craig Kelly will continue to lead the UAP's raft of House of Representatives candidates.

Mr Palmer, who said he is not vaccinated against Covid-19 because he does not believe he needs one, vows to flout public health orders if they impede his campaign efforts.

In Queensland, people must be double vaccinated to visit hospitals, pubs, restaurants, state parliament, stadiums and tourist experiences.

"We will not let (mandates) stop us, that is another game of repression that the government takes," Mr Palmer said.

"It might stop a lot of people without money.

"I have enough money to pay for lawyers who love doing these things, that is their business, they enjoy it."

While double-vaccination is not needed to enter hotels, Mr Palmer said he ignored mandatory check-in requirements at the Hyatt Regency Brisbane where he held his press conference on Wednesday morning.

"The High Court has made it very clear that the freedom of political communication in this country is protected by the constitution and if anyone gets in the way of that there will be a court order against them."

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/billionaire-Clive-Palmer-attempts-a-political-comeback-and-runs-for-the-senate-in-queensland/news-story/c2c57bb81777792eaf52cd45ce4a724e

#15175297 at 2021-12-11 09:56:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

#19 - Part 19
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide - Part 2
>>14989074 Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Protest organiser Karen Brewer arrested for breach of bail
>>14995387 Video: Australian Football League Covid news - Vaccine-hesitant Carlton defender Liam Jones announces his retirement
>>14995454 Young children unlikely to be vaccinated against COVID until 2022, Health Minister Greg Hunt says
>>15010021 Victorian government agrees to changes to proposed pandemic bill as protests continue
>>15033557 Kevin Rudd Tweet: Video: Premier Andrews is right to call out Morrison's offensive courting of political extremists at the expense of ordinary law-abiding Australians. Whether it's far-right radicals, anti-vaxxers or the QAnon cult. Just appalling.
>>15042123 Melbourne's 'freedom' protest fever spreads across the country
>>15042135 Prominent 'freedom' protesters back Craig Kelly and Clive Palmer
>>15046333 Video: ENORMOUS Protests Across Australia: Compilation Of Massive Rallies From Perth, Melbourne, Sydney+++ - Tim Truth
>>15054022 Australia to reopen to foreign visa holders in bid to revive economy
>>15061072 Gladys Berejiklian reacts after NSW Health advice on Sydney lockdown released

>>15081800 Australia's border to remain open to South Africa despite emergence of new Covid variant
>>15086604 Video: WHO classifies South Africa COVID strain as variant 'of concern', names it Omicron
>>15086619, >>15086626 Video: Government introduces bans on Africa travel over new Omicron COVID variant
>>15087495 South African traveller in Howard Springs quarantine tested for new Omicron COVID variant, as Katherine moves from lockdown to lockout
>>15087660 More border bans flagged as Omicron variant alarms chief health officers
>>15092331 Video: Tourism Minister Dan Tehan won't rule out tougher international travel restrictions; fears Omicron has landed in Australia
>>15092340 Two returned travellers from southern Africa test positive to omicron Covid variant in NSW
>>15094387 Omicron - New, highly transmissible strain of virus arrives in Australia
>>15098064 Video: National Cabinet to meet to discuss COVID-19 Omicron variant, whether to reinstate hotel quarantine
>>15098077 Video: COVID-19 vaccine booster time frame to be reviewed after Omicron variant detected in Australia

#15175262 at 2021-12-11 09:35:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

#19 - Part 19
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide - Part 2
>>14989074 Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Protest organiser Karen Brewer arrested for breach of bail
>>14995387 Video: Australian Football League Covid news - Vaccine-hesitant Carlton defender Liam Jones announces his retirement
>>14995454 Young children unlikely to be vaccinated against COVID until 2022, Health Minister Greg Hunt says
>>15010021 Victorian government agrees to changes to proposed pandemic bill as protests continue
>>15033557 Kevin Rudd Tweet: Video: Premier Andrews is right to call out Morrison's offensive courting of political extremists at the expense of ordinary law-abiding Australians. Whether it's far-right radicals, anti-vaxxers or the QAnon cult. Just appalling.
>>15042123 Melbourne's 'freedom' protest fever spreads across the country
>>15042135 Prominent 'freedom' protesters back Craig Kelly and Clive Palmer
>>15046333 Video: ENORMOUS Protests Across Australia: Compilation Of Massive Rallies From Perth, Melbourne, Sydney+++ - Tim Truth
>>15054022 Australia to reopen to foreign visa holders in bid to revive economy
>>15061072 Gladys Berejiklian reacts after NSW Health advice on Sydney lockdown released

>>15081800 Australia's border to remain open to South Africa despite emergence of new Covid variant
>>15086604 Video: WHO classifies South Africa COVID strain as variant 'of concern', names it Omicron
>>15086619, >>15086626 Video: Government introduces bans on Africa travel over new Omicron COVID variant
>>15087495 South African traveller in Howard Springs quarantine tested for new Omicron COVID variant, as Katherine moves from lockdown to lockout
>>15087660 More border bans flagged as Omicron variant alarms chief health officers
>>15092331 Video: Tourism Minister Dan Tehan won't rule out tougher international travel restrictions; fears Omicron has landed in Australia
>>15092340 Two returned travellers from southern Africa test positive to omicron Covid variant in NSW
>>15094387 Omicron - New, highly transmissible strain of virus arrives in Australia
>>15098064 Video: National Cabinet to meet to discuss COVID-19 Omicron variant, whether to reinstate hotel quarantine
>>15098077 Video: COVID-19 vaccine booster time frame to be reviewed after Omicron variant detected in Australia

#15087552 at 2021-11-27 08:25:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

>>15087527
'Freedom' rally fills Melbourne's streets again to protest vaccine mandates

Tom Cowie and Ashleigh McMillan - November 27, 2021

Colourful, vocal but peaceful demonstrators took over Melbourne's streets on Saturday, marching through the CBD to condemn vaccination mandates, pandemic legislation and other health measures introduced by the Andrews government.

Victoria Police estimated there were about 20,000 protesters, who chanted, waved flags, banged drums and blew horns as they marched from the steps of State Parliament through the CBD and then back to Treasury Gardens.

There was a noticeable presence of Aboriginal flags at the rally after some of the anti-lockdown groups behind the protest circulated misinformation online, falsely claiming that ADF personnel were forcibly vaccinating Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.

During his Welcome to Country, Djab Wurrung man Zellanach Djab Mara said there was "satanic warfare" occurring in Victoria.

"I'm pro-choice, it doesn't matter to me if you've been vaccinated or not... that's your choice," he said. "Don't worry about shutting Dan Andrews down, shut the whole system down."

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson spoke at a corresponding protest on the Gold Coast, telling the crowd she would make Prime Minister Scott Morrison a "lame duck" in federal Parliament until his government overruled state vaccine mandates.

A Sydney event, addressed by former Liberal MP Craig Kelly, also drew thousands of people.

The rallies were promoted under the name Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccines and followed a similar-sized event last week, which organisers claimed drew a crowd in the hundreds of thousands.

At one point, the demonstration stretched out all the way along Bourke Street, Queen Street and Flinders Street, bringing traffic in surrounding roads to a standstill. People carried signs with slogans such as "my body, my choice", "kill the bill" and "sack Dan Andrews". Others alluded to QAnon conspiracy theories.

Some placards displayed Bible verses, including one that read "why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith". Underneath the sign, a man wheeled a speaker playing a speech by Martin Luther King.

"I used to live in a Communist country before I came here from Croatia," said one protester carrying a statue of the Virgin Mary on his shoulders, "and this is much worse than that."

Linda and Andrew Chan said they had joined the crowd because they opposed vaccination mandates as well as plans to inoculate those under the age of 12.

While the pair said they are both fully vaccinated - with Ms Chan working as a nurse - they felt it was unfair that people were unable to retain employment or go out to dinner if they do not have two jabs.

"I'm against people being forced to take it just to be able to work," Ms Chan said.

Vaccination mandates were a common reason for people joining the protest.

Geelong school teacher Karni, who did not wish to give her last name, said she had lost her job because she didn't want to get the vaccine.

"We think it's our freedom of choice to what we put in our body," she said.

Bob, another protester who declined to give his last name, said he had attended the past three demonstrations, driving from East Gippsland.

"I can't go and buy a pair of shoes because I haven't had the government sponsored injection," he said.

"And if I want to go to Bunnings I've got to line up with a checkpoint and share my government approved paperwork. Get stuffed, get stuffed. We don't live in that kind of society."

Connie Maruna from Taylors Lakes said she was not against all vaccines but she did not believe the COVID-19 jab had been properly researched.

"The reason that I'm here is that I believe that the Victorian government has really excessively used their power," she said.

Jackie Dundee, a key figure in the anti-lockdown movement, told the crowd the pandemic was "not about our health, it's about totalitarian control".

"Both the federal and state governments have gone beyond their legislative powers," she said.

"We have got to implement protections for our children."

In Sydney, thousands of people gathered at Hyde Park to hear from former Liberal MP Craig Kelly, who spoke out against vaccination passports.

"Thank you to this great crowd for being part of Australian history," said Mr Kelly, who plans to stand as a candidate for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party.

"The Prime Minister [Scott Morrison] can end this discrimination, end vaccine passports, in Parliament. But he doesn't."

Mr Kelly said UAP supporters would "blast them all out" - referring to the federal government - at the next election.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/freedom-rally-fills-melbourne-s-streets-again-to-protest-vaccine-mandates-20211127-p59cq3.html

#15042136 at 2021-11-20 09:04:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

>>15042135

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Associate Professor Debra Smith from Victoria University, who specialises in extremist politics, said the effect of the mainstreaming of fringe politics was more concerning than seats in Parliament.

"The concern is around the approach to undermine trust in political systems, and essentially trying to actually critique the very system of democracy rather than work with it," she said.

"If they do get elected then they actually have to work with the system - and in a way that moderates the protest - but what we're seeing is this whipping up of this so-called 'end day' that we all have to stand up against. This doomsday rhetoric is existent through all extremist movements over history."

Mr Jonas' political bid comes a month after his fiancee Ms Smit announced her organisation no longer had plans to run as a political party and would throw its support behind Palmer's United Australia Party instead.

Ms Smit has an international following, recently appearing on prominent far-right American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' online show and released an "SOS" video where she called for countries to put economic pressure on Australia for its lockdown measures.

In a video explaining her decision last month to merge Reignite Democracy Australia with Mr Palmer's party, Ms Smit said Mr Kelly had been a mentor for her as far back as last November while he was still a Liberal MP.

"We've been in constant communication," she said.

She said while she "loved" Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts, Mr Palmer's party was "just gaining a lot more momentum", and said joining UAP was a relief as it had more resources than her own organisation.

"Now that Craig Kelly and Clive Palmer are creating so much momentum with UAP. It just seems it seems like RDA Party became just kind of not as important."

Ms Smit said her organisation could support other small parties, in addition to the UAP.

"My message [to my followers] is I don't care who you vote for, as long as you don't vote for the majors," she said, warning Mr Palmer against sending preferences to the LNP.

"If Clive Palmer preferences the Liberals, he will lose a lot of support from his current audience," she said.

ABC election analyst Antony Green said it was unclear how the toxic week in Victorian politics, which has included threats aimed at MPs, would affect the lead-up to the federal election.

"I'm not sure how this will play out, I don't think the Prime Minister does either," he said. "Clive Palmer's been running a very strange anti-vaccination campaign, given we're talking about 90 per cent vaccination rates in this country."

"Last Queensland election in 2020 Palmer got virtually no votes pushing an anti-vaccine message," he said. "Legalise Cannabis got more than him with a fraction the budget."

Mr Green said Palmer's preferences were split down the middle for Labor and Liberal at the 2013 election, while last in 2019 he campaigned "ferociously" against Labor.

He said UAP's messaging was more important than who it preferenced on its how to vote cards.

"Most people never see their how to vote card - what matters is the message [UAP] get across," Mr Green said.

A spokesman for the United Australia Party said the party had more than 80,000 members, claiming it was "the largest political membership in the country" and was undertaking vetting and police checks of nominated candidates.

"We haven't decided on preferences just yet, but we have said that you can't trust the Liberals, the Labor Party or the Greens."

He would not reveal when endorsed candidates would be made public.

Mr Kelly did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/freedom-protest-influencers-back-craig-kelly-and-Clive-Palmer-20211117-p599oy.html

#15042135 at 2021-11-20 09:03:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

>>14988985
Prominent 'freedom' protesters back Craig Kelly and Clive Palmer

Rachael Dexter - November 20, 2021

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Some of Australia's most prominent "freedom" activists involved in the protests unfolding in Melbourne plan to stand for election alongside former Liberal MP Craig Kelly as candidates for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party.

A number of figures from the "freedom" movement - including one accused of inciting protests during Melbourne's lockdown - have also directed their support and large social media following to support Mr Kelly, who joined the billionaire mining magnate's party after quitting the Liberals in February.

Mr Palmer's party has received more than 1500 nominations for all 151 lower house seats and all Senate seats, and one political expert has forecast that the UAP could hold the balance of power in the event of a hung Parliament at next year's federal election.

NSW-based Mr Kelly, who quit the Liberals after being reprimanded for propagating unsubstantiated claims about COVID-19 and vaccines, has been campaigning hard in lockdown-fatigued Victoria in recent months.

Protests in Victoria are currently focused on the state government's pandemic bill, which would transfer public health powers from the chief health officer to the premier and health minister. Critics say the powers are too far-reaching and do not allow for proper parliamentary scrutiny of decisions.

Morgan C Jonas, a well-known social media personality in the protest movement and partner of Reignite Democracy Australia founder Monica Smit, is the most high-profile right-wing protester to announce his political plans with UAP.

"What we need is for real Aussies like you and me to get involved in politics. That is why I recently submitted my candidate application for the United Australia Party," Mr Jonas announced to thousands gathered at last Saturday's rally in Melbourne's CBD.

Mr Jonas said if he was endorsed he would "make it my personal business" to have "criminals like Daniel Andrews, Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt" removed from office.

"Who here is willing to roll their sleeves up and do anything it takes to secure the future of this country?" he called on the crowd, which cheered. "Who is willing to take action, get boots on the ground and play a role in getting them removed?"

Mr Kelly, who was appointed leader of United Australia Party in August, addressed the crowd alongside Mr Jonas last weekend, urging the crowd to help "kill the bill", referring to the Andrews government's proposed pandemic legislation and claimed he would "bring (Victorian Premier) Daniel Andrews to his knees".

Mr Jonas rejected any suggestions he was anti-vax, far-right or peddled conspiracy theories on his webcast which streams four nights a week and has featured guests, including Mr Kelly and Sunshine GP Dr Mark Hobart who is currently under investigation for issuing false vaccine exemptions.

"I've got nothing against people taking the jab, but I'm strongly opposed to coercion, threats and mandates," he told The Age.

Ms Smit stands accused of inciting people via social media by encouraging them to attend anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne in August, including ones where police were injured - two criminal charges of inciting others to contravene the Chief Health Officer's directions and three counts of failing to comply with a Chief Health Officer direction.

She is fighting the charges and her next court appearance is slated for February next year.

Other right-wing 'freedom' activists who have been campaigning against the bill, which is now stalled in the Victorian upper house, have been promoting Mr Kelly or UAP to their large followings. They include Avi Yemeni, Mel Ciechanowicz also known as Mel Ann, Fanos Panayides, Romeo Georges, Dave O'Neegs and Simeon Boikov aka 'Aussie Cossack'.

Christos Harisopoulo, a 53-year-old semi-retiree from Melbourne's west who is known in online circles for his satirical "Senator Papahatziharalambrous" character, also confirmed to The Age he had submitted his application to run for UAP. He said his concerns were for "loss of freedoms and medical segregation" and mandatory vaccines, but said he did not believe in QAnon conspiracies, as others within the movement did.

Greg Barton, professor of politics at Deakin University, said the UAP's courting of fringe groups could prove a successful tactic in the event of a hung Parliament but would no doubt influence the entire political debate.

"It might be that some of these independents ended up in Parliament or it may be that it shapes the Coalition and their rhetoric," he said. "UAPs preferences are likely to flow to the Coalition."

(continued)

#15042125 at 2021-11-20 08:49:48 (UTC+1)
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>>15042123

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Similar rallies were held in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, and Darwin today, as well as a number of regional cities.

Thousands have poured into the streets in Perth, while in Brisbane similar numbers turned out to criticise Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the COVID vaccine mandate, and the media.

One protester yelled at the rally held in the CBD's Botanic Gardens "hang the bitch" when the speaker began talking about Ms Palaszczuk.

In Sydney, Mr Kelly whipped up the crowd over vaccine mandates.

"When we have governments that adopt vaccine passports we are no longer free. The idea that you could lose your job because you have not engaged to take an experimental vaccine that has zero long-term safety data is a disgrace and an abuse of human rights," he said. The Premier and the Prime Minister included are engaged in a breach of Australians human rights."

This was greeted with chants of "sack them all, sack them all'" from the crowd.

Last weekend's Melbourne CBD rally attracted at least 10,000 people. The anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine mandate rallies have been held weekly for months.

Lee Smit - the mother of Monica Smit, the founder of right-wing lobby group Re-ignite Democracy which has teamed up Craig Kelly to promote Clive Palmer's United Australia Party, held a one-minute prayer with the crowd.

She addressed the crowd on behalf of her daughter, who is unable to attend protests due to her bail conditions over charges of incitement from a protest earlier this year.

Ms Smit called on "Christians here to unite" against "communists", and said the numbers seen on the streets in Melbourne today were her daughter's "vision and dream".

As in previous weeks, Saturday's large crowd in Melbourne is a mix of young, old and families from different backgrounds. Common chants are "Sack Dan Andrews", "Jail Dan Andrews", "Free Victoria" and "Save Our Children" (the latter referring to the crowd's opposition to the vaccination of children).

Protesters were lambasted by politicians this week for bringing makeshift gallows and nooses to their rallies, but Saturday's rally saw no violence.

The counter 'anti-fascist' rally of hundreds of people circled other parts of the city holding signs including "90%+ vaxxed and free" and "don't scab, get the jab" with chants attacking "anti-vaxxers" and "Nazis".

Victorian Greens Leader Samantha Ratnam and Reason Party Leader Fiona Patten both endorsed the counter event.

Rally spokesperson Nahui Jimenez said that the protest was aimed at showing solidarity with the health measures used during the pandemic, including vaccinations.

"We're here to send a pro-health message," she said. "We're also here to stand in opposition to far-right ideas."

The counter rally crowd chanted "we'll be back" at the end of the rally and organisers said they would continue to demonstrate against the far right in the coming weeks.

The crowd was told to take off any overtly political clothing when leaving to avoid a confrontation with the anti-lockdown rally.

Both Ms Ratnam and Ms Patten have been in the news this week as the government works to convince crossbenchers to support its bill - a bill that would transfer public health powers from the chief health officer to the premier and health minister.

Critics say the powers are too far-reaching and do not allow for proper parliamentary scrutiny of decisions.

Saturday's protest comes after a week of at times toxic rhetoric around Premier Daniel Andrews and his government's legislation, with home addresses of MPs shared in encrypted chat groups as well as threats of violence against the Premier.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/thousands-take-to-melbourne-s-cbd-in-separate-pandemic-law-protest-and-counter-rally-20211120-p59al2.html

#15042123 at 2021-11-20 08:49:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

>>14988985
Melbourne's 'freedom' protest fever spreads across the country

Rachael Dexter, Melissa Cunningham and Tom Cowie - November 20, 2021

1/2

Tens of thousands of anti-government "freedom" protesters have taken to the streets across the country, with the largest turnout in Melbourne, where tens of thousands railed against COVID-19 vaccines, Premier Daniel Andrews and the government's now-stalled controversial pandemic bill.

As Sydney crowds chanted "Kelly, Kelly, Kelly", former Liberal MP Craig Kelly yelled unsubstantiated claims about "experimental vaccines" while billionaire Clive Palmer told Brisbane crowds he'd rather "go out of business" than listen to vaccine advice from Queensland's premier, who he called 'Palachook'.

"Our rights don't come from Daniel Andrews. Our rights don't come from Mark McGowan, our rights don't come from Palachook. And you know there's no chook like a Palachook," he told the crowd.

"Our freedom doesn't come from Scott Morrison. Our freedom doesn't come from Anthony Albanese and our freedom certainly doesn't come from Barnaby Joyce."

The Age revealed on Saturday that Mr Kelly has recruited a number of key figures in the right-wing "freedom" movement for Clive Palmer's party.

Independent Victorian MP Catherine Cumming, who is one of the crossbenchers in discussions with the state government trying to pass its pandemic legislation, was among a number of speakers to address the Melbourne crowd.

She sarcastically goaded Premier Daniel Andrews over his criticism of the protests this week for their far-right elements after gallows were paraded in front of Parliament House and he was the subject of death threats.

"So fascists are we Daniel? Am I a Nazi, am I Daniel?" Dr Cumming said to the crowd who laughed and cheered.

"No matter how much misinformation and propaganda you put out there, Victoria is going to win."

Dr Cumming has appeared regularly at the anti-government protests and has been promoting them online.

She railed against the vaccination of children with a COVID-19 jab and claimed Mr Andrews was "coming after her children".

The vaccines approved for use in Australia have strong scientific backing as being both safe and effective in preventing COVID-19.

"I want to make this very clear, Daniel, when you come after my children you come after every single Victorian," Dr Cumming said. "We are together as a freedom family… Good luck Mr Andrews."

A much smaller counter 'anti-fascist' rally of several hundred came out for the first time in Melbourne in opposition to the anti-Andrews government crowd. The Age has seen video of one physical skirmish in which police separated counter-protesters and right-wing activist Avi Yemeni.

"Despite significant numbers in attendance, the protest was peaceful with only one arrest made," a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.

Melbourne's rallies came at the end of a toxic week in state politics as Premier Daniel Andrews attempted and failed to pass the pandemic bill that would replace Victoria's State of Emergency and empower the premier and health minister of the day to declare pandemics and enforce health directions, instead of the chief health officer.

The Andrews government will have to wait until the final sitting week of the year to try and pass its controversial legislation through Parliament as a week of drama ended in an impasse.

Aerial footage showed there was upwards of 10,000 people at the anti-government protest, which began at State Parliament. Organisers claimed 450,000 people came to protest but no crowd counts were supplied for protests by Victoria Police or any other authorities.

The protesters are a loose collective of many sub-groups who oppose vaccine-mandates and passports.

Among them are the hard religious right and Qanon conspiracy followers - as well as many families and people who have lost work for refusing to take a COVID jab. In Victoria the movement has been catalysed this week by opposition to the pandemic bill which is currently stalled in the upper house.

(continued)

#14789304 at 2021-10-15 08:58:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

#18 - Part 1
Australian Politics and Society - Part 1
>>14385947 Video: Peter Dutton warns the Taliban: The world is watching Afghanistan
>>14386058 Video: Afghanistan rescue flight carrying Australians lands in UAE, with more Kabul evacuation missions planned
>>14389239 Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority must rewrite draft curriculum: Alan Tudge - "draft diminishes Australia's western, liberal, and democratic values"
>>14395372 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Tweet: Here Comes the Boom! #USMC High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division fire rockets during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 on Shoalwater Bay Training Area, #Australia.
>>14395401 Department of Defence Tweet: #YourADF & @USMC & sailors of @MrfDarwin will enter a fictitious contested area of operations under a combined command throughout August. Exercise Koolendong is the most integrated, realistic, high-end activity conducted in MRF-D's 10-year history.
>>14395405 Soldiers and marines prepare for training: Exercise Koolendong 2021 - Captain Carla Armenti - defence.gov.au
>>14395486 Peter Dutton suggests some Afghans who worked with Australia have 'shifted allegiances', gone on to work for the Taliban and al-Qaeda
>>14395498 Former Prime Minister John Howard: Donald Trump cannot escape blame for Afghanistan crisis
>>14404893 ABC Media Watch Tweet: Video - ABC's satanic slip-up. What was going on here?
>>14404893 ABC Media Watch Tweet: Video - It appears the footage came from this Noosa Temple of Satan livestream (8.00 mark) - Everyone Welcome to our Satanic Black Mass at Noosa - 30 October 2020
>>14404893 ABC Media Watch Tweet: They've been in the media recently: Devil in the detail as satanists' fight with Education Dept hits Supreme Court

>>14404893 Q Post #1432 - Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
>>14404893 Q Post #1432 - ''"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
- 1 Cor 13:4-13''
>>14411454 Shocking new TV investigation shows why Australia should be on red alert for the next neo-Nazi mass slaughter
>>14412582 Video: Unmasking an international neo-Nazi group's Australian recruiter, Matthew Golos
>>14412603 From kickboxing to Adolf Hitler: the neo-Nazi plan to recruit angry young men - An unprecedented look inside Australia's radical fringe and their deep links to violent international groups
>>14414104 Australia in the US Tweet: Ambassador @A_Sinodinos & Embassy Defence personnel visited @LockheedMartin's Huntsville, Alabama facility yesterday. They had productive discussions on space & Lockheed's plans to support Australia's sovereign guided weapons establishment. #USwithAus
>>14414434 Video: MAJOR INVESTIGATION: Targeting Australia's largest neo-Nazi group - 60 Minutes Australia
>>14421203 More than 300 people evacuated from Kabul airport on four RAAF flights
>>14434031 Shameful Afghanistan retreat has shaken my faith in America - Alexander Downer - afr.com
>>14434058 Rogue crossbencher Craig Kelly to run with Clive Palmer's United Australia Party at the next election
>>14434139 Video: ADF supports Afghanistan evacuees - Department of Defence Australia

#14789210 at 2021-10-15 08:33:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

#18 - Part 1
Australian Politics and Society - Part 1
>>14385947 Video: Peter Dutton warns the Taliban: The world is watching Afghanistan
>>14386058 Video: Afghanistan rescue flight carrying Australians lands in UAE, with more Kabul evacuation missions planned
>>14389239 Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority must rewrite draft curriculum: Alan Tudge - "draft diminishes Australia's western, liberal, and democratic values"
>>14395372 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Tweet: Here Comes the Boom! #USMC High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division fire rockets during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 on Shoalwater Bay Training Area, #Australia.
>>14395401 Department of Defence Tweet: #YourADF & @USMC & sailors of @MrfDarwin will enter a fictitious contested area of operations under a combined command throughout August. Exercise Koolendong is the most integrated, realistic, high-end activity conducted in MRF-D's 10-year history.
>>14395405 Soldiers and marines prepare for training: Exercise Koolendong 2021 - Captain Carla Armenti - defence.gov.au
>>14395486 Peter Dutton suggests some Afghans who worked with Australia have 'shifted allegiances', gone on to work for the Taliban and al-Qaeda
>>14395498 Former Prime Minister John Howard: Donald Trump cannot escape blame for Afghanistan crisis
>>14404893 ABC Media Watch Tweet: Video - ABC's satanic slip-up. What was going on here?
>>14404893 ABC Media Watch Tweet: Video - It appears the footage came from this Noosa Temple of Satan livestream (8.00 mark) - Everyone Welcome to our Satanic Black Mass at Noosa - 30 October 2020
>>14404893 ABC Media Watch Tweet: They've been in the media recently: Devil in the detail as satanists' fight with Education Dept hits Supreme Court

>>14404893 Q Post #1432 - Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
>>14404893 Q Post #1432 - ''"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
- 1 Cor 13:4-13''
>>14411454 Shocking new TV investigation shows why Australia should be on red alert for the next neo-Nazi mass slaughter
>>14412582 Video: Unmasking an international neo-Nazi group's Australian recruiter, Matthew Golos
>>14412603 From kickboxing to Adolf Hitler: the neo-Nazi plan to recruit angry young men - An unprecedented look inside Australia's radical fringe and their deep links to violent international groups
>>14414104 Australia in the US Tweet: Ambassador @A_Sinodinos & Embassy Defence personnel visited @LockheedMartin's Huntsville, Alabama facility yesterday. They had productive discussions on space & Lockheed's plans to support Australia's sovereign guided weapons establishment. #USwithAus
>>14414434 Video: MAJOR INVESTIGATION: Targeting Australia's largest neo-Nazi group - 60 Minutes Australia
>>14421203 More than 300 people evacuated from Kabul airport on four RAAF flights
>>14434031 Shameful Afghanistan retreat has shaken my faith in America - Alexander Downer - afr.com
>>14434058 Rogue crossbencher Craig Kelly to run with Clive Palmer's United Australia Party at the next election
>>14434139 Video: ADF supports Afghanistan evacuees - Department of Defence Australia

#14434058 at 2021-08-23 08:10:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

Rogue crossbencher Craig Kelly to run with Clive Palmer's United Australia Party at the next election

RICHARD FERGUSON - AUGUST 23, 2021

Rogue crossbench MP Craig Kelly will run as billionaire Clive Palmer's lead candidate at the next election, promising to push an "alternative narrative" about lockdowns and lead the charge in all 150 federal seats.

Mr Kelly - who left the Liberal Party in February over his support for unorthodox coronavirus treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine - will stay on to fight his NSW seat of Hughes under Mr Palmer's United Australia Party banner.

But in a major shake-up, Mr Kelly will become leader of the UAP and Mr Palmer will act in a behind-the-scenes role as party chairman, as the billionaire promises to fight both Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese over lockdowns and Covid-19 vaccinations.

Mr Kelly said on Monday that he will lead the UAP into the next election and run candidates in all 150 seats, and Mr Palmer will not run himself.

"With endless authoritarian lockdowns ... I no longer recognise the country grew up in," Mr Kelly said in a statement.

"And this is all happening on my watch. Someone must lead a fightback. I have therefore decided to accept the offer, to lead the United Australia Party into the next election.

"The United Australia Party will be fighting to end the lockdowns and offer an alternate approach to the current mayhem and destruction that the Labor and Liberal parties have jointly created."

Mr Kelly told The Australian before his announcement that the UAP campaign will be "very well-financed", and Mr Palmer will act as the UAP's party chairman.

With Mr Kelly now representing the UAP in parliament, the Palmer-backed outfit will now be free to run any candidates without having to meet strict new membership numbers set out in new Morrison government electoral reform laws now in front of the House and senate.

The Hughes MP had to have his preselection secured by both the Prime Minister and Malcolm Turnbull in previous preselections, but ultimately abandoned the government over its refusal to support unsupported treatments for Covid-19.

The Australian revealed Mr Kelly and Mr Palmer were in talks to join forces last May after the billionaire was seen walking the halls of parliament with the Hughes MP, and Mr Palmer said he stood ready to bankroll his campaign to keep his seat.

The Queensland tycoon has promised legal action against any federal policies which further push Covid-19 vaccinations and he failed in a High Court bid to bring down Western Australia's hard Covid-19 border.

Mr Palmer is readying to repeat his advertising blitz against Labor in the 2019 election, credited with damaging Bill Shorten's hopes of winning power, with a cashed-up campaign against both major parties.

Multiple sources have told The Australian Mr Palmer intended to specifically target Mr Dutton, who played a key role in overhauling the LNP's hierarchy at the weekend's LNP state convention.

Close ties between Mr Palmer and former high-ranking members of the LNP's organisational wing were at the centre of internal debate ahead of the purge led by Mr Dutton and state Opposition Leader David Crisafulli.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/rogue-crossbencher-craig-kelly-to-run-with-Clive-Palmers-united-australia-party-at-the-next-election/news-story/8f5d80211ca22ca2f9b3670b67b990e1

#13741324 at 2021-05-24 09:26:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition

#15 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>13508222 Video: Mike Pompeo has 'kept his cards close' when quizzed on political ambitions - Sky News Australia
>>13515179 Top US general pays his respects to Anzac Day in Washington - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley Mark Milley
>>13515184 Arthur Sinodinos AO Tweet: Honour to host #ANZACDay dawn service with @NZAmbassadorUS Banks and to welcome Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff #GenMilley to the Residence
>>13515203 The Joint Staff Tweet: #GenMilley: "On this #ANZACDay, we honor the sacrifices of our Australian and New Zealand brothers and sisters in arms. We are proud to have the honor of serving shoulder to shoulder with you."
>>13515223 Australia in the US Tweet: We thank those who joined us virtually in honouring our #Anzacs. We are privileged to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice and thank those that continue to bravely protect our freedom.
>>13515232 Australia in the US Tweet: Today our Air & Space Attache conducted a small #AnzacDay ceremony at @ArlingtonNatl. They laid a wreath at the gravesite of PLTOFF Francis Milne - the only Australian military member buried at the Cemetery.
>>13515254 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Tweet: Lest We Forget - Originally done to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps forces from World War I, #AnzacDay2021 recognizes the men and women who served in the Australian and New Zealand armed services in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations
>>13515260 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: With the Northern Territory remaining free of COVID transmission within the community, Marines were able to participate in today's events to show respects to their fallen, former, and active members.
>>13515399 Neo-Nazis make submission to Parliamentary inquiry into extremism
>>13517935 Social media is work of 'evil one', says Scott Morrison

>>13522489 Video: Exclusive: Prime Minister Scott Morrison's speech at the ACC conference - Rationalists Australia
>>13532829 Video: Kevin Rudd on religion, politics and Scott Morrison's speech to the Pentecostal conference - Kevin Rudd
>>13539434 Senior Democrat John Podesta: Quad will demand Australia does more on climate change
>>13539440 Rekindling Hope Podcast - Sam Crosby and Chris Bowen - Washington power broker John Podesta on how Biden is traveling and how Australia's climate policy needs to lift its game
>>13539655 Video: Spy boss Mike Burgess says ASIO anticipating terrorist attack in the next year from either right-wing or Islamic extremists
>>13539665 Australian Federal Police backs ban on flags linked to terrorist groups, sharing of extremist material
>>13539771 Pacific Marines Tweet: @USMC with @mrfdarwin conduct flight operations during a forward arming refueling point exercise at @ausairforce Base Darwin
>>13539779 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Yesterday, the Honorable Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, met with members of the Australian Army and U.S. Marine Corps for a visit to Robertson Barracks, NT, Australia
>>13547962 President Joe Biden could learn from Australia on border policy, says Former US ambassador Joe Hockey
>>13548052 Video: Clive Palmer to pay $1.5 million after losing Twisted Sister copyright fight

>>13553273 Video: Don't give in to identity politics and forces that undermine the community, Scott Morrison urges
>>13553300 PM's plea from the heart a timely reminder - "every human being is possessed of an innate human dignity that transcends all other considerations"
>>13553469 Future of Army's multi-billion-dollar Battle Management System uncertain amid tensions with Israeli military company
>>13553502 Elbit Battle Management System shut down - "The more research into this decision undertaken, the stranger it gets. No notice. No reason given."
>>13554042 Japan honors former Australian PM Gillard for service to the nation - awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
>>13555102 Scott Morrison's partisan interpretation of biblical passages is disturbing for democracy - Kevin Rudd - theguardian.com
>>13555694 Facebook's assault exposes Australia's vulnerability, says top ex-military man Major General Marcus Thompson - INFORMATION WARFARE
>>13556296 In Memorium - Dutch patriot Mrs NarQie - "A great patriot has passed away but we will continue her fight! - WWG1WGA - Mrs. NarQie o7"
>>13569454 Video: Noosa Temple of Satan want Satanism taught in state schools - A Current Affair
>>13569460 Q Post #1646 - NEVER IN OUR HISTORY HAVE THEY COME OUT FROM THE SHADOWS TO FIGHT. THE TRUTH IS CLEARLY VISIBLE.
>>13569460 Q Post #4461 - Only when evil is forced into the light can we defeat it. Only when they can no longer operate in the [shadows] can people see the truth for themselves.
>>13569460 Q Post #4396 - God wins.

#13741248 at 2021-05-24 08:59:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition

#15 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>13508222 Video: Mike Pompeo has 'kept his cards close' when quizzed on political ambitions - Sky News Australia
>>13515179 Top US general pays his respects to Anzac Day in Washington - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley Mark Milley
>>13515184 Arthur Sinodinos AO Tweet: Honour to host #ANZACDay dawn service with @NZAmbassadorUS Banks and to welcome Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff #GenMilley to the Residence
>>13515203 The Joint Staff Tweet: #GenMilley: "On this #ANZACDay, we honor the sacrifices of our Australian and New Zealand brothers and sisters in arms. We are proud to have the honor of serving shoulder to shoulder with you."
>>13515223 Australia in the US Tweet: We thank those who joined us virtually in honouring our #Anzacs. We are privileged to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice and thank those that continue to bravely protect our freedom.
>>13515232 Australia in the US Tweet: Today our Air & Space Attache conducted a small #AnzacDay ceremony at @ArlingtonNatl. They laid a wreath at the gravesite of PLTOFF Francis Milne - the only Australian military member buried at the Cemetery.
>>13515254 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Tweet: Lest We Forget - Originally done to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps forces from World War I, #AnzacDay2021 recognizes the men and women who served in the Australian and New Zealand armed services in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations
>>13515260 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: With the Northern Territory remaining free of COVID transmission within the community, Marines were able to participate in today's events to show respects to their fallen, former, and active members.
>>13515399 Neo-Nazis make submission to Parliamentary inquiry into extremism
>>13517935 Social media is work of 'evil one', says Scott Morrison

>>13522489 Video: Exclusive: Prime Minister Scott Morrison's speech at the ACC conference - Rationalists Australia
>>13532829 Video: Kevin Rudd on religion, politics and Scott Morrison's speech to the Pentecostal conference - Kevin Rudd
>>13539434 Senior Democrat John Podesta: Quad will demand Australia does more on climate change
>>13539440 Rekindling Hope Podcast - Sam Crosby and Chris Bowen - Washington power broker John Podesta on how Biden is traveling and how Australia's climate policy needs to lift its game
>>13539655 Video: Spy boss Mike Burgess says ASIO anticipating terrorist attack in the next year from either right-wing or Islamic extremists
>>13539665 Australian Federal Police backs ban on flags linked to terrorist groups, sharing of extremist material
>>13539771 Pacific Marines Tweet: @USMC with @mrfdarwin conduct flight operations during a forward arming refueling point exercise at @ausairforce Base Darwin
>>13539779 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Yesterday, the Honorable Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, met with members of the Australian Army and U.S. Marine Corps for a visit to Robertson Barracks, NT, Australia
>>13547962 President Joe Biden could learn from Australia on border policy, says Former US ambassador Joe Hockey
>>13548052 Video: Clive Palmer to pay $1.5 million after losing Twisted Sister copyright fight

>>13553273 Video: Don't give in to identity politics and forces that undermine the community, Scott Morrison urges
>>13553300 PM's plea from the heart a timely reminder - "every human being is possessed of an innate human dignity that transcends all other considerations"
>>13553469 Future of Army's multi-billion-dollar Battle Management System uncertain amid tensions with Israeli military company
>>13553502 Elbit Battle Management System shut down - "The more research into this decision undertaken, the stranger it gets. No notice. No reason given."
>>13554042 Japan honors former Australian PM Gillard for service to the nation - awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
>>13555102 Scott Morrison's partisan interpretation of biblical passages is disturbing for democracy - Kevin Rudd - theguardian.com
>>13555694 Facebook's assault exposes Australia's vulnerability, says top ex-military man Major General Marcus Thompson - INFORMATION WARFARE
>>13556296 In Memorium - Dutch patriot Mrs NarQie - "A great patriot has passed away but we will continue her fight! - WWG1WGA - Mrs. NarQie o7"
>>13569454 Video: Noosa Temple of Satan want Satanism taught in state schools - A Current Affair
>>13569460 Q Post #1646 - NEVER IN OUR HISTORY HAVE THEY COME OUT FROM THE SHADOWS TO FIGHT. THE TRUTH IS CLEARLY VISIBLE.
>>13569460 Q Post #4461 - Only when evil is forced into the light can we defeat it. Only when they can no longer operate in the [shadows] can people see the truth for themselves.
>>13569460 Q Post #4396 - God wins.

#13548052 at 2021-04-30 08:36:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition

Clive Palmer to pay $1.5 million after losing Twisted Sister copyright fight

Michaela Whitbourn - April 30, 2021

Businessman Clive Palmer has been ordered to pay $1.5 million to Universal Music after losing a copyright fight over his use of the Twisted Sister anthem We're Not Gonna Take It in a string of political advertisements before the 2019 federal election.

In a judgment on Friday, Federal Court Justice Anna Katzmann said the former federal MP and United Australia Party founder had infringed Universal Music's copyright in the 1984 hit and rejected his claims he had penned his own lyrics and used the melody of an 18th century hymn.

It was "ludicrous" and "fanciful" to suggest Mr Palmer's song "Aussies Not Gonna Cop It" was created independently of the Twisted Sister anthem, Justice Katzmann said, and his behaviour in using the song without a licence was "high-handed and contemptous".

"He gave false evidence, including concocting a story to exculpate himself," she said.

Justice Katzmann ordered him to pay $500,000 in damages, $1 million in additional damages in light of the flagrancy of the infringement, and legal costs. Interest on damages will be calculated at a later date.

In copyright law, the music and lyrics of a song are separate works. Mr Palmer had claimed he did not infringe copyright in the Twisted Sister lyrics because he penned his own lyrics while "deep in contemplation" in the early hours of one morning in September 2018.

He said he was not inspired by Twisted Sister but by actor Peter Finch's famous utterance in the 1976 film Network: "[I'm mad as hell, and] I'm not going to take this anymore."

He said he developed the concept "Australians are not prepared to accept it" from this nugget of inspiration, and it evolved into the chorus: "Australia ain't gonna cop it, no Australia's not gonna cop it, Aussies not gonna cop it anymore."

Justice Katzmann said "this evidence appeared to take everyone else in the virtual courtroom by surprise".

His claims were at odds with evidence a video producer approached Universal on Mr Palmer's behalf in 2018 to licence the Twisted Sister hit.

Mr Palmer had also claimed the hit's melody was a "rip off" of the 18th century Christmas carol O Come, All Ye Faithful and was not protected by copyright law.

Justice Katzmann said he later admitted Universal held the copyright in both the lyrics and melody, but argued his song did not incorporate a substantial part of either work and did not amount to copyright infringement.

Separately, he argued any use of the song fell under a "fair dealing" defence for satirical works.

Justice Katzmann found he had used a substantial part of the lyrics and the melody by using the chorus of the Twisted Sister hit, widely regarded as the song's "most prominent feature". She rejected the fair dealing defence on the basis the song was "not used to satirise anyone or anything".

Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, who wrote We're Not Gonna Take It, gave evidence that he realised years later that he had transformed the first six notes of O Come, All Ye Faithful into his famous chorus, but the "key word" was "transformed". It was unconscious "inspiration, not duplication".

Justice Katzmann said the evidence demonstrated Mr Palmer knew he needed a licence to use the song but "decided to go ahead without one."

The court heard that Universal initially quoted a licence fee of $150,000 to use a re-recorded version of the song, subject to Mr Snider's approval. Justice Katzmann said Mr Palmer "baulked" at paying the fee. A counter-offer of $35,000 was rejected by Universal.

Adam Simpson of Simpsons Solicitors, who acted for Universal, said "the additional damages award of $1 million is one of the highest for copyright infringement in Australia, and the highest in relation to music copyright - and rightly so".

The decision sent a strong message that Mr Palmer's conduct was "blatant and entirely unacceptable," he said. It was an "affront to songwriters" to use songs in advertising, particularly political advertising, without permission.

Mr Simpson said Mr Palmer had "acted unilaterally" and denied Mr Snider, Twisted Sister and Universal the right to match advertising opportunities with "artistic integrity, ethics and commercial values".

"Today's decision rights that wrong," he said.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/Clive-Palmer-to-pay-1-5-million-after-losing-twisted-sister-copyright-fight-20210430-p57nq2.html

#13341735 at 2021-04-01 06:51:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition

#14 - Part 9
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide
>>13177350 Video: Coronavirus: Anthony Fauci praises Australia response, lockdowns
>>13177438 Rocco Galati Tweet: Australian Health Minister hospitalized, "in serious condition", day after receiving Covid, Astra-Zeneca, Vaccine
>>13183855 Scott Morrison says he will act as health minister but Greg Hunt will return to work next week
>>13190587 Prime Minister Scott Morrison: 'AstraZeneca is safe' - Australia not concerned by reports of blood clots in Europe
>>13301064 Clive Palmer's anti-vax pamphlets slammed by Scott Morrison as "complete rubbish"

#14 - Part 10
Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition
>>13184085 Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, in Katoomba and Hazelbrook, New South Wales
>>13196546 Julian Assange's father brings his fight to free his son to Canberra
>>13273605 Bipartisan delegation of Australian MPs meets with US embassy about Julian Assange
>>13275730 Video: The Aussie human rights lawyer who has stood by Julian Assange for 10 years - ABC / Australian Story
>>13328158 Pope sends Julian Assange personal message to his jail cell, partner Stella Moris says

#13341678 at 2021-04-01 06:36:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #14 - THE ART OF WAR Edition

#14 - Part 9
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide
>>13177350 Video: Coronavirus: Anthony Fauci praises Australia response, lockdowns
>>13177438 Rocco Galati Tweet: Australian Health Minister hospitalized, "in serious condition", day after receiving Covid, Astra-Zeneca, Vaccine
>>13183855 Scott Morrison says he will act as health minister but Greg Hunt will return to work next week
>>13190587 Prime Minister Scott Morrison: 'AstraZeneca is safe' - Australia not concerned by reports of blood clots in Europe
>>13301064 Clive Palmer's anti-vax pamphlets slammed by Scott Morrison as "complete rubbish"

#14 - Part 10
Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition
>>13184085 Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, in Katoomba and Hazelbrook, New South Wales
>>13196546 Julian Assange's father brings his fight to free his son to Canberra
>>13273605 Bipartisan delegation of Australian MPs meets with US embassy about Julian Assange
>>13275730 Video: The Aussie human rights lawyer who has stood by Julian Assange for 10 years - ABC / Australian Story
>>13328158 Pope sends Julian Assange personal message to his jail cell, partner Stella Moris says

#13301064 at 2021-03-26 05:41:52 (UTC+1)
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Clive Palmer's anti-vax pamphlets slammed by Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison has slammed the "complete rubbish" flyers bombarding Australians, with authorities urged to investigate.

Natalie Brown - MARCH 26, 2021

Former politician and controversial businessman Clive Palmer has come under fire for nationally distributing flyers attacking the coronavirus vaccine, with authorities urged to investigate.

The black and yellow pamphlets - which do not reference Mr Palmer's United Australia Party (UAP) - question the speed of the development of the vaccines and claim appropriate safety checks and balances are lacking, describing them as being subject to "emergency use" authorisation.

"Urgent Communication," the front of the flyers read. "The simple fact is that we don't have one-year safety data, three-year safety data or five-year safety data or for the use of the COVID-19 vaccine."

In a lengthy message on the opposite side, Mr Palmer writes that he feels "duty bound to bring the following to your attention".

"Revelations that two Australians were ill following administration of the COVID vaccine were disturbing and it's difficult to understand now there could be overdoses administered by registered practitioners," the flyer reads.

"While I strongly support the use of vaccines which have approval for general use such as measles and other diseases, I am very concerned by the emergency use of this vaccine on the general population.

"My understanding is that emergency use of a medicine is only authorised if the person receiving the treatment is in immediate danger of dying. This is not the case with millions of Australians who are not ill."

Mr Palmer goes on to say he does not understand "why it is that millions of Australians should be subject to a medical treatment that has not complied with normal practices under Australian Law".

"I don't understand why Australians need to rush or take risks with their health," he adds.

A number of politicians have slammed Mr Palmer for undermining public confidence in Australia's COVID-19jab rollout, with Scott Morrison this morning deeming them "complete rubbish".

The Prime Minister urged Australians to ignore the flyers, which have so far been picked up in South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales.

Shadow Health Minister Mark Butler told the ABC's AM radio program that he has written to the Australian Electoral Commissioner, Tom Rogers, demanding action.

"The COVID vaccine rollout and the government's response to the pandemic generally are very clearly going to be big election issues in the lead up to the 2021 or 2022 federal election," Mr Butler said.

"Clive Palmer, who is so closely associated with the party he began, is spewing misinformation in exactly the same way he runs an election campaign.

"It's important the Electoral Commission get ahead of this, and if Mr Palmer does want to do this thing he's required to properly authorise it in accordance with our electoral laws."

Australian Medical Association (AMA) vice-president Chris Moy told the ABC there was "a lot" of data indicating the safety of the vaccines, and "no real evidence" of major problems like Mr Palmer suggests.

"Clive, we'll leave the mining to you and you leave the medicine and science to us," Dr Moy said.

"The problem is, say somebody doesn't get the vaccination because of his message, which is clearly not based on any particular expertise on his part, what happens if they later get COVID or even die later?

"He'll be completely removed from direct responsibility for it, but as far as I'm concerned he's as responsible as any doctor who does something wrong."

A spokesperson for the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) confirmed to the broadcaster that the national health regulator "does not have an 'Emergency Use Authorisation' pathway for COVID-19 vaccines".

"Most countries that are using Emergency Use Authorisations (such as the UK, US and Canada) are not the same as regulatory approval, and have been made in response to the very high COVID-19 disease burden and risk in those countries," they said.

The TGA urged Australians to "rely on trusted information sources".

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/Clive-Palmers-antivax-pamphlets-slammed-by-scott-morrison/news-story/faeaae728539b1fd93c4ca21dcf72afd

#10627678 at 2020-09-13 06:07:07 (UTC+1)
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>>10627663

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The second protest for the weekend comes hours after a woman shared footage of police dragging her from her car.

Natalie Bonett, 29, said she was making her way through the COVID blockade in Wallan, 60km north of Melbourne, on Saturday when she was stopped by police.

They informed her it was against the law to have her phone attached to a car charger which was mounted onto her windshield.

Following a brief and tense exchange, video shows the officer reach in drag the masked woman from her car as her passenger tried to pull her back in.

Ms Bonett, a lash technician in Melbourne, screamed and pulled away from the officer in the footage, demanding he stop touching her and get out of her car.

A passenger in the car attempted to hold her back, trying to tell the officer she's 'got anxiety' while Ms Bonett became increasingly distressed.

'What the fk are you doing, what the fk, get off me,' she shouted at the officer.

'No, I don't feel safe. You're armed,' she responded.

Police previously vowed to issue more $1,652 fines ahead of Sunday's protest.

'Police had significant prevention activity in the lead up to and duration of today's which included visiting 90 persons of interest to urge them not to attend,' a police statement on Saturday said.

'Our investigations into this protest will continue, and we expect to issue further fines once the identity of individuals has been confirmed.'

'Anyone thinking of attending a protest can expect the same swift and firm response from police as has occurred today and at previous protests that were in breach of Chief Health Officer restrictions.'

Officers on horseback and in riot gear marched through the city during Saturday's protests.

Demonstrators were taken away in handcuffs as police tried to avoid a repeat of last week's protest that saw violent clashes leading to 17 arrests.

One man was arrested on Saturday after holding an anti-lockdown sign and calling out to police outside the Shrine of Remembrance.

The man told News Corp he wasn't a conspiracy theorist but was anti-government and nodded when asked if it was 'worth the fine'.

Another mask-wearer was seen being spoken to by an officer while holding a sign that read: 'I am just exercising… my human rights'.

One elderly woman had her details taken by police after she held up a sign with the message: 'open our churches'.

One woman was dramatically restrained on the ground by multiple officers at the Observatory Gate because she wouldn't give her ID, the Herald Sun reported.

She was shoved into the back of a police car while screaming to be let go.

'They've arrested me because I won't say my name. I've been in Melbourne all my life, I just want to go for a walk,' the woman said.

Meanwhile a man with a picture of Premier Daniel Andrews stuck to the back of his face shield paraded through the protest while another had a mask saying 'sack Daniel Andrews'.

The 'Freedom Walk' is believed to be the doing of sacked Clive Palmer political candidate and conspiracy theorist Tony Pecora, 43.

Mr Pecora was arrested by police after allegedly planning the event and charged with two counts of incitement.

The 43-year-old allegedly created the event on social media under the alias Arkwell Tripellego.

He believes the deadly coronavirus was 'genetically engineered by world banks to kill off weak humans'.

He then quoted Midnight Oil, allegedly telling police if someone contracted coronavirus at one of his events 'it would be better to die on your feet than live on your knees'.

(continued)

#10626007 at 2020-09-13 03:27:52 (UTC+1)
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Protests flop in Melbourne gloom

A second round of anti-lockdown protests fizzled out on Saturday amid confusion over locations, gloomy weather and an immense police presence.

Several people were arrested by the Botanic Gardens, while a handful of individuals loitering on the grass, waiting for reinforcements that never came, were moved on with fines or without incident.

Only 10-15 turned up at Fitzroy Gardens, a late inclusion by organisers, and they were hopelessly outnumbered by police.

A statement from Victoria Police on Saturday afternoon said 14 people were arrested and 51 fines issued amongst a pool of about 100 protesters at "various locations".

Police would not clarify where the 100 had gathered or where the arrests were made.

In Fitzroy Gardens, small groups were told to leave and warned they would be fined if they came back. One older woman had her signs, including "Open Our Churches", confiscated by officers.

The location was a ploy to throw police, but online chatter indicated it only confused protesters who had been planning to show up at the Shrine for a "freedom walk" around the tan.

In the end, there was no mass walk at all.

"Police had significant prevention activity in the lead up to and duration of [Saturday's protest], which included visiting 90 persons of interest to urge them not to attend," Victoria Police said.

"Our investigations into this protest will continue, and we expect to issue further fines once the identity of individuals has been confirmed."

Police also appeared to have learned from last Saturday's violent protests, in which hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the Shrine before moving to Albert Park Lake.

An officer was allegedly punched in the head and dozens of demonstrators were wrestled to the ground and handcuffed.

This time officers blocked all entries to the Shrine before anyone arrived and picked off the handful of individuals before they had a chance to gather.

Police moved to Carlton Gardens after midday when anti-lockdown and conspiracy theorist messaging channels touted it as the new meeting spot. Only a few protesters had turned up.

Earlier this week, more than 1300 people indicated their online interest in the freedom walk slammed by premier Daniel Andrews as "selfish and unlawful" on Saturday morning.

Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius likened turning up to another anti-lockdown press conference on Friday to a "dog returning to eat his own vomit".

Organiser Tony Pecora - a former candidate for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party - appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday via video link after his arrest on two counts of incitement.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/victoria/protests-flop-in-melbourne-gloom-20200912-p55v0c.html

#10436368 at 2020-08-27 07:51:53 (UTC+1)
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Liberal senator launches grenades at super

A Liberal senator has launched an explosive attack on superannuation, accusing the federal opposition of being communists following the "Big Brother" of industry funds.

A bitter fight broke out in the upper house on Thursday when Liberals agitating for major retirement savings reforms locked horns with Labor.

In a wide-ranging spray, Queensland LNP senator Gerard Rennick invoked American revolutionary Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death" declaration.

He said the revolutionary spirit continued in the fight against Marxism and communism.

"Many of those forces sit opposite us today," he told senators.

"All with their little red books, bobbling their heads to every command issued by their Big Brother - industry super funds, run by unions."

Senator Rennick said Labor believed in repression of free will and the complete destruction of everything that makes Australia great.

He criticised $40 billion in superannuation management fees and a similar amount in tax concessions.

"Most of these fees go to white collar blowhards in Sydney and Melbourne. Every week rivers of gold flow out of regional communities."

Senator Rennick hinted at a High Court challenge of whether super was constitutional if it didn't return the initial capital.

He questioned if the system breached the same section of the constitution used in the classic Australian movie The Castle relating to the acquisition of property "on just terms".

He also branded industry super fund-owned news website The New Daily a "communist propaganda tool used to peddle Marxist ideology".

Labor senator Tim Ayres described sitting through the speech as an out of body experience.

"When you listen to a sort of stream of consciousness word salad about little red books, big brother, bankers, Marxists, command and control - it feels like I'm sort of at a Qanon cell meeting," he told parliament.

"Not the Australian Senate, not where the adults engage in this stuff."

Tensions ran high when Senator Ayres rebuffed claims industry super would become the biggest political donor in Australia.

He compared the $25,000 in total contributions to Clive Palmer's massive spend at the last election and Senator Rennick's donation to the LNP "immediately prior to his preselection".

"That is a personal slur that indicated corruption and I totally reject that. I want that remark withdrawn now," Senator Rennick angrily replied.

Senator Ayres refused to withdraw, saying the imputation against Senator Rennick existed only in the heads of Liberal senators.

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6898384/liberal-senator-launches-grenades-at-super/

#10176837 at 2020-08-04 06:40:00 (UTC+1)
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Resignations in the news

David Hutchinson resigns as Queensland LNP president

David Hutchinson will resign as Queensland LNP president less than two months after quitting his role as a consultant for rival politician Clive Palmer.

Mr Hutchinson came under fire in June for working for Mr Palmer, while also holding a volunteer position as president of the Liberal National Party.

LNP leader Deb Frecklington said on Saturday she respected Mr Hutchinson's decision to resign as president.

In June, damning polling on Ms Frecklington's popularity was leaked from LNP headquarters, throwing her leadership into question just months out from an election.

The finger was pointed at Mr Hutchinson and the so-called "backroom boys" of the party.

It raised the ire of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton who called for Mr Hutchinson to resign, saying his position was untenable.

Since January, members of the LNP's parliamentary team have expressed concern over Mr Hutchinson's dual roles.

Some had called for Mr Hutchinson to choose between his job with Mr Palmer and his volunteer role as president, saying they were incompatible.

In the weeks before last year's federal election Mr Hutchinson, then acting LNP president, struck an in-principle deal with Mr Palmer to put him second on the party's how-to-vote cards.

https://www.standard.net.au/story/6859700/hutchinson-resigns-as-qld-lnp-president/

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SANFL CEO Jake Parkinson announces resignation

SANFL Chief Executive Officer Jake Parkinson has today announced he will be stepping down from his role at the end of the organisation's financial year, October 31, 2020.

Mr Parkinson advised the South Australian Football Commission of his resignation from SANFL, which comes after six years in the role, to explore new career options.

"I am extremely proud of the achievements of my team and the organisation over the past six years," Mr Parkinson said.

"However, I believe the time is now right for a future CEO to lead SANFL as it establishes the next phase of its strategic direction.

"Likewise, it is the right time for me personally to explore what the next chapter in my career might be."

https://sanfl.com.au/league/news/sanfl-ceo-jake-parkinson-announces-resignation/

#10167665 at 2020-08-03 07:29:44 (UTC+1)
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Liberal MP's 'dangerous' hydroxychloroquine claim asks if Vic premier should be jailed

Firebrand backbencher Craig Kelly has been slammed for sharing "dangerous" messages, asking if Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews could "face 25 years in jail" for not promoting hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by US President Donald Trump as a coronavirus cure.

Australian authorities have warned hydroxychloroquine, long-used as a malaria treatment, poses "well-known serious risks" such as eye damage and heart attack if used incorrectly, while numerous global studies have returned mixed results.

Labor's shadow health minister, Chris Bowen, derided Mr Kelly's recent social media output - with 18 Facebook posts about hydroxychloroquine in the last two days - as a "Trumpian rant".

Mr Trump has hailed hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure or treatment for coronavirus, but the drug is not being used in Australia for that purpose.

In March, the Therapeutic Goods Administration said it "strongly discourages" using the drug against coronavirus, outlining "limited evidence for effect against COVID-19, as well as the risk of significant adverse effects" like heart, eye and blood sugar issues.

In a May update, the TGA said "the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 is strongly discouraged".

The TGA said Sanofi - a supplier of hydroxychloroquine products - told doctors that "hydroxychloroquine is not approved for use in Australia for treatment of COVID-19 outside the confines of a clinical trial", citing "an increased number of reports of serious cardiac issues, including deaths, in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine."

However, Mr Kelly - Liberal MP for the Sydney seat of Hughes -has been sharing vast quantities of news articles and studies on his Facebook page in recent days, calling for the drug to be made more widely available in Australia.

"There is a special place in hell awaiting those that have been part of the war on Hydroxychloroquine for poltical [sic] reasons. They have the blood of tens of thousands on their hands," Mr Kelly posted on Monday morning.

"COULD THE VICTORIAN PREMIER (and others) FACE 25 YEARS IN JAIL FOR CONTINUING TO BAN HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE?" he wrote in another post, asking whether not making the drug available could constitute 'workplace manslaughter'.

In another post, the backbencher said "Hydroxychloroquine is obviously not a panacea for severe cases of Covid-19".

Mr Bowen slapped down Mr Kelly's claims as did Labor leader Anthony Albanese.

"I was shocked by them, that any member of Parliament would be so irresponsible at a time where Victorians are doing it tough," Mr Albanese said.

Speaking to The New Daily, Mr Kelly said he wanted to see doctors given the option of prescribing the drug, claiming that not prescribing the drug for COVID was "illogical".

"Mr Bowen needs to do some homework and catch up with the latest medical science and opinions. It should be up to a doctor, and the patient themselves whether to prescribe the drug or not," he said.

He accepted there was "mixed results" in various studies on the drug, including some that found it had no effect or even negative effects on patients.

"Well, federal authorities haven't banned its use, they haven't recommended it," Mr Kelly replied, when asked about the TGA's advice on the drug

"There's a big difference between not recommending it and banning it."

The drug is also in national political news for another reason on Monday, with mining magnate Clive Palmer's court challenge to Western Australia's border closure allegedly sparked by his hope to promote hydroxychloroquine in Perth.

In April, Mr Palmer said he had purchased almost 33 million doses of hydroxychloroquine.

"He wanted to come to Western Australia to promote hydroxychloroquine to the people of the state as some sort of cure for COVID," WA Premier Mark McGowan said on Monday.

"All the evidence is not only is it not a cure, it's actually dangerous."

"Him coming to Western Australia to promote a dangerous drug, I don't think was a good thing for our state and I'm pleased that (WA Police) rejected him."

However, Australians are apparently not heeding warnings with the Border Force seizing thousands of hydroxychloroquine doses in recent months.

"ABF officers are screening medical supplies coming into Australia and have seen a significant spike in detections of the herbal medicine Ephedra and Hydroxychloroquine," the service said on Monday.

"ABF officers have also seized more than 26,000 tablets of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine between 1 January 2020 and 21 June 2020. Unauthorised importations are referred to the TGA for assessment."

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https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/08/03/craig-kelly-hydroxychloroquine-claim/

#10155779 at 2020-08-02 01:53:07 (UTC+1)
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Hydroxychloroquine is a poor coronavirus treatment but a perfect parable for our times

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The group had all the trappings of medical authority.

Wearing white coats as they stood with serious faces in front of the US Supreme Court earlier this week, they called themselves "America's Frontline Doctors".

In the video of their press conference, which was livestreamed on Facebook, the group promoted a familiar but controversial narrative: that the drug hydroxychloroquine could help treat COVID-19.

They made their claims despite large scientific studies showing the drug doesn't benefit people hospitalised with the disease.

The original clip was removed from Facebook but it lived on, with a retweet from US President Donald Trump and a boost on Instagram from celebrities like Madonna. After that, right-wing and conspiratorial online communities - including those in Australia - made a point of keeping the video available online.

Even a transcript of the press conference, on the website of transcription service Rev, has received more than 800,000 interactions on Facebook, according to data from social media monitoring firm Crowdtangle. It has been posted more than 500 times.

The video controversy is only the latest instalment in the saga of hydroxychloroquine's transformation, from relatively obscure anti-malarial drug to political football.

It first arrived in the spotlight thanks to widespread press coverage and now, in private Facebook groups and in YouTube comment feeds, hydroxychloroquine is no longer just an unlikely medicine for COVID-19.

To believe in its efficacy is often a way to indicate support for President Trump or an ideological scepticism of the medical establishment, entirely disconnected from the science.

"It's a tenet of faith," said Tom Sear, a fellow with UNSW Canberra Cyber at the Australian Defence Force Academy. "All the scientific evidence is doubtful - and there's Trump with certainty."

Where did the hype come from?

As coronavirus spread in early 2020, the world scrambled for a silver bullet and the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine - or HCQ - emerged as an early candidate.

Also used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, it had shown some promise when used against two previous coronaviruses, SARS and MERS.

"The hope was it might be somewhat useful," said Derek Lowe, a long-time drug discovery researcher and author of In the Pipeline, a long-running science blog on the Science Translational Medicine website.

"No-one expected great things out of hydroxychloroquine."

On Facebook, some of the first mentions of the drug as a potential COVID-19 treatment came in mid-February from Chinese media like Xinhua and China Daily but attracted relatively little engagement.

Outside the research community, however, the real attention came after the intervention of a media-savvy French microbiologist named Didier Raoult.

His study, published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Agents in March, tested a combination of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin on patients with COVID-19 and found that it helped.

But in the eyes of other scientists, the study was decidedly lacklustre. It was small and uncontrolled, which meant there was no group that did not receive the treatment to compare the results against.

But those caveats, and underwhelming results from other trials, ceased to hold much weight in the greater public consciousness after US President Donald Trump weighed in.

On March 19, Trump said the drug could be a "game changer" at a White House news conference with his coronavirus task force. A few days later, he tweeted a link to Dr Raoult's study. It was retweeted more than 300,000 times.

Since March 1, public posts containing the word "hydroxychloroquine" have received at least 55 million "interactions" on Facebook - a measure that includes reactions, shares or comments.

Other cable news characters emerged as willing soldiers in a burgeoning culture war, such as Dr Vladimir Zelenko, a doctor in upstate New York who claimed to have treated patients with a combination of hydroxychloroquine and other drugs.

And in the months since, President Trump and members of his administration have repeatedly returned to the hydroxychloroquine narrative despite the protests of White House medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci, who has repeatedly stated that all "valid" scientific data suggests hydroxychloroquine is not effective against COVID-19.

The drug has attracted the attention of populist politicians outside the United States as well.

It's been heavily promoted by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and the drug even became a political instrument in Australia, when erstwhile MP Clive Palmer bought Facebook ads in March, as well as full-page newspaper ads, promoting his proposal to buy "1 million doses" of the drug to support the fight against COVID-19.

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#10099722 at 2020-07-28 09:59:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition

#8 - Part 13
>>9955901, >>9955905 'Palace letters' between Sir John Kerr, Queen released, revealing information about Gough Whitlam and 1975 constitutional crisis
>>9955905 >>9997288 The Kerr Palace Letters exchanged between Governor-General Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace during Kerr's time in office
>>9955965 Witnesses say Australian SAS soldiers were involved in mass shooting of unarmed Afghan civilians
>>9956031 Designer of a popular children's app is accused of living a secret double life as a Peeping Tom paedophile
>>9956045 Grandfather, 52, is jailed after buying a toy from Kmart and converting it into a child sex doll
>>9966573, >>9966578, >>9966587 The Forgotten Coup Against 'The Most Loyal Ally' - Gough Whitlam, the Dismissal and the secret CIA presence in Australia
>>9966632 Paedophile's 'manifestly inadequate' jail sentence for Adelaide toilet block attack to be appealed
>>9970244 'DEEPLY DISTURBING' Lifelike child sex dolls based on girls & toddlers that boast they're 100% anatomically correct are on sale in Australia
>>9976661 Collective Shout Tweet: Alibaba.com sells child Sex Dolls. This one described as 148cm 4ft9" Dividable Skeleton Small Breast Young Girl Loli
>>9976661 Collective Shout Tweet: This #AlibabaChildSexDoll is the size of a 3 or 4 year old child…a replica of a little girl. Description "3 holes for man sex."

>>9976661 Collective Shout Media Release: Alibaba exposed for trade in child and baby sex abuse dolls
>>9976722 Collective Shout Media Release: Alibaba Group: Stop selling child sex abuse dolls
>>9976767, >>9976772 Why child sex dolls will not prevent child sexual abuse
>>9977021 Paedophile deported from Australia 'used UK as hunting ground'
>>9980434 Video: THINK YOU'RE NOT LENDING MONEY TO INSOLVENT BANKS? THINK AGAIN. | John Adams
>>9985681 Corporate watchdog ASIC accuses Clive Palmer of $12.5m fraud
>>9993850 Five Eyes to the fore: Australia takes a seat at global big table
>>9996093 Video: Keeping your kids safe online - AFP Commander ACCCE, Child Protection Operations and Human Trafficking Operations Jamie Strauss talks to Sunrise
>>9996156 Video: Florida Police Capture Runaway Kangaroo found hopping down the street - NowThis News
>>9996408 Rainbow Fairy Tweet: #QAnon sprayed on a water tank in Queensland, Australia

>>9997181 Q Post #4589 - https://nypost.com/2020/07/16/epstein-was-pinocchio-and-ghislaine-was-gepetto-accuser/
>>9997181 Q Post #4565 - Possible Epstein was a puppet [not the main person(s) of interest]? Financed by who or what [F] entities?
>>9997181 Epstein was 'Pinocchio' with 'Gepetto' Ghislaine pulling the strings, accuser says
>>9997264 Q Post #4588 - Do not give up the citizen investigation. Public awareness important [bypass of controlled [approved] topics].
>>9997264 QAnon John Tweet: You will NEVER look at your childhood the same again... #DumpDisney #ThesePeopleAreSick #QAnon
>>10002856 - Q Post #4590 - "This marks the third Spacey accuser to die in 2019." At what point does it become painfully obvious?
>>10002856 Kevin Spacey accuser dies by suicide day after actor posts 'kill them with kindness' video (2019)
>>10002856 Video: KTWK - Kevin Spacey, Published on 24 Dec 2019
>>10018713 Video: TREASURY-ISLAND What Includes Australia
>>10019403 Q Post #4603 - ren·e·gade, a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

>>10019692 Paedophile priest Vincent Ryan to walk free from jail tomorrow after serving less than half of a three-year sentence
>>10019736 China accuses Australia of becoming a 'US puppet' and warns Scott Morrison will be 'shooting himself in the foot' if he bans TikTok
>>10030258 Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton's first move gives anti-terror boss wider role in crime fight
>>10030521 Brett Mason Tweet: Pointed remarks from US Ambassador Arthur Culvahouse Jr
>>10030521 Brett Mason Tweet: US Ambassador Arthur Culvahouse Jr confirms he'll join Foreign Minister and Defence Minister for #AUSMIN talks
>>10034434 Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group Drilling with Australian, Japanese Ships in Philippine Sea
>>10041810 'We're going to need the Australians': Pompeo lays out contest with China
>>10041958 Sydney Black Lives Matter protest organisers say rally will proceed despite PM and premier's condemnation
>>10042003 Twitter to suspend conspiracy theory group QAnon accounts
>>10042071 Facebook encryption is contributing to child torture: Australian Federal Police

#10099664 at 2020-07-28 09:43:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition

#8 - Part 13
>>9955901, >>9955905 'Palace letters' between Sir John Kerr, Queen released, revealing information about Gough Whitlam and 1975 constitutional crisis
>>9955905 >>9997288 The Kerr Palace Letters exchanged between Governor-General Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace during Kerr's time in office
>>9955965 Witnesses say Australian SAS soldiers were involved in mass shooting of unarmed Afghan civilians
>>9956031 Designer of a popular children's app is accused of living a secret double life as a Peeping Tom paedophile
>>9956045 Grandfather, 52, is jailed after buying a toy from Kmart and converting it into a child sex doll
>>9966573, >>9966578, >>9966587 The Forgotten Coup Against 'The Most Loyal Ally' - Gough Whitlam, the Dismissal and the secret CIA presence in Australia
>>9966632 Paedophile's 'manifestly inadequate' jail sentence for Adelaide toilet block attack to be appealed
>>9970244 'DEEPLY DISTURBING' Lifelike child sex dolls based on girls & toddlers that boast they're 100% anatomically correct are on sale in Australia
>>9976661 Collective Shout Tweet: Alibaba.com sells child Sex Dolls. This one described as 148cm 4ft9" Dividable Skeleton Small Breast Young Girl Loli
>>9976661 Collective Shout Tweet: This #AlibabaChildSexDoll is the size of a 3 or 4 year old child…a replica of a little girl. Description "3 holes for man sex."

>>9976661 Collective Shout Media Release: Alibaba exposed for trade in child and baby sex abuse dolls
>>9976722 Collective Shout Media Release: Alibaba Group: Stop selling child sex abuse dolls
>>9976767, >>9976772 Why child sex dolls will not prevent child sexual abuse
>>9977021 Paedophile deported from Australia 'used UK as hunting ground'
>>9980434 Video: THINK YOU'RE NOT LENDING MONEY TO INSOLVENT BANKS? THINK AGAIN. | John Adams
>>9985681 Corporate watchdog ASIC accuses Clive Palmer of $12.5m fraud
>>9993850 Five Eyes to the fore: Australia takes a seat at global big table
>>9996093 Video: Keeping your kids safe online - AFP Commander ACCCE, Child Protection Operations and Human Trafficking Operations Jamie Strauss talks to Sunrise
>>9996156 Video: Florida Police Capture Runaway Kangaroo found hopping down the street - NowThis News
>>9996408 Rainbow Fairy Tweet: #QAnon sprayed on a water tank in Queensland, Australia

>>9997181 Q Post #4589 - https://nypost.com/2020/07/16/epstein-was-pinocchio-and-ghislaine-was-gepetto-accuser/
>>9997181 Q Post #4565 - Possible Epstein was a puppet [not the main person(s) of interest]? Financed by who or what [F] entities?
>>9997181 Epstein was 'Pinocchio' with 'Gepetto' Ghislaine pulling the strings, accuser says
>>9997264 Q Post #4588 - Do not give up the citizen investigation. Public awareness important [bypass of controlled [approved] topics].
>>9997264 QAnon John Tweet: You will NEVER look at your childhood the same again... #DumpDisney #ThesePeopleAreSick #QAnon
>>10002856 - Q Post #4590 - "This marks the third Spacey accuser to die in 2019." At what point does it become painfully obvious?
>>10002856 Kevin Spacey accuser dies by suicide day after actor posts 'kill them with kindness' video (2019)
>>10002856 Video: KTWK - Kevin Spacey, Published on 24 Dec 2019
>>10018713 Video: TREASURY-ISLAND What Includes Australia
>>10019403 Q Post #4603 - ren·e·gade, a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

>>10019692 Paedophile priest Vincent Ryan to walk free from jail tomorrow after serving less than half of a three-year sentence
>>10019736 China accuses Australia of becoming a 'US puppet' and warns Scott Morrison will be 'shooting himself in the foot' if he bans TikTok
>>10030258 Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton's first move gives anti-terror boss wider role in crime fight
>>10030521 Brett Mason Tweet: Pointed remarks from US Ambassador Arthur Culvahouse Jr
>>10030521 Brett Mason Tweet: US Ambassador Arthur Culvahouse Jr confirms he'll join Foreign Minister and Defence Minister for #AUSMIN talks
>>10034434 Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group Drilling with Australian, Japanese Ships in Philippine Sea
>>10041810 'We're going to need the Australians': Pompeo lays out contest with China
>>10041958 Sydney Black Lives Matter protest organisers say rally will proceed despite PM and premier's condemnation
>>10042003 Twitter to suspend conspiracy theory group QAnon accounts
>>10042071 Facebook encryption is contributing to child torture: Australian Federal Police

#9985681 at 2020-07-17 08:48:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition

Corporate watchdog ASIC accuses Clive Palmer of $12.5m fraud

The corporate watchdog has charged businessman and former federal MP Clive Palmer with fraud, relating to two payments worth more than $12m during the 2013 election campaign.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission charged resources billionaire Mr Palmer with four offences in February: two counts of dishonest use of his position of a director and two counts of fraud.

But ASIC has now revealed details of its case against Mr Palmer, who has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and says the allegations are "simply made up".

ASIC alleges that during the 2013 federal election campaign - when Mr Palmer successfully ran for the Sunshine Coast seat of Fairfax - he dishonestly obtained a benefit by authorising payments worth about $12m, including to an advertising agency.

The watchdog says the payments could have benefited Mr Palmer's political vehicle, the Palmer United Party (PUP).

"ASIC alleges that between 5 August 2013 and 5 September 2013, Mr Palmer dishonestly obtained a benefit or advantage for Cosmo Developments Pty Ltd and/or (PUP) and others by authorising the transfer of $10,000,000 contrary to the purpose for which the funds were being held," an ASIC statement says.

"It is alleged that he dishonestly used his position as a director of Mineralogy Pty Ltd, a mining company owned by him, in obtaining that advantage."

"ASIC also alleges that, between 31 August 2013 and 3 September 2013, Mr Palmer dishonestly obtained a benefit or advantage for Media Circus Network Pty Ltd and/or PUP by authorising the transfer of $2,167,065.60 contrary to the purpose for which the funds were being held. It is alleged that Mr Palmer dishonestly used his position as a director of Mineralogy in obtaining that advantage."

The maximum penalty for dishonestly using the position of company director is $340,000 or five years' jail. Aggravated fraud carries a maximum penalty of 12 years' jail.

The matter was mentioned in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday and adjourned until next month. Mr Palmer says he has applied for the charges to be withdrawn.

It has previously been alleged that Mr Palmer used some of the cash to help fund his political party's federal election campaign in that year; Mr Palmer has always denied wrongdoing.

According to a civil court judgment cited by Mr Palmer, his estranged Chinese business partners CITIC Pacific - known in the Queensland civil court case as Sino Iron and Korean Steel - alleged the payments were made by Mineralogy in a breach of trust, assisted by Mr Palmer.

CITIC alleged the money was paid by the Chinese-backed company into a Mineralogy bank ­account that was supposed to be used for the operation of its port at the Sino Iron mining project in Western Australia, of which Mr Palmer is a partner. CITIC claimed Mineralogy and Mr Palmer had been dishonest and fraudulent.

Justice David Jackson examined the spat in the Queensland Supreme Court in 2014 and 2015. He decided that it was "not necessary to make a specific finding of dishonest or fraudulent design by Mineralogy, through (Mr Palmer), or of dishonest assistance with knowledge by (Mr Palmer)".

However, he did find that both of the payments by Mr Palmer were "unauthorised". He dismissed the Sino Iron and Korean Steel claims against Mr Palmer and Cosmo Developments.

The Australian broke the story in July 2014.

Mr Palmer said he was not concerned about the charges as "they are simply made up" and said Justice Jackson had ruled in his favour in May 2015, during a civil hearing of the allegations.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/corporate-watchdog-asic-accuses-Clive-Palmer-of-125m-fraud/news-story/9f63a28973b80b88ff52f3a3c0045c9e

#9062516 at 2020-05-07 09:27:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition

#7 - Part 10
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Bun - Part 4
>>8850013 Australia Adds Voice to Growing Calls for China Coronavirus Enquiry
>>8860406 'Nothing particularly disturbing': Coronavirus app safe, review finds
>>8860486 Pandemic gives Arthur Sinodinos 'baptism of fire' as US ambassador
>>8881647 Scott Morrison calls Donald Trump to discuss holding the WHO to account for pandering to China
>>8881647 Prime Minister Scott Morrison Tweet: Just got off the phone with US President @realDonaldTrump, constructive discussion on our health responses to #COVID19
>>8882431 Coronavirus: PM Scott Morrison talks with Bill Gates over World Health Organisation's future amid pandemic
>>8893943 Britain backs Morrison's call for probe into coronavirus' China origins
>>8893943 Prime Minister Scott Morrison Tweet: I also had calls yesterday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President @EmmanuelMacron
>>8894216, >>8895747 Clive Palmer buys 32,900,000 doses of Hydroxychloroquine for Australians
>>8898638 Tom Hanks sends typewriter to bullied Australian boy named Corona

>>8898687 Video: Coronavirus: Tom Hanks makes new Aussie friend | Nine News Australia
>>8909759 From YouTube Australia's front page - Channel 9 News COVID-19 thumbnail - Looks like a gun firing at Trump's head
>>8912665 Australians turn out for driveway dawn service to mark Anzac Day in time of coronavirus
>>8923616 Video excerpt: Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson donate blood for coronavirus vaccine
>>8923616 NPR podcast - "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" - We Call To Check In On Tom Hanks (complete interview)
>>8925358 Anzac Day inspires the fight against virus
>>8925392 The Royal Family Tweet: The Duke was due to attend the Dawn Service in London tomorrow. Instead he will join a collective act of remembrance
>>8925392 Statement - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent - Anzac Day 2020
>>8945474 How Australia partly funded two Chinese scientists from the Wuhan lab linked to the COVID-19 outbreak
>>8945737 Clive Palmer takes out three-page ads promoting purchase of malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine

>>8945789 China Warns Australia: Drop Push for Coronavirus Probe
>>8946264 Anon notes the similarity between the Palmer Foundation logo and the 8kun logo - Hmmm...
>>8959531 Australia was told there was a '50% chance' coronavirus may have leaked from a Wuhan lab two months ago
>>8959571 Coronavirus: Trump administration to closely monitor Australia's winter virus experience
>>8959634 China labels Australia 'gum stuck to the bottom of China's shoe' over calls for coronavirus inquiry
>>8959698 Coronavirus pandemic saves convicted paedophile from prison
>>8961025 Video: Prime Minister Scott Morrison flags easing of coronavirus restrictions in near future | ABC News
>>8970178 Australian intelligence officials have no evidence of Wuhan lab link to coronavirus
>>8970251 Coronavirus Australia: US secretary of state Mike Pompeo backs Scott Morrison call for virus inquiry
>>9021935 Jacinda Ardern to join Australian national cabinet meeting on Tuesday

>>9022200 Chinese government slams Australia over COVID-19 dossier coverage
>>9035392 US, UK and Australia working together on COVID-19 vaccine
>>9048415 Trump says coronavirus comeback underway - New York Post article co-written by >>8271716 Ebony Bowden, Australian "journalist"
>>9048415 Ebony Bowden Tweet: My Australian followers will be pleased to know that President Trump asked after our 2004 Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins
>>9048562 US Marines get clearance for NT deployment amid coronavirus travel ban
>>9048562 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: Spoke with US Secretary of Defense @EsperDOD where we reaffirmed our Alliance
>>9048562 US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper Tweet: our #UnbreakableAlliance remains strong with the recent approval of the @USMC @MrfDarwin rotation
>>9048713 COVID-19 treatment news: How blood plasma could be used to treat future cases
>>9049269 Doctors banned from prescribing potential COVID-19 drug
>>9050361 COVID-19 outbreak in meat processing plant - ATTEMPT TO SLIDE AUS FOOD SUPPLY?

#9062512 at 2020-05-07 09:25:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition

#7 - Part 8
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Bun - Part 2
>>8468788 Tom Hanks Instagram image digg - Corona typewriter and medical sink basin
>>8472001 Q Post #252 - Red Cross is corrupt and used as a piggy bank.
>>8472001 Q Post #2145 - Sky News: "Drinking young blood could prevent age-related diseases, study reveals"
>>8472633 Australia blocks arrival of all non-residents in expanded coronavirus travel ban
>>8472762 Dutton says hoarders to be 'dealt with' by AFP, Border Force
>>8494541 Coronavirus Australia: Queensland researchers find 'cure', want drug trial
>>8514205 Western Australia and South Australia lock down their borders to stop the spread of coronavirus
>>8514299 Lifesavers being 'harassed' by beachgoers defying crowd bans over coronavirus fears
>>8515753 Australia coronavirus shutdown: which places are closed and which are open
>>8528169 Coronavirus in Australia: Everything that shuts on Monday, from pubs to cafes and cinemas

>>8528206 Australia Warned Beer Could Run out if Not Classified as 'Essential' to Life
>>8528361 Billionaire Clive Palmer taps deep pockets to fight the coronavirus
>>8542944 Assange bids for bail amid virus outbreak
>>8543187 Australian Defence Force adjusts posture in Middle East due to coronavirus
>>8543229 COVID-19: Defence sends troops to state health authorities
>>8543229 Defence is following whole-of-government guidance from the Department of Health in relation to COVID-19
>>8543431 Bid to halt coronavirus spread could see some NSW prisoners freed
>>8547258 Australian PM says 'stay at home' as coronavirus shuts down large sections of economy and social life
>>8547348 Jacinda Ardern asks for coronavirus relief for New Zealanders banned from Australia's welfare
>>8557015 Australian Government text message regarding Coronavirus prevention steps

>>8568276 Coronavirus: Julian Assange loses bail bid amid infection fears
>>8569045 Australian Officials ready to help Aussies in US
>>8569045 Australia in the US Tweet: Message from Ambassador @A_Sinodinos: Our Embassy & Consulate-Generals are here to support you
>>8582224 Inside the G20 'Zoom' summit: Scott Morrison is told he needs a 'war plan' to deal with coronavirus pandemic
>>8582304 Experts condemn Clive Palmer-funded ads claiming hydroxychloroquine can cure coronavirus
>>8595734 Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson return to the US after recovering from coronavirus
>>8595817 Accused paedophile Charles Batham arrested amid coronavirus chaos in Italy
>>8596012 COVID-19: General Raymond Says No Impact On Space Ops; Space Fence Operational
>>8608569 Fears of blood shortages as donations drop during coronavirus
>>8613099 'Astonishing breach of faith': Private hospital company stands down 800 staff

>>8632606 Australia's richest man Anthony Pratt to spend $1million funding the trial of two drugs that may treat COVID-19
>>8632656 Australia rolls out COVID-19 vaccine trial for healthcare workers
>>8632656 BCG vaccination to Reduce impact of COVID-19 in Australian healthcare workers following Coronavirus Exposure (BRACE) Trial
>>8636921 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tweet: Caught up with Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP this evening
>>8636921 Press Release: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison
>>8640947 Senator Malcolm Roberts Tweet: Should China pay compensation for unleashing COVID19 on the world?
>>8645439 Video: Scott Morrison prays for Australia and commits nation to God amid coronavirus crisis
>>8646209 'Twiggy' Forrest's $160m China deal to bring lifesaving supplies to Australia
>>8646218 AFP News Agency Tweet: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to stop printing 60 regional newspapers amid COVID-19 advertising downturn
>>8657292 AusAnon's photo: "Card Transactions Only - This at my local Officeworks. They are going to use this virus to outlaw cash"

#9062420 at 2020-05-07 08:50:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

#7 - Part 10
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Bun - Part 4
>>8850013 Australia Adds Voice to Growing Calls for China Coronavirus Enquiry
>>8860406 'Nothing particularly disturbing': Coronavirus app safe, review finds
>>8860486 Pandemic gives Arthur Sinodinos 'baptism of fire' as US ambassador
>>8881647 Scott Morrison calls Donald Trump to discuss holding the WHO to account for pandering to China
>>8881647 Prime Minister Scott Morrison Tweet: Just got off the phone with US President @realDonaldTrump, constructive discussion on our health responses to #COVID19
>>8882431 Coronavirus: PM Scott Morrison talks with Bill Gates over World Health Organisation's future amid pandemic
>>8893943 Britain backs Morrison's call for probe into coronavirus' China origins
>>8893943 Prime Minister Scott Morrison Tweet: I also had calls yesterday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President @EmmanuelMacron
>>8894216, >>8895747 Clive Palmer buys 32,900,000 doses of Hydroxychloroquine for Australians
>>8898638 Tom Hanks sends typewriter to bullied Australian boy named Corona

>>8898687 Video: Coronavirus: Tom Hanks makes new Aussie friend | Nine News Australia
>>8909759 From YouTube Australia's front page - Channel 9 News COVID-19 thumbnail - Looks like a gun firing at Trump's head
>>8912665 Australians turn out for driveway dawn service to mark Anzac Day in time of coronavirus
>>8923616 Video excerpt: Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson donate blood for coronavirus vaccine
>>8923616 NPR podcast - "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" - We Call To Check In On Tom Hanks (complete interview)
>>8925358 Anzac Day inspires the fight against virus
>>8925392 The Royal Family Tweet: The Duke was due to attend the Dawn Service in London tomorrow. Instead he will join a collective act of remembrance
>>8925392 Statement - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent - Anzac Day 2020
>>8945474 How Australia partly funded two Chinese scientists from the Wuhan lab linked to the COVID-19 outbreak
>>8945737 Clive Palmer takes out three-page ads promoting purchase of malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine

>>8945789 China Warns Australia: Drop Push for Coronavirus Probe
>>8946264 Anon notes the similarity between the Palmer Foundation logo and the 8kun logo - Hmmm...
>>8959531 Australia was told there was a '50% chance' coronavirus may have leaked from a Wuhan lab two months ago
>>8959571 Coronavirus: Trump administration to closely monitor Australia's winter virus experience
>>8959634 China labels Australia 'gum stuck to the bottom of China's shoe' over calls for coronavirus inquiry
>>8959698 Coronavirus pandemic saves convicted paedophile from prison
>>8961025 Video: Prime Minister Scott Morrison flags easing of coronavirus restrictions in near future | ABC News
>>8970178 Australian intelligence officials have no evidence of Wuhan lab link to coronavirus
>>8970251 Coronavirus Australia: US secretary of state Mike Pompeo backs Scott Morrison call for virus inquiry
>>9021935 Jacinda Ardern to join Australian national cabinet meeting on Tuesday

>>9022200 Chinese government slams Australia over COVID-19 dossier coverage
>>9035392 US, UK and Australia working together on COVID-19 vaccine
>>9048415 Trump says coronavirus comeback underway - New York Post article co-written by >>8271716 Ebony Bowden, Australian "journalist"
>>9048415 Ebony Bowden Tweet: My Australian followers will be pleased to know that President Trump asked after our 2004 Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins
>>9048562 US Marines get clearance for NT deployment amid coronavirus travel ban
>>9048562 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: Spoke with US Secretary of Defense @EsperDOD where we reaffirmed our Alliance
>>9048562 US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper Tweet: our #UnbreakableAlliance remains strong with the recent approval of the @USMC @MrfDarwin rotation
>>9048713 COVID-19 treatment news: How blood plasma could be used to treat future cases
>>9049269 Doctors banned from prescribing potential COVID-19 drug
>>9050361 COVID-19 outbreak in meat processing plant - ATTEMPT TO SLIDE AUS FOOD SUPPLY?

#9062411 at 2020-05-07 08:47:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

#7 - Part 8
Coronavirus / COVID-19 Bun - Part 2
>>8468788 Tom Hanks Instagram image digg - Corona typewriter and medical sink basin
>>8472001 Q Post #252 - Red Cross is corrupt and used as a piggy bank.
>>8472001 Q Post #2145 - Sky News: "Drinking young blood could prevent age-related diseases, study reveals"
>>8472633 Australia blocks arrival of all non-residents in expanded coronavirus travel ban
>>8472762 Dutton says hoarders to be 'dealt with' by AFP, Border Force
>>8494541 Coronavirus Australia: Queensland researchers find 'cure', want drug trial
>>8514205 Western Australia and South Australia lock down their borders to stop the spread of coronavirus
>>8514299 Lifesavers being 'harassed' by beachgoers defying crowd bans over coronavirus fears
>>8515753 Australia coronavirus shutdown: which places are closed and which are open
>>8528169 Coronavirus in Australia: Everything that shuts on Monday, from pubs to cafes and cinemas

>>8528206 Australia Warned Beer Could Run out if Not Classified as 'Essential' to Life
>>8528361 Billionaire Clive Palmer taps deep pockets to fight the coronavirus
>>8542944 Assange bids for bail amid virus outbreak
>>8543187 Australian Defence Force adjusts posture in Middle East due to coronavirus
>>8543229 COVID-19: Defence sends troops to state health authorities
>>8543229 Defence is following whole-of-government guidance from the Department of Health in relation to COVID-19
>>8543431 Bid to halt coronavirus spread could see some NSW prisoners freed
>>8547258 Australian PM says 'stay at home' as coronavirus shuts down large sections of economy and social life
>>8547348 Jacinda Ardern asks for coronavirus relief for New Zealanders banned from Australia's welfare
>>8557015 Australian Government text message regarding Coronavirus prevention steps

>>8568276 Coronavirus: Julian Assange loses bail bid amid infection fears
>>8569045 Australian Officials ready to help Aussies in US
>>8569045 Australia in the US Tweet: Message from Ambassador @A_Sinodinos: Our Embassy & Consulate-Generals are here to support you
>>8582224 Inside the G20 'Zoom' summit: Scott Morrison is told he needs a 'war plan' to deal with coronavirus pandemic
>>8582304 Experts condemn Clive Palmer-funded ads claiming hydroxychloroquine can cure coronavirus
>>8595734 Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson return to the US after recovering from coronavirus
>>8595817 Accused paedophile Charles Batham arrested amid coronavirus chaos in Italy
>>8596012 COVID-19: General Raymond Says No Impact On Space Ops; Space Fence Operational
>>8608569 Fears of blood shortages as donations drop during coronavirus
>>8613099 'Astonishing breach of faith': Private hospital company stands down 800 staff

>>8632606 Australia's richest man Anthony Pratt to spend $1million funding the trial of two drugs that may treat COVID-19
>>8632656 Australia rolls out COVID-19 vaccine trial for healthcare workers
>>8632656 BCG vaccination to Reduce impact of COVID-19 in Australian healthcare workers following Coronavirus Exposure (BRACE) Trial
>>8636921 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tweet: Caught up with Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP this evening
>>8636921 Press Release: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison
>>8640947 Senator Malcolm Roberts Tweet: Should China pay compensation for unleashing COVID19 on the world?
>>8645439 Video: Scott Morrison prays for Australia and commits nation to God amid coronavirus crisis
>>8646209 'Twiggy' Forrest's $160m China deal to bring lifesaving supplies to Australia
>>8646218 AFP News Agency Tweet: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to stop printing 60 regional newspapers amid COVID-19 advertising downturn
>>8657292 AusAnon's photo: "Card Transactions Only - This at my local Officeworks. They are going to use this virus to outlaw cash"

#8945737 at 2020-04-28 08:40:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

>>8894216
Clive Palmer takes out three-page ads promoting purchase of malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine

Businessman, former politician and publicity hound Clive Palmer has taken out a three-page spread in News Corp publications, claiming to have purchased 32.9 million doses of hydroxychloroquine - an antimalarial drug being studied for its effectiveness in treating COVID-19.

Palmer's text-heavy ad says he has purchased the drug and donated it to the Australian government, "so it may be available free to all Australians".

Palmer said he had paid for the drugs "with his own money" and claimed health minister Greg Hunt was grateful for his efforts.

Thus far, clinical trials of the drug have experienced inconsistent results, but some Australian hospitals are prescribing it to those COVID-19 patients in intensive care.

Palmer, however, said acting fast was key, and the drug was the "best hope" for those knocked down by the disease.

"If we had not moved in early March when we did, we would have lost our opportunity," he quotes himself in the ad.

"The tablets we have acquired have a shelf life of three years and the bulk materials longer," he said. "A vaccine may take many years to develop and Australia has to be ready to provide the best treatment for its citizens should the worst occur. The small contribution that I have made will assist Australia in getting back on its feet sooner."

Palmer also used the ad to heap praise on the government for its response to COVID-19.

"The Australian government has done a great job in protecting and defending the Australian people in this time of national crisis," he said. "In particular, the Prime Minister has showed the calm leadership necessary to guide the nation in troubled times. The Health Minister Greg Hunt had shown exceptional courage and dedication in filling his role and his performance as health minister was just what any doctor would have ordered."

Pages two and three of the ad provide a COVID-19 timeline, including when the diseases was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and various counties' experimentation with the hydroxychloroquine drug.

https://mumbrella.com.au/Clive-Palmer-takes-out-three-page-ads-promoting-purchase-of-malaria-drug-hydroxychloroquine-626121

#8895747 at 2020-04-23 14:34:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

>>8894216

Clive Palmer is a fucking LEGEND
Standby for the deepstate attack on this good guy … sure as shit, it's coming

https://www.Palmerfoundation.com.au/Palmer-buys-32900000-doses-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-australians/

#8894216 at 2020-04-23 09:19:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Palmer buys 32,900,000 doses of Hydroxychloroquine for Australians

Media release

23 APRIL 2020

True to his word, Clive Palmers' Palmer Foundation has bought over 32,900,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine. Millions of doses of the drug have already arrived in Australia. The Palmer Foundation has already paid for the drug in the form of tablets and bulk pharmaceuticals.

The Palmer Foundation has donated the drug to the Australian Government to be placed on the National Medical Stockpile so it may be made available free to all Australians.

In the United States of America, President Trump has confirmed the country had 29,000,000 doses of the drug on its national medical stockpile to be available to 330 million Americans.

On the 2 April 2020, Australia's Minister for Health, Greg Hunt announced hydroxychloroquine would be made available if doctors wish to use it to treat COVID-19 patients who are in Australian hospitals. Since that time, Australia's death rate from COVID-19 has been the lowest in the world and the curve has flattened. Mr Hunt also congratulated Mr Palmer for the steps he was then taking to acquire hydroxychloroquine internationally, paying for the effort with his own money.

On 2 April 2020, Caroline Edwards, Acting Secretary for the Department of Health, as a delegate of the Minister for Health, established the Therapeutic Goods (Medicines- Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine) (COVID-19 Emergency) Exemption 2020. The exemption allowed the Palmer Foundation to make the acquisitions for the sole purpose of donating all drugs acquired for the free use of the Australian people.

"The Australian government has done a great job in protecting and defending the Australian people in this time of national crisis. In particular, the Prime Minister has showed the calm leadership necessary to guide the nation in troubled times," Mr Palmer said.

"The Health Minister Greg Hunt had shown exceptional courage and dedication for filling his role and his performance as health minister was just what any doctor would have ordered."

Mr Palmer said that he believed that hydroxychloroquine was the best hope for those suffering COVID-19. He said that while all Australians had played a critical role in containing the virus, they had to remain vigilant that a second wave did not destroy the economic fabric of the nation and Australian lives.

"The tablets we have acquired have a shelf life of three years and the bulk materials longer,'' Mr Palmer said.

"A vaccine may take many years to develop and Australia has to be ready to provide the best treatment for its citizens should the worst occur. The small contribution that I have made will assist Australia in getting back on its feet sooner.

"The challenge now facing all Australians is to save our country's economy and restore employment and prosperity to all.

"I am happy that the quick action we took in early March to secure hydroxychloroquine for Australia has been successful. It is important that Australians that have been using the drug to treat malaria, lupus and autoimmune diseases over the last 40 years will not have any difficulty in acquiring the drug."

Mr Palmer said it was critical that the drug remained available in hospitals for those who needed it to treat COVID-19 and was available to the Australian community when required.

"If we had not moved in early March when we did, we would have lost our opportunity,'' he said.

"At this time of national crisis in our country, all Australians must do whatever they can to help their fellow Australians.

"I want all Australians who have done well in this country to remember their fellow Australians and the sacrifices that have been made by previous generations and dig deep to support all efforts necessary to defeat this threat to our lives and our livelihood,'' Mr Palmer said.

https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/Palmer-buys-32900000-doses-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-australians/

#8720552 at 2020-04-08 07:29:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Controversial drug hydroxychloroquine to be given to coronavirus patients in Australia

Infectious diseases experts urge caution amid concerns about anti-malarial's possible side-effects

A controversial anti-malaria drug will be given to Australian Covid-19 patients in hospitals outside of clinical trials, the federal government confirmed, after the therapeutic goods registration requirements for two drugs were waived to allow them to be imported to and stockpiled in Australia.

The drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, are being explored in clinical trials around the world for their potential as a coronavirus treatment to ease symptoms, or as a preventative drug to stop people being overcome with the infection. Trials are exploring use of the drugs on their own as well as in combination with others.

But clinicians have warned that hydroxychloroquine can cause severe and even life-threatening side-effects, and have cautioned against using it for conditions for which it has not been tested. It is a proven treatment for malaria and for some autoimmune conditions.

Studies on its efficacy as a Covid-19 preventative or treatment are mixed. Much of the focus on the drug came after a small French study, which has since been widely disputed and been found to have omitted data contain spurious results. A small study from China found no benefit to chloroquine being given to Covid-19 patients.

Hydroxychloroquine has also caused division within the White House, Axios reported, after the US president, Donald Trump, hyped it as a "game changer" in treating the virus. The White House infectious disease expert warned Trump that evidence for the drug was only anecdotal and far from proven.

A health department spokesman said the inclusion of the medicine in the national medical stockpile was based on not only its proven clinical uses, but on its potential clinical utility in the absence of a well-documented treatment.

While "clinical trials are critical for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of potential treatments, before they are made available through the health system", the spokesman said, the drug would be made available not only for clinical trials but "for use in hospitals for ill patients".

The government said under an emergency exemption to therapeutic goods registration requirements the drug would be sourced from overseas and imported, including intermediates and other raw materials so that local manufacturing could occur.

The department confirmed that the former federal politician Clive Palmer, who has said he will produce 1m doses of the drug, has a prior written arrangement with the commonwealth and so his plan aligned with the emergency exemption.

"It is anticipated that medicines containing hydroxychloroquine sulfate will be made available to the national medical stockpile from a number of pharmaceutical companies," the spokesman said. "Some of these include generous donations funded by Mr Clive Palmer."

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Australia has also confirmed that it will provide doses. And the government is investing $1.5m to support guidance for clinicians to ensure they are given the best possible advice on managing Covid-19 patients.

An infectious diseases expert and former World Health Organization adviser, Prof Peter Collignon, said he was concerned the stockpiling was being driven by hype and panic.

"It a very bad idea to have panic driving drugs we are going to give to people and chloroquine is just an example of panic," Collignon said.

"It is very important to look at and evaluate these drugs around the world but to only issue these drugs after that evaluation. Or we run the risk of killing people.

"I would be worried about it being made available in the absence of strong trials and doctors make panicked decisions. Panic can blur good science and doing things safely."

He said Australia was not overwhelmed with patients in hospitals like New York and London were, so Australia had time to make careful and considered clinical decisions.

Dr Sacha Stelzer-Braid, a senior scientist in the virology research lab at the University of New South Wales and the Prince of Wales hospital, said while laboratory studies using hydroxychloroquine to inactivate the virus look promising, we still needed to be cautious about the possible use of the drug to shorten the duration of infection or even possibly prevent infection, if used prophylactically in healthcare workers, for example.

(continued)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/controversial-malaria-drug-hydroxychloroquine-to-be-given-to-coronavirus-patients-in-australia

#8632606 at 2020-03-31 06:48:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Australia's richest man to spend $1million funding the trial of two drugs that may treat COVID-19 - as he issues a 'call to arms' to the nation's wealthy to fund the fight against the virus

Australia's richest man Anthony Pratt has donated $1million to fund the trial of two drugs that may help patients suffering from COVID-19.

The drugs, used in the treatment of HIV and arthritis, will be trialled by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne on Monday, The Australian reported.

Mr Pratt, who is the billionaire chairman of packaging companies Visy Industries and Pratt Industries, also issued 'a call to arms' to Australia's wealthiest to join the fight against COVID-19, as the number of confirmed cases hit 4,514.

'Bushfires unfortunately happen every year but this is a one-in-100-year event, so this is a call to arms for people to contribute more now,' he said.

'We are hoping for a silver-bullet solution. We need to do something, and preferably something within 60 days.

The Melbourne businessman, who has an estimated fortune of $16.95billion, said people who can help should step up in this situation.

Doherty Institute director Sharon Lewin said the trial involves the HIV drug Kaletra and arthritis drug ­Hydroxychloroquine.

The trial involves giving patients, who are in hospital but not intensive care, the two drugs and monitoring their condition with those who were not given drugs.

The 60-day trial would take place in 60 hospitals in Australia and New Zealand, involving 2,440 people and costing $6.7million.

The donation from Mr Pratt brings the total to to $3million.

'What is unprecedented is we are talking about making this available to all Australians if possible, but it needs to be studied and the only way to do that is in a larger study,' Professor Lewin said.

He said it can take months to get funding from the government for medical trials, highlighting the importance of philanthropy in moving the process along.

Mr Pratt's donation comes after Doherty Institute scientists grew coronavirus in a high-security lab in January after taking a sample from a man who was diagnosed with the infection.

They were the second lab to grow the virus after one in China was able to cultivate it.

Mining billionaire Clive Palmer also donated $1million to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital's Coronavirus Action Fund.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8170029/Australias-richest-man-Anthony-Pratt-donates-1million-drug-trial-coronavirus.html

#8582304 at 2020-03-27 06:45:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

>>8528361
Experts condemn Clive Palmer-funded ads claiming hydroxychloroquine can cure coronavirus

Queensland businessman has pledged to fund 1m doses, despite warnings it can lead to heart attacks, eye damage and coma

Prominent advertisements paid for by former federal politician Clive Palmer which promote a malaria drug as a potential "cure" for Covid-19 are "ethically immoral" according to Prof Peter Collignon, a former World Health Organization advisor who worked on Australia's response to the Sars virus.

The two-page ad in the Australian states the drug, hydroxychloroquine, when combined with another medication could "wipe out the virus in test tubes". The ad says Palmer - who has headed several failed businesses and has been hit with criminal charges following an investigation by the corporate regulator - had agreed to personally fund the acquisition or manufacture of 1m doses "to ensure all Australians would have access to the drug as soon as possible".

The ad also quotes the leader of an Australian clinical trial for the drug who describes the combined treatment as a "cure," even though the trial is yet to begin or receive ethics approval. The ad ran despite the Therapeutic Goods Administration [TGA], which regulates drugs in Australia, warning that the drug and its derivatives "pose well-known serious risks to patients including cardiac toxicity potentially leading to sudden heart attacks, irreversible eye damage and severe depletion of blood sugar potentially leading to coma".

Collignon, an infectious diseases physician in Canberra, said "promoting the drug like this on the current available evidence is a bad idea. He added it was problematic for Palmer to suggest the drug could be bought from other countries, which are already restricting the export of hydroxychloroquine due to shortages for people who need it to treat autoimmune diseases and prevent malaria.

"I suspect he will have great trouble doing this," Collignon said. "We don't have malaria here but overseas, particularly in developing countries, they rely on this drug for malaria. So if you gobble up all the supplies of chloroquine from overseas based on the dubious possibility of it working for Covid-19 then people will die of malaria.

"The idea we can just buy it from other countries and keep it here in case it works is just ethically immoral. Yes we should study these drugs and do that properly with strong clinical trials, but promoting those trials in this way just creates hysteria and hype around a drug that the studies so far suggest is not even effective for Covid-19."

Channel 7 has also promoted Palmer's involvement. Much of the hype has been generated by a small French study which, although reported by some media, has since been widely disputed, found to have omitted data, and to contain spurious results. A small but well-conducted study from China found no benefit to chloroquine being given to Covid-19 patients.

Guardian Australia has contacted Palmer for comment.

Prof Lyn Gilbert, the chair of the infection control group guiding Australia's response to Covid-19, questioned the ethics of accepting money from Palmer for research, given he has described himself as a "vaccine questioner" and has been sued for his business practices including failing to pay staff their entitlements, which he later settled.

US president Donald Trump has also been promoting hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment, and Palmer has been tweeting Trump's comments.

"People have died from this sort of nonsense," Gilbert said.

"I have fairly extreme views about private support for research, and these are my views only and do not represent everyone's. But I believe it is difficult to maintain independence and the perception of independence by accepting money like this. I personally wouldn't accept his money."

Guardian Australia has contacted the University of Queensland, which is leading one of the clinical trials Palmer is promoting, for comment.

The Royal Australia College of General Practitioners president Dr Harry Nespolon warned "hdroxychloroquine and chloroquine are not 'cures' for Covid-19 and they should not be used to protect patients from the virus until clinical trials are complete and the regulatory authorities have given the all clear".

He said he supported the TGA's move to place tight new restrictions on who can write prescriptions for the drug following widespread shortages for people who need it to treat autoimmune conditions.

Guardian Australia has contacted the TGA for comment on whether Palmer's ads breach stringent drug advertising rules.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/experts-condemn-Clive-Palmer-funded-ads-claiming-hydroxychloroquine-can-cure-coronavirus

#8528361 at 2020-03-23 06:30:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Billionaire Clive Palmer taps deep pockets to fight the coronavirus

Billionaire Clive Palmer says he'll pay for more than one million doses of a malaria drug that could help fight coronavirus.

The former federal MP says he's happy to lose his money, but he believes Hydroxychloroquine could help prevent infections, or reduce the severity of illness in those who do get the virus.

Mr Palmer has promised to fund the manufacture or acquisition of the courses, and has appointed Brisbane pharmacist Jeremey Sheridan to "lead the effort to oversee the large-scale manufacturing of the drug in Australia".

News Corp reported a small number of Australian coronavirus patients have been successfully medicated with drugs including hydroxychloroquine and the HIV medication Kaletra.

The World Health Organisation last week said it would study the drug's effectiveness, and US President Donald Trump has been touting its possible benefits, with studies underway in America and in Europe.

Mr Sheridan said Australia needed to act fast to ensure it has enough of the drug.

"While the clinical trials in Australia in 50 hospitals may take four to five months to complete, it is important that arrangements for the large-scale manufacture or acquisition of Hydroxychloroquine proceed quickly," he said.

"We cannot wait. To delay now could cost Australian lives in the coming months. We cannot wait to start the process of large-scale acquisition of the drug."

Mr Palmer says he wants to ensure all Australians have access to the drug as soon as possible.

He said he would personally fund over 1,000,000 courses and donate it to Australia's national drug stockpile, so people could have access regardless of their financial circumstances.

"We are proceeding as fast as we can to initiate the manufacturing process in Australia," the former MP said.

"I will spend whatever it takes."

He said he was willing to lose his money if the drug did not turn out to be as effective as he hopes.

"If we are wrong, I lose some money but if we are right we may save the lives of thousands of our citizens. Australia must move now with urgency."

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2020/03/23/Clive-Palmer-malaria-drug-funding/

#6643646 at 2019-06-01 06:47:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #5 - Shill count HIGH Edition

Federal election 2019: Minor cousins of Right propped up Coalition victory

The major parties on the right side of politics gained more than half a million primary votes at the May 18 election, despite the Coalition parties losing about 65,000 votes nationally.

Analysis by The Weekend Australian reveals that, although Scott Morrison has hailed the election result as a "miracle victory", it was sealed with a flagging national primary vote that was boosted by preference flows from minor right parties, which benefited from an even worse performance by the major parties on the Left.

When compared with the 2016 election and allowing for population increases, the major parties on the Left, Labor and the Greens, fared even worse than the Coalition, losing almost 200,000 primary votes combined.

The Coalition's primary vote losses, which were heaviest in Victoria and Western Australia, and the disappearance of Family First were more than offset by the gains made by Clive Palmer's United Australia Party, Pauline Hanson's One Nation and Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party.

Even in Victoria, one of two states Labor hoped would provide the path to victory, the Left has gone backwards. Labor's gain of almost 46,000 primary votes in Victoria was more than cancelled out by the Greens going backwards by more than 53,000 votes.

Victoria was easily the worst state for the Coalition, which on current counting has lost about 107,000 primary votes. But when the parties of the right are clumped together, their vote total is almost 25,000 higher than it was at the 2016 election.

In NSW and Queensland, the two mainland states that underpinned the Coalition's win, its primary vote gains of 17,000 and 16,000 respectively were dwarfed by minor right party increases. In NSW, UAP was the big winner with more than 130,000 votes, while in Queensland, the Hanson and Palmer parties each picked up almost 100,000 more votes than they did in 2016.

In Western Australia, minor parties on the right were the only winners. One Nation (about 72,000) and UAP (about 28,000) picked up almost 100,000 primary votes between them at the expense of the Coalition and Labor and, to a lesser extent, the Greens and other micro parties and independents.

The South Australian result was very different from the other states, with the plunge in the vote won by the Nick Xenophon Team in 2016. The rebadged entity, Centre Alliance, is down more than 176,000 primary votes, with parties on the right picking up about 77,000, parties on the Left about 74,000 and 25,000 flowing to independents and micro parties.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/federal-election-2019-minor-cousins-of-right-propped-up-coalition-victory/news-story/4fd3078a655851a71820e520e58083ce

#6576602 at 2019-05-24 09:03:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #5 - Shill count HIGH Edition

#4 - Part 6/8
2019 Australian Election Bun
>>6131361 Election 2019: Date set for May 18
>>6133618 Australia Heads to Election in Showdown Over Taxes, Climate
>>6115863 Right-wing anti-immigrant party rebrands as 'Yellow Vests Australia' ahead of elections
>>6133679 Coalition will roll out 'name and shame' paedophile register across Australia if elected
>>6161270 Video: Fraser Anning - The Carl Higbie Show
>>6183034 Newspoll: One Nation's slide gives Labor and Coalition a boost
>>6233644 Party-hopping pollies need to respect the will of the voters
>>6311560, >>6311576, >>6311598 Alt-right to release 'avalanche' of election campaign propaganda to help Fraser Anning
>>6314968 Background Briefing twitter account banner and Fraser Anning profile pic
>>6319069 Teen charged after attack at Fraser Anning press conference named
>>6319395 Photographer hurt in scuffle at Fraser Anning press conference
>>6319403 Video: Female journalist attacked following Fraser Anning press conference
>>6319429 Liberal party strikes deal to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer
>>6320000 Senator Fraser Anning press conference - 26/4/2019.
>>6328721 One Nation candidate filmed making controversial comments
>>6332066 Far-right social media views of alleged attacker at Fraser Anning political announcement
>>6344236 It's Clive Palmer (Trump) vs Bill Shorten (Hillary)
>>6356157 Heckler targets Queensland Senator Fraser Anning at Adani-related press conference
>>6356707 Major parties shun Fraser Anning's candidates, Liberals embrace United Australia Party, as pre-polls open
>>6369051 Video: Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate Steve Dickson resigns over strip club videos
>>6418610 Anti-gay, anti-Muslim rogue candidates taint PM Scott Morrison's Australia election bid
>>6419821 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's billboard defaced with nazi imagery
>>6427309 Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party objects
>>6435304, >>6435314, >>6445341 Scott Morrison egged while campaigning in Albury
>>6438554 ABC defends free advertising to 'disgraced' Fraser Anning
>>6444103 Bill Shorten fights back tears as he defends his Mum's story
>>6444140 Greens candidate Jay Dessi quits as candidate for Lalor over offensive Facebook posts
>>6444676 Video: We Are Change Talk Show Guest - Wayne Glew, Great Australian Party
>>6503461 Pauline Hanson lashes 'racist' Fraser Anning
>>6503465 Bill Shorten hints Julie Bishop could be his ambassador to the US
>>6524767 Pre-Election Newspoll prediction - Labor victory, 80 Lower House seats, 1.86% swing
>>6527582, >>6527618 BREAKING: ABC projects Coalition victory
>>6527778 Video: Pauline Hanson's tears - Nine News Australia
>>6528229 Red shoe Julie Bishop featured in election coverage with animated red shoe symbolism
>>6529513, >>6529574 Federal Election map and summary - See how the Coalition defied the polls to retain power
>>6529765 'I always believed in miracles': Scott Morrison celebrates as Bill Shorten concedes defeat
>>6532032 President Trump Tweet: Congratulations to Scott on a GREAT WIN!
>>6532204 Video: Scott Morrrison makes his final pitch to voters before election day - ABC 7.30
>>6532807 Fraser Anning out as Jacqui Lambie and Malcolm Roberts return to Senate
>>6533220 Scott Morrison clinches unlikely victory over Bill Shorten in bombshell election result
>>6533244 Video: Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises to victims of child sexual abuse - ABC News
>>6533398 Australia's Conservatives Win Surprise Election Victory
>>6533653, >>6534245 Bun of Anons comments on POTUS Tweet about Scott Morrison
>>6533766 Video: Think someones having a kek - ScoMo thanks Chief Of Staff, John Kunkel
>>6534309 Trump calls Morrison 'to reaffirm alliance, friendship'
>>6536935 US Dept. of State Tweet - The U.S. congratulates @ScottMorrisonMP & the Coalition on their victory
>>6539985, >>6540010 Negative Twitter reactions to Coalition election victory
>>6541405 Tanya Plibersek rules herself out of race for Labor leadership
>>6541518 Australia Re-Elects Conservative As Prime Minister In 'Shock' Result, Left Predicts Environmental Apocalypse
>>6541530 Trump and Australia's Scott Morrison Reaffirm Alliance, Friendship After General Election
>>6556487 Photo posted by Chris Bowen on eve of election campaign reveals arrogance that doomed ALP
>>6556521 Albanese a step closer to Labor leadership as Bowen bows out
>>6556973 'I'll burn for you': How our Pentecostal PM energised Christian voters

#6576537 at 2019-05-24 08:38:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

#4 - Part 6/7
2019 Australian Election Bun
>>6131361 Election 2019: Date set for May 18
>>6133618 Australia Heads to Election in Showdown Over Taxes, Climate
>>6115863 Right-wing anti-immigrant party rebrands as 'Yellow Vests Australia' ahead of elections
>>6133679 Coalition will roll out 'name and shame' paedophile register across Australia if elected
>>6161270 Video: Fraser Anning - The Carl Higbie Show
>>6183034 Newspoll: One Nation's slide gives Labor and Coalition a boost
>>6233644 Party-hopping pollies need to respect the will of the voters
>>6311560, >>6311576, >>6311598 Alt-right to release 'avalanche' of election campaign propaganda to help Fraser Anning
>>6314968 Background Briefing twitter account banner and Fraser Anning profile pic
>>6319069 Teen charged after attack at Fraser Anning press conference named
>>6319395 Photographer hurt in scuffle at Fraser Anning press conference
>>6319403 Video: Female journalist attacked following Fraser Anning press conference
>>6319429 Liberal party strikes deal to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer
>>6320000 Senator Fraser Anning press conference - 26/4/2019.
>>6328721 One Nation candidate filmed making controversial comments
>>6332066 Far-right social media views of alleged attacker at Fraser Anning political announcement
>>6344236 It's Clive Palmer (Trump) vs Bill Shorten (Hillary)
>>6356157 Heckler targets Queensland Senator Fraser Anning at Adani-related press conference
>>6356707 Major parties shun Fraser Anning's candidates, Liberals embrace United Australia Party, as pre-polls open
>>6369051 Video: Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate Steve Dickson resigns over strip club videos
>>6418610 Anti-gay, anti-Muslim rogue candidates taint PM Scott Morrison's Australia election bid
>>6419821 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's billboard defaced with nazi imagery
>>6427309 Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party objects
>>6435304, >>6435314, >>6445341 Scott Morrison egged while campaigning in Albury
>>6438554 ABC defends free advertising to 'disgraced' Fraser Anning
>>6444103 Bill Shorten fights back tears as he defends his Mum's story
>>6444140 Greens candidate Jay Dessi quits as candidate for Lalor over offensive Facebook posts
>>6444676 Video: We Are Change Talk Show Guest - Wayne Glew, Great Australian Party
>>6503461 Pauline Hanson lashes 'racist' Fraser Anning
>>6503465 Bill Shorten hints Julie Bishop could be his ambassador to the US
>>6524767 Pre-Election Newspoll prediction - Labor victory, 80 Lower House seats, 1.86% swing
>>6527582, >>6527618 BREAKING: ABC projects Coalition victory
>>6527778 Video: Pauline Hanson's tears - Nine News Australia
>>6528229 Red shoe Julie Bishop featured in election coverage with animated red shoe symbolism
>>6529513, >>6529574 Federal Election map and summary - See how the Coalition defied the polls to retain power
>>6529765 'I always believed in miracles': Scott Morrison celebrates as Bill Shorten concedes defeat
>>6532032 President Trump Tweet: Congratulations to Scott on a GREAT WIN!
>>6532204 Video: Scott Morrrison makes his final pitch to voters before election day - ABC 7.30
>>6532807 Fraser Anning out as Jacqui Lambie and Malcolm Roberts return to Senate
>>6533220 Scott Morrison clinches unlikely victory over Bill Shorten in bombshell election result
>>6533244 Video: Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises to victims of child sexual abuse - ABC News
>>6533398 Australia's Conservatives Win Surprise Election Victory
>>6533653, >>6534245 Bun of Anons comments on POTUS Tweet about Scott Morrison
>>6533766 Video: Think someones having a kek - ScoMo thanks Chief Of Staff, John Kunkel
>>6534309 Trump calls Morrison 'to reaffirm alliance, friendship'
>>6536935 US Dept. of State Tweet - The U.S. congratulates @ScottMorrisonMP & the Coalition on their victory
>>6539985, >>6540010 Negative Twitter reactions to Coalition election victory
>>6541405 Tanya Plibersek rules herself out of race for Labor leadership
>>6541518 Australia Re-Elects Conservative As Prime Minister In 'Shock' Result, Left Predicts Environmental Apocalypse
>>6541530 Trump and Australia's Scott Morrison Reaffirm Alliance, Friendship After General Election
>>6556487 Photo posted by Chris Bowen on eve of election campaign reveals arrogance that doomed ALP
>>6556521 Albanese a step closer to Labor leadership as Bowen bows out
>>6556973 'I'll burn for you': How our Pentecostal PM energised Christian voters

#6532807 at 2019-05-19 02:45:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

Fraser Anning out as Jacqui Lambie and Malcolm Roberts return to Senate

The Senate crossbench looks likely to be less diverse but a couple of familiar faces are set to return to the upper house.

A pair of familiar faces look likely to re-join the Senate after being knocked out by the dual citizenship debacle that plagued the previous parliament.

While the final Senate count will take some time, One Nation's Malcolm Roberts in Queensland and Jacqui Lambie in Tasmania look likely to be returned to the red chamber.

Ms Lambie had a warning for Scott Morrison at her election night party:

"You know what, Scott Morrison? If I am lucky and I hold that balance of power, I hope to God you and your people treat me a hell of a lot better than what they did in the three and a half years I was up here," she told ABC TV.

"Otherwise, mate, if I'm part of that balance of power, we're going to have a lot of difficulty getting things through unless it's going to cost you a lot of money, which is great for Tasmania because I'll be able to deliver. You know what? Drop the attitude."

Controversial figure Fraser Anning has missed out returning to the Senate in what North Sydney Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman said was "one of the great outcomes of this election".

"There have been a lot of people concerned about the rise in extremism here and around the world. And what we've tonight is Australians reject the type of extremism Fraser Anning was offering.

"Frankly the position he took on issues of race were simply reprehensible and it had no place in the Australian Parliament and the Australian people appeared to have agreed with that."

As the numbers stand late on Saturday night, in Queensland, the Coalition will hold two of the six Senate seats up for election, and Labor one.

The final seats will be up for grabs between the two major parties and the Greens' Larissa Waters and Mr Roberts, who are about level pegging.

The tens of millions of dollars Clive Palmer spent advertising his United Australia Party don't seem to have paid off, with it picking up about a third of the vote of One Nation and the Greens.

In Tasmania, the Liberals and Labor look set to hold two seats each and Greens incumbent Nick McKim to return, with Ms Lambie in line for the final seat.

The coalition is likely to retain three seats in both NSW and Victoria and Labor another two, with the Greens probably taking the final seat in each state.

It's a similar story in South Australia, where the major parties will take two seats each and the Greens' Sarah Hanson-Young will hold on, with the final seat probably also going to the Liberals.

And in the two territories, ACT and NT, the status quo will prevail with Labor and the Liberals taking one seat each.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/fraser-anning-out-as-jacqui-lambie-and-malcolm-roberts-return-to-senate

#6356707 at 2019-04-29 09:33:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

Major parties shun Fraser Anning's candidates, Liberals embrace United Australia Party, as pre-polls open

The Liberals and Labor have frozen out Fraser Anning's far-right party in the ACT's how-to-vote sheets as pre-polling began in Canberra on Monday.

Labor, the Liberals and the Greens have told voters to allocate no preference to Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party when voting for Senate candidates.

Voters headed to pre-polling booths around the national capital as party volunteers and candidates handed out their how to vote sheets.

Both major parties put the United Australia Party ahead of each other, as national polling shows Clive Palmer's $30 million campaign ad spend has gained traction.

The Liberals have directed voters to give their second preference to the United Australia Party, while Labor put the party ahead of the Liberals, which are last on the ALP's how to vote sheets for the House of Representatives. The Liberals have placed the Greens last.

Labor put the Greens second on how-to-vote sheets in the ACT.

While the Greens have told voters to put Labor second in the Senate vote, it recommended they put the ALP behind the Australian Progressives on lower house ballot papers.

Independent centrist ACT Senate candidate Anthony Pesec said he did not enter any preference deals with other candidates and would not recommend any preferences.

"As an Independent I want my supporters to make their own decisions about where their preferences should go in the ACT Senate contest," he said.

Mr Pesec, seen as a credible challenger for one of the ACT's two Senate seats, also targeted the nationalist candidates appearing on ballot papers.

"The one recommendation I will make is that the people of Canberra firmly reject the divisive extremism of Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party," he said, adding that voters should leave the far right party's box blank.

The Conservative National Party is fielding two Senate candidates in the ACT.

While many are watching Mr Pesec's campaign, the Greens are arguing they are the most powerful threat to Liberal senator Zed Seselja's hold on the ACT's second Senate seat.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has faced questions about the Liberals' preference deal with Mr Palmer's United Australia Party, which could help hand back the minor party crossbench influence in the next parliament.

Labor has criticised the preference deal, however Mr Palmer said he had received several calls from ALP senator Anthony Chisholm. Opposition leader Bill Shorten said his party held no "formal" discussions on preferences with the United Australia Party.

A Liberal party spokeswoman said preferences were ultimately a decision for the party organisation but there would be no policy deals in exchange for preferences.

It is predicted that Australians will vote early in record numbers this election.

About 17 million people are enrolled to vote, and the participation rate has grown from 95 per cent in 2016 to 97 per cent.

Voters have the choice of numbering at least six boxes above the line, or at least 12 candidates below the line, when voting for the Senate. In the House of Representatives race, voters have to number every box on the ballot paper.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6094622/major-parties-shun-annings-candidates-as-pre-polls-open/?cs=14230

#6344236 at 2019-04-28 05:54:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

It's Clive Palmer (Trump) vs Bill Shorten (Hillary)

Suddenly last fortnight, Bill Shorten started to look a lot like John Hewson. An opposition leader making every post a loser - aiming to once again lose an unlosable election. And as a decidedly unintended consequence, save the nation from the disaster of a Labor-Green government.

While I think those parallels of political ineptitude separated by more than a quarter of a century certainly hold true - although it really is too early to call the contemporary outcome - I suggest there is a far more recent, even broader, and certainly more wickedly interesting and instructive parallel.

This is the 2016 US presidential election. No, it's not Scott Morrison as our down under Donald Trump - although they do have a similar skill for salesmanship - but of course Clive Palmer.

It is of course captured in their signature slogans: Make America Great Again; the unashamedly derivative but still seemingly highly effective Make Australia Great.

And why not steal it? It is another interesting and instructive comment, this time on the "professionalism" of our professional political class, that it was "left" for Palmer to steal.

Why would anyone in the mainstream parties think wanting to make Australia great would have any appeal to voters? After nearly 50 per cent of American voters were prepared to entrust their belief in that ambition to a candidate as conventionally unappealing as Trump?

Palmer as Trump is obvious; albeit with that fundamental difference. Trump was embarked on winning close enough to 50 per cent of the national vote; Palmer's ambitions are far more modest.

His target is 12-14 per cent or so in Queensland to win a Senate seat; or even just the appearance of sufficient votes to force preference deals which would get him there.

The ambitions elsewhere are even more modest: to project the appearance of sufficient appeal to enable him to trade lower house seats via his preferences for the possibility of a Senate seat from coalition preferences.

Now, the likely result of Palmer-playing-Trump was revealed in our polling of those four critical marginal seats in Tuesday's paper at the start of the week; the consequences of his apparent success played out in the preference deals with the Liberal and National parties at the end of the week.

Absent some major reversal down to election day - that's to say, crudely, if the number of Queensland voters who don't want to make Australia Great (and/ or as I've noted, are disinclined to make Palmer grate again, this time in the Senate) goes back above, say, 95 per cent - all this guarantees we will be hearing from Senator Palmer after July 1. And we might be hearing from a continuing PM Morrison after election day - defying all odds and what until this week also looked like plain unavoidable PM Shorten reality.

What the likely Palmer-as-Trump success and his preference deals also do, I would suggest, is guarantee a second right-wing maverick (RWM) senator in Queensland - either Pauline Hanson's Malcolm Roberts or Bob Katter's Joy Marriott, depending how all the preferences flow - and assure at least one RWM in Western Australia and NSW.

The entire ABC-Nine-Guardian leftist media had been totally uninterested in the Palmer-as-Trump exercise, just as their US counterparts across the US broadcast and "quality" print media had been with Trump himself; and for the same reason: they were both just thoroughly "unacceptable" to the leftist media elite.

And not just the leftist media. I am not aware of any other commentator suggesting that Palmer's "spend-and-earworm" Trump-style strategy would pay dividends, as I did at the start of the week.

And only this paper's Simon Benson and the paper's polling, coincidentally delivered on the same day, set out to answer that question. And the answer was of course: plenty.

It fits into that broader elite denial of the reality of Trump and Brexit and yellow shirts and all the rest across the voting world and the denial even more of the underlying realities they erupt from.

What I also want to suggest to you is of the other hand clapping in the 2019 (Aus)-2016 (US) parallel: this is Shorten-as-Clinton. That's to stress, if indeed it's needed, Hillary Clinton.

Trump got halfway to winning under his own projection; Clinton then put him over the top by being such an awful, awful candidate, with a combined sense of entitlement and utter disdain for all those "deplorable Americans", many of whom she actually needed to vote for her.

Are we seeing the same combination playing out here? Palmer-as-Trump delivering votes and potentially seats to the Coalition on the one hand; and then Shorten-as-Clinton sealing the deal, so to speak?

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/its-Clive-Palmer-trump-vs-bill-shorten-hillary/news-story/e8cf1d2df7b6a18f0da47c5e470fc8a2

#6327335 at 2019-04-26 23:19:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

>>6320000

Probably ALL controlled opposition:

Fraser Anning

Avi Yemini

Blair Cottrell

Pauline Hanson

Clive Palmer

Andrew Bolt

Anyone associated with Blair Cottrell.

None have positively endorsed Q and Trump and God and Love and True Reform Without Cabal Central Banks and 100% Free Speech.

#6319429 at 2019-04-26 05:41:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

Liberal party strikes deal to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer

United Australia party leader has previously likened Scott Morrison to Heinrich Himmler

The Liberal party has agreed to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer in a deal nutted out by party figures on Wednesday night.

Sources say how-to-vote cards that see the Liberals preferencing the United Australia party are ready to print, with Palmer to be placed ahead of the Labor party in lower-house seats and in the Senate.

The deal could prove critical to the outcome in a host of marginal seats across the country, and improves the chances of Palmer reclaiming a spot in the Senate where his resurrected party could hold the balance of power.

Palmer is No 1 on the Senate ticket in Queensland, where the party's following is strongest, but the UAP is also seen as a strong chance of picking up a Senate position in Western Australia and in New South Wales, where former One Nation senator Brian Burston leads the ticket.

A Newspoll published this week showed that, after a $30m advertising blitz, Palmer was recording between 5% and 14% of the primary vote in a host of marginal seats.

Liberal party state branches met last night to endorse the deal struck by the federal executive, with due diligence underway into candidates running under the UAP banner in all 151 lower house seats.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, was asked on Tuesday to justify a potential preference deal with Palmer, who has previously compared Morrison to Heinrich Himmler.

"I did see some comments he made about an approach when we made a criticism some years ago," Morrison said. "Look, I'm not going to be held back by that, nor am I here to offer any defences of Mr Palmer.

"He's big enough to do that for himself. Parties will have discussions before close of nominations and the preference tickets, which will be issued next week in the normal course of events."

Pre-polling for the election, where as much as 40% of voters are expected to cast their vote, begins on Monday when details of the preference arrangements will become clear.

While Palmer is unlikely to have sufficient volunteers to staff major pre-polling booths, there has been some speculation that Palmer may pay people to staff booths as he did at the 2013 election.

At that election, Palmer secured 5.49% of first preferences nationally, winning 11% of the vote in Queensland and 4.9% of the national Senate vote.

This saw Palmer elected as the MP for the seat of Fairfax, and two senators, Jacqui Lambie and Glenn Lazarus, elected. In 2014 at the rerun of the Senate election in WA in 2014, the party's Zhenya Wang was also successfully elected.

Lambie and Lazarus quit the party in 2014 and 2015 respectively, and Palmer deregistered the Palmer United party in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/25/liberal-party-strikes-deal-to-exchange-election-preferences-with-Clive-Palmer

https://archive.md/Hy6v8

#6311576 at 2019-04-25 18:29:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

>>6311560

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The Nazification of Clive Palmer

Around the same time Mr Wilson was running for council, he and Mr Kobryn-Coletti were honing their skills in political messaging by producing online content for Clive Palmer.

When Mr Palmer was staging a return to federal politics in 2017, he employed Mr Kobryn-Coletti to create animated videos of his quotes set to music.

Mr Wilson was separately producing videos shared by Mr Palmer's official Facebook page.

But later that year something strange happened to the page.

A post depicting Mr Palmer in a Nazi uniform gassing a room full of his political opponents appeared.

Other users began competing with each other to share the most offensive Hitler-related memes.

The messages seen by Background Briefing show Mr Wilson boasted he was behind the anti-Semitic content.

A spokesperson for Mr Palmer's United Australia Party told the ABC they did not have any record of Mr Wilson working for their leader.

Mr Palmer does not endorse the images shared on his page, they said.

Mr Kobryn-Coletti's contract was not extended, the spokesperson added, because "his views were extreme".

The New Guard

Last June, a manifesto appeared in a closed Australian fascist Facebook group called The New Guard.

The manifesto laid out the group's plans for influencing mainstream politics and institutions.

Their tactics included creating propaganda, building wealth by opening businesses and amassing property, and helping to elect state and federal parliamentarians.

Members of The New Guard alternated between sharing white supremacist memes and plotting to infiltrate Australian politics.

Background Briefing gained access to the group before it was shut down and exposed an attempt to seize control of the NSW Young Nationals.

The party expelled 22 members as a result, banning them for life.

Background Briefing can now reveal Mr Wilson and Mr Kobryn-Coletti belonged to The New Guard.

So too did Zack Newton, an electoral officer for Senator Anning.

When contacted by the ABC, Mr Newton denied any involvement and subsequently deleted his Facebook account.

"If in fact my name appears in such a Facebook group, I can only assume it was added by someone else without my knowledge or permission," he said.

"I have never sought to join or work with any groups bearing that name or holding those views."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-18/fraser-annings-alt-right-staff-have-secret-plan-nazis/11025260

#5588170 at 2019-03-09 10:51:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #3 - March MADNESS Edition

hey lads, did that faggot PM ScoMo just have a fly in visit to try and recruit boomers against the Labor (Chinese) scourge or what? I'm waiting for the next election just so I can wear my Make Australia Great Again hat, not sure who I want to vote for. I feel like One Nation, Aus Conservatives and these Liberal Democrats are going to split the votes and the same faggots in power will take power again (don't even front with this Clive Palmer bullshit) what is a WA boy to do?