8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#14918235 at 2021-11-04 00:51:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18871: Into the Night, Comfy Fight Edition
Scott Morrison leaked a 15-page US government document to embarrass President Joe Biden
Scott Morrison leaked a 15-page US government document to embarrass President Joe Biden, but the Australian media are totally focused on French President Emmanuel Macron calling Scott Morrison a liar and Morrison then leaking text messages. Given our trade and defence ties with the US are the most important we have then the leaking of the 15-page report could likely end up being a lot more damaging than the controversy with France.
The leaking of the 15-page USA government document report has only been reported by the ABC's 7.30 Report on Tuesday (2/11/21) at this stage to my knowledge which I have also reported in the below video that I published on Wednesday (3/11/21):
The fight with the French will take years to mend:
Elys?e officials have expressed fury at the decision of Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, to leak a private text message from the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as the diplomatic rift between the two countries deepened.
"Confidence has been completely shattered," a close adviser to Macron told French media on Tuesday. "Disclosing a text message exchange between heads of state or government is a pretty crude and unconventional tactic." (Click here to read more)
Scott Morrison has a long history of leaking and bullying, especially against women such as Brittany Higgins, Grace Tame, Christine Holgate and Julia Banks who Morrison wanted to silence and undermine, so it is no surprise Morrison has used his standard strategy against Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron. (Click here to read more)
I am no fan of Malcolm Turnbull and he has a lot of questions to answer over the submarine deal that he originally signed off on which I have previously written about (Click here to read more) but I do agree with him saying: "I'll tell you what Scott Morrison has done. He has sacrificed Australian honour, Australian security and Australian sovereignty"
As I said in the above video the scandal will continue to grow and some in the Australian media are happy to push Scott Morison's propaganda and lies to try and help him out of the huge hole he has dug for himself. But I cannot see the American government letting it ride and they will take some sort of action against Scott Morrison for leaking and lying but that might be behind closed doors to avoid a public fight which the world is watching Scott Morrison having with the French.
Morrison's history of lying and leaking is likely at a far higher level than our most recent Prime Ministers but doing it on the world stage causing diplomatic scandals is taking the lies to a whole new level of scandal. It doesn't matter how you look at it, Scott Morrison, in his around the world in 7 days tour, has managed to challenge for the title of the most hated person in the world. The biggest problem is our country will be paying for Scott Morrison's corruption for generations to come.
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2021/11/04/scott-morrison-leaked-a-15-page-us-government-document-to-embarrass-president-joe-biden/
#13316989 at 2021-03-28 20:46:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16870: Q Research Sunday News Edition
Former Labor MP Kate Ellis leads group of female politicians lifting lid on 'toxic workplace culture' in Parliament House
It was a cause for celebration when 30-year-old Kate Ellis was appointed as the youngest Australian to ever become a federal minister. But within 18 months things had turned ugly and her career was on the line.
Key points:
Former Labor MP Kate Ellis has gathered accounts of a large number of female politicians
Former Liberal MP Julia Banks says the workplace culture in Parliament House is the "most unsafe in Australia"
Ms Ellis expects there are "hundreds more stories" of misogyny
In November 2009 she found herself in the "ridiculous" position of telling a national newspaper editor, "I promise I've never even kissed him," as she pleaded for her political life.
"I still cringe when I think how pathetic it was that I was begging," she says.
She says weaponised gossip in Parliament House and a rumour that she and her female chief of staff were both having a sexual relationship with a male adviser in their office "was everywhere".
A major newspaper was going to print the story that the alleged love triangle was "destabilising" the government.
If published, she knew it would be career ending. "I would be labelled as a slut and as someone who isn't really up for the job," Ms Ellis tells Australian Story.
Not only was there "zero" truth to the rumour, Ms Ellis also says the inside knowledge of the workings of her office meant the story could only have originated from within her own party. "The only reason was to undermine me," she says.
The pleas worked and the newspaper editor agreed not to publish, but there was no cause for celebration knowing: "Someone was actively fabricating a story to make sure that it looked like I was some flippant floozy who wasn't really serious about the job that I'd been promoted to do."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-29/female-politicians-reveal-toxic-culture-in-parliament-house/13249844
#6462240 at 2019-05-10 14:43:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8263: Those Who Scream the Loudest Edition
Are the political parties in Australia flipped from how we know them in the US?
Labor party pushing/funding refugees
Liberal party is anti LGBTQ
"In 2016 Liu masterminded a Chinese social media campaign that helped elect Liberal candidate Julia Banks, and has claimed Chinese Australians are concerned future generations will be "destroyed" by "ridiculous rubbish" such as "concepts of same-sex, transgender, intergender, crossgender"."
"Zong correctly stated if Labor wins the 18 May election it would give $500m to the UN's refugee council - omitting the fact the spending is over five years - and claims it will increase Australia's foreign aid by 25%, although the quantum of Labor's proposed spending money is still unknown.
Referring to the refugee intake, Zong said: "The first year will require about $1bn and every year that will increase, and eventually it might reach $10bn dollars.""
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/07/penny-wong-blasts-malicious-wechat-campaign-spreading-fake-news-about-labor
#4045737 at 2018-11-27 07:32:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5148: Ecoli spreads amongst CBF donors. Warnings still have no effect Edition.
Resignations in the news today (part 2)
Gov. Doug Ducey's chief of staff Kirk Adams to resign after 4 years
http://ktar.com/story/2326024/gov-doug-duceys-chief-of-staff-kirk-adams-to-resign-after-4-years/
Former Regina financial adviser Nieswandt barred from work, penalized $150,000 for misconduct
https://leaderpost.com/business/local-business/former-regina-financial-adviser-nieswandt-barred-from-work-penalized-150000-for-misconduct
Athens ISD athletic director, head football coach announces resignation
http://www.kltv.com/2018/11/26/athens-isd-athletic-director-head-football-coach-announces-resignation/
LSA football coach Craig Bundy resigns
https://herald-review.com/sports/high-school/football/lsa-football-coach-craig-bundy-resigns/article_bf207ea4-18d5-563e-933a-e7b4bbde607f.html
Richmond County jailer arrested for DUI resigns
https://www.augustachronicle.com/news/20181126/richmond-county-jailer-arrested-for-dui-resigns
Julia Banks delivers scathing review of major parties after resigning from the Liberal Party
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/Julia-Banks-has-resigns-from-the-liberal-party/news-story/38fbcbc4d39daced8dcfd6ba0984ef6
Berkshire Hills CEO abruptly resigns
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/berkshire-hills-ceo-abruptly-resigns
Mike Jones resigns as Helena City Council president
https://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/2018/11/26/mike-jones-resigns-as-helena-city-council-president/
Workforce director stepping down as SC joblessness hits another low
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article222214580.html
DeLucia resigns as Malta supervisor
https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/11/26/delucia-resigns-as-malta-supervisor
Flyers fire Ron Hextall
http://www2.philly.com/philly/sports/flyers/ron-hextall-flyers-gm-fired-analysis-reasons-dave-hakstol-20181126.html
John Dooley resigns as Leafs' president
https://www.nelsonstar.com/sports/john-dooley-resigns-as-leafs-president/
City clerk retiring after 24 years
https://dailyjournalonline.com/news/local/city-clerk-retiring-after-years/article_09f12f3d-d882-5847-8e2a-325208b1757c.html
Danish pension fund CEO resigns
https://www.pionline.com/article/20181126/ONLINE/181129922/danish-pension-fund-ceo-resigns
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (3)
#15946827 at 2022-03-26 05:45:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition
>>15873706
All women must be believed - unless they're on the other side
CHRIS KENNY - MARCH 25, 2022
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Hello darkness, my old friend. The sounds of silence from some, this past week, have been deafening, disturbing and depressingly predictable. At issue has been far more than politics - a woman's life, safe workplaces, respect, and fairness. But hard, partisan politics have coloured all of it and too often have dictated the coverage, revealing a media preference for narrative over fact.
Journalists who verged on the hysterical about allegations involving Christian Porter or Brittany Higgins, sundry other non-specific claims and a so-called toxic culture at Parliament House have flicked the switch to phlegmatic when it comes to Kimberley Kitching. And where were the powerful women - Julia Banks, Georgina Dent, Christine Holgate, Lucy Turnbull, Larissa Behrendt, along with Higgins and Grace Tame - who earlier this month demanded we "have to talk" about how to ensure women are no longer "harassed, unsafe, ?ignored or disrespected"?
Have I missed their angst and interventions about the treatment of Kitching?
People who, in the Porter episode, were happy to take the withdrawn complaints of a deceased woman, about alleged, denied and exceedingly unlikely events from more than 30 years ago, and reanimate them from beyond the grave, have dismissed the allegedly bullying trauma endured by a dead senator just this month. Was Kitching's torment just too prosaic to bother the feminist defenders?
The main difference, of course, was the side. The partisan side and the preferred narrative too often trump the principle. Take ABC radio host Virginia Trioli, who wrote about women and the toxic workplace of Parliament House in March last year. She advised Scott Morrison that women needed to be believed. "To listen, really listen," she wrote on the ABC site. "To understand just how much it took for a woman to speak out at all, and then do the work to establish the truth."
Yet last week, even before Kitching's funeral, Trioli seemed more concerned about the term "mean girls" that the late senator had borrowed from a teen movie to describe her female antagonists, Penny Wong, Kristina Keneally and Katy Gallagher, who all deny bullying. "It is profoundly disappointing that it's playing out in archaic and sexist language that has its origin in representations of witches, harpies and shrews," Trioli lamented, before noting Kitching was not a "vulnerable ingenue" but had come to politics with a "complicated history".
So Kitching did not warrant anyone believing her, apparently. She got what she deserved.
So-called independent MP Zali Steggall applauded this assessment from Trioli, who apparently had called out the "ridiculous sexist bs". Steggall dismissed Kitching's trauma, saying "that's party politics" - when she had previously tweeted about the need to "call out" and "stand up" to bullies.
ABC Four Corners executive producer Sally Neighbour retweeted and endorsed Trioli's apologia for the Kitching affair - "nailed it". Yet two years ago, promoting her own program's report, she tweeted in praise of "fantastic young women calling out a toxic boys' school behaviour". If only Kitching had been taunted by schoolboys.
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#15112506 at 2021-12-01 08:03:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition
Resignations in the news
Greg Hunt and Christian Porter set to quit politics
Tom McIlroy and Phillip Coorey - Dec 1, 2021
Two senior members of the Morrison government, Health Minister Greg Hunt and former attorney-general Christian Porter, will retire at the federal election.
Mr Hunt is expected to announce plans to quit his Victorian seat of Flinders on Thursday, while Mr Porter confirmed reports he would quit after the damaging fallout from historic rape allegations and secret donations to fund his legal bills.
Federal Liberal Party figures told The Australian Financial Review Mr Hunt - who was first elected to Parliament in 2001 - would use the last parliamentary sitting day of the year to announce he would retire at the election, due by May 2022.
The former environment, industry and sport minister has repeatedly said he intends to contest the election. But possible preselection candidates have been positioning themselves to contest the Mornington Peninsula seat in the event he does announce plans to retire.
Mr Hunt holds the seat with a margin of 5.6 per cent and easily held off a challenge from Liberal turned independent Julia Banks at the 2019 election.
"I am preselected and running," he has said when asked about his future.
In September, Mr Hunt said he would like to stay on as Health Minister after the election, provided he had the support of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
"It's as important a role as I've been privileged to have," he told 2GB.
Mr Hunt's office pointed to his previous statements when approached for comment on Wednesday.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg paid tribute to his "closest friend" in Parliament. The pair are godfathers to each other's daughters.
"We are very, very dear friends and he has been an outstanding health minister through this crisis," he said..
"The fact that Australia has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world and the fact that we have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world is due in no small part to the incredible work that all health professionals have done across Australia, but Greg as the Health Minister during this once-in-a-century pandemic has been absolutely outstanding."
Mr Porter used a lengthy social media statement to announce his decision on Wednesday afternoon. He moved to the backbench after refusing to disclose donors to a trust which paid the bill for his ditched defamation action against ABC journalist Louise Milligan. He strenuously denies allegations he raped a woman in the late 1980s.
The Financial Review reported last month Mr Porter was expected to retire at the election. He switched from state to federal politics in 2013.
Mr Porter decried the state of politics, saying there "appears to be no limit to what some will say or allege or do to gain an advantage over a perceived enemy".
"This makes the harshness that can accompany the privilege of representing people, harder than ever before.
"But even though I have experienced perhaps more of the harshness of modern politics than most, there are no regrets."
"After a long time giving everything I could to the people of Pearce it's now time to give more of what is left to those around me whose love has been unconditional."
Mr Hunt launched a strong defence of the government's management of the COVID-19 crisis in question time this week. He has overseen public health measures at a national level, and shared criticism for the delayed rollout of vaccines in Australia this year.
This week he has struck an optimistic tone on the risk from the omicron variant.
"Let us never forget, as a Parliament, that of all the nations in the world Australia is one of the few with a loss of life that is so limited," he said.
"Each life lost is to be deeply regretted, but no nation is immune. But few nations have done better than Australia. That's what is fundamentally important."
Former Liberal staffer Zoe McKenzie is among likely Liberal preselection candidates in Flinders. A director of NBN Co, she worked for former trade minister Andrew Robb and serves on the board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/greg-hunt-set-to-quit-politics-20211201-p59dsx
https://www.facebook.com/christianportermp/posts/433955814960018
#12941480 at 2021-02-16 04:16:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #13 - THE WAR IS REAL Edition
>>12941464
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The government called the allegations "deeply distressing," saying in a statement to the news media on Monday that it "regrets in any way if Ms. Higgins felt unsupported through this process." But it maintained that she had been encouraged by Ms. Reynolds to speak with the police "in order to assess the options available to her." Ms. Reynolds did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
One in six women in Australia over the age of 15 have experienced sexual violence, according to the most recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. That figure has grown in the past decade, though it is unclear whether that is because assaults are rising or because a greater percentage of assaults are being reported.
Still, a strikingly low number of women who are attacked come forward to the police, advocates say. For those who do, it is a long and taxing process, one in which privacy laws and courts stifle the voices of those who need to be heard the most, critics say.
The attack took an emotional toll on her, Ms. Higgins said in her email. "I was so quiet for so long," she wrote. "I just became silent in every aspect of my life."
Ms. Higgins said she had decided to speak out after an investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation shed light on sexual misconduct within the Liberal Party. She later quit her job.
The accusations were seen as further damning evidence of the Liberal Party's long-held reputation for being hostile toward the women in its ranks, politicians and women's rights advocates say.
"Once again Parliament House proves itself to be the most unsafe, toxic workplace culture for women in the country," tweeted Julia Banks, a former member of the coalition government who quit the party in 2018, citing a sexist workplace.
The behavior can range from what many call simply sexist - like when Mr. Morrison came under fire for interrupting a female colleague - to insulting, as when Senator Sarah Hanson-Young filed a defamation suit against a male lawmaker who she said had told her to "stop shagging men."
When it comes to rape, said Nina Funnell, a leading advocate for survivors of sexual assault in Australia, "it's a crime that is steeped in power and control, so it's not at all surprising to hear that young women are reporting experiences of sexual violence taking place in locations where male privilege and power is encoded in the very walls."
"Would-be offenders often take potential victims to locations where they feel their power is protected," she added.
In his statement, Mr. Morrison laid out initiatives to better support women in politics, including establishing an external complaints process separate from the party's, according to ABC News.
Ms. Higgins said that by going public, she had hoped to bring change to Parliament's work culture. She recalled being invited to a meeting about her case - in the very same room where she said the assault had occurred.
The government acknowledged on Monday that "given the seriousness of the incident, the meeting should have been conducted elsewhere." Mr. Morrison also said, "That should not have happened, and I do apologize."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/world/australia/raped-parliament-house.html
https://twitter.com/sallyrugg/status/1361222218890416130
https://twitter.com/Lisa_Wilkinson/status/1361155957095473153