A South Australian Labor staffer has faced court charged with producing
and possessing child exploitation material.
He has worked as a staffer for Labor MP Net Cook.
The 38 year old faced Adelaide court charged with producing and
possession child exploitation material.
His employment has been terminated and he has been expelled from the
Labor Party.
Riders play the traditional Central Asian sport of kok-boru, or buzkashi, in the village of Sokuluk in Kyrgyzstan. Kok-boru is a traditional game where players on horseback compete for points by manoeuvring a stuffed sheepskin into the opponent’s goal. Photograph: Vyacheslav Oseledko /AFP via Getty
One of 10 recently arrived alligators is released into a new enclosure at the Australian Retile Park, bringing the number of American allegators in the park to 55, the largest population in Australia. Photograph: The Australian Reptile Park.
When Princess Diana died in 1997, her fortune was split equally between her two sons. However when the Queen Mother passed away five years later, Prince Harry inherited a substantially larger amount of his great grandmother’s £14 million ($25 million) fortune than his older brother Prince William.
Considering Prince William is second in line to the throne, Queen Elizabeth’s late mother wanted to effectively protect Prince Harry's financial future.
Andrews
promoted after she made my life hell, says female staffer
A senior Liberal adviser has taken stress leave from Karen
Andrews’ office after claiming the new Home Affairs Minister bullied,
humiliated and victimized her over a six-month period.
In the letter, the woman claimed she was left “suffering severe
stress, anxiety, sleeplessness and depression” following what she alleges was
six-months of bullying.
However, a spokesperson told The Australian that Ms Andrews “strenuously rejects these claims”.
The ALP has for the first time recognised the state of Palestine in its national platform, despite strong opposition from sections of the party’s Right faction.
A Palestinian demonstrator scuffles with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest marking “Land Day” in Sebastia near Nablus in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Reuters/Raneen Sawafta
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, home of the titular big red desert rock in the middle of Australia, gets about a foot of rain a year. On Sunday, March 22, it got a big chunk of its annual dose in under 24 hours, resulting in spectacular sights around the sandstone behemoth that is Uluru.
A US Border Patrol agent delivers a young asylum seeker and his family to a bus station in Brownsville, Texas on February 26. US immigration authorities are now releasing many asylum-seeking families after detaining them while crossing the US-Mexico border. The immigrant families are free to travel throughout the US while awaiting asylum hearings. John Moore/Getty Images
NSW
Nationals MP Michael Johnsen offered a sex worker $1,000 to come to
Parliament House to have sex with him in his office. The same woman has alleged he
"sexted" her during parliamentary Question Time and sent her a video
of himself performing a lewd act………
Source: ABC
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-30/nationals-mp-invited-sex-worker-into-nsw-parliament/100036294
Bye bye Porter, good riddance
The PM has reshuffled the cabinet and moved Mr Porter into the portfolio of industry, science and technology.
Michaelia Cash will officially take over the Attorney-General portfolio.
Malcolm Turnbull will head a new advisory board for the NSW government on its 2050 net-zero emissions target - if, as expected, cabinet approves the role.
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is set to head a new board to advise the NSW government’s long-term climate policy in his first major political post since leaving Federal Parliament almost three years ago.
The role, which will be as chairman of the NSW Net-Zero Emissions and Clean Economy Board, is set to go to cabinet for approval on Monday afternoon (today), high-level sources who declined to be named have told the Herald and The Age.
Artist Thomas Dambo used scavenged wood to install 6 giant
wood sculptures in Copenhagen.
Danish artist Thomas Dambo
brings fairytales to life with...trash! His giant (4–20 meter) troll sculptures
are made entirely from recycled wood. First hidden in the forests of his home
of Denmark, they can now be found everywhere from the USA to South Korea:
https://www.facebook.com/dw.euromaxx/photos/pcb.2448691481818419/2448689131818654/?type=3&theater
Critical care doctors in Paris say surging coronavirus infections could soon overwhelm their ability to care for the sick in the French capital's hospitals, possibly forcing them to choose which patients they have the resources to save.
The sobering warnings were delivered in newspaper opinions signed by dozens of Paris-region doctors. They came as French President Emmanuel Macron has been vigorously defending his decision not to completely lockdown France again as he did last year. Since January, Macron’s government has instead imposed a nationwide overnight curfew and followed that with a grab-bag of other restrictions.
But with infections soaring and hospitals increasingly running short of intensive-care beds, doctors have been stepping up the pressure for a full French lockdown………………………
March 27, 2021
The EU’s attacks on
AstraZeneca call into question the company’s decision not to profit from its
vaccine, according to a leading member of the scientific team that delivered
the breakthrough.
Sir John Bell, the Oxford
University professor who helped mastermind the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine,
warned that the company’s morale is being damaged by what he sees as
unwarranted criticism of its safety and efficacy.
He
said AstraZeneca had “never had credit” for its early decision not to profit
from the vaccine and that repeated attacks from the EU and figures including
Emmanuel Macron have called it into question.........
https://newsbundleonline.com/australia/astrazeneca-is-safe-and-effective-but-nobody-cares-scientist/
An 1887 Australian gold £5 coin
struck at Sydney Mint has sold at auction in Dallas, Texas, for $US660,000,
equivalent to $867,600 in Australian dollars.
The
“proof” coin, one of three in existence (Museums Victoria has one), was
specially struck for presentation purposes and was never intended to be
circulated. The price is the second highest figure for an Australian coin sold
at auction. It was sold to an Australian collector who lives in California and
who, as they say, wishes to remain anonymous.
Phillip John Cooper
A Victorian man has pleaded guilty to
five charges related to the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines.
Nine children, including some as young as two years old, were rescued in the Philippines in February after a tip-off from Australian Federal Police.
A Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street that spent more than 100 years behind closed doors has fetched 13.09 million euros (£11.2m) at auction.
Sotheby's said the
sale price was a record for the Dutch artist in France, where Thursday's
auction took place.
This is an ESP Ultimate
Archangel, from the Japanese branch of ESP
They made a series of angel guitars over the
years and the line this is from was made specifically for Toshihiko Takamizawa
("Takamiy") of The Alfee. Currently
almost $62,000 with today's exchange rate. Here's the site for the line.
Nurse in Italy plays with 7 month old baby positive to covid and waiting for surgery.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The architect Cristina Ventura who is in charge of the restoration of Christ the Redeemer, looks out from the top of the statue which will have its 90th anniversay in October. Photo Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty
150 ships are waiting to pass through the 120 mile canal
New Zealand’s parliament has voted unanimously to give mothers and their partners three days of bereavement leave after a miscarriage or stillbirth.
Sky News presenter and former federal parliamentary staffer Peta Credlin has revealed that she had sacked the Coalition staffer featured in a video masturbating on the desk of a federal MP at Parliament House.
During her segment on Sky News on last night (Wednesday) night, Credlin also alleged that, in a separate case, evidence was found showing that another staffer had held orgies inside Parliament, including during question time when their boss was in the chamber.
After terminating the staffer’s employment, the man backgrounded journalists against her, Credlin said. She alleged that the man called her a “bitch” and said that she was “too tough”.
“That bloke I demanded to be sacked years earlier for disloyalty, for lying, for leaking against his boss,” she said.
“I sacked him and I said he would never be back while I worked in that building.”
The staffer was rehired when Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister, she said, only to be dismissed this week following the publication of the lewd videos.
Source: The Age
Craig Kelly has continued to stand by Frank Zumbo despite mounting allegations of misconduct. (ABC News)
Senior Liberal Party member Kent Johns has labelled embattled MP Craig Kelly a "liar", as the former Liberal MP continues to stand by his political staffer Frank Zumbo amid allegations that Mr Zumbo sexually harassed young women.
At least seven women have provided statements to NSW Police detailing allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Craig Kelly's trusted advisor, Frank Zumbo.
EU migrants who come to Britain will not be able to claim benefits for five years. EU nationals already living in Britain and those from Ireland will not be affected.
NSW Nationals MP Michael Johnsen has identified himself as the man accused of sexually assaulting a female sex worker in the Blue Mountains last year.
Trish Doyle used parliamentary privilege to allege a government MP raped a sex worker. Hours later MP Michael Johnsen revealed he was the man at the centre of the allegation and said he was innocent. Source: ABC
The reshuffle is set to see both Linda
Reynolds and Christian Porter removed from their ministries.
Christian Porter is set to be stripped
of his Attorney-General portfolio as the Prime Minister seeks to cauterize
the deepening crisis engulfing his government.
The reshuffle could be announced as early as Friday.
It is expected Peter Dutton will become Defence Minister and Michaelia Cash will be Attorney-General. Source: ABC
Meghan told Oprah she and Harry tied the knot “in our backyard” three days before the $50 million public wedding on May 19, 2018.
Meghan, 39, said in the interview, “You know, three days before our
wedding, we got married. No one knows that. The vows that we have framed in our
room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury.”
The claim was much disputed, not least because in the U.K. a minimum of
two witnesses are needed for a legal marriage to take place.
Today’s formal admission to The Daily Beast that no marriage took place in advance of the official ceremony comes after the marriage certificate document was obtained by the British newspaper the Sun—the paper paid £42 (about $58) to obtain a copy from Britain’s General Register Office.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was identified by authorities as the suspect in Monday’s massacre at the King Soopers supermarket in Colorado. The weapon used in the attack was an AR-15-style pistol modified with an arm brace, according to the source. 23 March 2021
Reuters / Tuesday, March 23, 2021
A family receives medical attention after the Marine Rescue boat
that rescued them from rising floodwaters capsized in strong currents, as the
state of New South Wales experiences widespread flooding and severe weather, in
the suburb of Sackville North in Sydney, Australia. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
Defence
Minister Linda Reynolds has withdrawn from a high-profile international
conference next month as uncertainty mounts over her future in the crucial
frontbench role. She is on leave until April 2 due to a heart condition.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Chief Angus Campbell will speak at
the event.
The Prime Minister has released a statement last night
apologising for the untrue claims he made in relation to News Corp stating the
following
Newly appointed ABC Managing Director David Anderson with chair Ita Buttrose
The ABC managing director, David Anderson, has
mounted a strong defence of Louise Milligan’s reporting on Christian Porter, saying her journalism was in the public interest and of
the “highest quality”.
The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen and Peter van Onselen did
publish the more salacious parts of the woman’s letter, which have never
appeared on any ABC platform.
“The ABC chose never to identify her,” he said. “No unpixellated
image has been used; her voice has not been heard. Her story has been told
through her friends who cared deeply about her.
“Many of the
details of her account of the alleged rape have not been reported on ABC
platforms. As editorial standards require, the ABC sought to minimize the
distress to her bereaved family.”
Source:
The Guardian
Kate Fotheringham and Wayne Bell on Gloucester Road in
Wingham, NSW on Monday. Photograph: Amanda Hibbard
“I had
accepted the fact it was going to be raining and I was wearing gumboots, but I
didn’t know how I was going to deal with a
one-in-a-hundred-year flood and a natural disaster” Kate said
A Liberal staffer has been sacked after a leak of “disgusting” images and videos of male senior government staff performing sex acts in Parliament House.
One of the images shows a man sitting at a desk and exposing himself, with a copy of the Parliament House rule book behind him. Another showed a male pointing to the desk of a female Liberal MP, before performing a solo sex act on it………….
