Solid. Brazil makes spending cuts to head off a financial crisis in the last 30 minutes, Malcolm Turnbull has been sworn in as australia new Prime Minister. The end results of what happened on monday when the Ruling Liberal Party voted out its leader tony abbott in a revolt. Malcolm turnbull resigned from the cabinet. He asked tony abbott to step aside. It went to a leadership ballot and Malcolm Turnbull won that. Well go to andrew thomas. It keeps happening. I said this last hour. They call it a spill in australia, a political spill. It happens with regularity every 12 or 18 months, you get a new Prime Minister. Well, what you saw then, a new Prime Minister of australia sworn in, is becoming a strangely familiar sight. Five times in five years, unprecedented for a country that on the surface looks very stable, very successful economically compared to others, but at the top of poll strides, a constant coup culture in politics. You had it under the previous Labour Government and now und
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The walls of the Melbourne headquarters of
Equity Trustees (EQT) are adorned with the portraits of former
prime ministers, premiers and governors-general who have served on the board of
the stately 133 year old institution.
The roll call of dignitaries includes 19
th century
premier Sir Charles Sladen, prime ministers Stanley Bruce and Robert Menzies
and former governor general Ninian Stephen.
In Marc,h former Abbott/Turnbull era Cabinet minister Kelly
O’Dwyer joined the board, filling a seat vacated by former Victorian premier
and Hawthorn Football Club president Jeff Kennett. (Kennett’s great
grandfather, Edward Fanning was a director for 30 years from 1888 to 1917).
Attorney-General Christian Porter (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
As Australia was drifting into its festivity-induced haze over the Christmas break, Attorney-General Christian Porter quietly slipped out news of a $500,000-a-year appointment he’d made to a Liberal Party lifer. Nothing unusual in that.
Even less surprising was that it was another well-paid job for life at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal which the government has relentlessly stacked with cronies.
Yet the appointment of Karen Synon, made in the figurative dead of night, deserves a closer look, not least because she is the government pick to run the very area of the AAT the social services and child support division which called out the illegal basis of the government’s robodebt scheme. That scheme was a scandalous abuse of power which left a trail of ruin in the name of budget repair on the way to a billion-dollar class action settlement.
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