Prior to this Julie Bishop was grilled by Tony Sheldon & Mehreen Faruqi over recent scandals at ANU & after calls for her to resign from students, staff. Bishop said she won’t be as had support of council (ie, that’s all that matters apparently)
David Pocock grills ANU COO Jonathan Churchill on why he skipped out of previous #Estimates DP “I’ve since seen notes…that your presence was not required, is that correct?” JC “That’s correct” DP “why did u tell this committee that noone from council was available…?” JC “…”🙄
RBA Governor Michele Bullock confirms Labor has turned the economy around with wages now rising, inflation down, interest rates down, taxes down. “Real per capita wages are now above what they were pre COVID” Lisa Darmanin “so overall that’s a pretty good story?” Bullock “Yes”✅ #Estimates
Inspector General of ADF James Gaynor says NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton who still works for him, on the side, had his compulsory retirement age extended twice so he can maintain access to sensitive material from Defence systems & that his work is fed to govt ministers. 🚩🚩🚩 #Estimates
ACNC Commr Sue Woodward confirms charities found promoting political parties are disqualified, but after investigating 18 charities during election campaign none met the threshold & won’t spk on the Brethren-Liberal alliance Deborah O’Neill “can I express some concern about that?”🚩 #Estimates
James Paterson “are you saying that you make (spending) decisions in isolation of what the deficit is, or are you mindful of the impact that decisions have on the deficit?” Penny Wong “We are always mindful of our budget position which is why it is better than yours”🔥 #Estimates
Nick McKim “they made $6.5 billion last year, do you think they’re going to be worried very much about a $240 million fine?” “I just don’t think $240 million is going to touch the surface of their grubbiness” “I think we’re going to be back here again in a year, or 2, or 3…”
ASIC’s Sarah Court says they could’ve fined ANZ over their ‘grubby’ misconduct into the Billions, but didn’t coz it’s “so high”, it’s “almost meaningless”🤔 McKim “it’s interesting words to use, ‘almost meaningless’…some might argue that $240mill is pretty meaningless to ANZ”💥 #Estimates
Treasury official James Kelly grilled after claiming does not see any evidence of price gouging in the insurance sector bcoz their profits ‘don’t look excessive’ Nick McKim “they’re up 50% in the last financial year!” #Estimates
Jim Chalmers calls out the “hopefully divided” Liberal Party following leaks from their party room including “Fmr shadow ministers writing letters about leaking, & then leaking them”🔥, condemns the LNP’s “unedifying spats…between the far right & the further right”💥 #QT
NSW Premier Chris Minns has rejected calls to light up the Sydney Opera House in the colours of the Palestinian flag as he did for Israel. Says it could be “inflaming the situation” Palestinian flag is inflammatory? This man is an absolute disgrace.
Julie Inman Grant schools Malcolm Roberts on why she asked X to remove a violent stabbing video globally & chastises him on his ‘global online police’ claim JIR “There is no conspiracy…” MR “I didn’t say there was” JIR “You said I was trying to be the global online police”💥 #Estimates
David Shoebridge accuses AFP’s Ian McCartney of wanting to “maximise the media bang” on crime boss Masood Zakaria by hiding his illegal deportation to Sydney from NSW Police IM “we refute those allegations” DS “the problem u have, it’s in black & white in your own briefing!”🔥😳 #Estimates
Jacinta Price has lashed & accused the ABC of not providing enough coverage on the assassination of Far Right advocate Charlie Kirk. Takes issue with ABC referring to him as a “Far Right advocate”
Pfft. ABC wouldn’t shut up about Kirk. And yes Jacinta, he’s far right, like you. #Estimates
🔥Barbara Pocock slices up Richard Windeyer from Dept of Finance for allowing PwC back into govt contracts RW “We were making a judgement about when we think the organisation is sufficiently changed & different”🤔 BP “How can u make that judgment over the top of the police?”💥 #Estimates
Sarah Hanson-Young has blasted the media watchdog ACMA after it’s revealed they waited 24hrs for Optus to get back to them to advise the outage was a lot worse, & that people had died “You waited til the CEO called to tell you people had died! You are the watchdog!”🔥 #Estimates
Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’
Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates
David Pocock asks Don Farrell some serious questions about why the govt has not implemented an important recommendation from the #RobodebtRC. Farrell caught playing on his phone, not even paying attention.🙄 Pocock hasn’t the patience to try again & moves on. #Estimates
After asking Dept of Climate Change & Energy on cost of the 2035 target, Sarah Henderson doesn’t want to hear the answer & desperately tries to stop Kath Rowley from embarrassing her on the cost of ‘not’ having a target Kath Rowley “If I could just finish my answer?”🙄 #Estimates
Lorraine Finlay defends decision to attend the Antisemitism Summit despite controversial guest speakers inc a fmr head of the US Neo Nazi movement Finlay “if we are actually serious about combating extremism & hatred…” Shoebridge “You don’t put them on a stage”🔥 #Estimates
Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay says she was happy to listen to Nova Peris speak on racism at the recent Gold Coast Antisemitism Summit, despite that Peris shared a social media post describing Muslims as “Satan worshipping cockroaches that need to be eradicated” #Estimates
