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
This was from yesterday, I’ll likely send a couple more clips from yesterday’s sessions throughout the morning so stay tuned. I see there’s more Senate Estimates on again today too, looks busy, I’ll do my best but I’m also working so don’t expect me to be all over it 😛
CPP’s Raelene Sharpe says despite having spent hundreds of thousands on chasing Whistleblower Richard Boyle for 6 years & failing to have him convicted & jailed by the court, that it was still in the public interest to pursue him. Was it? 🤔 Yeah, right. #Estimates
NACC Inspector Gail Furness confirmed there’s 55 complaints she received since 1 Oct (this year) relating to Brereton & his (secret) role with IGADF. Whilst not being specific, suggested is investigating Thank you all who complained & to ABCs Olivia Caisley’s great work on this.
After claiming Commr Brereton rarely provides advice to IGADF, NACC CEO Philip Reed then says it’s going to “take some time” for Brereton to advise him on how many times he’s provided advice. Shoebridge “Bcoz there’s so much advice?” “Those things don’t sit together Mr Reed”💥🙄 #Estimates
David Shoebridge has accused NACC CEO Philip Reed of “misleading the parliament” after he told the Senate that Commissioner Paul Brereton had no existing duties with the IGADF DS “That’s what happened Mr Reed, didn’t it?” PR “I’ll leave that to others to determine” 🔥 ouch 🚩 #Estimates
Chris Bowen taunts Dan Tehan following his visit to Nuclear sites in the US saying Tehan’s post-trip YouTube video shows “he did not visit any small modular reactors, advanced modular reactors or micro reactors, perhaps due to the small technical detail that none exist”🔥🤣 #QT
David Shoebridge turns up the heat on AG Dept Sec Kath Jones who objects bail law changes in QLD,NSW, NT are to “put more ppl in jail” DS “r u seriously challenging that?” KJ “u said to put more FN ppl in jail” DS “they were expressly identifying wanting to put more FN kids in jail”🔥 #Estimates
Chantelle Al-Khouri reports on shocking violence/abuse by Israel on illegally detained Australians “Head slammed into the ground” “Held in a large cage with 80 other ppl” while Far Right MP Ben-Gvir “yelled at them” “Forced to dance like a monkey naked”😳 Makes my blood boil🤬 #Abc
An angry Jacinta Price claims she received correspondence from Jewish ppl saying they’re “considering leave Australia” as it’s not a “safe place to live” Says to make them feel safe, anti-genocide rallies at Syd Opera House “should not be allowed!” So full of shit. #SkyAfterDark
Michaelia Cash on Sky has gone bonkers over reports Peter Dutton blames Andrew Hastie for the Liberal Party taking a record beating at the polls saying it’s not Hastie’s fault, but “Labor’s” bcoz of their “11 out of 10 disgraceful social media campaign & attack against us!” 🫠🤦♂️
