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2023 Wheelwright Lecture Speaker:  Professor Heidi Norman, 'Not Going Away: First People and the Australian Economy'.

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A true leader: Former President Donald Trump mocked Chris Christie, one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, over eating habits and weight Tuesday. “Don’t call him a fat pig,” Trump playfully admonished an audience member who shouted out during a speech at a high school gym in Windham, N.H. “You can’t do that.” Trump was apprising the audience of recent polls that show him leading when he first mentioned the former New Jersey governor, who was once one a close adviser. “Christie, he’s eating right now,” Trump said. “He can’t be bothered.” That’s when a man in the crowd shouted out to prod Trump. “Sir, please do not call him a fat pig. I’m trying to be nice. Don’t call him a fat pig,” Trump said. “You can’t do that.” Isn’t he cute? There’s more: He seems to think that he will be “proving” that the Big Lie was actually the truth in his trial. I doubt the court will allow that but in the event it does, he will regret it. Cheap, amateur propaganda like that is very easily rebutted.

It really is the big mystery. We know that Mike Pence testified before the Grand Jury. He’s now speaking out much more straight forwardly than he did before. But Mark Meadows is still missing in action and he doesn’t appear in the indictment.( He almost certainly should be an unindicted co-conspirator since he was on the horn to numerous people on the other end of the plot(s).) Is he cooperating? As much as we know from Jack Smith’s two criminal indictments of Trump and the forthcoming indictment in Georgia, we still know relatively little about the facts behind these indictments. That includes the vast amount of information and evidence gathered from the House select committee that investigated Jan. 6 (but had no subpoena power) as well as that gathered by Smith and Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis that almost certainly will not be shared with the American public until Trump faces a courtroom trial. For example, to this point we do not know how many individuals and groups were involved in the coordinated efforts across seven states and the District of Columbia to steal the 2020 election from the American people.

You heard it here first kids. I wrote back in 2021, not long after J6 that they would impeach Biden. Trump would demand it. If there was time he would have them impeach him three times so that Biden would be the most impeached president in history rather than him. Look at the excuse their telling themselves: Republicans say if they don’t move forward with an impeachment inquiry now, it will create the impression that House Republicans have essentially cleared Biden of any wrongdoing over his ties to his son Hunter Biden’s business entanglements, allegations they say show a pay-to-play scheme when the elder Biden was vice president, even as they have yet to corroborate that provocative allegation. The real reason, as I said, is that Trump is demanding it. That’s all they need because they’re all sycophantic twats. But this is a good one too. They are telling themselves that if they don’t impeach it will somehow make people think that they were unable to prove he is corrupt. Which he isn’t. So they will impeach him instead? What?

It is dispiriting that the Public Service Act Amendment Bill now before the Parliament says so little about ‘merit’. Nothing about secretary appointments and terminations and only a minor grammatical change to clarify that ministers are not able to direct agency heads about individuals’ employment. Yet we have: the Robodebt Royal Commission highlighting ‘the lengths Continue reading »