Drew Pavlou having a ball today as 60Minutes approaches: Really looking forward to 60 Minutes this Sunday https://t.co/NoEYZK82kQ — Drew Pavlou 柏乐志 (@DrewPavlou) July 15, 2020 What a joke, UQ thinks it can make up for viciously bullying and attacking me for 4 months by sending a Student Services ”welfare check” email. Why yes, I
The Guardian with some good material: Coronavirus cases in New South Wales will need to continue rising at their current rates until at least the middle of next week before the government will consider further tightening social restrictions, public health experts have said. They argue the state’s capacity to rapidly respond to new cases has not yet
Via REA: Overseas searches for Australian property are spiking as expats eye a return home. COVID-19 has led to strong growth in interest from overseas property seekers in buying Australian property, with search activity increasing by 42 per cent since Australia’s lockdown began in March. Unlike previous spikes in offshore search, which were largely driven
Via The Australian: China has warned Australia that excessive anti-dumping complaints by BlueScope Steel threaten our industry and crucial iron ore exports. …In its submission, the Chinese government said: “China would also like to remind Australia that taking trade remedy measures for similar products intensively may raise the price of relevant products, which will cause
It is fair to say that MB has had a love hate relationship with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adern. When she became New Zealand’s 40th Prime Minister on 19 October 2017, we were enamoured by her excellent and comprehensive election platform. Among other things, Adern promised to fix New Zealand’s chronic housing affordability problem
This: Does not tally with this: NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said he was confident the steps taken so far to contain the Crossroads Hotel cluster were “quite sufficient” and no further lockdowns would be required. The Crossroads cluster is now linked to 34 cases, and cases are expected to rise, but the minister said
Leith reported yesterday on the terrific shift by Jacinda Ardern against temporary migration: Both big and small companies are scrambling to hang on to their workforces, with thousands of temporary resident visas set to expire all at once…. There were about 350,000 temporary visa holders in the country during the lockdown, and the government estimated
It didn’t take long for the worst leadership class in the world to trash their good fortune. The first virus lockdown was easy. We had summer. It was telegraphed from overseas. We had no community transmission to speak of. We just did what everyone else did. Voila! Geniuses. No longer. As our second wave gets
Go to Maccas for a couple of burgers then tweet that the Government needs to spend a lot more: With this sort of information before them, it is staggering that the government is underspending to support the economy at a time of mass dislocation. Stimulus measures have been stingy, slow and poorly targeted https://t.co/jT67Buc5JF —
The bubble loves this: The US biotech company’s vaccine candidate produced antibodies in all 45 participants in the first cohort of the phase one trial run by the National Institutes of Health, while the paper said there were no safety problems that could curtail further trials. The problem is this: A new study from China showed that antibodies faded
Australia’s Chinese boom is basically over. Sure, they’ll keep buying the dirt. But the rest of it is done for. Craig Emerson is rare Labor voice of reason on this: …probably with increasing frequency, Australia will adopt policy positions on foreign influence, cyber security, human rights, the South China Sea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China’s
As the pollies chase their tails, egged on by Anus Bollocks and his ilk: BREAKING: 18 people now in Queensland are being tested for Coronavirus after attending The Crossroads Hotel in Casula. They are in quarantine awaiting test results. It’s expected that number will rise. @9NewsQueensland @9NewsAUS — Rob Morrison (@RMorrison9) July 13, 2020 #BREAKING:
No it’s not, screams The Australian: The NSW government will prioritise economic recovery over pre-emptive lockdowns, even as it slashes the number of people who will be allowed in the state’s pubs and ramps up enforcement against venues flouting the rules. As Victorian health authorities warned that infected travellers visited a string of venues across
Late yesterday, Drew Pavlou lost his appeal against a suspension from the University of Queensland (UQ) over criticising the university’s deep links to China. UQ’s senate discipline appeals committee announced that it would uphold its decision, despite finding Pavlou not guilty on 13 of 18 allegations. However, it reduced his suspension from two years to
People keep messaging me telling me they nominated me for a UQ honorary doctorate LMAO 😂😂😂 I support the push in so far as it pisses the UQ higher ups off pic.twitter.com/M6Qky8Qydu — Drew Pavlou 柏乐志 (@DrewPavlou) July 12, 2020 Obviously the Chinese consulate will veto any such move. I’m going to nominate Mr Pavlou
I was once a great fan of Gareth Evans but not anymore: This would be sensible if it didn’t so comprehensively misrepresent recent history. Australian rhetoric around China has not been hysterical. When Malcolm Turnbull declared Australia would “stand up” against CCP violations of sovereignty he did so because it was necessary. China was busy
Last week the International Gas Union issued its annual report on global gas prices. This is the industry benchmark report that the Australian gas cartel uses to argue in the Australian parliament that Aussie gas prices are reasonable. Here’s the 2019 results: Australia comes in at 18th around $8Gj. This makes domestic Aussie gas the
Two things I will observe from my one week break. First, the rise of masks is obvious. Second, it’s just as well because Melbourne has not locked down anything like it did in round one. People are everywhere. With plenty of rubbing of shoulders and sharing of oxygen. This is not a second lockdown. It
Just right for another locked down Melbourne Friday.
Angry small business owners have demanded that Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews resign as Premier after his government badly botched hotel quarantine for returned international travellers: Kurt Falkenstein, owner of Revolver Lane, a shared workspace under the Revolver nightclub on Melbourne’s iconic Chapel Street, said… [lockdown] would be “disastrous” for local businesses and the government must
There are two simple rules for public relations in politics: “Steer into it”; and “The cover-up is always worse than the crime”. This means that when you commit a blunder, the best course of action is to steer into the problem, fess up, apologise, commit to do better, and then move on. Doing so will
A whistleblower has accused staff at the taxpayer-funded Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) of forcing employees to campaign for Labor in the lead-up to the 2018 state election, according to the Herald-Sun: Staff at a taxpayer-funded support centre for migrant workers were ordered to clear their diaries so they could campaign for the Labor Party, a
During yesterday’s press conference by Premier Daniel Andrews, where he locked down metropolitan Melbourne for another six weeks, he repeatedly blamed Victorians’ “bad behaviour” and “complacency” for causing the horrendous spike in COVID-19 infections: Not once during the press conference did Daniel Andrews concede his Government’s own incompetent handling of hotel quarantine, which was initially
Here is the madness in full view, at the ABC: A security guard monitoring repatriated Australians in hotel quarantine in Adelaide was sent home for breaching safety protocols and a review is underway, SA’s Chief Public Health Officer says. She said SA Police identified the breach because they have oversight of the security guard operations
Via 7.30: Announcing the next Government welfare program based on hearsay and anecdotal evidence.pic.twitter.com/N1QO9K2yon — Mark Humphries (@markhumphries) July 2, 2020
We need federal intervention at UQ: An Australian University appears to be teaching students that Muslim Uyghurs are overrepresented in ‘Terrorism’ incidents in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang. I wonder if they’re also learning about the ‘re-education camps’ there? https://t.co/JQWrYddLka — Andrew Greene (@AndrewBGreene) July 2, 2020 Australian university UQ has a Chinese government funded
Via News: There’s real concern among experts that the spread of COVID-19 in the community in Victoria is about to get a lot worse. Epidemiologist, Professor Adrian Esterman, told news.com.au this morning he is “very worried” about the surge in community acquired cases in particular. Of Victoria’s 77 new cases on Thursday, 31 of those
Via the ABC: Hong Kong police made hundreds of arrests on Wednesday as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping new security legislation introduced by China to snuff out dissent. Police also fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters during the clashes which came one day after the new legislation was enacted.
From your friendly neighbourhood tyrannical regime: Oh my god am I reading this right??? Article 38: The law applies to persons who do NOT have permanent resident status in HK and commit crimes under this law OUTSIDE Hong Kong. Did Beijing just grant itself sweeping extraterritoriality to…everyone on the planet? — B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) June
Via The Australian comes the sound of the door closing on cheap energy: Energy giant Shell said several of its high profile Australian gas projects were to blame for a massive $US8bn to $US9bn ($A11.7bn-$A13.2bn) writedown triggered by lower prices amid a Covid-19 demand shock. The energy major – one of Australia’s biggest gas producers
