Summary: Guess who’s going to the Polls gently ribs WA as the entire state is sent back to do it properly this time. Check Out Our Generosity checks in on Australia’s light-hearted quite humane indefinite imprisonment of vulnerable human beings near angry machete-wielding locals. Manus Island - refugees injured and dead. Machetes. reports “local police went in shooting”. witness says refugees fled to save lives, an eyewitness calls his brother as asylum seekers report being attacked in the compound, and the Refugee Action Collective claims an Iranian man had his throat slit in the compound… secrecy again makes it difficult to know what happened and that secrecy insisted on by the government is nobody’s fault at all certainly not theirs for insisting on secrecy. The doublethink in denying the cruelty while relying on it to deter. Don’t tempt them by asking “Could it get worse?” Morrison eventually orders a sort of review (that he calls an “independent inquiry”) but is secretive about the parameters. Meanwhile - where’s Shorten and the ALP? Department incompetently exposes database with the personal details of one third of all asylum seekers held in Australia on its website. Andrew Bolt knows what happened: ABC BIAS by reporting on refugees. Also Morrison “has performed even better as Immigration Minister than I predicted” Cassidy to Morrison: “An Indian student committed suicide in detention last week after overstaying his visa. Could this have been avoided?” Morrison: “Could he have avoided overstaying his visa?” We look back with Malcolm Farr to when Scott Morrison said he was worried refugees might be caned in Malaysia Stuck in my Craw with the famous Mr Tiedt. Jobs for the VERY BEST MOST QUALIFIED APPLICANTS asks - who better to carry out these highly desirable taxpayer-funded foreign affairs posts than former politicians? Alexander Downer as London High Commissioner, ending Rann’s appointment early (but after SA election) after missing out on the Washington job. Nick Minchin as consul-general to New York Self-declared “climate change skeptic” Dick Warburton to head Abbott govt review into renewable energy target News Corp “paper shuffle” results in $882m payment by govt to Rupert’s mob Yo Indonesia, Wassup? explores our ever-improving relationship with our populous neighbour RAN review admits Navy breached Indonesian waters six times as a result of “miscalculations”. For their part, Indonesian Navy review says RAN incursions happening “more and more frequently” before 6 January incident. ““It was too easy for the Australian warships to enter Republic of Indonesia territorial waters without detection,” says the leaked Indonesian Navy internal report, ““In anticipation of the entry of Australian warships (foreign war vessels) into Indonesian territorial waters, already occurring more and more often, it is necessary to increase Indonesian sovereignty in carrying out more patrols in and around the waters of Rote Ndao and Dana Island, so that foreign warships do not enter Indonesian territorial waters again” Abbott finds it necessary to declare that “Australia does not spy for commercial purposes”, after revelations that maybe we do. The AFP raids Channel 7 to chase funds they suspect were paid to Corby contrary to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Internets news sorts out just why conservatives are the right people to manage new-fangled technology stuff. Copyright review in and Brandis declares he’ll “crack down on piracy”. LNP admits its claims about ALP’s NBN “over-estimated cost by a staggering $35bn”. And finally, our calls for someone to point us in the direction of this ABC LEFTY BIAS have finally been answered.
