WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Ahahaha I just saw the best and probably most scarily accurate reasoning for why Trump chewed out Turnbull.

The Liberal Party.

norp posted:

This was never not going to blow up, when it was announced during the lame duck period was there actually anyone who thought it was going to happen? Let alone anyone in the government who knows how this poo poo works.

Edit: I'm pretty sure at least one person pointed that out in this thread at the time of the announcement, it may even have been me

Solemn Sloth posted:

Liberals are actually really bad

Synthbuttrange posted:

Spicer addressed the spat today and declared that President Trump and 'Prime Minister Trumbull' had a cordial chat.

Lid posted:

Give her a raise

Natuonalise 2gb

Palaptine's newsletter posted:

This morning the President has said he loves Australia and will “respect” the deal, but that nations are taking advantage of the US. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said his boss was “unbelievably disappointed” about the “horrible deal” and that refugees will only be allowed in the US if they pass extreme vetting. But Mr Trump’s top officials have tried to smooth over the rift, holding a meeting with ambassador Joe Hockey.

catallaxy posted:

“How is it playing out in Australia?”

...
For Malcolm apparently to have tried to push Trump, by telling him that as a fellow businessman that a deal is a deal, must rank as politically incompetent as anything I have ever seen. That Trump now thinks of Malcolm as a flea-weight no-account fool only means he has the same assessment of the PM as the rest of us.

take to the hills! posted:

One of the most obvious features of the parliamentary inquiry into section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has been the volume of government agencies and government-funded left-wing interest groups that have contributed to the body of submissions.

These beneficiaries of government largesse are uniformly in favour of more government, and defending the existing prohibition of offensive, insulting, humiliating and intimidating speech contained in section 18C.

Lid posted:

A STAFFER in the Prime Minister’s office has been suspended after posting anti-Trump propaganda to her social media page.

Yvette Kerr, executive assistant to the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s chief of staff Drew Clarke, has been suspended today over “inappropriate” posts on her Facebook page, 2GB radio reports.

Ms Kerr posted a photo and link to a website named ‘Tuck Frump’ in November, before the President was elected.

She deleted the post today after the radio station alerted the Prime Minister’s office to the link.

Give her a raise

Natuonalise 2gb

quote:

Royal commission into sexual abuse: Every Catholic archbishop to give evidence next week

Every Catholic archbishop in the country is to be called to give evidence at next week's royal commission hearings in Sydney into child sexual abuse.

The three-week public hearing will focus on the extent of child sexual abuse over almost seven decades and what church leaders are doing to protect children.

The church's most senior leaders will face the full panel of royal commissioners, and include the archbishops of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra Goulburn.

The bishops of Darwin, Broome, Parramatta and the Maronite diocese of Australia are also on the witness list.

This is the 50th public hearing of the four-year-long royal commission and it is the 16th dealing with abuse in the Catholic Church.

The opening address by the counsel assisting the royal commission, Gail Furness SC, is expected to include some grim statistics — an overview of the number of reports of child sexual abuse relating to the Catholic Church since 1950.

The ABC has been told the data runs into hundreds of pages and includes details of the complaint, age of the victim, which diocese or religious order the offender came from and how claims were dealt with and whether compensation was paid.

The CEO of the Catholic Church's Truth Justice and Healing Council, Francis Sullivan, has told the ABC "it's the first time in the western world the Catholic Church has been so open about its data and its records".

"This is very confronting, it's a miserable tale, you can't put a coating on it, it speaks of so much damage, it's heartbreaking," Mr Sullivan said.

quote:

Australian Catholic Church warns congregation ahead of final 'grim' royal commission hearing

Catholic Church leaders throughout Australia are warning church-goers and school parents about the release of data on Monday at the child sex abuse royal commission, describing it as an "horrific portrait of appalling abuse".

Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge was so concerned about the impact of the statistics relating to the extent of reported abuse within the Catholic Church, he emailed a video message to tens of thousands of Catholic school parents.

"The royal commission is about to hold its final hearing into the Catholic Church which will be a very challenging time," he said in the video.

"My sincere hope is that all the blood, sweat and tears will produce justice and healing and ensure that the future is much safer for the young than the past has been."

Archbishop Coleridge's video message will be played in more than 200 churches in the Brisbane diocese throughout the weekend.

The Townsville diocese will also play the message in each of its parishes for this weekend's masses.

The 68-year-old archbishop said in his message there would be some "grim moments and some shocks" in the royal commission's final hearing into the Catholic Church.

"We have to shift the culture and that's a far more difficult thing to do," Archbishop Coleridge sa

Synthbuttrange posted:

Spicer addressed the spat today and declared that President Trump and 'Prime Minister Trumbull' had a cordial chat.

Comstar posted:

Mods need to change it so any mention of Trumbull is converted to Trumbull automatically.

Lid posted:

A STAFFER in the Prime Minister’s office has been suspended after posting anti-Trump propaganda to her social media page.

Yvette Kerr, executive assistant to the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s chief of staff Drew Clarke, has been suspended today over “inappropriate” posts on her Facebook page, 2GB radio reports.

Ms Kerr posted a photo and link to a website named ‘Tuck Frump’ in November, before the President was elected.

She deleted the post today after the radio station alerted the Prime Minister’s office to the link.

Give her a raise

Natuonalise 2gb

underage at the vape shop posted:

I didn't think qps could top removing all the bins as a cure to terrorism

http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/blog/2017/02/02/launch-report-drug-dealer-online-tool/

Literally, a busybody hotline. Like, this is the image used in their article.


I honestly can't tell if it's serious or just a way to free up policelink from the busybodies.

underage at the vape shop posted:

I didn't think qps could top removing all the bins as a cure to terrorism

http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/blog/2017/02/02/launch-report-drug-dealer-online-tool/

Literally, a busybody hotline. Like, this is the image used in their article.


I honestly can't tell if it's serious or just a way to free up policelink from the busybodies.

Other posted:

Tirade posted:

Whether it was from the ALP, the Abbott faction of the Libs or someone else, someone has ruined her career to gain a half hour of the Friday afternoon news cycle.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

No discussion about Mundine v Green II - This Time, It's For Money ?

ewe2 posted:

And while on catallaxy news, Morgan Begg of the IPA has a new theory: that ARE TAXES fund pro-18c groups to attack brave honest IPA people!

Comstar posted:

Mods need to change it so any mention of Trumbull is converted to Trumbull automatically.

Tirade posted:

I know Yvette fairly well, she's a loving great person and it's bullshit that she's been given the 2GB treatment. She's an EA, not a political adviser - this isn't some party operative, she's spent her career in the public service and only recently went up to the hill. She had nothing on her Facebook that in any way linked her to the PMO, and didn't even use her real name for her profile.

Whether it was from the ALP, the Abbott faction of the Libs or someone else, someone has ruined her career to gain a half hour of the Friday afternoon news cycle.