yes, he has also about 200 criminal kiwis back home.Black Orchid wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:39 pmThat's about where I stand with him too. Bring it on!! I don't think it would be detrimental to the election. I think it would be a positive move.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/le ... e830d1a88bCOALITION MPs deny there will be a challenge to Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership, but shock jock Ray Hadley says it will “100 per cent” happen.
Hadley said on 2GB today that the leadership challenge from Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton would happen “in the next two weeks”.
“It’s happening for sure and certain...100 per cent,” Hadley said.
But Coalition MPs have spent Friday hosing down rumours of the challenge reported by the Daily Telegraph this morning.
Mr Dutton has continued to deny he wants to challenge Mr Turnbull before the next election.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann is a mate of the man he calls “the outstanding Home Affairs Minister” and both are political conservatives.
“I’m not aware of any such talk. Nobody has raised that with me,” Mr Cormann told Sky News today in response to a report conservatives want Mr Dutton to challenge for the leadership.
And he said: “We are both very committed to the success of the Turnbull Government.”
The senator was among a growing number of Government frontbenchers locking in behind Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the face of energy policy dissent stirred up by his predecessor Tony Abbott.
“Anyone who listens to Tony has got rocks in their head,” one minister told news.com.au.
“I can tell you the cabinet is 100 per cent behind Malcolm Turnbull,” Defence Industries Minister Christopher Pyne said, referring to ‘‘a lot of hyperventilating’’.
Mr Cormann and Mr Dutton share more than political positions. They together endure the agony of pre-dawn walks up a hill behind Parliament House.
“I did have four walks with Peter this week, 5.30 in the morning up Red Hill. It was very hard after a six-week break to get up that hill because our fitness levels had dropped off a bit.
“But we talk about a lot but don’t think we just talk about politics for an hour every day as we walk up that hill.
“We strongly support the Turnbull leadership, of course, and we want to see the Coalition Government successfully re-elected early next year when the election is due.”
Other government sources said they believed Mr Dutton would not be talked into a challenge but might run should the Coalition lose the election.
He has a belief he could do the job and one visitor to his office has said there was an almost cult-like conviction he would at some stage be Prime Minister.
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In relation to media stories today, just to make very clear, the Prime Minister has my support and I support the policies of the Government. My position hasn’t changed from my comments last Thursday.
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Patriot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:14 pmBarrier Reef Foundation........is it a parachute?
One of the grinning conjurers favorite tricks is making his audience look elsewhere while he deftly pulls a surprise out of his you-know-what.
Instead of looking carefully at the quick $440 Million slipped quietly into an almost invisible entity, we've all got our knickers in a twist over the kerfuffle in the Government.
When Ms Gillard sensed she was about to get the heave ho, she slipped a quick $300 Million into the Clinton Foundation and now appears to be living happily ever after.
My bullshit meter tells me things aren't quite what they seem, not quite Kosher.
The Barrier Reef is going to continue to look the same, $440 Million of the Taxpayers hard earned will vanish without trace, while drought stricken farmers are eating sheep heads.
LODGE DINNER MAL’S LAST SUPPER
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On Mal’s reckoning he has already returned once, but there is no theological evidence that sumbugger can return twice, let alone thrice. Pontius Pilate Pyne had washed his hands of the mess and Abbott had Peter in a corner explaining that before the cock crows he will have denied Mal thrice.
It was now early morning at The Lodge and dawn was about to break over the War Memorial. A silence had settled over the inebriated guests as they anticipated the cock’s crowing, when Peter unexpectedly stood and said to Mal, “Mal, we all reckon you are a treacherous bastard!” Peter sat down unsteadily and sculled another goblet of Margaret River merlo.
“Don’t worry, Pet”, said Lucy placing a hand on the withered member for Wentworth, “that’s only once”.
The Stick Insect was busy plying black coffee into everyone as expectant stares again settled on Peter who was polishing off yet another goblet of merlot. This time he climbed on his stool with Abbott and Kelly holding one leg each. “You’ve let us all down, you shees of pit, and now it’s you, not the Party, who’s going to get hung out to dry.”
It was a shocking denial of their leader and white faces watched Peter fall to the floor unconscious as Abbott began desperately applying CPR. “There’ll be no thrice denial now”, whispered Lucy who was still reassuringly massaging the Wentworth member”.
But Peter opened one eye, “Get me up fellas, we need to binish this fastard for good!
“There will be no third coming for you”, he yelled pointing a half-eaten pheasant bone at the Wentworth member. The Stick Insect was wailing, muttering stuff about a UN posting… but it was over, the cock hadn’t crowed, and Peter had dumped on Mal thrice.
Guests were crunching the frost on the lawns as they departed the Party in a Canberran sub zero mist. Somewhere from the other side of Mount Ainslie a rooster could be heard crowing.
A large vehicle was blistering down Adelaide Avenue, it was little Kevin Andrews driving a huge cement truck. He skidded to a stop and jumped down from the cab. “I’ve reserved a tomb for him at the ANU and this time I’m concreting the damned rock into the entrance myself. Not even Jesus Christ will get out this time.”
“We’d better not be too long with him up at Golgotha”, said Abbott...
“This cement is the perfect consistency.”
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................... Instead of looking carefully at the quick $440 Million slipped quietly into an almost invisible entity, we've all got our knickers in a twist over the kerfuffle in the Government.
When Ms Gillard sensed she was about to get the heave ho, she slipped a quick $300 Million into the Clinton Foundation and now appears to be living happily ever after.
My bullshit meter tells me things aren't quite what they seem, not quite Kosher. .....................
It's the elite club which costs members $20,000 a year, but it's all meant to be about saving the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation's 52-member chairman's panel reads like an A-list of Australia's corporate world with big-hitters from mining companies, banks, insurance companies and airlines. Its members include AGL Energy chief executive Andy Vesey, BHP chairman Ken MacKenzie, former BHP chairman Jacques Nasser, outgoing Macquarie Group chief executive Nicholas Moore, Telstra chairman John Mullen, Wesfarmers managing director Rob Scott, former Origin boss Grant King and Korn Ferry executive chairman Katie Lahey.
From the annual $20,000 membership fee, they donate $15,000 to help with reef research, while the remaining $5000 helps them attend an annual reef "love-in" held this year at the exclusive Qualia resort at Hamilton Island on May 18-20.
While some would no doubt view it as the ultimate networking event or a mini-Davos, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation says the chairman's panel weekend – led by foundation chairman and former Commonwealth Bank of Australia chairman John Schubert – is about learning about the reef and how corporate Australia can help protect the reef from the ravages of climate change.
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Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia chairman and Great Barrier Reef Foundation chairman John Schubert picks the foundation's chairman's panel Supplied
But the foundation is at pains to point out the chairman's panel – which also includes Qantas chairman Alan Joyce, National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Thorburn, Peabody Energy Australian president George Schuller and Deutsche Bank chief executive Anthony Miller – has no say on which projects are funded by the Brisbane-based charity.
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An attendee, who did not want to be named, said the annual getaway was a good "engagement tool" to learn more about the natural wonder, but inevitably it was a fundraising drive to raise more money for the reef or partner on future projects.
"They don't hit you up for money there, but we know why we are there. It's about engaging business with the reef. It's not a retreat," the attendee told AFR Weekend.
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which was awarded a $433.3 million grant from the Turnbull government in June to protect the reef, returned to the national spotlight this week as federal Labor questioned how the large grant to the charity was made without a competitive tender.
Labor also used the chairman's panel get-together as a means to target Mr Turnbull and to fuel perceptions the former merchant banker was throwing money at his corporate mates rather than using existing government agencies, such as the CSIRO, to help the reef recover from global warming and coral bleaching which has threatened its future.
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Mr Turnbull, federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg and Treasurer Scott Morrison launched an impassioned defence of the half-billion dollar grant in federal parliament, this week saying it went through the appropriate due diligence and was good value for money.
The Treasurer went as far as saying the foundation – whose board includes corporate heavyweights and scientists – could find better ways to spend the money rather than the government's own public servants.
Labor lampooned the annual chairman's panel weekend at Hamilton Island, the itinerary for which included a message for business executives about "no buggy parking at the helipad".
Apart from a bonfire on the beach, guided snorkelling tour, pre-dinner drinks at the Long Pavilion and informal lunches and dinner, there were sessions from Mr Schubert and chief executive Anna Marsden on "unlocking the opportunities for business to restore the reef" and presentations from scientists on the "grand challenge of reef restoration and adaption" and "resilient reefs".
Labor's science and research spokesman Kim Carr called for the half-billion dollars to be returned to the Commonwealth, saying reef research should not be privatised.
"Only a simpleton would have you believe that you can save the Great Barrier Reef by holding a weekend party on Hamilton Island for millionaires," Mr Carr said.
Not surprisingly, chairman's panel members were publicity shy this week given the controversy in parliament, but a spokesman for AGL boss said Mr Vesey did not attend the annual getaway on Hamilton Island this year.
The foundation, which has raised $90 million over the past 18 years towards reef research, mostly from the private sector, says the chairman's panel has been going for about 10 years and the cost of attendance at the annual weekend – for either the chief executives or their staff – was met by the member companies.
"Costs associated with this are fully paid for via their membership fees and no taxpayer dollars or other donations received by the GBRF are used. The purpose of this event is to provide a forum for business leaders to directly engage with scientists and researchers," the foundation said.
"Members of the chairman's panel have no role in selecting projects that are funded by the GBRF. Project selection and oversight is the responsibility of the International Scientific Advisory Committee."
The committee is made up of leaders of research and management of the reef including the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the University of Queensland, James Cook University and the CSIRO.
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