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A PROBLEM OF OUR OWN MAKING: All of the
suggested alternatives involve trade-offs, but each would change a current
structure that encourages recruitment of professionalised politicians.
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“To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward
fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control
the fool.”
While working for a government office on appeals for the federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court, he has diligently, competently, and caustically grammar-policed the paper of record in his spare time, producing more than 20,000 tweets over the past 11 months. His account is a cross between an ego trip, a crusade, and a compulsion. His quixotic quest to flag the words that weren’t fit to print has attracted roughly 8,000 followers, yielded countless corrections, and made its anonymous owner the object of some fascination within the walls and Slack chats of the Times, while exposing the trade-offs in copy quality that competitive publishing in the age of algorithms demands…”
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There have been no bids yet for the Nigel Thomson portrait of the late Lady Susan Renouf that has been listed for a Tuesday online auction through Leonard Joel. It's among the 480 items from the collection of the late John Schaeffer.
The 1984 oil painting, expected to fetch between $4000 and $6000, was commissioned by Susan's then racing tycoon husband Robert Sangster, the Pools millionaire. It has the socialite in a pale blue dress with puffed sleeves overlooking sunny Sydney Harbour on the white flower-lined balcony of her then Point Piper trophy home, Toison d'Or.
She's wearing a resplendent four-strand pearl necklace with gold clasp, plus diamond earings. Apparently the well-tanned Renouf was not happy with the painting, and had her butler phone Thomson to advise she didn't want it.
Friends had told her she appeared unhappy, painted with tea set rather than her ubiquitous flute of champagne. Quite understandably, as Sangster had been having an affair in 1984 with Susan Lilley at their other home, the Nunnery on the Isle of Man.
Having not been paid his $7000 fee, Thomson was preparing to sue the Sangsters, when Schaeffer, a friend of Thomson who died in 1999, stepped in and bought the painting. It has sat in storage for 35 years. Susan went on to marry her third husband, the New Zealand financier Sir Frank Renouf, in 1985, with their acrimonious split capturing headlines in 1988. Her first husband was the aspiring prime minister Andrew Peacock.We are in stage 4 of the lock-down in Melbourne and that has great implications for personal and social life as well as the economy. As a result of the lock-down, listeners have contacted radio stations, approving of it because it would finally bring about the end of the spreading of Covid-19. Continue reading →
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Identity crime
and misuse in Australia, 2019
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released three new
statistical reports examining identity crime and misuse in Australia:
- Identity crime and misuse
in Australia, 2019
- Counting the costs of
identity crime and misuse in Australia, 2018-19
- Identity crime and misuse
in Australia: Results of the 2019 online survey
Identity crime
and misuse in Australia 2019 examines the nature, extent
and impact of identity crime and misuse in Australia for the year
2018–19.
This report presents data from Commonwealth, state and territory agencies
as well as from the private sector and other non-government sources.
The Australian Institute of Criminology, within the Home Affairs
portfolio, publishes this information as a key initiative of the National
Identity Security Strategy.
Data collected from a range of stakeholders from government, law
enforcement and private sector industry help policymakers raise awareness
of identity crime and reduce its impact throughout Australia.
Counting the
costs of identity crime and misuse in Australia, 2018-19 provides detailed information
on the methodology and results of the most recent estimate of the cost
and impact of identity crime and misuse on the Australian economy for the
2018–19 financial year.
The estimated cost of identity crime in Australia in 2018–19 (including
direct and indirect costs) was $3.1b—17 percent more than in 2015–16.
These findings demonstrate a considerable increase in the financial
losses experienced by government, law enforcement, industry and
individuals through both direct and indirect costs associated with
identity crime.
Identity crime
and misuse in Australia: Results of the 2019 online survey presents the findings of the
latest survey of identity crime and misuse undertaken by the Australian
Institute of Criminology as part of the Australian Government’s National
Identity Security Strategy.
In 2019, nearly 10,000 people from across Australia were surveyed about
their experience of victimisation over their lifetime and during the
preceding 12 months.
The survey results for 2019 are compared with those of the 2018 identity
crime survey.
The 2019 survey found 25 percent of respondents had experienced misuse of
their personal information at some time during their life, with nearly 12
percent experiencing it in the previous 12 months.
Eighty percent of these identity crime victims also reported a financial
loss as a result.
The average amount lost in 2019 ($3,916) was noticeably larger than in
2018 ($2,234).
These papers are available for free download on the AIC website: https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/sr/sr27,
https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/sr/sr28
and https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/sr/sr29.
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