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Monday, February 05, 2024

Straight from the source - Nassif

Journalism isn't about how smart you are. It's not about where you're from. It's not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It's about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It's about being fearless personally and professionally.

Mary Pilon



It's like your mum promising you an iPhone 14 for Christmas, but she gets you an iPhone 15 instead (becasue it just came out). Technically its a broken promise but there ain't too many people complaining.

The press gallery refuses to recognise its own complicity in so-called “broken promises”. Journalists demand politicians “rule out” changes, entrenching a status quo that supports vested interests. It’s bad for policy and bad for democracy. The gallery is part of the problem.

Mr Albanese has repeatedly said the Reserve Bank's 13 interest rate rises, the war in Ukraine going longer than expected, and conflict in the Middle East prompted the government to change its tax plan.



Time for a fair tax system. Time to stop collecting more from HECS debt than from PRRT. Time to tax big national resources corporations and spend it on the public interest.

Barbara Pocock



Straight from the source - February 2024 by Jennifer Moltisanti 




The mooted sale of a stake in 255 George Street could help kick-start a transactions market which has been stranded in a stalemate over appropriate pricing.


Whopping $1bn haul from Victoria’s illegal tobacco trade revealed

Organised crime bosses have snared a $1bn-plus Victorian windfall in three years from illicit tobacco rackets.

Epping man Majid Alibadi, 25, has been charged with four counts of arson and extortion.


Wanted Sydney property developer Jean Nassif sends millions to Lebanon, Nigeria in potential fraud, administrators say


Australia to get better access to social media accounts to fight crime under US deal

Washington: Australian law enforcement agencies tackling terrorism, child sex abuse and other transnational crimes will get sweeping access to electronic data held in the US by the likes of Microsoft and Meta under a landmark deal between the Albanese government and the Biden administration.

Amid ongoing tensions over the Israel-Hamas war, the federal government is also taking a closer look at America’s hate crime laws as it prepares its crackdown on religious discrimination in Australia.

How a royal commission sank a 175-year-old financial giant



Breaking down the complicated dispute over Sports Illustrated and what could happen next

Changing owners, staff cuts, decreased print editions and threats of mass layoffs have left the icon


Europe’s Trump challenge: Is it ready to fight Vladimir Putin alone? Politico


EU commission chief hopes for ‘consensus’ with protesting farmers RT


Study: Record sickness rates are pushing Germany into recession Business Panorama via machine translatio. Micael T: “Oh, of course, the employees being sick is the reason. Nothing to do with gaspipelines, companies moving production abroad, greedflation and everything else.”


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Frank Zumbo, the chief of staff to former Liberal MP Craig Kelly, has been found guilty of indecently assaulting four women – including exposing his penis to one while sitting on a park bench – over a number of years while working together in the politician’s electorate office.

On Friday, magistrate Gareth Christofi handed down his decision in the trial that began in June 2022 over 20 charges of sexual touching and indecent assault, as well as charges of common assault, that occurred between 2014 and 2020.

Ex-Liberal staffer Frank Zumbo found guilty of indecently assaulting four women


Joshua Schulte, who prosecutors said was responsible for agency’s largest data breach, also guilty of possessing child abuse images