After ramming his $10,000 cash ban law through the House of Representatives last week, Scott Morrison is now trying to pretend he has responded to concerns about his cash ban, by releasing a set of “rules” that exempt many activities from the ban.
The Morrison government showed its contempt for democracy and parliamentary procedure by ramming its totalitarian cash ban bill through the House of Representatives yesterday, without waiting for the outcome of the Senate inquiry into the bill.
The following article on justice for Julian Assange was published in the Australian Alert Service on 23 October. In latest news, 11 federal MPs have joined forces to agitate for the Morrison government to bring Assange home to Australia. These MPs deserve praise for their principled position.
Australians can have no confidence in the health of the major banks from the annual audits of their books.
This is the conclusion to be drawn from Digital Finance Analytics Principal Martin North’s submission to the Parliamentary inquiry into the regulation of auditing, which highlights four areas where audits fail to assess the true state of Australia’s banks.
With Queensland experiencing a deficit in milk production, One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson has threatened to abstain from lending her support to non-critical legislation until the price of milk is regulated.
While the mainstream media provides non-stop coverage of the unrest occurring in Hong Kong, recent turmoil in Ecuador barely rates a mention, yet seven protestors are dead, 1,340 injured and 1,152 have been arrested. Ecuadorians took to the streets en masse after President Lenín Moreno implemented a brutal austerity package as part of an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
