CUTS TAXING
The first opinion poll to be published after the Coalition passed its income tax cut package last week has put Labor at a 53-47 lead.
As The Age’s new infographic shows, the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll also found that Malcolm Turnbull remains preferred Prime Minister 51-33 over Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, but is losing ground in a number of areas. While analysis of the polling admits that roughly one quarter of it was conducted before the $144 billion tax cuts were passed last Thursday, the apparent lack of voter enthusiasm won’t exactly help the Coalition as it plans to force the Senate into debating (and pressure Pauline Hanson into passing $) the final stage of its $65 billion business tax cut package today.
And if new ads attacking Turnbull’s corporate past are anything to go by, Labor have found their election strategy.
BOLT FROM THE BLUES
The New South Wales Blues have claimed State of Origin 2018, taking the title for the first time in four years after last night’s tight second round win against the Queensland Maroons.
The ABC reports that, after an early 10-0 lead to Queensland, the relatively inexperienced “Baby Blues” came home to take out last night’s game 18-14, in front of a sell-out crowd of 82,223 in a rare Sunday night Origin match.
ROCKY ROAD
A leaked, secret review of high-risk areas for rock throwing across Adelaide’s Southern Expressway has sparked a war of words in South Australian Parliament.
The Advertiser ($) reports that an unprecedented 40 rock throwing incidences have been recorded this year across the road. However, while they have provided plenty of fodder for the Labor Opposition, the release of a confidential risk assessment documents show that almost all assessed Southern Expressway overpasses were found to be at “high risk” of rocking throwing over a year ago — before the most recent South Australian election.
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THEY REALLY SAID THAT?
It’s essential that people realise that the hard-won success of the last few years could be undone overnight by a single act of compassion in bringing 20 people from Manus to Australia.
Peter Dutton
The Home Affairs Minister offers The Weekend Australian ($) an outright admission ($) that, out of all the things he’s brought to Australia’s immigration system, compassion is not one of them.
CRIKEY QUICKIE: THE BEST OF YESTERDAY
“Newly recruited United Australia Party Senator Brian Burston is out hunting for staff following his resignation from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) and a dramatic flurry of departures from his original team.”
“The extent to which the government’s decision to force NBN to switch to Malcolm Turnbull’s Multi-Technology Mix model will expose it to financial disaster has become clearer this week from Telstra head Andy Penn’s comments about his 5G rollout.”
“First Lady Melania Trump has been photographed wearing a US$39 Zara coat while boarding a plane taking her to visit children of asylum seekers locked up by her husband, President Trump.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Toxic chemical PFAS found in livestock no cause for alarm, Victoria’s chief vet says
Retiring magistrate Bernadette Callaghan slams media in valedictory speech ($)
Female mental health patient allegedly sexually assaulted by prisoner at Royal Darwin Hospital ($)
Labor Left makes fresh push for Newstart increase in latest factional attack on Bill Shorten
Tasmanian Liberals are bullish as the state awaits its GST fate from Federal Cabinet today ($)
Greens MP Adam Bandt caught on wrong side of changing boundaries
Prepare Australians for rate hikes now, Warwick McKibbin tells RBA ($)
‘Domain Ashes’: Real estate group partners with Cricket Australia
Germany apartment explosion injures 25, destroys building
Saudi woman drives Formula One car on historic day
WHAT’S ON TODAY
Canberra
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Vanuatu prime minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas will meet with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
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Day one of CEDA’s two-day State of the Nation forum, to include an opening address from Treasurer Scott Morrison and speeches from Infrastructure Australia CEO Philip Davies, Urban Infrastructure and Cities Minister Paul Fletcher, and Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure and Transport Minister Michael McCormack. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is scheduled to speak tomorrow.
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Public inquiry into Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, to include representatives from National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Indigenous Affairs Group, amongst others.
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Public inquiry into access to free trade agreements by small and medium sized enterprises.
Brisbane
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A Banking Royal Commission hearing will examine issues affecting remote and regional communities, including farming finance, natural disaster insurance, and Indigenous Australians’ dealings with financial services providers.
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State Parliament will host a forum calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the need for state-based voluntary assisted dying laws.
Hobart
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Day one of the Legislative Council’s Estimates Committee, to hear from Treasurer, Minister for State Growth, and Minister for Local Government Peter Gutwein; and Minister for Infrastructure, Education and Training, and Advanced Manufacturing and Defence Industries and Jeremy Rockliff.
Melbourne
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Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass will make a statement upon releasing her report, Investigation into child sex offender Robert Whitehead’s involvement with Puffing Billy and other railway bodies.
Darwin
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The Rural & Remote Mental Health Expo will outline mental health and suicide prevention programs, specifically “Rural Minds” (tailored for pastoral, agricultural and farming communities), “Deadly Thinking” (Indigenous communities) and ‘Resource Minds’ (mining, resources and quarrying communities).
Adelaide
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Maths wiz and Australian Local Hero 2018 Eddie Woo will visit two Adelaide schools, and speak at a public event tonight.
Sydney
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Day one of the Canberra Clovelly Classic, a six-day run from Sydney to Canberra in support of Menslink.
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Sydney Morning Herald editor Lisa Davies will interview Adele Ferguson as part of SMH Live.
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Day one of the two-day happiness and wellbeing forum, “Happiness & Its Causes 2018”.
Perth
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Writer and waste activist Lindsay Miles will present How I Live a Plastic Free Life at the Perth Library and History Centre.
Logan City, Victoria
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The Logan City Council 2018/2019 budget will be handed down.
Australia
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Live voting opens for the 60th annual TV Week Logie Awards, to be handed out Sunday July 1st.
Florida, USA
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Failed American terrorist Joshua Goldberg will be sentenced for posing as Australian jihadist and promoting terror attacks, after a prior sentencing date on April 11th was rescheduled.
THE COMMENTARIAT
Labor makes company tax fight all about Malcolm Turnbull’s money — Michelle Grattan (The Conversation): “The opposition is seeking to turn the battle over company tax onto Malcolm Turnbull’s personal wealth, with an attack advertisement declaring the Prime Minister stands to profit if the cuts for big business are passed. The advertisement, to be used this week in campaigning for the Super Saturday July 28 byelections, says Turnbull ‘has millions invested in funds which hold shares in dozens of big businesses that would benefit from the tax cuts.’”
Badly drafted foreign agent laws will snare charities — David Crosbie (Sydney Morning Herald): “So Australia is being over-run by foreign agents. We hear that our democracy is under threat because so many people and organisations, even charities, are representing the interests of foreign governments and their related entities. Apparently we don’t even know who these foreign agents are and sometimes they don’t either. No wonder our government is so concerned!”
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