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News

• George Pell is under investigation for new child sexual abuse allegations.
• You can torture yourself by watching a 50 minute interview with Andrew Bolt if you like.
• No justice for Duncan Storrar after being relentlessly hounded by the Murdoch press.

Rentseeker relief

• NSW has announced a combined $440 million subsidy to landlords for missed rent payments.
• Victoria is giving $420m in tax breaks to landlords, and a $80m in payments to tenants. Tenants will need to prove that they earn less than $100,000 and have less than $5000 in savings.
• Large retailers like JB Hi-Fi are being offered lengthy free rent periods.
• Real Estate agents have been found trading tips on getting unemployed tenants to pay.
• The Jobkeeper payments to employers are already being abused. Rebekha Sharkie, MP for Mayo has had a constituent contacting her complaining that an employer would only re-hire them if they got a cut of the payment.

Tired of these apps

• The Australian government is working on an app to trace COVID-19 contacts.
• It might be based on the Singaporian app, TraceTogether, but we really don’t know.
• Stuart Robert, government services minister, friend of the show, has already gotten essential information about the app wrong.
• Some government MPs have already said they won’t be using the app.
• Cryptographer Vanessa Teague has worries that the app could track more than COVID-19 contacts.

Plague ships, again

• Bookings for cruises are now more popular than before the outbreak??
• The Ruby Princess debacle is now the subject of a homicide police investigation. Police have started interviewing all passengers
• The NSW government has created a special commission to look into the matter, headed by Brett Walker (previous hits include George Pell’s appeal, and fighting tobacco plain packaging laws on behalf of Philip Morris).
• Tasmania’s recent spike in COVID-19 cases is also linked to the Ruby Princess.
• Ovation of the Seas was also let in to Australia by Border Force without any isolation requirements for passengers, despite 98 infections on board.

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• Enemy of the show Chris Uhlman asks the deep questions like: “Should you kill your grandma”.
• Uhlman ran for election in 1998 on an anti-euthanasia platform.
• AFR Contributor Sam Lovik says that the virus must spread.

Climate rorts, baby!

• Energy minister Angus Taylor is handing out money to fossil fuels and liberal party donors under the guise of the Underwriting New Generation Investment program.
• An independent report by the Parliamentary Budget Office has concluded that ending logging in Victoria now (rather than phasing it out over the next decade) would save taxpayers $192 million dollars.
• Victorian agriculture minister Jaclyn Symes’ claims that gas drilling would not harm the environment… did not account for burning the gas.

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