around the traps
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Former premier Mike Baird tells ICAC Berejiklian should have disclosed relationship with Daryl Maguire - ABC News:
Mr Baird said he should have been told about the relationship as cabinet's expenditure review committee considered a grant proposal of $5.5 million to the Australian Clay Target Association, strongly lobbied for by Mr Maguire.
Gladys Berejiklian told Daryl Maguire 'I'll throw money at Wagga' in intercepted call | Gladys Berejiklian | The Guardian:
“I'll throw money at Wagga, lots of it, don't you worry about that,” Berejiklian replied.
She actually said "don't you worry about that"... if you wrote this as fiction, people would say it would be too much. - Government blocks bid to investigate Christian Porter over legal fee donation - ABC News:
It is unprecedented for the House to block a referral to a committee, after the Speaker finds a prima facie case.
- Australia commits to 2050 net zero emissions plan but with no detail and no modelling | Australian politics | The Guardian:
Modelling underpinning the projections would be released “eventually”, Morrison said. The prime minister also emphasised that the “technology not taxes” plan was based on existing government programs and would not require any new legislation, despite calls from Labor and independent MPs to enshrine the target in law.
- Paintmakers Are Running Out of the Color Blue:
Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel NV is running out of ingredients to make some shades of blue, the latest fallout from the global supply-chain disruptions that are spreading across manufacturers.
- Former finance minister who helped sink carbon price now urging Australia to adopt one | Mathias Cormann | The Guardian:
Cormann, who was the finance minister under Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Morrison, was a vocal opponent of Labor's climate policies and was instrumental in repealing Australia's carbon price in 2014 which had driven cuts in Australia's emissions.
- 'I'm high as a Georgia pine': Dock Ellis's no-hitter on LSD, 50 years on | MLB | The Guardian:
Baseball's great psychedelic myth took place five decades ago, but the man behind it was far more than an amusing sidenote in the sport's history
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Whether the story is true or not, it's quite a sight...
Drones raining from the sky in Zhengzhou 😬
— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) October 4, 2021
Word on the street is that a rival drone company that lost the bid interfered to overwhelm the drones nav system!pic.twitter.com/MukM8PjJJr -
Halloween light show - Matrix end scene with Wake Up... I just kind of imagine this guy's neighbours walking out, seeing that, and just putting their shit back in the box ;)