Australia news live: Chalmers ‘confident but not complacent’ about inflation forecasts after May spike
Follow today’s news liveExclusive: Defence probed 16 alleged links between personnel and extremism in two yearsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThis piece by Deirdre Fidge will make you feel both seen AND cold (if you’re not already) and it fooled my under-caffeinated eyes into reading her surname as “Fridge”:Michaelia Cash has also criticised prime minister Anthony Albanese for holding a news conference on Wednesday night to mark the release from jail and return to Australia of Julian Assange and then telephoning the Wikileaks publisher, on the same day that monthly inflation rose from 3.6% to 4%. Cash said:You would’ve thought the press conference the prime minister called was to tell Australians what he was going to do to ease inflation... Seriously, this government’s priorities are all wrong.Mr Assange is not a hero. He is not a whistleblower. He is not a journalist. He is someone who has pleaded guilty to espionage. He is someone who risked national security by releasing national security information. Continue reading...
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This piece by Deirdre Fidge will make you feel both seen AND cold (if you’re not already) and it fooled my under-caffeinated eyes into reading her surname as “Fridge”:
Michaelia Cash has also criticised prime minister Anthony Albanese for holding a news conference on Wednesday night to mark the release from jail and return to Australia of Julian Assange and then telephoning the Wikileaks publisher, on the same day that monthly inflation rose from 3.6% to 4%. Cash said:
You would’ve thought the press conference the prime minister called was to tell Australians what he was going to do to ease inflation... Seriously, this government’s priorities are all wrong.
Mr Assange is not a hero. He is not a whistleblower. He is not a journalist. He is someone who has pleaded guilty to espionage. He is someone who risked national security by releasing national security information. Continue reading...
