Home Affairs bin fire, Babet spots a Swifty, and how a goose is cooked in Tassie

Home is where the rot is The ABC’s Nemesis debuted this week, subjecting the nine years of Coalition authorities to the same dissection and appraisal each various Australian authorities has faced since Keating’s. It’s striking, watching the first episode to be reminded of the “fiscal fireplace brigade“/”Australia can’t maintain putting the mortgage on the credit score card” rhetoric that characterised the lead-up to the disastrous first budget brought down by Tony Abbott’s authorities.

The program doesn’t draw a say line to the irony that this was happening at the same time as the early implementation of Operation Sovereign Borders, the first step in the consolidation of vitality that would turn the Department of Immigration into the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Home Affairs into a basket case.

Because, as this morning’s Nine papers reminded us, in terms of that spacious ministry, it seems there’s always extra waste, always extra embarrassment apt around the nook.

Carve McKenzie and Michael Bachelard document Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias’ claim — revealed ahead of “what is expected to be a damning document on offshore processing by mature idea chief Dennis Richardson” — that the department may have immolated millions on “products and services that had been by no means delivered and on questionable tasks — such as training the Nauruan president’s guard dog and $6 million for golf umbrellas”.

We’ll chuck that on the Joker’s money pile that is the department and its predecessor’s approach to taxpayer money — billions upon billions spent on incarcerating among the field’s most desperate individuals, mismanaging contracts and paying out compensation.

A modest proposal All-conquering singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s sheer unavoidable ubiquity perchance made this kind of thing inevitable, even earlier than she had the temerity to start going out with a high-profile American football player. Fox Information has detected an elite conspiracy principle in the coupling of Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight finish (yep, apparently that’s a real role in NFL) Travis Kelce. The Chiefs are headed to the Large Bowl and Fox knows a (teach) psyop when it sees one.

“Around four years ago, the Pentagon’s psychological operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset,” Jesse Watters advised his audience on January 9. “It’s real. The Pentagon psyop unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online.”

He backed his principle that Swift may be “a entrance for a covert political agenda” with a clip from the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence convention in 2019, where she is talked about as an example of a considerable influencer.

Additional, it’s been reported that US President Joe Biden “desperately wants” Swift’s endorsement, which can be essentially the most rational item on the wish list of any candidate interested in the formative years vote or a dark conspiracy — depending on who you ask. Long anecdote brief, the Large Bowl is probably rigged, so that Swift’s already extremely famous boyfriend raises his profile and delivers extra voters for Biden. Oh also, Kelce did an ad for Pfizer, so that clearly factors in someplace.

“However Charlie,” I hear you ask. “Please advise me there’s any person in Australia’s federal Parliament who is spending time on this?” Dear reader, I give you Senator Ralph Babet (via Alternative Media Watchers), who sat down with the freedom stream’s favourite are living streamer Real Rukshan, to raise some eyebrows about how handy it all is.

Kelce is “actually called Mr Pfizer” on account of his promotional work, Rukshan says (a nickname given to Kelce by fellow NFL player Aaron Rodgers, who famously refused to gather vaccinated).

“Is he really? Neatly, how is that for a psyop?” Babet responds. “It’s all interlinked,” they both enact.

Describe op “Door knocking in Prospect,” Tasmanian Attorney-General Guy Barnett posted to Facebook alongside a broadly smiling “oh I didn’t look you there” vogue photograph of Barnett initiate air any person’s door.

However it seems there was extra than one camera capturing the 2d. As picked up by WIN Information Tasmania reporter Tilly Hannan and shared by news director Alex Johnston, the door cam of the dwelling in quiz recorded the impromptu photograph shoot, which was promptly build on TikTok: