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Deck the halls Liz Truss, who will depart down in history as a woman who held on to the workplace of UK high minister for a length that was dwarfed by the shelf lifestyles of a head of lettuce, has launched a novel community to reinvigorate conservative politics — and that’s no longer even the comical part.
It’s called PopCon, fast for Popular Conservatism and it splintered at the *first* match it held, with two of the billed speakers simply no longer showing up. That’s variety of the comical part, showing Truss is someway level-headed improving her abilities in self-destruction, a form of Novak Djokovic of failure.
However the really comical part is that the community’s celeb figurehead is our very contain Holly Candy (née Valance). A star of Neighbours within the era when writers may accumulate away with calling a character “Flick Scully”, Candy told a journalist for British Aldi Fox Information GB Information about her political philosophy:
Everyone starts off as a leftie, then wakes up at some point, after you start either making money and working, attempting to race a trade, attempting to purchase a dwelling and then you definately realise what crap ideas they all are and then you definately depart to the fair.
After following the properly–trod path for Australian celebs (Neighbours then a cloak track pop hit), Candy married property billionaire Reduce Candy, who along with his brother Christian has performed so remarkable to give a increase to housing affordability.
“Jacob for PM,” Candy added, relating to Conservative Party politician Jacob Rees-Mogg. Actually, that’s the funniest part: Truss acquired a “celeb” along to her popularity contest, and the celeb selected literally essentially the most efficient other politician in attendance as her favourite.
Driving the Coatsworth Tales Former deputy chief medical officer Dr Reduce Coatsworth has been busy lately. Over the weekend he added to the checklist of Liberal Party-adjacent occasions he’s addressed at the inaugural Young Liberal Federal Convention in Brisbane.
Over the weekend I was invited to give the welcome address for Dr Reduce Coatsworth at the inaugural Young Liberal Federal Convention in Brisbane.
We want extra folks appreciate Dr Reduce prepared to challenge the status quo in inform to achieve better health outcomes for all.#LNP pic.twitter.com/JtkbzSryOT
— Senator James McGrath (@SenatorMcGrath) February 5, 2024
Coatsworth has eyed a potential race at federal politics, and while he’s been equivocal about which party he’d desire, or if he’d race for a party at all, he made a name for himself at some stage within the early COVID era as one of the faces of the Liberal authorities’s vaccine ads and as a continual critic of the Andrews authorities.
Aside from politics, Coatsworth has been announced as the co-host of Achieve You Want To Stay Forever? with former A Present Affair host Tracy Grimshaw on Channel 9 later this year. Remarkable extra surreally, he stuffed in for Karl Stefanovic on Today over Christmas. So maybe Brisbane’s younger Liberals are factual cashing in on Coatsworth’s reluctance to flip down an offer?
Governor General hobby Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: This merchandise contains reference to a deceased individual.
Yankunytjatjara leader and activist Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue passed away over the weekend, leaving a legacy and lifestyles that changed the country. Daniel Casey, a doctoral researcher at Australian National University (who has beforehand shared with us a bunch of the “outlandish shit” folks have despatched politicians over the year), acquired in contact with Crikey to repeat us there may have been another merchandise on the implausible checklist of titles she accrued: governor-general.
Casey has uncovered correspondence to John Howard advocating for O’Donoghue to take over the workplace when Sir William Deane’s term came to an raze in 2001.
“Back in late 2000 when Sir William Deane’s term as governor-general was coming to an raze, high minister Howard obtained a large alternative of letters from ordinary contributors of the general public, eager to build aside forward their very contain ideas,” Casey said. “There were a few letters advocating for Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, with one saying:
In the name of democracy it may well be remarkable significantly better for those who regarded as appointing an original Australian to absorb that publish … it is also remarkable significantly better than saying ‘I am sorry’ … here’s a starting to Reconciliation’.
Another letter build aside O’Donoghue at the stop of a decidedly diverse checklist of conceivable appointees:
Trump Watch A monumental legal blow to former US president Donald Trump came on Tuesday morning Washington DC time — appears, contrary to Richard Nixon’s famous maxim, the US president is capable of doing illegal issues. A federal appeals court docket within the nation’s capital rejected Trump’s argument that as a former president he has total immunity for actions he took while within the White House. The judgment was unequivocal:
For the function of this criminal case, former president Trump has change into citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. However any govt immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him against this prosecution.
For waddle, Trump’s team was rather snookered by the 2021 impeachment route of, when his counsel had argued: “instead of publish-presidency impeachment, the appropriate automobile for ‘investigation, prosecution, and punishment’ is ‘the article III courts,’ as ‘[w]e have a judicial route of’ and ‘an investigative route of … to which no former officeholder is immune’.”
