Australia’s political leaders have wisely decided that swanning off to the Olympics during a cost-of-living crisis isn’t a good look and will cheer on the team from home.
As business leaders, celebrities, sporting bureaucrats and miscellaneous grifters head to Paris for the Olympics, one group that will be largely sidelined is politicians.won’t be making the trip to Paris to cheer on the Australian Olympic team. Official duties will instead fall to Sports Ministerand his wife, Janette, to turn into Games super-fans. However, straitened times have now even prevented politicians of 2032 host city Brisbane from attending.
But some of the comrades still found reason to celebrate. Or perhaps commiserate. CBD’s spies spotted the CFMEU’s NSW construction division president,, enjoying a long lunch at picturesque Sydney beachside Italian joint Pilu at Freshwater, before the entourage kicked on to Potts Point for more drinks.On Friday, the NSW division took to Instagram to claim the CFMEU was under unprecedented attack.
“CFMEU members are not stupid. They won’t be fooled by a rotten media hell-bent on destroying hard-fought-for and won conditions,” the union wrote.a communications minister in the Howard government best known for his prodigious complaints against the ABC, has found a handy post-political career as a man of letters.
The retired Victorian Liberal senator, who served a couple of years in that most plum of post-political postings as high commissioner to the United Kingdom, has already penned recent tomes on the public broadcaster (is set to be released next month by Connor Court, the publisher of choice for Australia’s conservative thought leaders.
Alston told CBD his first failed encounters with Dante were during his school days. After forming a friendship while in London with writerNow he’s fully across the nine circles of hell, does Alston think the 14th-century Italian writer has any lessons for our current politicians?is a special correspondent for The Age and CBD columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was previously deputy editor of The Sunday Age.
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