Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
Interesting interests It’s always fun peeking at recent updates to politicians’ registers of interests. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young had to list every single person who contributed to a GoFundMe campaign to bankroll her lawsuit against former senator David Leyonhjelm. The list is two and a half pages long, and includes one Kevin Rudd.
Elsewhere, Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching attended a masterclass on the US-Australia alliance put on by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and Nationals’ Bridget McKenzie got given a book on climate change by the Institute of Public Affairs. Over in Queensland, LNP Senator Matt Canavan was donated four shirts from local business Southern Cross Brands, and renewed his membership to anti-abortion group Cherish Life. Oh, and Western Australian Senator Ben Small is now a director of a business called Tailgate Smokehouse.
Court bid to oust Porter barrister from acting in defamation fight
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By Jacqueline Maley and Michaela Whitbourn
May 12, 2021 5.51pm
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A friend of the woman who accused Christian Porter of rape has made a Federal Court bid to stop a high-profile Sydney barrister from acting for him in his defamation case against the ABC.
Jo Dyer, who was a debater with the woman in the late 1980s, filed an urgent application in the Federal Court, seeking an order to restrain defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC, from acting for Mr Porter on the basis that she previously advised Ms Dyer in a separate matter.
Scott Morrison this morning told 3AW’s
Neil Mitchell that no, he didn’t make a mistake in emphasising the threat of five years imprisonment for people returning home from India – the media did.
“This is not something that was accentuated by
Greg Hunt, or me, or anyone else, it was picked up by the media,” Morrison said.
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Well then. Let’s just check Health Minister Hunt’s press release announcing a ban on Aussies returning home from India, which he sent out in the middle of the night on May 1.
“The Government will implement a temporary pause on travellers from India entering Australian territory if the passenger has been in India within 14 days of the person’s time of departure,” Hunt said.