Sources familiar with the campaign who spoke on the condition of anonymity say the kitchen sink was thrown at some members, like the United States, which Morrison, Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and ambassador Arthur Sinodinos all targeted. Sinodinos was Howardâs long-serving chief of staff and the veteran operatorâs wily ways were crucial to opening the doors to the new Biden administration. Western Australia Governor Kim Beazley also called Democrats he knew from his own ambassadorial stint in Washington to make the case for Cormann.
Cormann slipped into the US following President Joe Bidenâs inauguration in January for five days of meetings with senior officials, including at the White House. Effort went into making sure the visit stayed under-the-radar given Cormannâs travel through Europe on a Royal Australian Air Force jet had caused controversy in November.
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There were 40 rallies yesterday around Australia, with crowds chanting enough is enough while carrying signs that read we are marching for everyone s daughter, and stop violence against women.
Protesters handed a petition backed by 94,000 people to Labor MP Tanya Plibersek and Greens senator Larissa Waters, to present to parliament.
Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins had a hand in kick-starting the movement, telling the crowd in Canberra, For so long it felt like the people around me only cared because of where it happened and what it might mean for them.
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Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison walk to a press conference in Sydney in 2020. Ardern told media his policies were having a “corrosive” impact on the bilateral relationship. Community Law Centres Aotearoa, led by former Labour MP Sue Moroney and Filipa Payne, an advocate for returnees, took a petition to Parliament last year urging the Government to raise the issue during the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of Australia. Parliament’s foreign affairs, defence and trade select committee forwarded the petition to then-Foreign Minister Winston Peters. In response, Peters said New Zealand preferred to raise concerns directly with the Australian Government.
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