Your afternoon Briefing: Bill Shorten’s election strategy ‘nuts’: Kevin Rudd

Rudd takes aim at Shorten’s election strategy and corporate activists push for a vote on Qantas’s asylum seeker policies at its AGM.

Kevin Rudd says Bill Shorten was a major reason Labor lost the May election, and corporate activists are pushing for a vote to stop Qantas flying asylum seekers out of the country.

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd speaks during a Q&A session at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Mr Rudd discussed China and the new era of strategic competition with the United States across trade, technology, and geopolitics. (AAP Image/Paul Braven) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten’s election strategy ‘nuts’: Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd says Bill Shorten was a major reason Labor lost the May election and his franking credits policy strategy was “nuts’’. Kevin Rudd also today warned of an era of McCarthyism, saying the Coalition derailed Australia-China relations.

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QANTAS Group CEO Alan Joyce speaks to the media as QANTAS Group deliver their full year results in Sydney, Thursday, August, 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Refugees on Qantas agenda

A group that wants Qantas to stop flying asylum seekers out of the country on behalf of the federal government will try again at the airline’s annual general meeting this year to force a vote on the issue.

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William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte get on a float plane as they prepare to depart Victoria, British Columbia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)

William and Kate take budget airline

Prince William and family board a flight costing $132 a seat for their summer holiday after Harry and Meghan made headlines for taking a $36,000 private jet.

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Australian Cardinal George Pell (C) is escorted in handcuffs from the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne on August 21, 2019. - Disgraced Catholic Cardinal George Pell was sent back to jail after an Australian court rejected his landmark appeal against convictions for child sex abuse. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Victims are owed our understanding

There is a fixation on one crime in a literal crime wave that is one of the darkest chapters of our social history. The 4444 figure is an unforgettable one. That is the number the Catholic Church in Australia acknowledged as victims of child sexual abuse over a thirty-year period, writes Jack the Insider.