Shorten sticks with habits of a lifetime, commenting before he finds out the facts
Bill Shorten, quoted by Rachel Baxendale, The Australian, yesterday:
“The ACCC report’s come out. It’s a valuable addition. It’s got to be studied very carefully.” Asked whether he had read the report, Mr Shorten said: “No, I haven’t read the report.”
Patrick Lion, The Daily Telegraph, April 26, 2012:
(Bill) Shorten: “I haven’t seen what she’s said, but let me say I support what it is she said.” (Sky News host David) Speers: “Hang on, you haven’t seen what she has said?” Shorten: “But I support what my prime minister said, so …” Speers: “Well, what’s your view?” Shorten: “My view is what the prime minister’s view is.” Speers: “But you don’t know what that is?” Shorten: “I’m sure she’s right.”
Conflict of interest. David Marin-Guzman, The Australia n Financial Review, yesterday:
A former executive at Australian-Super has accused top officials at the country’s largest superannuation fund of pressuring him to funnel investment into a union-linked property trust despite conflicts of interest … (Jack) McGougan claims he was forced out of his $500,000-a-year job for opposing moves by chief investment officer Mark Delaney and director Brian Daley to invest in industry-fund controlled developer ISPT … When he raised concerns over the fund’s poor management of conflicts of interest in relation to ISPT, AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk told him “you have to drop this” … ISPT is an unlisted property fund and developer set up in 1994 by former ACTU assistant secretary Garry Weaven and co-founded by AustralianSuper.
Conflict of interest? www.actu. org.au:
ACTU thanks all our sponsors and partners for supporting the 2018 ACTU Congress in Brisbane 17 and 18 July 2018 … AustralianSuper … Care Super … Cbus … First State Super … Industry Super Australia …
Trust and honesty peripheral to financial services! Professor Julian Teicher, The Conversation, July 10:
A man twice convicted of child pornography charges was discriminated against by Suncorp … Suncorp’s concerns were thrown out by Australian Human Rights Commission president Professor Rosalind Croucher. She found that BE met the “inherent requirements”, which were “essential features” of the job and not something “peripheral”, such as trust and honesty. Croucher’s legal reasoning has been overlooked by critics …
Trust peripheral to financial services? Theadviser.com.au, July 9:
Roy Morgan’s latest Net Trust Score survey … (found the major) banks ranked in the bottom half of the list, along with Suncorp.
Aunty debunks myth Oz is “dark” continent, ABC News, June 27:
A 13th-century illustration of an Australasian cockatoo debunks the myth Australia was a “dark continent” …
Who said Oz was a “dark continent”? yourdictionary.com:
Dark Continent — Africa considered as mysterious, especially to Europeans … Henry M. Stanley was probably the first to use the term in Through the Dark Continent (1878).
The Sydney Morning Herald, March 12, 1879:
De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Boy of Tunis, and trying to … (open) communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.
Still the Dark Continent. The Advertiser, Adelaide, November 10, 1903:
Africa is still the Dark Continent, the land of the unknown, the remarkable.