Australia politics live: ‘today, I serve my country,’ David McBride says ahead of trial over alleged leaking of material used to expose war crimes

Whistleblower David McBride says ‘today, I serve my country’ as he enters court to face trial

Christopher Knaus

David McBride has declared “today, I serve my country” as he entered an ACT court to face trial for the alleged leaking of material later used to expose Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.

The trial of McBride is due to begin today in the ACT supreme court, where he faces five charges including the unauthorised disclosure of information, breaches of the defence Act, and the theft of commonwealth property. He has pleaded not guilty.

A significant crowd of supporters gathered in front of the ACT supreme court on Monday, hearing speeches from Human Rights Law Centre senior lawyer Kieran Pender, Julian Assange’s Australian lawyer Stephen Kenny, and representatives from the Community and Public Sector Union, among others.

McBride arrived in court and spoke briefly to the crowd. He said.

Today I serve my country. The question I have for you, Anthony Albanese is, who do you serve?

McBride, a former military lawyer, allegedly leaked material to the ABC, which formed the basis of a 2017 series of war crimes titled “The Afghan Files”.

David McBride arrives at the ACT supreme court this monring where protesters and suporters had gathered in solidarity with the whistleblower. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

David McBride, his dog and his legal team this morning in Canberra. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Marion Kohler, an acting assistant governor of the Reserve Bank, is speaking now at a UBS conference in Sydney.

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Borrowers wondering if the RBA might be about to lift its interest rate again – recall the Melbourne Cup rate hike last week – next month will probably feel just as nervy as they did before Kohler began.

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Kohler’s focus was mostly on the labour market and the ways the RBA tries to infer how close we might be to full employment (part of the bank’s mandate along with keeping inflation in check).

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“We currently expect a further gradual easing in the labour market resulting from a period of below-trend growth in aggregate demand for goods and services,” she concludes. “We expect inflation to continue to decline, but more gradually than anticipated three months ago.”

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In sum, Kohler’s view echoes the RBA’s updated statement on monetary policy that we saw last Friday.

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There is one interesting chart showing how by most measures, the labour market remains relatively tight compared with the past couple of decades. Even on this point, though, Kohler says “we need to be careful” not to read too much into it.

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There is no mechanical link between this dashboard and our overall view of the labour market,” she says (blunting a few headlines right there).

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RBA's acting assistant governor Marion Kohler has provided this interest chart at a conference in Sydney to show how, on most measures, labour market conditions remain 'relatively tight'. The conditions, though, are easing. pic.twitter.com/7lP0yGbiu1

— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) November 12, 2023

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Still her comments will be reviewed in light of a couple of big data points this week. We get September quarter wage price index figures on Wednesday (with the CBA for one predicting an annual increase of 3.8%).

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And on Thursday we get October labour market numbers. The jobless rate was 3.6% in September and the CBA tips that will rise to 3.7% when we see October’s numbers.

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David McBride has declared “today, I serve my country” as he entered an ACT court to face trial for the alleged leaking of material later used to expose Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.

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McBride arrived in court and spoke briefly to the crowd. He said.

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Today I serve my country. The question I have for you, Anthony Albanese is, who do you serve?

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McBride, a former military lawyer, allegedly leaked material to the ABC, which formed the basis of a 2017 series of war crimes titled “The Afghan Files”.

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AAP have taken a look at the latest Resolve poll, published in the Nine newspapers:

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Many Australian voters are worried about the cost of living and are now less likely to back the Labor federal government, although Anthony Albanese remains the preferred prime minister.

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Some 50% expect the economy to become worse in the next three months, a Resolve poll published in Nine newspapers on Monday shows.

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More than half (52%) say the cost of living is their biggest priority, up from 32% at the end of last year.

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Households have weathered a series of interest rate rises, which has pushed up the cost of mortgage and other loan repayments, as well as high inflation, which has impacted the cost of goods and particularly petrol.

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Some of this was being driven by the flow-on effects from the war in Ukraine, but research company Resolve Strategic said there was little doubt support for Labor in the electorate was edging lower.

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Labor’s “core” or primary support has fallen to 35%, from 37% in the past month, against the coalition which slipped to 30% from 31%.

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“Most Australians cannot see an end to above-average inflation in the near future and are expecting rates to rise while their wages remain stubbornly fixed,” Resolve director Jim Reed told Nine newspapers.

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However, Albanese is still the preferred prime minister at 40% to 27% for opposition leader Peter Dutton.

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Resolve pollsters surveyed 1,602 voters from 1 November to 5 November, ahead of the Reserve Bank raising interest rates for the 13th time in more than a year on 7 November.

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Tanya Plibersek was asked about Penny Wong’s comments about Israel and Hamas working towards a ceasefire while on the Seven network and said:

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I think what the foreign minister said is that we should be working towards a ceasefire, and just as the government has been very clear that Israel has the right to defend itself, we have also said that it’s important how that occurs, and that of course we should be seeking to minimise civilian casualties, and particularly in hospitals, and those vulnerable facilities in Gaza.

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We know that every civilian death is a tragedy. We have consistently said that the Hamas attack on Israel was horrific and unacceptable and that hostages need to be released immediately. But working towards a ceasefire, calling for a humanitarian pause, that is a recognition that the civilian casualties in Gaza at the moment are very high, unacceptably high.

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ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott said Australians were “muddling through” the challenging economic conditions, after the bank posted a record annual cash profit of $7.4bn.

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The result, for the 12 months to the end of September, was up 14% over the year.

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The banking sector has profited from a period of steep rising interest rates, by taking advantage of the higher rates they charge loan customers compared with the interest they pay savers.

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While acknowledging that it was difficult for those in financial stress, Elliott said only a small number of mortgage customers were in hardship:

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They’re actually muddling through pretty well. That again speaks to the strength of the economy, the fact that people have been able to work through.

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The official cash rate now sits at 4.35% after the Reserve Bank hiked it again last week, in the central bank’s 13th rate rise since May last year.

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The bank’s chief gauge of profitability, net interest margins, increased to 1.7%, from 1.63% a year earlier.

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ANZ’s profit result was slightly lower than analyst expectations.

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You may not have heard of DP World previously – it is one of Australia’s largest port operators. Which means that it plays a pretty big role in what gets brought into the country, and when. So a cyber-attack can have a pretty big impact on the nation – especially around one of the busiest times of the year for deliveries into the country.

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The attack is “contained” according to DP World, but the bulk of cargo remains stalled at the moment.

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The national cyber security coordinator, Darren Goldie, told ABC radio that the ports would remain closed for “days, not weeks” according to DP World, as they work to get their systems online:

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They’ve had the ability to continue to offload cargo, but obviously in a closed container or cargo yard, those facilities are filling up. I don’t have any further estimation on the time it will take to restore but the company does have confidence that that’s that certainly in the days not weeks category.

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Welcome to the second last full sitting week for the year.

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There are nine days left of joint sittings, which means the end-of-year rush has begun – expect the shenanigans to begin in earnest.

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We had a taste of it last week when the Coalition joined with the Greens to stop the sea dumping legislation from passing the Senate. The Coalition isn’t necessarily against the bill (which will allow for the export of carbon waste as well as for it to be buried at sea) but it is happy to cause headaches for the government, which only ended up passing two of its bills last week.

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So this week things will get start to get busy if the government is to carry out its legislative agenda by the end of the year.

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The crossbench has been busy – Dr Monique Ryan, the independent MP for Kooyong, plans on introducing her “cleaning up politics” bill today, which would put boundaries around lobbyists.

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Paul Karp has previewed that here:

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Ryan’s legislation is the latest in the crossbench’s attempts to change how politics is done inside the building and out – but it will need the support of the government to get past the house.

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The government also has to deal with a crossbench bill from Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock, which carves out the parts of the IR omnibus legislation (which won’t be voted until at least February next year after the Senate sent it to a longer committee process) they want passed urgently. Tony Burke isn’t budging, saying if they want parts of the bill passed, they can pass it as part of the omnibus bill. But Lambie and Pocock got their bill through the Senate, which means the house has to deal with it. The standoff there will continue.

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Overshadowing it all will be the Israel-Hamas war. Pro-Palestine protests continue, and the opposition want a stronger “crackdown” on “anti-social” protests. Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong’s calls for “steps forward” towards a ceasefire have been criticised by the Zionist Federation of Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, who claim any ceasefire would “embolden” Hamas.

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Labor is being pressured from all sides and the Coalition senses political opportunity, so expect that to play a role in question time this week.

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You’ll have the best in the business guiding you through it – you have Mike Bowers and his cameras, Paul Karp, Daniel Hurst, Josh Butler and Sarah Basford-Canales in Canberra to explain it all. And you have me, Amy Remeikis, on the blog for most of the day.

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It’s going to be at least a three-coffee day. Ready?

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Let’s get into it.

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Key events

Sarah Basford Canales

Kooyong MP Monique Ryan has said reports that Michelle Rowland was wined and dined by gambling lobbyists don’t pass the sniff test.

The communications minister was taken out for a lavish lunch by Responsible Wagering Australia – lobbyists who represent Sportsbet, Ladbrokes, and Bet365 – for her birthday last November, the Australian Financial Review reported on Monday.

The lunch, held at one of Melbourne’s top restaurants, was labelled a “policy briefing”.

It comes as Ryan is introducing a private member’s bill on Monday, which aims to crack down on lobbyist influence and reveal ministers’ diaries.

Ryan said the minister’s actions, if her bill was to pass, would not be allowed:

What I’m hoping with this bill is to shine a light on the activities of our ministers in their meetings with industry …

Now, the fact is that what Michelle Rowland did in [November], having a policy briefing with members of the gambling industry in the restaurant, is entirely legal. But I don’t think that passes the sniff test and that’s not what my constituents want.”

Jordyn Beazley

A small number of signatures on an e-petition calling for the house of representatives to prevent an offshore windfarm being built off the Illawarra coast were collected via “unethical means and is a “serious risk to the integrity of the petition system”.

Speaking in the house of representatives a short time ago, Labor MP and chair of the standing committee on petitions, Susan Templeman, said the committee had requested an analysis of the 11,291 signatures after the Illawarra Mercury reported a resident was offering beautician service giveaways in exchange for people signing the petition.

Templeman said the analysis found a duplication of nearly 200 names, with people appearing to sign the petition more than once under different email accounts.

It comes after claims the campaign against the proposed offshore windfarm zone in the Illawarra region has been mired by misinformation, particularly that wind turbines kill whales despite there being no credible evidence to back this claim.

In response to the finding, the committee will now require all signatories to check a box to confirm they’ve only signed the petition once.

Templeman said:

The committee is aware that a small number of signatures on the petition may have been collected through unethical means. We consider this to be a serious risk to the integrity of the petition system.

Speaking after Templeman, Alyson Byrne, the member for Cunningham which takes in the area where the windfarm is proposed, said she was concerned by an allegation put forward by a resident that members of a local group against the proposal called the Coalition Against Offshore Windfarms had told community members during a meeting in late September to make multiple submissions.

What I find most concerning is that this approach was not made in error, or from a lack of knowledge about the petitions process. But with the full intention to distort the scale of this particular petition.

The house has had a busy start to the morning –at least for the independent MPs.

Monique Ryan has introduced her bill to put some boundaries around lobbyists. Kate Chaney seconded that.

Zali Steggall has introduced a bill for truth in political advertising (also seconded by Kate Chaney)

and Helen Haines has moved a motion to try and de-politicise how community grants are awarded (supported by Liberal MP Bridget Archer)

Haines said:

Both the Labor party and the Coalition are guilty of misusing grants programs to win votes during election campaigns.

Community groups, led by hardworking volunteers, can miss out on money, not because their grant application wasn’t good enough, but because the responsible minister decides to give the money to someone else, against the advice of their own department.

Grants funding is vitally important for volunteer-led organisations, not-for-profits, small businesses and local governments to support communities, particularly in regional, rural and remote areas.”

On Wednesday, the government will formally apologise to Australians impacted by thalidomide, a sedative drug which was supposed to help with pregnancy nausea, but resulted in malformation of limbs, facial features and internal organs in unborn children.

A National Site of Recognition will also be unveiled on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin at a ceremony on Thursday, 30 November 2023

Anthony Albanese:

The thalidomide tragedy is a dark chapter in the history of our nation and the world.
I recognise that the survivors, their families, friends and carers have advocated for this apology with courage and conviction for many years. This moment is a long overdue national acknowledgement of all they have endured and all they have fought for. In giving this apology, we will acknowledge all those babies who died and the families who mourn them, as well as those who survived but whose lives were made so much harder by the effects of this terrible drug.”

RBA expects inflation to decline ‘more gradually’ than previously expected

Peter Hannam

Marion Kohler, an acting assistant governor of the Reserve Bank, is speaking now at a UBS conference in Sydney.

Kohler’s focus was mostly on the labour market and the ways the RBA tries to infer how close we might be to full employment (part of the bank’s mandate along with keeping inflation in check).

In sum, Kohler’s view echoes the RBA’s updated statement on monetary policy that we saw last Friday.

There is no mechanical link between this dashboard and our overall view of the labour market,” she says (blunting a few headlines right there).

RBA's acting assistant governor Marion Kohler has provided this interest chart at a conference in Sydney to show how, on most measures, labour market conditions remain 'relatively tight'. The conditions, though, are easing. pic.twitter.com/7lP0yGbiu1

— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) November 12, 2023

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RBA’s acting assistant governor Marion Kohler has provided this interest chart at a conference in Sydney to show how, on most measures, labour market conditions remain ‘relatively tight’. The conditions, though, are easing. pic.twitter.com/7lP0yGbiu1

— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) November 12, 2023

And on Thursday we get October labour market numbers. The jobless rate was 3.6% in September and the CBA tips that will rise to 3.7% when we see October’s numbers.

Elias Visontay

Sydney drivers will pay $123bn in tolls by 2060 without reform, modelling shows

Drivers in Sydney will have paid $123bn in tolls by the year 2060 if long-term tolling contracts entered into by successive governments are fulfilled.

The toll bill over the next four decades was modelled by the New South Wales treasury and transport department, as the Minns Labor government moves to reform tolls in the capital. The toll bill from the new WestConnex alone is $64bn out to 2060, the government said.

While a $60 per week toll cap will come into effect on 1 January, the government will likely have to pay compensation to corporate tollway giant Transurban if it is to achieve significant changes to Sydney’s toll road network.

A review into Sydney’s patchwork toll road network has so far floated the idea of splitting the city into geographic zones, so that any drivers accessing any number of toll roads within a zone would pay the same fee – and the toll burden that western Sydney roads currently bear the brunt of would be better shared with eastern suburbs residents.

John Graham, the NSW roads minister, said “a 30 year-old driver today will reach retirement age before some existing toll contracts expire, which is why it is critical we let the light shine in here and debate the merits and the long-term costs of how our tolling system is structured”.

Dreyfus could end prosecution of McBride with ‘flick of his pen’, Shoebridge says

This is what David Shoebridge’s contribution to the Senate boils down to:

We say this. There is one person who can stop this, one person who can actually listen to the truth and listen to all of that rhetoric we got from Labor when they were in opposition.

And that person is the Labor attorney general Mark Dreyfus, who with a flick of his pen could end the prosecution of David McBride, who faces the very real prospect of years and years in jail simply for telling the public the truth about war crimes.

… What does Australia stand for when we have compelling evidence of troops committing war crimes, and the person we prosecute, the person the Albanese government wants to jail, is the lawyer and the whistleblower?

Labor is not in favour of the motion – which means it will fail, unless the Coalition jumps in to vote with the Greens.

Greens senator David Shoebridge is now moving a motion in the Senate in support of whistleblower David McBride.

Penny Wong is interrupting to bring up the Senate’s subjudice convention (which means they don’t use their parliamentary privilege to talk about court cases and McBridge’s case is in front of the supreme court today).

Shoebridge says his comments are aimed at the executive (the government) and not the court case.

So far on that motion, the Coalition is abstaining from the vote, so the government is winning on the numbers, with the Greens voting against it.

The Greens are against the legislation, which will allow carbon waste to be exported and buried at sea. Last week, the Greens successfully put off the vote with the Coalition’s assistance. But the Coalition isn’t against the legislation itself. And it looks like that today, the Coalition is willing for the bill to go through.

Push to change Senate hours to pass climate change bill

Back in the Senate and this is what Anthony Chisholm is trying to get the Senate to agree to:

That: “Divisions may take place after 6.30 pm for the purposes of the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023 only; and (d) the Senate adjourn without debate after consideration of the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023 has concluded, or at 8 pm, whichever is later, or on the motion of a minister.”

Which is Senate speak for – we really want to get this bill dealt with today and passed, please stop playing games and vote on it.

Whistleblower David McBride says ‘today, I serve my country’ as he enters court to face trial

Christopher Knaus

David McBride has declared “today, I serve my country” as he entered an ACT court to face trial for the alleged leaking of material later used to expose Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.

McBride arrived in court and spoke briefly to the crowd. He said.

Today I serve my country. The question I have for you, Anthony Albanese is, who do you serve?

McBride, a former military lawyer, allegedly leaked material to the ABC, which formed the basis of a 2017 series of war crimes titled “The Afghan Files”.