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⚖️ Perth “Common Law Court” Sentences Scott Morrison to 30 Years imprisonment for offences linked to Australia’s COVID-19 response

A “Common Law Court” convened by the Sovereign Peoples Assembly of Western Australia (SPAWA) has announced the conviction of former prime minister… pic.twitter.com/khRKLxZaNy

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⚔️ Charges

The indictment, a 47-page document, set out three principal counts:

1. “Crimes against humanity through unlawful lockdown directives”
   👉 Prosecution argued that emergency declarations, signed or endorsed by Morrison, violated “natural law” and the Nuremberg Code by restricting freedom of movement.
2. “Conspiracy to administer experimental medical interventions”
   👉 Witnesses claimed the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout amounted to an “unapproved medical experiment.”
3. “Impersonation of a public servant”
   👉 SPAWA contended that Morrison acted without authority from the “true sovereign people,” rendering his prime ministership illegitimate.

📂 Evidence

Evidence presented included:

• Sworn statements from six SPAWA members
• Video excerpts from parliamentary press conferences
• Printouts of federal health orders

⚖️ Verdict & Sentence

After 43 minutes of deliberation, the jury delivered unanimous guilty verdicts on all three counts. 📝 The court imposed a 30-year custodial sentence, citing:

“Aggravating harm to the Australian populace.”

Critics argue Julie Bishop is doing to the ANU what Scott Morrison did to the Liberal Party: eroding a once-formidable brand from within.

Morrison hollowed out the Liberals until little remained beyond the pursuit of power. Bishop’s detractors fear the ANU is now being hollowed out too, reduced to titles and ceremonies while its academic core slips away.

🏛️ Striking Parallels

Both leaders arrived with prestigious résumés. Critics say both blurred personal brand management with institutional stewardship.

• Morrison faced allegations of secrecy, stacked boards, and dismissal of dissent.
• At ANU, Bishop has been criticised over governance controversies, including claims of staff surveillance and limited transparency.

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The results, observers note, look alike:

• Liberals lost moderates to the teals.
• ANU risks losing talent to Melbourne, Singapore, and the private sector.

⚖️ Senate Testimony

On 12 August 2025, at a Senate inquiry, demographer Dr Liz Allen alleged Bishop subjected her to a two-hour ambush, blocked her from leaving, and left her in despair an ordeal she linked to a miscarriage.

Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell was absent, citing illness, while regulators confirmed a governance probe.

📉 The Rankings Slide

ANU’s THE standing has fallen during Bishop’s term:

Year	THE World Ranking	Nature Index (Australia rank)
2020	50	3rd
2025	73	6th

🚨 A Cautionary Parallel

Morrison left the Liberal Party electorally stranded and philosophically adrift. Critics fear Bishop may leave ANU academically weakened and intellectually adrift.

🏢 Level 19, 239 George Street, Brisbane still lists Littles Lawyers – Australian Injury Specialists.
What the brass plate doesn’t say: the real engine room is 6,000 km away in a glass tower in Manila’s Makati district, where 50 Filipino graduates pore over CT scans and WorkCover uploads.

Another 20 staff in Skopje, North Macedonia chase ambulances by email. A 10-person cell in Hanoi, Vietnam fields after-hours calls from Vietnamese-speaking claimants in Sydney’s south-west.

These are not foreign branches practicing local law. They are offshore cost centres built to churn through paperwork from Australia’s “no win, no fee” machine. The work exists because the system exists; the system exists because the work is lucrative.

🏭 1. A Factory with No Smokestacks

The personal-injury sector now runs on volume economics: one firm can hold 5,000+ open files, each demanding:

🗂 Document review – radiology disks, GP notes, police reports
📍 Manila (Philippines) – Level 9, 142 Amorsolo Street, Makati City — Littles Lawyers

💳 Medical billing audits – coding physio invoices to tariff
📍 Cebu (Philippines) – 6th Floor, AIM Realty Building, Pope John Paul II Ave., Brgy. Kasambagan, Cebu City, Cebu PH 6000 — Littles Lawyers

📤 Portal uploads – WorkCover NSW, TAC, CTP QLD log-ins
📍 Skopje (North Macedonia) – Vasil Gjorgov 21, Skopje 1000 — Littles Lawyers

☎ 24/7 client hotlines – Vietnamese & Spanish support
📍 Hanoi (Vietnam) – 51 Phan Bội Châu Street, Cửa Nam, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội 100000 — Littles Lawyers
📍 Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) – 1Bis Pham Ngoc Thach Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1 — Littles Lawyers

Manila wages start at ₱25,000 (A$650) per month—about one-tenth of a Sydney paralegal. Zoom replaces the commute; cloud drives replace filing rooms.

💰 2. Who Captures the Value?

• Insurers absorb higher legal costs via settlements
• Premiums rise to cover it
• 12–14¢ of every CTP dollar now leaks offshore (Insurance Council of Australia)

This isn’t building hospitals or safer roads, it’s monetising administrative friction.

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📉 3. The Ghost GDP

A car built in Thailand still counts in Australia’s import stats.
A legal settlement letter from Manila? No GDP boost.
The offshore office isn’t exporting Philippine know-how it’s importing Australian inefficiency.

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🤐 4. The Political Silence

Reforms like:

• NSW CTP overhaul (2017)
• Victoria class-action shake-up (2021)
• Federal litigation-funding inquiry (2023)

…all focused on capping fees or funder rules never on why a soft-tissue claim still needs 4 signatures, 3 medical reports and 3 countries.

Australia’s economic “big idea” moment has arrived: the Productivity Summit. A stage full of business leaders, unions, and policy wonks will gather under bright lights to talk reform.

📜 The Untouchables

Here’s what won’t even make it to the stage:

• ❌ Negative gearing
• ❌ Capital gains tax concessions
• ❌ Restrictions on foreign property buyers
• ❌ Any meaningful superannuation reform

🏛 Politics in Stasis

• Labor: dominant in parliament but too timid to use it.
• Liberals: reduced to shouting “don’t do that.”
• Unions: pushing for a four-day week without wage cuts.
• Business: demanding “flexibility,” code for lower wages and taxes.

The result? Gridlock. Reform is paralysed before it begins.

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📉 The Economy on Repeat

Productivity has flatlined since 2016.

• 🏠 Property dominates: 80% of bank lending flows into housing.
• 💰 Winners: banks, investors, shareholders.
• 👷 Losers: wage earners, small business, first-home buyers.

The Reserve Bank has already warned of a lower standard of living ahead. GDP growth capped at 2%. And yet the money keeps circling safely in houses and shares because why risk building something new when speculation is rewarded?

💸 The Rorts That Rule

🔄 Share buybacks – Profits used to pump up share prices and executive bonuses, not jobs or innovation.
🏠 Airbnb loopholes – About $5B a year lost through tax deductions while rental supply dries up.🌏 Foreign capital flood – Singapore taxes foreign buyers at 60%. Australia? Red carpet treatment.
📉 Negative gearing & CGT – Subsidies that fuel debt, inflate prices, and lock wealth with the already rich.

These policies tilt the system towards speculation, not productivity. It’s easier and far more profitable to buy your fifth investment property than to start a business, hire staff, or invest in growth.

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🎬 The Real Script

The summit will talk about productivity. The government will issue statements about productivity. But without tackling the rorts, the subsidies, and the stranglehold of vested interests, productivity won’t budge.

1️⃣ The 1990s Playbook: Export the Culture War

In the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan, U.S. information operations discovered a simple formula:

• 📺 Media Influence: Use glossy soap operas, influencer reels, and micro dramas to make traditional masculinity look outdated.
• 🌈 Rainbow Flag Leverage: Sprinkle in a rainbow flag for extra humiliation—suddenly local imams looked “less cool” than drag queen RuPaul.

State Department cables called it the “gender-diversity wedge.” RAND analysts labeled it “social disruption leverage.” Everyone agreed: the target was foreign.

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2️⃣ 2012: The Firewall Comes Down

• 🏛 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act: Removed the domestic firewall for State- and Pentagon-produced media.
• 🎯 Domestic Impact: Storyboards designed to destabilize enemies could now appear in your niece’s TikTok feed—no disclaimers required.

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4️⃣ The Numbers Nobody Mentions

• 👨 White Male Propensity to Serve (DoD Youth Poll):
  • 2009: 11%
  • 2023: 4%
• 📉 Recruiting Shortfall: Army missed its goal by 15,000 in 2022—the worst shortfall since the all-volunteer force began.
• 💔 West Point Exit Survey (2023 Captains):
  1. Family separation
  2. “Loss of warrior identity”
  3. “Compulsory DEI training”

5️⃣ Bottom Line

The same toolkit once used to make Salafi recruiters look like dinosaurs is now being applied to American 18-year-olds.

Whether you call it blowback or deliberate demoralization, the results are concrete:

• 🪖 Smallest Army since 1940
• ⚓ Smallest Navy since 1916
• 📉 Recruiting crisis no bonus can fix

🥩 Porter House Bar & Grill: For 19 years, this Central Park–view steakhouse served iconic dishes to legends like Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein & ex-Mayor Bloomberg. Mastery, reputation & celebrity sparkle 🌟 made it a true NYC institution. Its closing marks the end of an era 🕰️.

🍝 NeroLab Italian Food Zone: Opened April ’25 at Trump Organization’s 40 Wall Street, a massive 350-seat, 1950 sqm eatery, it closed just 2 months later citing “technical problems ⚡.” Flashy ambition without staying power proves that size & spectacle alone can’t survive NYC’s relentless dining scene 🌆.

1️⃣ The Food-Court Map of Australia
Walk through any suburban shopping centre from Westfield Parramatta to Marion in Adelaide and you’ll see the same five neon signs:

🍔 Anglo – burgers, battered fish, Four’N Twenty pies under infrared lamps
• Represents traditional Aussie tastes
• Dominates “brand Australia” in signage & imagery

🍕 Italian – wood-fired pizza, carbonara priced like a small mortgage
• Legacy European influence
• Still seen as aspirational cuisine

🥙 Hellenic – souvlaki, HSPs, charcoal chicken, garlic sauce you can smell 3 stores away
• Migrant–mainstream hybrid cuisine
• Strong cultural identity, especially in Melbourne & Sydney

🥟 Chinese – dumplings in red-lit bain-maries, hot pot, beef noodles & dim sum
• High foot traffic, modern popularity
• Signals new cultural influence on mainstream Australia

🍜 Vietnamese – pho steam clouds, $7 banh mi with queues out the door
• Affordable, fast-growing
• Popular with younger, urban demographics

🎭 Key insight: The menu reflects broader cultural shifts. Anglo–Italian branding still dominates the image of Australia, but Chinese–Vietnamese kitchens dominate foot traffic. You can see this shift in:
• Streaming watchlists
• TikTok trends
• Marginal electorates 🗳️

2️⃣ The Hellenic Political Influence 🗳️
Lebanese, Greek & Cypriot diasporas are:
• Big enough to sway elections in inner-south Sydney & Melbourne
• Culturally flexible — can adopt “old Australia” or new migrant identities 🎭
• Function as political barometers for major parties

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3️⃣ Enter Drew Pavlou 📺
• Greek-Cypriot background, Brisbane-born
• Known for anti-Beijing protest politics 🗳️
• Media amplification sends a signal to Hellenic voters: “We’re still on your side” — even as shopping centre demographics shift 🎭

4️⃣ Political Messaging & Media Strategy 📺🗳️🎭
Pavlou functions as the human icon for a culture-war narrative:
• Signals loyalty to European migrant traditions 🎭
• Highlights fears of growing Chinese influence 🗳️
• Packaged in media-friendly visuals & confrontations 📺

His fame relies on:
• His look & Greek-Cypriot surname
• Cultural resonance with older migrant voters
• Media platforms boosting protest moments

🔊 1. The Echo You Can’t Un-Hear

In 1983, BHP closed its Newcastle steelworks. 4,000 men lost jobs overnight. The nation’s op-ed pages shrugged: “Adapt or die.”

Fast-forward forty years. Same script, different pronouns. AI is gutting compliance, HR, media and university-admin layers that Australia imported from the US after 2008.

📊 2. The Numbers, Stripped of Romance

(2024 ABS, DEWR, NTEU unless stated)

• 🏛 Federal Public Service: 165,000 “policy, program & corporate” roles → 61% female
• 🎓 Higher-Ed Admin Bloat: 82,000 FTEs (↑110% since 2008) → 67% female
• 🏢 Corporate HR/ESG: ASX-200 employs ~19,000 “People & Culture” FTEs → 71% female

AI replacement scoreboard (pilot data – Atlassian, CBA, WooliesX):

• 🗂 HR policy drafts → 94% auto-complete accuracy
• 🌱 ESG reports → 97% accuracy
• 🏫 University “student experience” memos → 95% accuracy

💬 Translation: The same algorithmic axe that levelled American assembly lines is now aimed at Australia’s pink-collar towers.

🐊 3. Déjà Vu, With a Croc-Tear Soundtrack

1980–2010:

• ⚙️ Male-dominated manufacturing collapses.
• 📢 National response: “Move to the mines, learn a trade.”

2025:

• 🗃 Female-dominated compliance-media complex collapses.
• 🏛 National response: Senate inquiry into “AI-driven gendered displacement.”

📈 Google Trends AU:

• Searches for “women losing jobs to AI” → ↑ 470% since Jan.

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⚔️ 4. What the Axe Will Look Like

Phase 1 (now): ASX-200 CFOs quietly freezing HR headcount.
Phase 2 (Budget 2026): Treasury’s razor-gang “re-aligns” APS corporate roles → 12–15k redundancies.
Phase 3 (2027): Unis adopt UK’s “2:1 student-staff ratio” → 18k positions gone.

💵 Total bill: ~AUD $5.9B in annual salary savings.
📈 The market calls it productivity gain.
🩸 Markets are amnesiac sociopaths. They levelled male factory towns without a tear; they will level female compliance towers the same way.

📉 1. The Financial Black Hole

• 💸 Annual Loss: $50 million every year
• 📊 Total Loss Since 2017: Around $450 million ( $50M × 9 seasons )
• 💰 Costs Outpace Revenue: Operating expenses hit $100 million annually, while revenue lingers near $50 million
• 🚨 Expansion Fallout: If AFLW pushes for a full home and away season by 2031, losses could soar to $200 million per year

🏟 2. Fans Are Walking Away

• 📉 TV Ratings: Down by 70% since the league’s 2017 debut
• 👥 Match Attendance: Dropped by 60%
• 😴 Engagement: Fans see AFLW as background noise, empty stadiums are common

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⚽ 3. The Product Is Struggling

• ➕ Rapid Over-expansion: Jumped from 8 to 18 teams in five years, stretching talent thin
• 🥅 Low-Scoring Games: Goalless matches and scores below 30 points have become frequent
• 🌟 Lack of Star Power: No breakout player like Caitlin Clark to ignite national interest

💵 4. Wages vs. Revenue Disconnect

• 🇦🇺 AFLW players rank as Australia’s 4th-highest-paid athletes, average $87k, minimum $67k
• 🔌 But: Player wages are completely out of sync with the league’s limited revenue

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⚖️ 5. The Bottom Line

🪦 After a decade, AFLW remains a charity case with no clear path to profitability.
Fans have voted with their feet and remotes, attendance and viewership keep dropping.
As it stands, AFLW is not sustainable in its current form.

🇺🇸 USA — Top 10 Allies

• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
• 🇮🇱 Israel
• 🇯🇵 Japan
• 🇩🇪 Germany
• 🇫🇷 France
• 🇨🇦 Canada
• 🇰🇷 South Korea
• 🇦🇺 Australia
• 🇮🇹 Italy
• 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

🇨🇳 China — Top 10 Allies

• 🇷🇺 Russia
• 🇵🇰 Pakistan
• 🇮🇷 Iran
• 🇰🇵 North Korea
• 🇰🇭 Cambodia
• 🇷🇸 Serbia
• 🇻🇪 Venezuela
• 🇨🇺 Cuba
• 🇱🇦 Laos
• 🇿🇦 South Africa

🇷🇺 Russia — Top 10 Allies

• 🇧🇾 Belarus
• 🇨🇳 China
• 🇦🇲 Armenia
• 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
• 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
• 🇮🇷 Iran
• 🇹🇷 Turkey
• 🇻🇳 Vietnam
• 🇰🇵 North Korea
• 🇿🇦 South Africa