Drag Story Time, Pine Gap, Pyne Breaches Ministerial Standards, Reprieve for the Bight, Coles and Woolies Urged to Leave BCA

Monday, 1 July 2019 - 7:00am to 8:30am

7:15 Once upon a Drag Story Time. Kimberly Twiner, from POPOMOCO tells us about their show Once upon
a Drag Story Time being performed at Footscray Community Arts Centre on July 13 th at 2:00pm
http://footscrayarts.com/event/once-upon-a-drag-storytime/

7:30 Pine Gap’s role in Australian Defence Policy 2019. Professor Richard Tanter, Senior Research Associate with the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability updates us about the role of Pine Gap in US/Australian defence policy.

7:45 Christopher Pyne’s appointment to EY breaches Ministerial Standards. Senator Rex Patrick on former defence minister Christopher Pyne’s appointment as defence consultant to Ernst and Young (EY) within two
month of leaving the Federal Defence portfolio.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/christopher-pyne-called-out-
for-taking-defence-job/11250526

8:00 Temporary reprieve for the Great Australian Bight Peter Owen, the SA Director of the Wilderness Society joins us on the phone from Adelaide to discuss the federal regulator NOPSEMA’s decision to request more information from Equinor on its environmental plan for drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
https://indaily.com.au/news/2019/06/28/bight-oil-drilling-plan-delayed/

8:15  Fergus Kinnaird from Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) speaks to us about Coles and Woolies membership of the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and te ACF’s current.
https://www.acf.org.au/email_supermarkets
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-acf-taking-bca-mara-bun

Music 

Song                       Artist 
Circles                    Kutcha Edwards
Dieu A Nos Côtés   Hart-Rouge