Dutton not wanting to make Turnbull a martyr.

Yep, better to keep him as the sniveling, narcissistic, self aggrandising, destabilising white ant.

This one’s for agricultural Cats. Welcome to the new Minister for Agriculture.

Murray is a born and bred Queenslander, and was taught that everyone deserves to be treated fairly, whoever they are.

Murray’s entire working life has been spent as an advocate for others, having spent 20 years as a lawyer, a State MP and Chief of Staff to former Premier Anna Bligh. He was elected as a Senator for Queensland in 2016.

As a lawyer, Murray specialised in employment law and ran class actions for farmers, shareholders and consumers against governments and big corporations. He also led an award-winning team which secured the release of around 100 Australian-born children and their families, stopping their transfer to indefinite detention on Nauru.

During his time in the Senate, Murray has met with communities across Queensland and fought for them in Canberra. He is a key member of Labor’s Senate Estimates team and has led many Senate inquiries into health, regional, industry and other policies.

“Sliante! ”

Woodside Energy prepares to take BHP Petroleum into the fol
Sean Smith
The West Australian
Tue, 31 May 2022 6:11PM
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Woodside Energy will pull more than 100 BHP Petroleum staff into the fold in Perth on Wednesday as it closes its $27 billion buyout of a spread of oil and gas operations in Australia and overseas.

The deal will see about 1000 BHP staff transfer to Woodside, including 100 in Perth who will be relocated into the latter’s high-rise headquarters on Mount Street.

Woodside is marking the the buyout with a number of low-key staff events in Australia and Houston, where it is absorbing a large BHP Petroleum team.

The 914.8 million shares – worth $27.2 billion at Tuesday’s close – it is issuing to pay for the BHP unit will be distributed to BHP’s 540,000 shareholders in the form of a dividend on Wednesday.

The new shares are being allocated on the basis of one for every 5.5350 BHP shares held and can be traded on the stock market from Thursday.

The petroleum merger will double the size of Woodside, which will gain oil and gas interests on the North West Shelf, the Bass Strait, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.

But the deeper push into fossil fuels, while boosting production, will also increase its emissions at a time when global concerns about climate change are growing.

Woodside has argued that the merged group will be in a stronger financial position to navigate the transition to cleaner energy sources.

However, its rationale is rejected by climate activists who want a ban on new fossil fuel projects, such as Woodside’s $US12b ($16b) Scarborough project off north west WA, and accuse the company of greenwashing.

A big protest vote against Woodside’s climate report at its annual meeting two weeks suggested shareholders, while supportive of the BHP deal, want quicker action by the company on its climate goal

Northern Territory Police are calling for anyone with information regarding an incident in Coolalinga to come forward.

At 10:30 on Tuesday morning, police were notified of what appeared to be a human leg on the Stuart Highway just north of Coolalinga.

You’d think they’d have noticed by now.