And while the spotlight has moved on, Mundine’s verbal meanderings continue. On Monday, he was one of the guests at a private waste sector lunchtime event in Barangaroo, where decarbonisation and a net-zero future were on the agenda. The event was subject to Chatham House rules, so we’ve got to be careful with the details.
“The problem I have – and this is why Brexit succeeded, and this is why the Yes campaign failed – is that we don’t take people with us,” Mundine told CBD, while singing the praises of Labor’s economic narrative during the Hawke-Keating years. So when Johns returned to council chambers for a meeting on Monday evening, it’s fair to say a few eyebrows were raised. Kent told us the leave of absence was still a thing – he just came to speak on one item, relating to a flood study.
While generations of Liberal, Labor and Greens volunteers would be aghast at the idea of paying for campaign t-shirts, the political aspirants’ are selling theirs for $45. The retailer has recently copped its 70th violation – 74th by the count of porn-critical activist group Collective Shout, which monitors these things very closely – from advertising regulator Ad Standards.