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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas) Two scandals continue to bubble away that reflect poorly on Richard Marles, the deputy prime minister and, as head of the Defence portfolio, both the biggest spending minister and most important manufacturing figure in the government. Neither, however, looks set to damage him. Marles has led a charmed life over the past two parliamentary terms. He is only Labor’s deputy leader because, due to Anthony Albanese’s ascendancy, the deputy leader couldn’t be from the Left faction or from NSW. He has sailed through numerous problems in his portfolio that would have bogged down other ministers. One is AUKUS, a project ill-conceived, poorly implemented and never adequately explained to taxpayers , who will be forced to fork out $400 billion over coming decades for submarines that may never arrive to perform tasks no-one has ever properly described. But AUKUS is backed by News Corp, media Sinophobes and the Defence establishment, and is provided a chorus of reflexive support aimed at drowning out fundamental criticisms of the project. It’s easy being AUKUS minister when the media acts as your combined echo chamber and attack dog on critics. Silence and deception: How Defence evades accountability for money and lives Read More Another is the steady drip of auditor-general reports illustrating that Marles’ department is at best hopelessly unable to conduct major procurement exercises, or is at worst corrupt. On Marles’ watch alone, there have been six heavily critical reports of Defence by the Australian National Audit Office. Many of these reports cover the Defence’s conduct under the Coalition, but they nonetheless indicate that the department simply cannot conduct major project procurement, or manage its key assets, or deliver services to its personnel with the efficiency, effectiveness and ethics that taxpayers should expect. Marles has adopted a pose of studied indifference as each new report has dripped out. For those reports relating to the department under his watch, the evidence is that things have been getting worse , not better. The most recent of these was the remarkable revelations of Defence’s overly close relationship with European arms company Thales , and the department’s deliberate misleading of its ministers in relation to renewing a billion-dollar contract with the organisation. Marles’ response was steeped in denial, claiming in June , “I don’t think that there is a systemic issue within Defence in relation to the way in which Defence contracts are managed.” When a minister doesn’t think his own department misleading ministers is a problem, there’s something gravely wrong with both. Marles then took the extraordinary step in July of endorsing Thales as “a very important company in terms of the contribution that they provide to the Australian Defence Force ... a very important company for Australian defence capability.” By that stage, Thales was under investigation in Europe for bribery. His misjudgment in endorsing Thales was exposed last week when another investigation into Thales was revealed — this time a joint Anglo-French investigation of the company, possibly over an arms deal with Indonesia. Nor is that investigation the only thing hanging over Thales and its defender Marles, with the auditor-general yet to release the second part of her investigation of Defence’s management of munitions contracts. Another explanation for why Marles is in denial about problems in Defence and possible corruption in Thales is that his office has failed to keep him across the scandals blossoming on his patch. After all, there are clearly significant problems in Marles’ office. If there is even limited truth to the claims of Jo Tarnawsky, Marles’ chief of staff who is now suing the government, the pictures she paints of Marles and the top tier of the Labor government are disturbing indeed. Tarnawsky is not a traditional Labor staffer but a veteran bureaucrat with experience in senior vice-regal and diplomatic roles. This may account for why, as she claims, she was allegedly frozen out and bullied by the Prime Minister’s Office within a year of her appointment, then allegedly abandoned by Marles, who she says decided earlier this year that he no longer wanted her as his chief of staff, but then left her in well-remunerated limbo. Richard Marles takes on reality, comes off second-best in growing Thales scandal Read More Yes, there are two sides to every story and interpersonal disputes within workplaces can get complicated very quickly. But the apparent decision by Marles simply to leave Tarnawsky in her job but without any role is remarkable and another example of his lack of judgment. Tarnawsky’s legal action has attracted media coverage, sure, but the Coalition figures, from Scott Morrison on down, who were rightly pilloried for their shocking mishandling of workplace sexual assault, harassment and bullying issues during the past Parliament might be looking at the lack of uproar over Tarnawsky’s case and wondering why, exactly, Labor is getting off with so little attention. Another example, perhaps, of the charmed life of a very mediocre minister. And all the funnier given the Canberra scuttlebutt is that Marles thinks he can knock off Albanese and become prime minister. That would truly be a case of having risen without a trace. Have something to say about this article? Write to us at letters@crikey.com.au . Please include your full name to be considered for publication in Crikey’s Your Say . 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OTTAWA—Prime Minister and a handful of his top advisers flew to Florida to dine with president-elect and members of his team Friday night. On the menu: meat loaf and a range of meaty matters, including some of the most contentious Canada-U.S. issues that have gone unresolved for years. At the end of the surprise summit, there was no indication that Trump would drop his threat to impose a massive 25-per cent surcharge on Canadian products, announced by Trump on social media Monday — a threat that, if executed, would have a devastating impact on Canadian energy, auto and manufacturing exports. Still, the meeting between Trump, Trudeau and several of the future president’s advisers and their wives lasted more than three hours, and was described by a senior Canadian official as a positive, wide-ranging discussion. Trudeau, accompanied by Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, and chief of staff Katie Telford, travelled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach on a weekend in which many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. At the dinner table were key Trump officials and others, including North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, nominated for Interior Secretary who will lead Trump’s effort to open federal lands to more oil and gas drilling, and Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick, a staunch enthusiast of tariffs, and Trump’s nominee for national security adviser Mike Waltz. Other guests included Pennsylvania senator-elect Dave McCormick and his wife, Dina Powell, a former Trump deputy national security adviser. The face-to-face meeting came at Trudeau’s suggestion, said the Canadian source with knowledge of their communications. They discussed trade, border security, fentanyl, defence matters including NATO, Ukraine, and icebreakers (Canada, the U.S. and Finland recently agreed to a trilateral pact to rebuild their icebreaking fleets). The leaders and their teams also discussed China, energy issues and pipelines, including those that feed Canadian oil and gas into the U.S. like Keystone XL, Line 5, as well as the Trans-Mountain project and Canada’s liquid natural gas export capacity, the official said, speaking on a background-only basis to disclose some details of the private meeting. The two leaders also discussed next year’s G7 meeting that Trudeau will host in Kananaskis, Alta. It will be held seven years after Trump left the 2018 G7 at Charlevoix, Que., only to erupt in anger later after Trudeau said Canada would stand up and fight American steel and aluminum tariffs. That outburst led many to believe Trump retained a dislike of Trudeau, however the two leaders managed a working relationship after that and have had friendly conversations since Trump’s re-election, according to two Canadian sources. Friday night’s summit, undisclosed to media in advance, was seen as a chance to kick-start the relationship anew, and to connect with some of Trump’s advisers who will be players in his second term. The menu included a dish called “Mary Trump’s Meat Loaf,” as well as a fava bean falafel appetizer, pan seared trout with braised baby artichokes or a kimchi fried rice Asian bowl as a vegan option, said officials. The presence of LeBlanc, the minister responsible for border security, was aimed at countering Trump’s claim in his online statement that “thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before.” He said if Canada and Mexico didn’t act, he would exact a “very big price” on their economies. LeBlanc has said that the Trudeau government is prepared to beef up border security, with more money for technology, drones and more Mounties and border guards on the 49th parallel. LeBlanc, who ordered the Mary Trump meat loaf dish Friday, is also a hail-fellow-well-met political actor who is trusted by Trudeau, and gets along well with his ideological opposites, like Ontario Premier Doug Ford. It is the first meeting between the president-elect and a foreign leader, and comes just under two months before Trump is to be inaugurated as U.S. president. It also came just days after Trump threatened to impose the massive 25-per-cent tariffs on America’s three biggest trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China, with an additional 10 per cent slapped on China (possibly on top of an earlier vow to impose 60 per cent tariffs on China). Canada’s ambassador to Washington Kirsten Hillman and Trudeau’s deputy chief of staff Brian Clow were also at the Mar-a-Lago dinner, having travelled ahead to Florida to accompany the Canadian delegation. Earlier Friday, without tipping his hand, Trudeau said in Prince Edward Island that what is “important to understand is that Donald Trump, when he makes statements like that, he plans on carrying them out. There’s no question about it. “Our responsibility is to point out that in this way, he would actually not just be harming Canadians, who work so well with the United States, he would actually be raising prices for American citizens as well, and hurting American industry and businesses.” Trudeau added, “ultimately, it is through lots of constructive, real conversations with President Trump that I’m going to have that will keep us moving forward on the right track for all Canadians.” The Friday evening Mar-a-Lago high-stakes meeting occurred out of the public eye. Canadian media were not aware of Trudeau’s surprise trip until flight trackers alerted the departure of the prime minister’s plane headed south to Florida. That is in stark contrast to Trump and Trudeau’s first meeting at the White House in February 2017, which was a major bilateral shortly after Trump took power for his first term, at which border security was also front and centre. The relationship between the two leaders has been the subject of speculation since Trump’s re-election, and since his on Truth Social . “I’m surprised and impressed,” said Flavio Volpe, head of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, that the Canadian leader was meeting with the president-elect, adding that kind of personal facetime with the former and future president is invaluable for Trudeau, and for Canada in the months ahead. “The PM is demonstrating the humility that’s required (by) going to the source. Also the prime minister is demonstrating to the contrary of all the predictions (the idea) that Donald Trump wouldn’t want to work with him is untrue.” Volpe said “nothing final” may come of the meeting, however he said the federal government may get a sense of what the next steps could be.The vigorous Venezuelan opposition movement that could have dethroned Nicolás Maduro in this year’s presidential election has evaporated. About 100 leaders and many more activists from the Plataforma Unitaria have fled the country since Maduro unleashed an intense wave of repression after his disputed victory on July 28. Edmundo González Urrutia, now called president-elect by the United States, fled to Spain in September. Popular opposition leader María Corina Machado has been in hiding since early August, supposedly within Venezuelan borders, although the government says she is in Colombia. All this is because Maduro has made his enemies fear for their lives. The homes of his detractors were spray-painted with the letter X and visited by security force agents in the framework of the so-called “Tun-Tun” operation. At least 25 arrest warrants against opposition leaders were issued in the first month after the election. Dozens of passports were cancelled. Many were publicly identified and threatened on state television. The situation reached a deadly climax in late October, when Apure state opposition leader Edwin Santos was found dead after being detained by security forces for two days, according to his party. The government never acknowledged his arrest and said he died in a motorcycle accident. The ruling party and its allies have also been considering several laws that ultimately seek to eliminate all traces of opposition within the country. Maduro is scheduled to be sworn in on January 10, and parliamentary and regional elections for governors, mayors, and other lawmakers will be held later in the year. “On July 29, Maduro swept away the electoral system as we knew it,” said University of Navarra professor and political consultant Carmen Beatriz Fernández. “If elections were to take place next year,” he added, “it would be a very convenient election where each candidate must have the placebo, the approval of the dominant nomenclature, in order to be able to enter the ring.” At the most oppressive moment of his autocratic rule so far, Maduro is on track to get what he wants: a Venezuela with no-one to question his authority. Even if the United States refuses to recognise his presidency, it won’t make much of a material difference, given that the once-fervent opposition is only a shadow of its former self. The government did not respond to a request for comment. Had things been different, Viviana Save Torres would have considered running as a candidate in the opposition primaries for any of next year’s elections. However, the party organiser is thousands of miles from home after the government launched a manhunt against her. She asked Bloomberg News not to publish her location for fear of her safety. The 34-year-old helped organise the opposition primary last year and coordinated González Urrutia’s campaign in her home state of Trujillo. González Urrutia, a former diplomat, ran with the support of Machado, who was barred from running for public office. Having her help on the campaign trail was key: Machado won the opposition primary with 93 percent of the vote, and Venezuelans came to see her almost as a messianic figure who promised to reform the economy and reunite families separated by the largest diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. The opposition eventually offered evidence showing González Urrutia would likely have won nearly 70 percent of the presidential vote. But for Save, the intimidation began in the weeks before the election, when security forces stationed themselves outside her home. As a precaution, she changed her location and even her car up to three times a day. It all got worse in the days after the vote. The ruling party governor in Trujillo shared wanted posters for Save and six other local opposition leaders on his social media account. Security forces found the place where they were staying the next day and arrested one of them. Save managed to escape while agents questioned neighbors. On August 4, she learned that the government had issued an arrest warrant for her and decided to leave. She didn’t even have time to tell her family. That night at 2am, she crossed the border into Colombia on a motorcycle. She was barefoot, wearing only her pajamas, and pretended to be sick. “It was a week of terror,” she said. “When I got to Cúcuta, I felt relieved.” Sadly, her journey was far from over. Shortly afterward, the governor of Trujillo addressed her on regional television, telling her that the government knew where she was and that they would find her and deport her to Venezuela. Save barely went outside in Colombia; she was too afraid to even go to the grocery store, so she left. “This whole wave of terror is the reaction of some defeated people who want to perpetuate themselves in power,” she said in a telephone interview. “My call is to the international community: you cannot be complacent.” While González Urrutia is the most prominent leader to have left so far, there are many others like Save who were instrumental in enabling the opposition to reach out to its supporters and carry out a campaign against the ruling socialists. There are also those who served as vote-counting witnesses and polling station employees, who have also received direct threats from Maduro’s security forces. Of course, some remain in hiding within Venezuelan borders. And there are six close Machado aides who remain holed up in Argentina’s Embassy in Caracas, now under Brazilian control. Over the weekend, the opposition said the government had resumed its siege of the Embassy by cutting off electricity and placing signal jammers. The onslaught has been especially harsh against Machado’s Vente Venezuela party, but this has happened to others before. Most of the leaders of the once-powerful opposition groups Voluntad Popular and Primero Justicia are in exile, and some of their most prominent leaders have faced the possibility of prison time. Many of those who fled after the July election refused to share their testimonies for fear that any clues to their identity could lead to reprisals. Another young opposition leader, who asked to remain anonymous, left after an arrest warrant was issued and security forces raided his home. The individual had helped organise opposition primaries in 2023 and, like Save, hoped to run for office next year. The situation is expected to worsen in the coming weeks, and Maduro’s government may pass electoral reforms seeking to exclude the opposition and its parties before the December 15 deadline. Simultaneously, authorities are investigating more than 300 people, mostly politicians, for what it says was the theft of Citgo Petroleum Corp, the US arm of Venezuela’s state oil company. In 2019, the Venezuelan government lost control of Citgo to an ad hoc opposition-led board. The company is now being auctioned off in the United States “Hopefully all those involved in the blatant Citgo theft will be prosecuted, captured, and brought to trial,” Maduro said on the October 28 episode of his weekly television show. The latest wave of persecution against Maduro does not appear to be over yet. He is also promoting a law to counter the US “Bolívar Law,” which provides for sanctions such as lifetime bans from holding public office, trials , and 30-year prison sentences for those who support actions against Venezuela. The legislation was pushed by Florida Congressman Mike Vals, who is US president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for national security adviser. The repercussions of this and the electoral reforms will be felt for years to come. “While some opposition forces will likely participate in the elections anyway, it is hard to imagine the opposition remaining completely unified in its approach to the election after the blatant fraud in July,” said Risa Grais-Targow, an analyst at Eurasia Group. “It is always in Maduro’s interest to have a divided and demoralized opposition, especially in the run-up to a vote.” by Bloomberg News Ads Space Ads Space

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Patiala/Chandigarh/Amritsar: Amid chants of ‘Inquilab Zindabad’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday took out a ‘Shukrana Yatra’ (thanksgiving procession) from Patiala to Amritsar as a gesture of gratitude to the people for the party’s victory at three of the four assembly seats where byelections were held recently. With this, the party also signalled the beginning of a focused campaign for the 2027 Punjab assembly elections, said a party spokesperson, adding that the yatra was a demonstration of AAP’s growing influence and people’s support to its vision. AAP Punjab volunteers will on Wednesday organise a similar procession from Amritsar to Batala. AAP Punjab president and state minister Aman Arora led the procession, which began after party leaders paid obeisance at Shri Kali Mata Mandir in Patiala at 9am. Arora said AAP had grown from strength to strength. “This journey, led by Arvind Kejriwal and supported by every AAP worker, has been one of integrity, transparency, and commitment to the people,” he said. The procession passed through Gobindgarh, Samrala, Doraha, Sahnewal, Ludhiana, Phagwara, Jalandhar, Kartarpur and Rayia. Earlier, in Patiala, a large number of workers along with local leadership reached the venue. In Amritsar, the procession made its way towards Harmandir Sahib, Durgiana Mandir, and concluded at Bhagwan Valmiki Tirath Asthan and Ram Tirath Mandir in Amritsar. In Amritsar, Arora said AAP is a family first and then a political party. During the procession, he was joined by AAP state working president Amansher Singh Shery Kalsi, ministers Harpal Singh Cheema, Harjot Singh Bains and Tarunpreet Singh Sondh, assembly speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan, AAP MLAs, chairpersons, and thousands of supporters. The procession also coincided with the foundation day of AAP. Sherry Kalsi said: “The Shukrana Yatra is a celebration of the trust the people have placed in us. As a party, we are dedicated to fulfilling the promises we’ve made to the people.” We also published the following articles recently Born on Constitution Day, AAP is a party of people: Kejriwal Celebrating its 13th Foundation Day, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) reaffirmed its commitment to honest governance and cleaning up the system. Arvind Kejriwal highlighted the 'Delhi model' as proof of their success, emphasizing its focus on public welfare and budget surpluses. He also lauded the party's resilience despite facing challenges and the imprisonment of key leaders. Minister Aman Arora replaces CM Bhagwant Mann as president of AAPs Punjab unit Aman Arora, a prominent Hindu leader, has been appointed as Punjab's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president, replacing Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Batala MLA Amansher Singh Shery Kalsi will serve as working president. This strategic move aims to broaden the party's appeal, particularly among Hindu voters, and counter the BJP's growing influence. Delhi Congress chief targets AAP govt, BJP at Nyay Yatra Delhi Congress chief Devendra Yadav criticized the AAP government's decade-long failure to address fundamental issues like water quality, electricity bills, and ration card delays. During the 'Nyay Yatra,' Yadav interacted with villagers facing land acquisition and regularization challenges, echoing concerns about unfulfilled promises by both AAP and BJP.Sam Darnold leads game-winning drive in OT and Vikings beat Bears 30-27 after blowing late leadIndonesia’s Defense Minister Has a Chance to Remake the Military For a New Era

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