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Australia’s official media watchdog has found three-quarters of recent complaints upheld for violations of media ethical principles were against News Corp. read now...

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And yes, the cops were completely irresponsible in saying there was a manifesto which is by definition “a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.” I think it’s fair to assume they were pimping the right wing line…

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One question for Sönke Dangendorf, a coastal flooding researcher at Tulane University.

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Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.

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More hypocrisy Keir Starmer has rightly been under fire since Labour last week exploited abused children by publishing a Twitter post claiming Rishi Sunak doesn’t care about protecting children from paedophiles. Sunak is abysmal, but he has no role in the sentencing of offenders – and Starmer himself, as then-Director of Public Prosecutions, played a […]

With a compliant mainstream media failing to hold it to account, the Liberal Party is completely out of touch with voters' opinions and its own failures. read now...

The Albanese Government has come up with the novel solution of solving Australia’s gas shortage by selling the mining rights to niche news network Sky News After Dark ”The gas reserves coming out of Paul Murray’s show alone is enough... Read More ›

Also, they should probably ban pregnancy. That’s about 118 deaths per million, by far the worst of all developed nations. Also guns. Of course, guns.

The coming federal budget, to be tabled in May, would be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first opportunity to build what he calls “values-based capitalism”.

In an essay published in The Monthly, Chalmers envisions an Australian capitalism that is not defined by just one notion of value (presumably economic value), but by values, or “our (Australian) values”.

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Observing his glee in humiliating Floridians who don’t agree with him — from high school students to immigrants to Disney to well, everyone — this does not surprise me: The torture regimes is well documented. We know what they did. And apparently, DeSantis was part of it, assigned to “ensure that the prisoners rights were upheld” but in fact, he oversaw torture, specifically the force feeding tactics to stop the prisoners from staging hunger strikes, (which the Pentagon fatuously defined as a form of “asymmetric warfare.”) DeSantis has been accused of overseeing the force feeding of massive amounts of Ensure causing the inmates to vomit and choke. (Don’t read this link about his time at Gitmo if you have a weak stomach.) I don’t know if it’s all true but the mere fact that DeSantis was part of this grotesque program disqualifies him from ever holding office as far as I’m concerned.

CDC turns out to be superb at scientific communication....

Another Message Board Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’ve moved my irregular email news from Mailchimp to Substack. You can read it here. You can also follow me on Mastodon here I’m also trying out Substack as a blogging […]

The gutsy thing for Anthony Albanese to do in the wake of the coalition’s decision to vote “no” in the Voice referendum would be to carry on virtuously with the ballot, taking such advantage as he can from the Liberals’ decision to break the heart of more than half the country. But the inspired response Continue reading »

The most consequential aspect of AUKUS is it embeds the UK and the US firmly into Australia’s Indo-Pacific strategy. But what if the secret US calculation behind AUKUS is to goad China into war before China’s superiority outpaces US and allied capabilities? A war that China does not want and will likely lose? Meeting in Continue reading »

In a who-cares-about-standards world, the appointment of some university professors looks very much like insider trading, secret patronage, and who you know, not what you know. How else to explain appointments as professors of public figures, seemingly agile enough to vault over the usual obstacles straight to the top of the academic hierarchy? Most treadmill Continue reading »

All history is politics, and every politics is a future. The proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament is part of a collection of actions seeking to hold colonial history and post-colonial future together, and so to propose a new Australian polity. Australian colonial history is painful, and our natural aversion to pain makes the appropriate mode Continue reading »