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Amanda Tattersall
Fixing ‘global boiling’ is urgent. That’s why it has to be done slowly
As Antarctica melts into the ocean in the dead of winter and southern Italy is scorched by heat and hail and the Greek Islands burn out of control and Florida records ocean temperatures better suited to poaching eggs, this week has been a reminder that the climate is heating up a bit. Today, UN Secretary…
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RonniSalt
Dudded: Peter Dutton in No-man’s land
Is there anyone in Australia paying attention to the federal Liberal Party apart from Canberra coke dealers and those men who post stale bottles of piss to Family Court judges? #NotAllAngryMen Because it was all happening for their glorious Liberal leader last month when the party released a farm-to-table Youtube video for the man who…
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Dave Milner
Whoever wins, we lose
A world drowning in misinformation, depression, existential isolation, conspiracy cults, wellness circuses, creeping fascism, resurgent white supremacy, and the degradation of humanity’s collective attention span isn’t exactly crying out for more social media. That’s like turning to booze to deal with a drinking problem. Or capitalism to fix the climate crisis. You see this thing…
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Joel Jenkins
The first glimpses of Albo’s arrogance
Australians talk about the property market. Incessantly. So much so it is a cliché. If you’re under 40, the housing crisis has been part of your BBQ conversation a fair bit longer than this newly minted government has existed.
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Patrick Lenton
The toilet police are here and they want you to know they are very serious
If your whole life is devoted to policing toilets, you’d spend a lot of time trying to convince everyone that toilets need police, and it’s an important and serious thing to do, rather than something obsessive and creepy and weird.
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John Delmenico
The disappointing failure of the non-existent ‘Yes’ campaign
On the 30th of August 2022, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held a press conference with Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and gambling ad spokesperson Dr Shaquile O’Neal to announce a referendum on the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advisory body of First Nations people who talk to Indigenous groups on a state and…
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RonniSalt
Ben Roberts-Smith – the beautiful things he’s seen
On the same day Afghan farmer Ali Jan was smashed off a rocky cliff by Ben Roberts-Smith with such force the farmer’s face split open and his teeth exploded out of his face, Australia’s then Defence Minister Stephen Smith was occupied in an ABC studio telling Australians, “The Australian Defence Force and its personnel have…
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Jo Dyer
Profiteering without conscience
The shock expressed at the amorality of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ brazen misuse of confidential Government information is understandable and overdue. Not just overdue because the initial breach of confidentiality took place in 2013 and was detected by the ATO in 2016, but because the sky-rocketing use of consultants in the Australian Public Service (APS) since the election…
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Joel Jenkins
It’s their ABC
The ABC has lost its way. On the most recent Insiders program on our ABC, Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather is defending his party’s position on Labor’s affordable housing bill. David Speers questions the efficacy of rent caps and their impacts on housing supply, and the Member replies that there is evidence of them working in…
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Dave Milner
“The poison in Australia’s bloodstream”
I carry with me the fuzzy cognitive dissonance of a white man educated in a settler colony, an old land with new rulers, an Imperial outpost trying to be better, more inclusive and kinder but refusing to go to therapy, refusing to listen, refusing to admit there might indeed be some unreconciled structural hurt surrounding…