David Parker

Let’s scuttle AUKUS before it sinks While our purchase of Japan’s frigates is a solid investment, Britain’s claim that it will defend Australia exposes the absurdity of AUKUS: a show of solidarity as substantive as a mirage within a hol...

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This is a great, moving & chilling series and should be read by all Australians. Something that no-one in either my or my children’s generation were ever taught in school

Why we should run the arts like our sporting industry

I agree. I’m the US it is the system that is wrong. In Australia, we have an independent commission that both supervises the districting based only on population and demographic changes and also runs the election for the whole country. Rarely any complaints and then only minor.

I think the 75% figure specifically applies to Victoria in the 15 years post its colonization. Not diminish the horror of it, and there was no doubt as bad or worse in other areas, but just to get it right.

Opinion | The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn (Gift Article) Trying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point.

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Becoming Ma Jingfen At 93, a Chinese entrepreneur’s daring new chapter

Fantastqic true story
And resolent of post-Mao China
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy suspends UK-Israel trade negotiations and summons the Israeli ambassador over IDF actions in Gaza, which he says are "incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relations" and an "affront to the values of the British people."

5 huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver In its previous term, Labor laid the groundwork for stronger climate action. Now, in an expanded majority government, it has the chance to capitalise.

Great contribution on how to achieve realistic but ambitious gals on climate action without suggesting major disruption to industry/jobs (such as the NW Shelf)
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5 huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver In its previous term, Labor laid the groundwork for stronger climate action. Now, in an expanded majority government, it has the chance to capitalise.

Great contribution on how to achieve realistic but ambitious gals on climate action without suggesting major disruption to industry/jobs (such as the NW Shelf)
theconversation.com/5-huge-clima...

Right. SOS I see. The original appended article was from 2018 and she didn’t win that time and as explained earlier, I am far from convinced the will this time even though the libs have often won the 3rd spot.

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Did them a lot of harm at the recent state election.

Having said which, I doubt that the position #3 she has will get her elected in the current mood over here

Thanks. The article you appended to your earlier post was from 2018 and about the 2019 election. The latest one does say she will be the in the 3rd candidate spot for this upcoming election which I agree is alarming and shows how much the Libs in WA are still controlled by the Clan (which, btw …

I could have it wrong but clicking through from the article you posted revealed that she stood for them at the 2019 election (& lost) but not at the 2022 one, nor does it seem she is standing this time. I agree with your general point but she seems to have disappeared into the woodwork (I hope)

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.

The American taliban

Mr Bezos and his newshound.
My SMH/The Age cartoon.

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I don’t know. I suspect the Speaker may have a strong role.

Last time they won! Let’s hope for this time.

In fact they are often synonymous

The biggest danger for Ukraine could be Donald Trump’s desire for a quick success in ending the war. He’ll put huge pressure on Ukraine to accept a maximum loss of territory, and may well not insist on foolproof ways of stopping Russia coming back for more, later on.

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity Monique was three years old when a white man from the…

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo