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There was no hearing, no semblance of trial. But there was swift summary judgment: Israel Folau, a star member of the Australian Rugby Union team, had been banished from the national team. There was only one problem: he was avoiding taking any calls from Rugby Australia to inform him of that fact. “For an organisation…

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It is ironic that an
article attempting to explain Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten’s perceived
unpopularity has appeared in a Newscorp media outlet1, when it is Newscorp
which has been at the forefront of the attempt to damage Shorten’s ‘image’
among its readers ever since he became opposition leader. The only conclusion
that the article came to, was that, as Shorten himself said: “When you’re the
Opposition Leader, the only time you get on the media is by opposing. When you’re
prime minister, you can be constructive.” This may be part of the problem, but

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The above graphic doing the rounds of social media lifts the veil of illusion from Australia's PM Scott Morrison.

We all know people like Morrison are alleged to believe in an 'end of days' culminating in a 'battle of armageddon' in an illusory 'holy land'.

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More on Liberal Party preferencing strategy towards One Nation here.

And of course, here 

By Melissa Frost   Its Bullshit. The media, it’s Bullshit. We have been lied to since the 50s. Where’s the anger? Why aren’t we angry? Where’s the protests and the movements? Award winning journalist and film maker John Pilger addressed the propaganda of the media, during his Q&A talk at the Cavanbah Centre in Byron Bay…

Neoliberalism
promised to save us from bureaucracy. Instead, it has delivered a mad, semi-privatised
authoritarianism

By George Monbiot,
published in the Guardian 10th April 2019

My life was saved
last year by the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, through a skilful procedure to remove a cancer from my body. Now I will need another operation, to remove
my jaw from the floor. I’ve just learnt what was happening at the hospital
while I was being treated.

Deutsche Bank predicts 100% market penetration of electric vehicles in New Zealand by 2030, and Productivity Commission urges rapid and comprehensive shift to EVs.

The post NZ forecast to reach 100% electric car sales by 2030 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

When Prime
Minister Scott Morrison announced the date of the election (May 18), he said
that there was a clear choice, and so there is. It is a choice between a
government which is incapable of even having a working policy on climate change
or energy and an opposition that does. No doubt many people would point to the
Emission Reduction Fund (ERF) and Morrison’s rebadged version, the Climate
Solutions Fund (CSF)1  and say
‘but they do have a policy!’ Nothing could be further from the truth. The ERF
has been so spectacularly unsuccessful insofar as emissions, which were

Some election campaigns are fairly straightforward. The prime minister sets a date, and both parties sell their policies. There’s a lot of talk about economic management, fairness, justice, some international relations and, maybe some specific issue concerning the electorate. The major candidates tend to be pretty honest and the public makes a choice one way or the other, usually returning the government of the day. Every now and then, though, a campaign has something happen that overturns everything. In recent memory, the Tampa crisis in August 2001 was one of these election-changing events.

Saturday 13 April 2019 1 This is the first of my election diaries for the coming campaign. I have no doubt that this is the most important election in my long period of following politics. As a young 14 year old on Sunday mornings I would stand under the elms of the area now occupied…

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[This post was first published on the evening of 11 April at the group blogging site Ausvotes 2019, which I have signed up to for the duration].

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