(Not to mention Overton’s Elephant and Overton’s Mouse)
The Worlds I See. Curiosity, Exploration, and the Discovery at the Dawn of AI—Fei-Fei Li (New York, NY, USA: Flatiron Books, 2023, 322 pp.)
When this blog started almost twenty years ago, Josh Frydenberg was an ambitious political staffer challenging for Liberal preselection against the sitting MP for Kooyong, Petro Georgiou. Today, Josh Frydenberg is trying to undermine both the federal MP for Kooyong and the preselected Liberal candidate for Kooyong - who for the first time in almost 80 years are not the same person - and Josh is neither of them.
When this blog started almost twenty years ago, Josh Frydenberg was an ambitious political staffer challenging for Liberal preselection against the sitting MP for Kooyong, Petro Georgiou. Today, Josh Frydenberg is trying to undermine both the federal MP for Kooyong and the preselected Liberal candidate for Kooyong - who for the first time in almost 80 years are not the same person - and Josh is neither of them.
When Labor fails Palestine it fails its own members, and ultimately it fails itself.
So, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced he is seeking an arrest warrant for five people given there is substantial evidence to say they have committed war crimes. Two from the Israeli regime and three from Hamas. One of those Israeli’s is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
If you’ve spoken out against the Israeli genocide, you’ve probably been called an antisemite. Welcome to the industry.
I’ll start off by saying that I’m sure there has been a rise in antisemitism in Australia since Israel’s retaliation for the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
A genocide will always result in negative sentiment for those carrying it out, and those seen as aligned with it, either by defending it, or seeking to avert attention from it.
When standing up against a slaughter sees you branded as a “hater”, while those supporting a genocide paint themselves the victims.
Being a student in Australia these days has got to be tough.
Courses are tough to get into, you compete with overseas students for positions, the courses are ridiculously expensive, to survive you need to work crappy jobs for even crappier pay, and at the end of it all you start your adulthood with a debt that would have brought your grandparents that house that you’ll probably never afford on your own.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has left rates on hold, following its Board meeting over the past two days.
The cash rate remains at 4.35%. The rate was last changed in November 2023.
This is the statement issued by the Reserve Bank:
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