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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 1, 2023 - 15:20 Source

The fact that Elon Musk has just halved his election integrity team this week on X/Twitter at the same time as a former integrity executive at the platform warned that foreign government and extremist bad actors are intervening there to distort the debate on the Voice, policy action to protect our ability to trust government,…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 1, 2023 - 14:53 Source

Things did not go so well this time around. When the worn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned up banging on the doors of Washington’s powerful on September 21, he found fewer open hearts and an increasingly large number of closed wallets. The old ogre of national self-interest seemed to be presiding and was in no…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 1, 2023 - 14:09 Source

In Melbourne, there have been rolling protests by refugees outside the electoral offices of the Minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles for the past fortnight. More rallies are planned. The 500 or so protesters who have attended are people from multiple ethnicities who are still awaiting permanent visas. They aim…

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 1, 2023 - 10:15 Source

Beijing has labeled Washington the“true empire of lies” as it dismissed allegations contained in a new report by the US State Department, which accused China of “global information manipulation.”

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 1, 2023 - 06:04 Source

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THE BLOT REPORT Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 13:53 Source

The website ‘arXiv’ is a curated research-sharing platform open to anyone. It was a pioneer in digital open access, and now hosts more than two million scholarly articles in eight subject areas, and is curated by a community of volunteer moderators. It offers researchers services such as: article submission, compilation, production, retrieval, search and discovery, web distribution for human readers, API access for machine readers, together with content curation and preservation.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 13:39 Source

By Jane Salmon    All the hyperbole about Pezzullo’s fall from grace is annoying. Everything Pezzullo oversaw on Manus and Nauru was actually worse than all the insider grandstanding, the attacks on public service neutrality, the enabling of lobbyists, the damage to democracy, the filthy deals. He oversaw actual torture, restrictive practices, medical neglect, human…

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The Tally Room Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 10:00 Source

One of the most interesting elements of a constitutional referendum in Australia is that there are two requirements for the referendum to be carried: it needs a majority of votes nationally, but it also needs a majority in a majority of states.

Since there have been states for the entire history of the Australian commonwealth, every referendum has been required to win four out of six states, which is two thirds. The bar would be lower if there were a larger number of Australian states. If there were twenty states, a referendum would need to win eleven out of twenty, a much smaller proportion.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 06:00 Source

Now, how do I tackle this? Do I use the information in my “To read” list as source material for another article, or do I use it all as an overview of our politics in its current gloomy state? I select the latter and click into my “To read” box. 1. The first piece I…

The post From my “To read” list comes nothing but doom and gloom and a little ray of sunshine appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 15:29 Source

Joe Biden previewed his upcoming campaign on Thursday, casting Americans’ choice as one between democracy and extremism. Next year’s election will demonstrate the salience of the argument and the suitability of Biden as its champion.

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Renew Economy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 15:08 Source

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John Quiggin Friday, September 29, 2023 - 13:29 Source

If you want evidence that #Albanese will never change, check out his response to a Dorothy Dixer asking whether “ea parliament dominated by progressive political forces provided structural opportunity in the event the government pursued additional legislative measure” on renewables.

Rather than saying “Yes, we will work with the Parliament” #Albo went straight on attack against the Greens, for forcing him to strengthen his pathetic Housing Fund. He’s a hopeless case. #auspol

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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, September 29, 2023 - 13:27 Source

Suella Braverman has made beastliness a trait in British politics. The UK Home Secretary, fed on the mush and mash of anti-refugee sentiment, has been frantically trying to find her spot in the darkness of inhumanity.  Audaciously, and with grinding ignorance, she persists in her rather grisly attempts to kill the central assumptions of international…

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Renew Economy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 13:00 Source

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Renew Economy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 11:13 Source

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Renew Economy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 11:12 Source

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Renew Economy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 10:16 Source

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The Tally Room Friday, September 29, 2023 - 10:00 Source

Over the next two weeks I’ll be writing a few blog posts based on the referendum results data in my data repository – looking at the history of referendums throughout the 20th century.

The Voice referendum will be the first constitutional referendum held since 1999 – that’s 24 years without a referendum.

Throughout the 20th century, referendums were held at least once every decade. The longest gap was between the 1951 referendum on banning the Communist Party and the 1967 referendums. The 2000s and 2010s were the first decades since Federation with no attempt to change the Constitution.

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xkcd.com Friday, September 29, 2023 - 10:00 Source

So what do we do when we get to base 10? Do we use A, B, C, etc? No: Numbers larger than about 3.6 million are simply illegal.

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Renew Economy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 09:55 Source

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Renew Economy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 07:25 Source

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Your Democracy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 07:25 Source

This year, there seemed to be reason for optimism among advocates of war powers reform. When the Senate voted in March to repeal the 2002 authorization for war with Iraq, many assumed the House would quickly pass the measure, which had garnered broad bipartisan support in previous years.

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Your Democracy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 06:00 Source

In 1996 I was fortunate enough to be involved in the Centenary of the 1895 Bathurst Peoples Constitutional Convention.

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Your Democracy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 05:34 Source

‘CIA cutouts’, big money grants and biolabs: The depth of US interference in Armenia explained

Washington has sunk tens of millions of dollars into the Caucasian nation, which is a treaty ally of Russia

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Your Democracy Friday, September 29, 2023 - 05:05 Source

During a recent appearance on Face the Nation to plug his new Zelensky movie, actor Sean Penn decried the “cowardice” of the U.S. government in its caution around provoking a nuclear exchange with its proxy warfare in Ukraine.

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Renew Economy Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 20:43 Source

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Renew Economy Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 18:47 Source

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Cheeseburger Gothic Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 18:23 Source

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