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Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
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Did the right-wingers forever bleating about ‘religious freedom’ ever read John Stuart Mill? “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
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This episode has prompted questions about cultural diversity and representation in a way not many political insiders expected. It’s a sign of a generational shift and of how many are no longer content with people thinking that multiculturalism is just about food and festivals
Tu Le, an Australian lawyer and the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, was set to run for Parliament in a diverse district of Sydney. Then the opposition Labor Party passed her over for a white insider, pushing a debate over diversity into the open.
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Australia's emissions from 1990 to 2020. If you include massive falls in GHG from land clearing, as Morrison government does and Howard government successfully argued for at Kyoto in 1997, then emissions drop 19.8%. If you ignore that "Australia clause" emission are up by 19.9%.
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Breaking: Duty of Care spray painted on The Lodge. Climate protestors in handcuffs and singing. #auspol
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Listen, we are all to blame for the climate crisis. Some of us drive to work, some of us forget to recycle, and some of us own fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenh
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imagine being proud of this
World Heritage Committee rejects proposed UNESCO In Danger listing for the Great Barrier Reef
bit.ly/3ydRGln
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Refugee torture.
Deaths in custody.
Indigenous incarceration.
Reef in danger.
Charities silenced.
Climate inaction.
For a country that doesn’t like being ‘lectured to by the @UN’, we sure seem to be supplying plenty of material.
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A good piece here about why Australia should move to an approach to borders and arrivals appropriate for a post-vaccine world. For now, at least, we remain frozen in a pre-vaccine 2020 mode smh.com.au/national/there-s-…
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this piece makes me quite sad. i doubt any political leaders - including premiers, some who drastically reduced their caps with no regard for Aussies overseas - will ever have to answer for it either theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The Australian is reporting that @abcnews has banned the use of 'apartheid' & Israel. Apartheid is not just a term or an opinion, it is a crime against humanity under international law & @hrw has found that Israel is committing that crime #FactsMatter theaustralian.com.au/busines…
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‘Racist person goes on racist show to racistly deny existence on racism’ is an entire genre of content in Australia.
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Santos CEO says he doesn’t know how much they donated. Well we do. @AusConservation research shows they gave over $173k to ALP and Coalition just last year. #4Corners #auspol 1/2
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Trump is getting top-notch government-funded health care after paying $0 in federal income taxes for 10 of the 15 years preceding 2016. If that’s not freeloading, I don’t know what is.
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BREAKING: Sydney Opera House lights the sails in solidarity with peaceful protestors who were pepper sprayed by NSW Police earlier this evening at Central Station.
