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NSW

With her state heading for disaster, Gladys bails on NSW – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Costa Concordia lies stricken off the shore of Giglio in January 2012.

Can Berejiklian be likened to the Capitain of the Costa Concordia. He was jailed for abandoning his ship

 Berejiklian has been foreshadowing the pandemic in NSW was going to get to its worst, its toughest; that the hospital system would be stretched to its elastic limit in October, based on modelling the NSW Health Department had prepared. Modelling, by the way, she’s not been very forthcoming with. So, knowing that the state is headed for a cliff, she’s essentially jumped out of the driver’s seat to get a better view of the spectacle. “I’ll turn up when I need to,” are words that emerged from her sneering maw today.

Source: With her state heading for disaster, Gladys bails on NSW – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

How Scott Morrison was sacked from Tourism Australia

Scott Morrison, then managing director of Tourism Australia, in 2004.

Morrison for trying to steal the limelight, including by issuing press releases without approval from her office. “There was a clash of personalities from the start,” one Howard government staffer says, adding that Morrison “just had a strong self-belief in what he was doing, and he wasn’t going to let the minister stop him”.

Source: How Scott Morrison was sacked from Tourism Australia

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Berejiklian looks for dry land reminds me of the Costa Concordia

The Costa Concordia lies stricken off the shore of Giglio in January 2012.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 11/9/21; Morrison’s Folly; Berejiklian leaves the Captain’s Cabin; Bruce Pascoe; ATO fraud assist;

Donald Trump, Trump, Trumpland

Trump, Texas, and the MAGA Drive for Power | The Smirking Chimp

Donald Trump dispensed with even the pretense of paying tribute to workers on Labor Day. Instead his three word Labor Day Statement, blasted out to his supporters everywhere via the right-wing media machine, was blunt about his political priorities: “Fix 2020 First.”

Source: Trump, Texas, and the MAGA Drive for Power | The Smirking Chimp

Murdoch Media

Tucker Carlson hosts Anders Breivik apologist and self-described defender of white nationalism for friendly hour-long interview | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson hosts Curtis Yarvin on Tucker Carlson Today

There is no greater need th our education system than learning the skills of Critical Thinking. Skills which the extreme Right in the world want done away with and replaced by their absolutist dogmas and facts like “the Steal” “CRT” ” Anti-vax” “Covid Hoax” etc etc etc

In the same post defending Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people at a summer camp, Yarvin compares Breivik to Nelson Mandela: “No one who condones Che, Stalin, Mao, or any other leftist murderer, has any right to ask anyone else to dissociate himself from a rightist who didn’t even make triple digits. ABB is a terrorist. Nelson Mandela is a terrorist. … If you ask me to condemn Anders Breivik, but adore Nelson Mandela, perhaps you have a mother you’d like to fuck.”

Source: Tucker Carlson hosts Anders Breivik apologist and self-described defender of white nationalism for friendly hour-long interview | Media Matters for America

Murdoch Media

No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas — as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

Murdoch Media = WSJ is Rupert’s ground for the “battle of ideas”= Murdoch’s Media Morons

The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan has provoked a tidal wave of punditry about what it says about Islam. Since Islam is a 1400-year-old religion with 1.8 billion adherents, the answer to that glib query is surely obvious. Nothing. It says nothing about Islam in general. It says a lot about the American colonial rule of Afghanistan and its failures. Yet that great Orientalist rag The Wall Street Journal gave us the frankly ridiculous headline, “The Taliban Gain Ground in Islam’s Battle of Ideas.” The title may not be the fault of the author– in the newspaper world, setting titles is a prerogative of editors.

Source: No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas — as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

News Corp

News Corp’s climate change shame

News Corp’s shift, if it sticks, could pave the way for both main political parties to support a more aggressive approach to reducing carbon emissions.

They don’t call it Fox for nothing. This is hardly a shift but a slight move sideways brought on by advertisers and the BCA. Murdoch has joined the Fossil fuel companies that now claim are leading the pack in new decarbonizing technologies. They are the new leaders of science moving forward. The new alchemists as the tobacco companies have claimed for years. Don’t expect any mea culpas from the likes of Andrew Bolt paid to confuse us with slinging bullshit.

But there is reason to be doubtful. Only a month ago, in response to the latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, News Corp commentator Andrew Bolt repeatedly chose to mock it with arguments that would not stand up in a high school science class, including the bizarre claim that “if a warming world is better for plants, why not for humans?” It’s hard to imagine him changing. As the COVID pandemic has shown, listening to the science can save many millions of lives. While there has been no shortage of fringe voices spreading coronavirus misinformation, they have largely been ignored and sidelined by the mainstream media. It’s to the enduring shame of News Corp that, on climate change, those voices were instead welcomed in.

Source: News Corp’s climate change shame

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Twenty Years After the Tampa Affair, Australia’s Left Must Keep Standing Up for Refugees

In 2001, conservative prime minister John Howard demonized 433 refugees who had been rescued at sea. It inaugurated an era of racist, abusive policies toward asylum seekers in Australia — and a movement that fights in solidarity with refugees.

Source: Twenty Years After the Tampa Affair, Australia’s Left Must Keep Standing Up for Refugees

Defamation Laws

Careful What You Say ! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The High Court decision in the Voller case concerns whether a publisher can be held responsible for comments readers post on its website. Specifically, the decision applies to Facebook but would appear to apply equally to any social media publisher, potentially including this website. Indeed, The Conversation seems sufficiently concerned to shut down all comment and discussion on the case in question – an over-reaction perhaps.

Source: Careful What You Say ! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

Coalition responsible for the demise of Australia’s Family Court

Morrison is in the process of dismantling everything, politicizing the public service, placing ex LNP wannabes in AHRC,Defence, ABC, all in preparation to create chaos for the ALP after the next election. Politics not service his constant charter.

The Government’s merging of the Family Court with the Federal Circuit Court will complicate the family law system over time, writes Graham Perrett. FOR 45 YEARS, the Family Court of Australia was the envy of the world. From 1 September, this envy is no more.

Source: Coalition responsible for the demise of Australia’s Family Court

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1000 days, 1000 delays. I won’t let them get away with it. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

This week marks 1000 days since the Prime Minister Scott Morrison promised Australians an integrity commission. In that time, the Prime Minister has done almost nothing to live up to his word. The truth is, this Government does not want an integrity commission before the next election. Especially one as robust as mine.

Source: 1000 days, 1000 delays. I won’t let them get away with it. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

‘Hindsight heroes’: Morrison blasts vaccine critics

scott morrison

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has gone on the defensive over his government’s handling of vaccine negotiations with Pfizer, dismissing critics as “heroes of hindsight”.

Source: ‘Hindsight heroes’: Morrison blasts vaccine critics

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Old Dog Thought-Murdoch changing is just a sleight of hand the equivalent of doing a repeat of his Alan Bond chamelion oscar performance for the benefit of his advertisers.
News Corp’s shift, if it sticks, could pave the way for both main political parties to support a more aggressive approach to reducing carbon emissions.

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Julian Assange

Press Freedom Bill Would Protect Journalists but Not Assange

Supporters gather as England’s High Court hears a U.S. appeal in the extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, on Aug. 11, 2021, in London.

Senators say they want to protect foreign journalists from government aggression. But what happens when the U.S. is the aggressor?

Source: Press Freedom Bill Would Protect Journalists but Not Assange

Republicans

Donald Trump May Still Destroy the GOP, After All | Washington Monthly

Trump gave Republicans permission to be themselves. It “worked” for a time at the expense of the country, and it couldallow them to dominate politics for decades to come. But the party may face a high price for allowing the cruelest and most vicious elements of American society to run rampant. It might take some time, but the Trump effect could very well backfire on them in surprising ways.

Source: Donald Trump May Still Destroy the GOP, After All | Washington Monthly

USA

US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds | US taxation | The Guardian

The US Department of the Treasury in Washington DC.

The wealthiest 1% of Americans are responsible for more than $160bn of lost tax revenue each year, according to a new report from the US treasury.

Source: US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds | US taxation | The Guardian

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Abortion Bounty Hunters in Texas Are Not “Whistleblowers” — They’re Cruel Vigilantes | The Smirking Chimp

One of the enormous dangers of the Texas abortion law is that a Stasi-like culture of betrayal and fear will evolve in the Lone Star State and copy-cat states, with long-lasting destructive effects. If a friend, neighbor or co-worker can turn someone in and gain a reward for doing so, the ripple effects are going to be corrosive, intensifying over time.

Source: Abortion Bounty Hunters in Texas Are Not “Whistleblowers” — They’re Cruel Vigilantes | The Smirking Chimp

Republicans

Texas Is the New Republican Template | The Nation

Greg Abbott and Donald Trump

The LNP would do the same if it weren’t for Compulsory Voting. The ALP is the only party that actually respects the right of all people to vote and sets out to serve us all. Yes, they make errors and Pink Bats may have been considered one but compared to the errors made by the current LNP, and where they have brought us today, the ALP’s mistakes have been trivial. The LNP’s errors, on the other hand,  have been deliberate and have rippled across not just the domestic landscape but the planet and in the worst possible of ways.

More than 40 years ago, Republican political operative Paul Weyrich told a right-wing gathering, “I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Source: Texas Is the New Republican Template | The Nation

LNP, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government

“Everybody did it”: wealthy doctors lobbies ride JobKeeper gravy train – Michael West Media

JobKeeper

JobKeeper for dentists? Fair enough. But more public subsidies for doctors’ lobby groups who enjoyed rising surpluses or hardly suffered a downturn? Callum Foote reports on Australia’s Medical Colleges refusing to pay back the millions in JobKeeper payments.

Source: “Everybody did it”: wealthy doctors lobbies ride JobKeeper gravy train – Michael West Media

LNP Government

Morrison government denies it bungled bid for Pfizer vaccine

Morrison urged to bring in incentives to be fully vaccinated

It wasn’t until August 5 that the department’s notes say Mr Hunt’s office joined direct meetings. Australia didn’t sign a deal with Pfizer until November 5, 2020. The first doses did not arrive until February 2021.

Source: Morrison government denies it bungled bid for Pfizer vaccine

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison has destroyed Australia’s humanity

Under Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Australia no longer displays compassion and humanity towards those in need, writes Rosalind Fuller. MANY ARTICLES have been written over the last few weeks about the current refugee crisis in Afghanistan as well as the 20 year anniversary of the Tampa debacle, both now inextricably linked. What has also been featured in the commentary is that previous prime ministers, including two Liberal PMs, responded to previous humanitarian crises by offering refuge to people fleeing violence, persecution and in the aftermath of wars. The acceptance of refugees was not always supported by the populace or the political party’s base. These figures are worth restating. Malcolm Fraser, between 1976 and 1982, accepted almost 70,000 Vietnamese refugees (so-called “boat people” — because how you flee apparently matters). A tearful Bob Hawke was so incensed at the Tiananmen Square massacre he made a ‘unilateral decision in 1989 to let the 27,000 Chinese students [that were]present in Australia stay’ and ultimately ‘grant a total of 42,000 permanent visas for Chinese students’. Tony Abbott (not known as a beacon of tolerant politics) in 2015 offered 12,000 Syria

Source: Scott Morrison has destroyed Australia’s humanity

COVID-19

Morrison and Berejiklian are attempting to shift the blame for Covid on to us | Richard Denniss | The Guardian

NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian and prime minister Scott Morrison at a press conference at Kirribilli House

In an amazing feat, both leaders shift attention away from their past performances and on to future freedoms to be granted, based on decisions made by the public

Source: Morrison and Berejiklian are attempting to shift the blame for Covid on to us | Richard Denniss | The Guardian

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Old Dog Thought- The LNP is looking for yet another war because nothing else will save it. Problem is the US isn’t

Fighting Fake News with REAL 9/9/21; Truth in Humour, Hunt just blew it; and Morrison just can’t get it right;

Industrial Military complex

‘Fortress USA’: How the September 11 terror attacks produced a military industrial juggernaut

Since the September 11 terror attacks, there has been no hiding from the increased militarisation of the United States. Everyday life is suffused with policing and surveillance. This ranges from the inconvenient, such as removing shoes at the airport, to the dystopian, such as local police departments equipped with decommissioned tanks too big to use on regular roads.

Source: ‘Fortress USA’: How the September 11 terror attacks produced a military industrial juggernaut

White Terrorism, Whitelash

Black cop shoots white woman: The saga of Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbitt | Salon.com

Police stand as supporters of US President Donald Trump protest outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

When Lt. Michael Byrd and the other Black and brown police officers battled Trump’s attack force on Jan. 6, they committed an unpardonable sin against white racial authoritarianism and its believers and followers. Revenge and retaliation are inevitable. Lt. Michael Byrd’s peril will continue into the foreseeable future. He is now more than a man. He is a symbol for the white right and other American fascists, who are likely to perceive him as an ultimate trophy, as well as a way of avenging the killing of Ashli Babbitt. The threats of violence will not be limited to him. For the white right and the American neofascist movement, all Black people are now, to varying degrees, Michael Byrd.

Source: Black cop shoots white woman: The saga of Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbitt | Salon.com

Climate Change

The new climate “pledge” from the Murdochs is straight from the fossil fuel playbook | Media Matters for America

Australia fires Fox News prime time

Plan to advocate for carbon neutrality in Australia is not likely to change Fox News’ climate denial coverage in the U.S.

Source: The new climate “pledge” from the Murdochs is straight from the fossil fuel playbook | Media Matters for America

Capitalism

“Foreign Investors” Aren’t Causing Canada’s Housing Crisis. Capitalism Is.

Ahead of the coming election, Canada’s main political parties are arguing that “foreign investors” are causing a housing crisis. But the problem isn’t foreigners — it’s the commodification of housing.

Source: “Foreign Investors” Aren’t Causing Canada’s Housing Crisis. Capitalism Is.

Informed Comment

Manal Al-Sharif: Australia’s new surveillance laws remind me of home – Michael West Media

Identity and Disrupt Bill 2021

“I left Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. But the Australian Government’s recent draconian rules remind me so much of home.” Cyber security expert and human rights luminary Manal Al-Sharif reports on the dangers of the new surveillance laws.

Source: Manal Al-Sharif: Australia’s new surveillance laws remind me of home – Michael West Media

NBN

Government wants NBN Co to focus on the money

The Government’s new financial plan for the NBN is more about protecting its own investment as opposed to what’s best for the country. Paul Budde reports. Rather conveniently, NBN Co has removed all forward financial projections beyond the next 12 months in its Corporate Plan for 2022, released last week. As I also mentioned when the Government released its financial results a few weeks ago, understanding how the company is really performing remains rather murky. The new corporate plan only adds to that lack of clarity. Of course, it is no secret that the company is struggling with its financials. It has been unable to lift its average revenue per user (ARPU) as it has been projecting for many years. From now on, projections for revenue, earnings, net profit and CapEx will no longer be provided because of its ongoing efforts to secure debt financing.

Source: Government wants NBN Co to focus on the money

Scott Morrison

Scott Explains Why Women Must Understand How Ambitious He Is For Them! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

And, “We come to this Summit with an open mind, an ambitious spirit, encapsulated by the target to end – not reduce, but end – violence against women and children,” suggests that his mind is as open as his spirit is ambitious for a target to end violence against women and children. Yep, Mr Morrison is so ambitious for women that he’s implementing a whole 6 of the 55 recommendations from Kate Jenkins’ Respect@Work Report.

Source: Scott Explains Why Women Must Understand How Ambitious He Is For Them! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

The truth of the matter is we didn’t order enough of the vaccine. But that’s not all that’s wrong. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day

Sometimes wisdom jumps a generation. Well, we can always hope.

Source: The truth of the matter is we didn’t order enough of the vaccine. But that’s not all that’s wrong. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP

Flashback 2018: The bad Guys

Written in 2018 prior to Guy losing 11 seats at the Victorian State Election and resigning from his leadership, this story will leave you wondering if he’s really the best Guy for the job.

Source: Flashback 2018: The bad Guys

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Old Dog Thought- Has there ever been another Journalist “employed” to repetitiously write on a single subject and not even be an expert?
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Fighting Fake News with REAL 8/9/21 Murdoch Media, Scott Morrison,

Unions

Workers Need Organization, Not Technocratic Fixes

To strengthen workers’ collective bargaining rights, the Biden administration looks poised to recommend a host of modest reforms to existing programs and policies. But the working class will remain disempowered unless it organizes itself on a mass scale.

Source: Workers Need Organization, Not Technocratic Fixes

Informed Comment

When will I need my COVID vaccine booster shot? And can I switch to a different brand?

A man gets his vaccine.

Australia’s vaccine rollout is really starting to gain pace, especially in New South Wales and Victoria. We need to get two doses of vaccine into as many adults as possible — firstly because that helps reduce severity of illness and infection, but also because reaching vaccination targets is likely to bring some new freedoms. The COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna and Astra Zeneca) continue to be highly effective in reducing risk of severe disease, hospitalisation and death, even against the Delta variant. But as soon as we finish one vaccine rollout we may need to begin the next rollout of booster doses.

Source: When will I need my COVID vaccine booster shot? And can I switch to a different brand?

Scott Morrison

Paul Bongiorno: Time is running out for Morrison govt to be fit for purpose

The rumblings are getting louder that the Morrison government is being increasingly perceived as not fit for purpose. A compelling witness for the prosecution came forward on the weekend with a devastating contribution on Twitter. South Australian independent senator Rex Patrick, an important interlocutor for the government when it tries to marshal the numbers in the upper house, did not mince his words. He tweeted he was “done with ’em”. His anger up in lights, accusing the Prime Minister of “gifting hard-earned taxpayer money to his business mates & donors makes him the most shameless & unethical PM ever”. That was just a start.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Time is running out for Morrison govt to be fit for purpose

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison defends trip back to Sydney over Father’s Day during COVID lockdowns – ABC News

scott morrison fathers day

Morrison has always thought he was “special” and has a history of doing what others wouldn’t and trying to make out it’s “normal”. It’s the character of the man who claims to be a PM that excuses him of being like us. This Scott Morrison is what’s called a very “a cheap shot”

“It’s not that he doesn’t deserve to see his kids, but so does every other Australian, and I think when your people are doing it tough, you’ve got to do it tough too,” he said. “You can’t have one rule for Mr Morrison and another rule for everyone else. I just think it’s appalling judgement.”

Source: Scott Morrison defends trip back to Sydney over Father’s Day during COVID lockdowns – ABC News

Julian Hill MP
I don’t normally post things from Scott Morrison’s page, but this needs to be called out. It’s horrible.
The Prime Minister’s fake Father’s Day photo was actually from a remembrance event, for four deceased children.
Mr Morrison has now shamelessly turned this photo into a tribute to himself as a father figure.
Poor judgement is an understatement. There is something seriously wrong with this bloke and his character.
 
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Politics

Victoria records 246 COVID cases as Daniel Andrews accuses Commonwealth of ‘unfair’ vaccine allocations – ABC News

Empty streets in a mall in Geelong.

Victoria has recorded 246 new COVID-19 cases Mr Andrews has launched a strongly worded attack on the vaccine distribution The Premier had previously supported the allocation of more doses to NSW

Source: Victoria records 246 COVID cases as Daniel Andrews accuses Commonwealth of ‘unfair’ vaccine allocations – ABC News

LNP, LNP Government

The Liberal Government doesn’t care if you die

The Liberal Government has a new tactic in the effort to reopen our country — convincing the public that COVID-19 deaths aren’t a big deal, writes Dr Jennifer Wilson. NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER Gladys Berejiklian has mastered the challenging technique of announcing COVID-19 case numbers and deaths in a manner so upbeat it verges on jollity.

Source: The Liberal Government doesn’t care if you die

LNP, LNP Corruption, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government, LNP Policy, LNP Tactics

Political Dynamite: JobKeeper for billionaires a campaign wrecker for Morrison, Frydenberg – Michael West Media

JobKeeper, Bernard Arnaultld

Big business doesn’t vote, small business does. That’s the dilemma for Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg as they try to keep JobKeeper secret heading into the election. Michael West reports.

Source: Political Dynamite: JobKeeper for billionaires a campaign wrecker for Morrison, Frydenberg – Michael West Media

Daniel Andrews

Matthew Guy: Who is the Victorian Liberal Party’s new leader?

“This state is on its knees, and the morons we get in this government blame everyone else!” The combative former Opposition leader is back. But what does he stand for?

Source: Matthew Guy: Who is the Victorian Liberal Party’s new leader?

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Old Dog Thought- The Stature of the LNP is as tall as Matthew Guy
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Informed Comment

Trump’s coup attempt has not stopped – and Democrats must wake up | Robert Reich | The Guardian

A rar right rally attendee holds a Donald Trump flag in Portland, Oregon in August.

The former president’s attempted coup is not stopping. He still refuses to concede and continues to rile up supporters with his bogus claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Tens of millions of Americans believe him. FILE PHOTO: Trump family attends ground breaking of new hotel in WashingtonFILE PHOTO: (L-R) Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump attend the ground breaking of the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Building in Washington July 23, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron//File Photo Trump reportedly nears DC hotel rights sale as ally says ‘I think he’s gonna run’ Read more Last Sunday, at a Republican event in Franklin, North Carolina, Congressman Madison Cawthorn, repeating Trump’s big lie, called the rioters who stormed the Capitol on 6 January “political hostages”. Cawthorn also advised the crowd to begin stockpiling ammunition for what he said was likely to be American-versus-American “bloodshed” over unfavorable election results.

Source: Trump’s coup attempt has not stopped – and Democrats must wake up | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Informed Comment

There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory | Washington Monthly

Screenshot 2021-09-07 at 06-36-01 There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory Washington Monthly

Of course, the latest iteration of this battle is playing out in a dramatically different media landscape. Conservative charlatans can easily spread their misinformation on Facebook and Twitter, and right-wing cable networks like Fox, Newsmax, and OANN can amplify it. At this point, we can expect bad-faith arguments from Republicans to sow dissension and fear. But we should not expect everyone else who knows better to fall for it. With a new school year beginning, conservatives will surely continue to use critical race theory as a cudgel in the culture war. For the rest of us to fight it most effectively, we must know the true nature of what we’re up against.

Source: There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory | Washington Monthly

conservatives

Texas GOPer Ignores Abortion Law But Slams Taliban | Crooks and Liars

Texas GOPer Ignores Abortion Law But Slams Taliban

Tunisia had Woman’s clinics and rights to free abortion as far back as the 1970’s. They recognized work and equal pay as well. While abortion remained illegal in most Western countries and we have a 14,5% pay gap in Australia in 2021.

A Texas Republican lawmaker on Sunday slammed the Taliban’s treatment of women even though his state has recently enacted laws stripping women of their rights.

Source: Texas GOPer Ignores Abortion Law But Slams Taliban | Crooks and Liars

COVID-19

‘Not easy to explain’: Sharp drop in South America’s COVID infections stuns experts

A woman in Montevideo, Uruguay gets vaccinated.

Rio de Janeiro: Just a few weeks ago, COVID-19 was spreading with alarming ease across a cluster of nations in South America, overwhelming hospital systems and killing thousands of people daily. Suddenly, the region that had been the epicentre of the pandemic is breathing a sigh of relief.

Source: ‘Not easy to explain’: Sharp drop in South America’s COVID infections stuns experts

LNP, LNP Government

As the Taliban overran Afghanistan, Australia told asylum seekers they should expect to return | Australia news | The Guardian

Taliban fighters

The LNP continues to make refugees and asylum seekers suffer by their political silence and lack of direction. Morrison talks about human rights but maintains policies that reflect otherwise. Preparing to return Afgan refugees to land they risked life and limb to escape.

As late as 28 July this year, with the Taliban brutally ascendant across Afghanistan and days from capturing the capital Kabul, Afghan nationals were told by the Department of Home Affairs they were “expected to depart Australia”. After the subsequent rapid fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the Australian government announced “no Afghan visa holder currently in Australia will be asked to return to Afghanistan while the security situation there remains dire”. But that moratorium is only temporary, and it appears it does not apply to Afghans in Australia who do not hold a visa.

Source: As the Taliban overran Afghanistan, Australia told asylum seekers they should expect to return | Australia news | The Guardian

Climate

Germans are most worried about Climate Emergency among 28 Countries Surveyed

Australia is among the top 5 yet our government continues to ignore it for the sake of politics and power as it remains a marginal seat issue with which to wedge the opposition. Retaining power neither service, duty nor Democracy rate in the Morrison political drive

Germany is currently the country most concerned about climate change out of the 28 surveyed for the August update of the “What worries the world” study by market research and consulting firm Ipsos. Climate change is one of Germans’ top three concerns, with 36 percent selecting it as their main worry (six percentage points more than last month, and the highest Germany has recorded to date).

Source: Germans are most worried about Climate Emergency among 28 Countries Surveyed

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First Nations Voice to Parliament: It’s time to rethink democracy

A new approach to democracy is needed to fight the Federal Government’s failure to deliver First Nations’ rights as called for in the Uluru Statement of the Heart, writes Matthew Butera. Our collective failure to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart represents a missed opportunity to accelerate Australia’s journey to becoming a more reconciled, inclusive and just society. An innovative approach to doing democracy could be the path back on track.

Source: First Nations Voice to Parliament: It’s time to rethink democracy