These are the exact approach to statistics Andrew Bolt loves using to prove minority groups in Australia don’t belong and are dysfunctional. It seems his beloved LNP  and mate Michael Kroger’s party has been taken over by a dysfunctional and extreme minority (ODT)

The Sunday Age last week revealed that at least 10 of the 78 people elected to the state Liberals’ administrative bodies are Mormons – representing almost 13 per cent of the organisational wing, compared with just 0.3 per cent of Australians who are Mormons.

via Mormon church ‘politically neutral’ amid Liberal Party power shift

 

 Australia’s ugly turn in Afghanistan

Abdul’s brother went out to buy flour. He never came home

The prospect of Australia’s longest war morphing into Australia’s longest inquiry, all based on pub talk, drew criticism. But having also heard the stories I can say the allegations are grounded in much more than rumour. They fall into three main categories.

The initiation

A technique borrowed from corrupt cops

Competition killing

Suicide rates rose in nearly every US state from 1999 to 2016, according to data from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 45,000 people committed suicide in 2016, making it one of three leading causes of death that are on the rise, along with Alzheimer’s disease and drug overdoses.

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President Donald Trump says he has “absolute right to PARDON myself” but says has “done nothing wrong” in the Russia probe.

via US President Donald Trump asserts absolute right to pardon himself

Fifield seems to have chosen to be Murdoch’s lackey in government. Does he have the balls to take his anti- ABC stance ,the most trusted media organization in the country, to the next election? Does he have the guts to put forward the policy to scrap it? I doubt he’d hold his seat when 80% of the country support the ABC. Whinging as did Abbott when he cried whose side are they on shows the government is clueless about what we like the ABC doing asking the hard questions of everyone when they are there to be asked. Why is Fifield not addressing the issues of greater importance such as the obsolete and legless NBN? He’s running away from it using political distraction as a cover.  (ODT)

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has made another complaint to the ABC – the sixth in five months – this time about commentary on the controversial date of the “super Saturday” byelections.

Senator Fifield has taken issue with the characterisation of the decision to hold five byelections on July 28 – the weekend Labor had booked its national conference – as a deliberately political move.

“The Prime Minister did not decide the date for the byelections,” Senator Fifield told ABC boss Michelle Guthrie in a written complaint obtained by Fairfax Media.

via Minister Mitch Fifield lodges sixth complaint about the ABC in five months