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Alice Springs sexual assault lies and distortions

Did anyone watch insiders and boofhead give huge time to misinformation Price and then compound the lies with a useless graph that said not much and then boofhead added his spin. WTF It took me all of 10 minutes to find the Northern Territory crime stats https://pfes.nt.gov.au/.../community.../nt-crime-statistics which emphatically...

Ku Klux Klan Historical 1

35,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan marched When at least 35,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in August 1925, the surprise was not just the size of the crowd but the people in the parade. They were shopkeepers, clergy, bankers and teachers — and...

The Albanese government’s emissions reduction scheme under fire

The Greens have been signalling for months they want the Albanese government to stop new coal and gas projects. . A point of contention over the scheme is how much of the emissions reduction would be made directly by industry, and how much would come from carbon offsets, which...

Has the CSIRO Sold its soul

Australia’s new Labor government is committed to a transition to clean energy and a cut in emissions of 43% by 2030. But the MP touted to become the new energy minister is giving forthright backing to the oil and gas industries,Labor’s likely incoming Energy Minister, the former shadow minister...

Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality

Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality Correspondence published by inquiry show then Human Services head told federal watchdog she was concerned about comments and wanted them removed. The former head of the Department of Human Services pressured the commonwealth ombudsman to delete language questioning...

Robodebt inquiry is laying bare the horrific human cost of cheap and heartless politics

CEO of the Australian Council of Social Security Cassandra Goldie argues that: Playing politics with people’s lives – literally – should sicken us all. I have spent too many mornings to count waking up to hostile media stories about “dole bludgers” or “welfare cheats”. Every time my heart would sink, knowing that...

The Robodebt Royal Commission is hearing damning evidence of public sector dysfunction

Laura Tingle 7.30's chief political correspondent writes. The commission was also shown minutes from a meeting between the DHS and PwC in March 2017, in which department officials suggested that "political criticism has lost steam" and the ombudsman's report "will say aspects of the systems are good", a month...

Jacinda Ardern’s graceful departure is the personification of modern democratic ideals

Jacinda Ardern has resigned as prime minister of New Zealand and will be leaving office on 7 February. World leadership has rarely seen anything like her. The dignity and integrity of her departure strikes a paradoxically powerful note, especially at a time when political transition in democracies from the United...

Robodebt and the transmission of shame

Kathryn Campbell stifled a laugh when, in September 2018, she recalled the rollout of the robodebt program during her time as head of the Department of Human Services. “What happened was a number of the letters went out and people didn’t either receive the letters or respond to the...

You pay millions for these imbeciles to encourage conspiracy theories and misinformation. Why?

We get so used to the bonkers shit that goes on in the Australian Senate that it starts to seem unremarkable. Frustrating, exasperating, eye-rolling, but also just the way it is, with its cast of zany characters making illogical, fantastical claims with their publicly funded platforms. So it was...