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Garry Linnell: Advance Australia Fair is just ‘beautiful lies’

POLITICS
Garry Linnell: Advance Australia Fair is just ‘beautiful lies’   Every nation tells lies about itself. It’s how history is made. Little fibs are buffed and shined and presented as facts. Distortions and exaggerations are given a lick of paint and turned into brightly shining legends. Even absolute falsehoods can be burnished enough...
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Federal parliament just weakened political donations laws while you weren’t watching

POLITICS
While Australians were distracted last week by Melbourne’s lockdown ending and the final days of the Queensland and United States elections, both major parties joined forces in federal parliament to weaken political donations laws. The legislation passed last week overrides state bans on property developer donations in two ways. Federal parliament...
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Australia’s Ruby Princess Cruise Ship Nightmare

CORONAVIRUS
Scott Morrison’s coronavirus mea culpa was barely disguised score-settling with Daniel Andrews
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Australia’s dirty secret and the trial too sensitive for an open court

POLITICS
Scott Morrison has stated he wants to govern in the “Howard tradition”, but sadly that has also entailed adopting the worst of John Howard’s strategies: to admit or explain as little as possible. Recall the former prime minister’s commitment to the Iraq war without parliamentary debate, the Tampa and...
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Bank deposit insurance: Is your money safe and at what price?

BUSINESS
Your entire life savings has evaporated overnight, but not because some anonymous fraudster had stolen it. It happened because the very banking institution that regulators have repeatedly told you is "unquestionably strong" has faltered. The bank has taken your deposit and converted it into shares to ensure its own survival. A Senate...
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Decades In The Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over US$1Billion in Business Losses

POLITICS
Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known.     Donald J Trump has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from...
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Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry

BIASED HISTORY
So basically, my father and his children and grandchildren have been paying taxes to compensate those who enslaved our ancestors, and you want me to be proud of that fact. Are you f**king insane???” And the slave owners not only received compensation from the British taxpayer, they won another concession,...
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BIASED HISTORY
An increasing clamour of calls to wipe slave trader Ben Boyd off the NSW map has come after state environment minister Matt Kean said he would investigate replacing the controversial name. Boyd in the 1860s was responsible for 'blackbirding', a slave trade practice which involved tens of thousands of Pacific...
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The crackdown before Trump’s photo op

POLITICS
Late in the day on June 1, demonstrators gathered near the White House, on the edge of Lafayette Square, to protest police abuse following the death in custody of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Similar protests had erupted across the country. Many were peaceful, but some included property destruction and...
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Honest Government Ad | Economic Recovery

POLITICS
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