A World Turned Upside Down: Australian News

https://twitter.com/polley_helen/status/1393317697761411074?s=21

https://twitter.com/msmotts/status/1393444633397530624?s=21

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https://twitter.com/nat_ironfield/status/1393437195344752640?s=21

“They won’t even admit the knife is there”.

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https://twitter.com/emeraldxmoon/status/1394192376478846977?s=21

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There’s a story like this out of Sydney pretty much every day:

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Landlords gonna landlord.

https://twitter.com/westaustralian/status/1394427269926510596?s=21

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The seminal modern book on the resistance of Indigenous Tasmanians to genocide is apparently Henry Reynold’s The Fate of a Free People.

It isn’t available as an ebook, and these were the only hard copies for offer that I could find online:

They got that one buried good and deep.

Meanwhile, the Launceston papers are regularly featuring crap like this:

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Snowflakes.

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https://twitter.com/ahmedyussuf10/status/1400590244563406852?s=21

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https://twitter.com/tri_stan__/status/1400639707470434311?s=21

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Here’s some interesting history:

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https://twitter.com/senkimcarr/status/1400629559733612544?s=21

https://twitter.com/marykostakidis/status/1400619568595292162?s=21

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https://twitter.com/riss_bundjalung/status/1400710131923394560?s=21

But it’s all of those global south governments that are hopelessly corrupt, right?

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https://twitter.com/petercronau/status/1403196079869284352?s=21

Volunteering for the role of Romania in the 1940’s is not something I would choose.

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https://twitter.com/BreakfastNews/status/1404910688397500418

https://twitter.com/realdeancool/status/1404948041023430658?s=21

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https://twitter.com/marquelawyers/status/1406877262541037571?s=21

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Oz-NZ quarantine-free travel likely to be cancelled:

https://twitter.com/covid19nz/status/1407412180463415297?s=21

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The Oz right has spent the last few days claiming that the UN listing of the Great Barrier Reef as endangered is a Chinese plot.

Meanwhile:

From a scientific perspective, the prospects of the reef could be described as “very obviously fucked, and has been for a long time”.

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Those are certainly very real looking accounts and not bots at all.

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It’s leading to some editorial cartoons that are almost as deranged as American ones.

https://twitter.com/jeff_sparrow/status/1407522528927490049?s=21

https://twitter.com/giovannitorre/status/1407526913329881088?s=21

https://twitter.com/celerysorbet/status/1407620582154280963?s=21

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