A World Turned Upside Down: Australian News

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

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

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Landlords gonna landlord.

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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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Here’s some interesting history:

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

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

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

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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.

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