A World Turned Upside Down: Australian News

Also note that:

a) A 2°C rise is already catastrophic in a sustained megadeath fashion.

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b) The idea that those emission reductions would successfully limit increases to 2°C is probably overoptimistic.

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The Lib-Nat Coalition have been pushing hard on promoting and protecting theocratic bigotry of late.

The ALP response has been to quietly collaborate with this effort, by voting for Coalition legislation on the subject.

And now they’re doing this:

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Last night:

He’s in hospital now, but it took the intervention of assorted people with clout to make that happen.

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Do you think this is because cops are more likely to be falsely accused by their spouses, or is it instead because cops have effective means of intimidating witnesses and influencing prosecutors?

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Australian “police” uniform:

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Do you imagine for a second that this could have happened if a stockbroker in Vaucluse wandered carelessly across the street after parking his BMW?

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“We give the police less-lethal weaponry to reduce violence. We promise that they will only be used as a last-resort alternative to lethal force”.

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Reverted since, but still:

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This won’t mean much to the USAdians [1], but today an Indigenous fast bowler annihilated England (six for seven!) in his debut match. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Unsurprisingly, the major party duopoly are united in their refusal to advocate for publicly funded and universally available Covid testing. The best you’ll get from the faux-left ALP is US Democrat style meaningless bullshit about “accessible healthcare”.

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The Sydney Festival has had a large proportion of their participants drop out over the last few days due to their insistence on accepting funding from the Israeli government.

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