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855NATION: Love is in the Air … Amnesty, Abyan …
Love is in the Canberra air this week as a sort of truce breaks out for Joe Hockey’s farewell. Magically, the bear...
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NATION, Turnbull: ‘Small L’ Liberal Or Planet-Eating Death Star … ? Amnesty, Abyan
*Pic: Original image: Serious Cat, Flickr Early indications from the Turnbull Government Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will clock up six weeks as...
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Tony Blair’s ‘apology’ gives the game away
Tony Blair’s comments yesterday admitting fault in the invasion of Iraq are proof that the ongoing war, which Australia helped start in...
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Launceston …
Charles Wooley in 60 Minutes mode … I can write with impunity about my old hometown of Launceston in the safe knowledge...
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Millennial Masculism Man (2)
Yesterday I made a visit to the magnificent panopticon-styled Melbourne Magistrates Court on an oxymoronically named civil matter. Due to legalities I’m...
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26 bankers already sentenced to a combined 74 years in prison
In two separate rulings last week, the Supreme Court of Iceland and the Reykjavík District Court sentenced three top managers of Landsbankinn...
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Diesel exhaust alters half of flower scents honey bees use to find food
One of the reasons given for the substantial decline of pollinators in many parts of the world – along with habitat loss,...
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Will Space Miners Save the Earth?
*Image from here: http://factor-tech.com/connected-world/19671-burning-our-remaining-fossil-fuels-will-prompt-60-meter-sea-level-rises-scientists/ After deciding to move to the historic town of Ross in Tasmania, we have made the migration south...
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‘You have tortured me in every way …’
*Pic: Khodayar Amini In the three years before his suicide, Hazara asylum seeker Khodayar Amini says he was twice assaulted by police...
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Hundreds without life savings. Burning-off’s limits. ‘Another handout for Forestry …’
Initially billed as low-risk investments, failed timber and agri-business schemes around the country have now cost thousands of Australian investors their life...
