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Precisely.
male from “high profile family” - eg white wealthy colonisers - is not once referred to as sex offender despite two guilty verdicts. Courts give him a suppression order and media give him a pseudonym. Rape culture is top-order colonial white patriarchy.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Man from high-profile Victorian family found guilty of rape
A County Court jury finds a man guilty of two charges of raping a woman in his home after a night of drinking with friends.
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Oh for a world where charities are unnecessary, they no longer have tax-deductible status, and Elon Musk is targeted by a single, very precise lightning bolt.
“Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Francesca Albanese Says Gaza Is a “Crime Scene,” Accuses Europe of Failing Its Moral Test.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fB4...

Palestine History. Edward Said. Who is he?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBj-...
Francesca Albanese Says Gaza Is a “Crime Scene,” Accuses Europe of Failing Its Moral Test
YouTube video by DawnNews English
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
There are so many of them though.
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little, or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.” - Tom Stoppard
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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People in #Gaza need an unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid.

While UNRWA is ready to deliver shelter supplies for up to 1.3 million people, the Israeli Authorities continue to block the Agency from bringing aid in.

The scale of UNRWA's work in Gaza must be restored to its fullest capacity.
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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“For global warming, organisms can migrate towards the poles if they’re really lucky, but ocean acidification is everywhere. It’s absolutely pervasive and totally underreported. The sea is already 30 per cent more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times.”

www.smh.com.au/environment/...
How a beautiful curtain of bubbles led to a bleak undersea discovery
A carbon dioxide seep on a reef in Papua New Guinea is being used as a time machine to see into the future of the world’s coral.
www.smh.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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July 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Three key factors in societies that overcame crises: a willingness of the elites to make sacrifices, comprehensive institutional reforms, and the state’s ability to sustain these reforms
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
csh.ac.at/news/when-co...
When Collapse Wasn’t Inevitable: How Some Societies Turned Crisis Into Renewal
Throughout history, crisis have often led to collapse—but not always. Researchers highlight four such cases and identify three key factors that can turn the tide.
csh.ac.at
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“the impact that this pollution is having on Australians, is not going to go away because the minister refuses to think about it, or because the prime minister is too squeamish to talk about it. The consequences will plague our descendents for generations to come.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"We have the information we need to act. We can't just keep reviewing the situation."

Government pretend to care. So much of the rhetoric around preventing or responding to harm is performative. They don’t want to deal with the work involved in truly addressing it so they pretend.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Don’t tell antivaxxers
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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David Pope nails it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Moody’s had no option but to downgrade Tassie’s credit rating to the worst of any state. To say the Government and Opposition are fiscally illiterate is being kind, as they couldn’t even be trusted to manage the cash for a chook raffle. #auspol #politas
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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This is an outstanding piece, despite the hated scrolling web design.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Hahaha
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Public health concerns raised about antibiotic use in salmon farms www.croakey.org/public-healt... #publichealth
Public health concerns raised about antibiotic use in salmon farms
www.croakey.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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“Once you take their habitat away, they die, so logging this forest is a really permanent end to these creatures. It’s quite heartbreaking.”

Conservationists are calling for timber harvesting to be prevented close to endangered greater habitat.
au.yahoo.com/news/late-ni...
Late-night discovery in bushland sparks fears for rare Aussie animal: 'Epic failure'
Few people are aware of this 1.7kg animal that lives high in Australia's trees. Find out more.
au.yahoo.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Correct.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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“‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says she is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Dave Rowe golden bone saw..
Financial Review
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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The world is an institutional failure
Morally bankrupt
And most of those in power are perfectly happy with that - as long as they are in power
And apart from a rare few, those in political opposition simply adopt the status quo once elected
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Yes, you, too #auspol
The world is an institutional failure
Morally bankrupt

Because when mountains of evidence and decades of victim reports across [insert you relevant government failure here]

Those in power consistently fail those they represent across countless issues
Why

#Epstein
#COP30
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Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM