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Whatever happened to a “fair go?”

Former Deputy Ambassador John Lander argues the Australian people have been betrayed by their own government, morally, legally, economically, financially, militarily and politically.

Read more: bit.ly/3wJB7BS

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New booster, old immune response.

As Australia surfs its eighth COVID wave, scientists say boosters could be making COVID infections worse...

Rebekah Barnett

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Burying a problem deep underground is what Jacinta Allan and Victorian Labor plan to do with C02 exhaled by industrial plants in the Latrobe Valley. 🤦🏽

Is our climate already beyond control?

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ICYMI, Rita Banerji on the unexpected chaos and misery living with the world's largest Digital ID system, India's Aadhaar.

A challenge to authorities’ promises of 'convenient' and 'equitable' access for all:

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“There is no accountability whatsoever when it comes to these algorithmic exclusions.'

– India's biometric system, Aadhaar is starving eligible people of rations.

aljazeera.com/economy/2024/1…

via Al Jazeera English

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From the economic crisis, self-policing, government secrecy to high-rise slums in urban corridors; our state is crumbling.

Jackson Page asks, who's running this show, anyway?

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The most impressive thing about Riek Chuol? 🥊
It's not that he won state and national boxing titles within six weeks of each other.
The 18-year-old who trains at Doveton Boxing Club has only been boxing for just over eighteen months: bit.ly/47EEpmE

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No amount of opt-ins and opt-outs, policy protections and Oversight Commissioners can change the dangers of Australia's proposed Digital Identity system.

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Palestine is Still the Issue by John Pilger

Pilger made this film 22 yrs ago, it provides important context for the current conflict

In the words of Pilger “the blood never dries in Palestine”

Question of Palestine is a scar on humanity and, like never before, still the Issue

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Having trampled on teachers’ human rights in 2022, by sacking hundreds who refused injections they did not want, Victorian Labor is at it again, this time over their opposition to genocide in Gaza.

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“What is the point of teaching our students history and teaching them we must avoid repeating its disasters if we are not able to identify one which is happening right in front of us?” 🇵🇸Teachers and students in Victoria are being silenced over Gaza. Why?
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What goes through the mind of a soldier who fires into a hospital, deliberately knowing what he is doing?

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In 2021, WA became the world’s accidental vaccine safety control group.
However, a pivotal pandemic policy is still missing from the official government record on vaccine safety. Rebekah Barnett investigates:
bit.ly/3v54X2E

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A recent survey by Foodbank Australia says in the last year, 3.7 million Australians struggled to eat properly, with some households going days without food.

If Australia produces more food than we consume, then there's a glaring problem here:
bit.ly/41jBVbO

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