For those of you wondering whether Big 4 partnership structure has tax and other advantages over a corporation, read p1 of Brendan Lyon’s opening statement to Senate Inquiry today. Note points 1-5. Less tax, risk, regulation. Straight to the 🏦 - On the back of Oz taxpayers.

Nailed it.

Kerry O’Brien says Indigenous voice no campaign’s conduct has been an ‘open invitation to racists’ | Australian politics | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-news…

Thankyou The Cathy Wilcox 🙏

Exposure to sexual content and problematic sexual behaviors (PSBs) in children and adolescents: This systematic review, of 27 studies among 16,200 young people, finds that exposure to sexual content such as online pornography or live sexual content is associated with PSBs. 1/3

Sam Crompvoets, the sociologist whose investigation into the Special Forces would ultimately lead the downfall of Ben Roberts-Smith, is now trying to rebuild her life after intense backlash.

“It is astounding that it is not illegal to lie in political advertising, and so it is not illegal to lie in the referendum campaigns for the Voice,” writes former Liberal MP Julia Banks. satpa.pe/VEnGCNP

Richard Boyle is in court next month. David McBride is in court in November. Julian Assange is in prison. Labor was elected more than a year ago - what are they doing to step up for whistleblowers?

The notion that the enemy doesn’t follow the rules so we don’t have to either has been used time and again to justify numerous war crimes through history. Currently writing a paper with Neil Renic and @JCWolfendale, explaining how apologist narratives work. Never been more urgent.

The known but ignored truths are now in the open. Whatever their preference & however they’re implicated, the Govt can’t ignore it. It’s long been said a Royal Commission into our unfathomable treatment of refugees was inevitable. The time is now. #auspol smh.com.au/national/nauru…

Masculinity and Violent Extremism: This new book, free in PDF, explores the links between masculinity and violent extremism, including men's attraction to violent extremist movements and terrorism. See xyonline.net/content/mascul… Josh Roose a schooling in contempt (Mark Alfano) Simon Copland 🍉🍉

Violence against women is a national crisis. In the last fortnight at least 6 women in Australia have died allegedly as a consequence of men’s violence. Action is possible. Read our article on the immediate actions & transparent outcomes needed: lens.monash.edu/2023/07/27/138… #VAW

Must watch! Shadow State: How consultants infiltrated government abc.net.au/news/2023-07-2…

“The constitution is a profoundly racist document, an expression of White Australia, of settler history, with the concepts of Australia having been “discovered” by Europeans under the fiction of terra nullius,” writes Barry Jones. satpa.pe/wAIhv3X

Girls’ bodies aren’t responsible for boys’ thoughts - Emmy Coletti @emmycoletti

‘It was my fault. I forgot to lock the door’: The horrors of being a woman in the ADF smh.com.au/national/it-wa…