It was highly probable. Given the howls of concern that social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook nurse and nurture a bias (every choice on content entails one), a gift was made to critics to show just that. Last Wednesday, Twitter prevented users from posting links to a New
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We are more than one hundred days into lockdown here in metro Melbourne — and it’s been going on even longer in the unlucky postcodes where the virus landed after the hotel quarantine breaches. That makes it a good time to look back at what we learned from the first
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https://apac.news/repugnant-a-european-diaspora-perspective-on-eric-abetz/Liberal Senators Eric...
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The Liberal Party is harvesting tens of thousands of dollars in donations from registered children’s charities and charities for the disabled. Michael West reports.
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https://apac.news/aspis-forced-labour-links/The Australian Strategic Policy Institute—the think...
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The October 2020 federal budget was “an oxygen mask to keep us going,” according to Australian National University associate professor Catherine Ball, and the nation will won’t face its year of reckoning until 2021. It’s a sobering thought, given the difficulties Australians and the rest of the world have
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Hefty cuts to JobSeeker and JobKeeper mean that Australia now faces a potentially more deadly epidemic than Covid-19. But it is largely avoidable, writes Michael Tanner.
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Luxury cars are inextricably linked with the weapons industry. When James Bond saves the world in his faithful Aston Martin he is glamourising the very industry he is ostensibly trying to defeat. Tasha May reports.
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Structural sexism and lack of women MPs in the Liberal and National parties’ ranks is resulting in a raft of “men first” policies to the COVID-19 response. It is high time the six female cabinet members stood strong and pushed for quotas in winnable seats.
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Women and young people have borne the brunt of the Covid Crisis. They are set to lose again when the Government hands down its $158 billion tax cuts package. Elizabeth Minter reports on the unfairness of the government’s plan for economic recovery.
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https://apac.news/latest-defence-announcement-is-just-government-spin/The Prime Minister and...
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