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Black Lives Don’t Matter — Tanya Rosecky, Quadrant

The putrid double standards and hypocrisy lifts the wall paper. “..Traversing the same lines, when a recent article about Fitzroy Crossing described devastating incidents of child neglect, that scandal passed with little attention, yet Bill Leak continues to be branded a racist more than three months after he drew his infamous cartoon. The cartoon was neither racist nor did it involve stereotyping, despite what his critics would have us believe..

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Labor spending was a blow to economy after GFC, says report — The Australian

Tell us something we don’t know….AND we’re still borrowing $100 million A DAY to prop up this fiction.
“..A damning Treasury-commissioned independent review of the former Labor government’s unprecedented spending response to the global financial crisis has found it was a “misconceived” waste of money, fundamentally weakened Australia’s economy, almost destroyed parts of the manufacturing sector and ­inflicted more long-term harm than good..”

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The right call on Taiwan trumps Barack Obama: Greg Sheridan — The Australian

Trumps not so veiled message is pretty simple, pretty straight forward “There’s a new sheriff in town and I’ll talk to whom I damn well please” — He’s off to a good start and not even inaugurated yet.
“….The pro-Beijing hysterics who see the Trump conversation as the end of civilisation should reflect on what they are really saying. It is, apparently, perfectly OK for Beijing to militarise a vast swath of the South China Sea, to use military force to occupy atolls over which it has no serious historical claim, to construct artificial islands to host military landing strips, to increase its military spending by more than 10 per cent annually for two decades and, of course, to ruthlessly suppress all dissent at home. But for Trump to take a congratulatory phone call from the democratically elected president of Taiwan, who came to office in a clean, fair and peaceful ballot, and who has no aggressive intentions towards anybody — that apparently is the crime of the ages….”

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Random Note #196,852 — Triple A Credit Downgrade

Thinking about the “when” rather than “if” prospect of the international credit agencies like S&P, Moody’s and Fitch et al turning down the wick on Australia’s triple A credit rating, it occurs to me that these agencies are the same credit agencies that rated...

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Random Note #178,749 — John Key resignation

Reading a lot about the resignation of New Zealand PM John Key and how he steered NZ successfully over the last 8 years. What seems to be forgotten or ignored is that New Zealand doesn't have a delicately poised senate to negotiate and navigate. Therein lies the...

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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Tuesday Dec 5

What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Tuesday Dec 5

  Greg Sheridan’s article about Donald Trump accepting a phone call from the President of Taiwan was very interesting (“The right call on Taiwan trumps Obama”, 5/12). Trump’s decision to accept the call may be his way of sending a message to the Chinese and...

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Random Note 169,562 — Turnbull and his pyrrhic ABCC victory

The passing of the ABCC legislation is something of a hollow victory for the Turnbull government as the Derryn Hinch, inspired master stroke amendment, delaying the implementation of the serious application of its intent to existing workplace agreements until the end...

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We Don’t Need No Edukayshun: Teach ‘em Green, Raise ‘em Stupid — Quadrant Online

Green/Left lobby Cool Australia, backed by Labor’s teacher unions and Bendigo Bank, is achieving massive success in brainwashing school students about the inhumanity of the federal government’s asylum-seeker policies, the evils of capitalism, and our imminent climate peril. The Cool Australia’s teaching templates are now being used by 52,540 teachers in 6,676 primary and high schools (71% of total schools).

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