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Australian journalist shot in LA. Why's it being reported passively?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/10/australian-journalist-shot-los-angeles-protests-media-reporting/
When a US officer shot Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi with a rubber bullet in LA, it was big news. But why is the coverage so passive?
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me, by Django Wexler
https://djangowexler.com/writing/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-except-me/
Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she must now break the time loop that binds her in this hilariously bloody conclusion to the Dark Lord Davi duology. After countless failures (let’s not dwell on it), Davi has finally saved the kingdom from evil–by becoming the Dark Lord herself. But now, the hordes of wilders […]
‘Mind-blowing’: inside the highest human-occupied ice age site found in Australia | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/17/dargan-cave-shelter-ice-age-site
The Dargan cave, in the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains, was previously believed too hostile for human habitation
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We Found The Guy Behind Australia's Greatest Ever Meme
https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/seriously-john-howard-djs-like-a-mad-cunt
If you remember when Howard DJ'd like a mad c*nt...this story is for you.
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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of
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Why Movements Fail
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movements-fail/
Horizontalism and its discontents
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Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome - TPM – Talking Points Memo
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-trump-welcome-to-the-thunderdome
We’ve clearly clarified that the Elon-Trump feud is real. I assume you’ve seen or heard about the back-and-forth social media salvos in which Trump has…
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Georgia Tennant - David Tennant Does a Podcast With… - Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georgia-tennant/id1450005207?i=1000702537041
Hear David Tennant as you have never heard him before... The tables are turned as David sits in the hot seat, interviewed by none other than his wife Georgia Te
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Exclusive: How Abbott and Credlin control the Liberals | The Saturday Paper
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/05/24/exclusive-how-abbott-and-credlin-control-the-liberals
Liberal MPs reveal how the former prime minister and his close confidante have been at the centre of a string of disastrous decisions that led to the party’s stunning election loss and the collapse of the Coalition.
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Gay and bisexual men will soon be able to donate blood and plasma
https://theconversation.com/gay-and-bisexual-men-will-soon-be-able-to-donate-blood-and-plasma-259136
In the future, risk-assessments for whole blood won’t be based on sexual orientation.
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Australia’s student strikers for climate believed they could change their future. Where are they now?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/australias-student-strikers-for-climate-believed-they-could-change-their-future-where-are-they-nowue
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Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/17/do-viruses-trigger-alzheimers
A growing group of scientists think so, and are asking whether antivirals could treat the disease | Science & technology
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The rise and fall of Adam Bandt: the Greens leader who embraced a different approach to politics | Paddy Manning | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/adam-bandt-rise-and-fall-of-greens-leader-who-embraced-different-approach-to-politics
The outgoing member for Melbourne understood if the Greens genuinely want to be a party of government they have to win lower house seats
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Russell T Davies–David Tennant Does a Podcast With… – Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/russell-t-davies/id1450005207?i=1000698585806
David Tennant sits down with his longtime friend and collaborator, Russell T Davies, the acclaimed writer behind Doctor Who, It's a Sin, Queer as Folk, and more
Fertility clinics Melbourne IVF and IVFAustralia accused of bungling records of donated sperm - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-15/ivf-sperm-donor-mistake-wrong-family-list-dna-not-related/105404898
Some of Australia's largest IVF clinics have passed inaccurate information about children born from sperm donations to their male donors.
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ANU honours Australia's first female neuroscientist Rose Mason
https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/finally-telling-her-story-trailblazer-in-science-recognised-with-honorary-degree
Australia's first female neuroscientist, Dr Rose Mason, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by ANU.
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Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals | Archaeology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/22/oxford-academics-drank-from-cup-made-from-human-skull-until-2015-book-reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
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My wife and daughters left behind a legacy of love, John Hunt tells BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5wk716pzdo.amp
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It’s time for Dolly to record that long-lost Prince song. - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/10/dolly-prince-rescue-me/
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/06/05/the-stunning-decline-of-the-preference-for-having-boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them | Leaders
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2025 election: The Murdoch media no longer matters
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/31/2025-election-murdoch-media-news-corp-no-longer-matters/
The 2025 Australian federal election could be the first in decades where Rupert Murdoch's News Corp doesn't have much influence.
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Deciphering Glyph :: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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Selective school fail: Why NSW has lost control of the beast it created
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/selective-school-fail-why-nsw-has-lost-control-of-the-beast-it-created-20250523-p5m1qm.html
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Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football - ABC listen
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/helen-garner-grandmother-under-16s-football-grandson/104452736
When writer Helen Garner began following her grandson’s under-16s football team, she gained a new appreciation for 'the ordinary beauty of human society'.