Fighting Fake News with REAL 20/1/20; The De-Democratisation of Australia; The Angus Taylor and Scotty from Marketings advice "Feel Good" Nothing to see here; IPA's easy answer..DENIAL

'End of privacy as we know it': Facial recognition fears

The de-democratisation of Australia no longer just a registered citizen but all your information is available to the State. (ODT)

An Australian has developed photo-scanning technology that is helping US police crack cases. But experts warn it could be 'very dangerous'

 

  A Conservatives reason to feel good about ourselves and not contrite about our failures. I believe we should look at our mistakes and look at them hard in order to change directions and not rest on our laurels. An attitude here that has failed Indigenous Australians and our ecological management for over 200 years a history not one to be only proud of. Why we should feel embarrassed the smoke in more ways than one has cleared (ODT) 

And there are so many other fields where we punch above our weight. Our achievements in science are famous. Vaccines, cochlear implants, Wi-Fi, motor neurone research, the list goes on. Our artistic exports are so significant we don’t have to claim Crowded House or Russell Crowe if we don’t want to. And I have just two words on sport – Ash Barty.

 Australia could not “single-handedly have a meaningful impact” on climate change; the “debate in Madrid was not about Australia’s performance”; we should not “feel guilty”, or listen to “shrill cries”, about our emissions reduction and “we are doing our bit and more”, Taylor told us.

 Why it's shocking to feel 'embarrassed to be Australian'

 

 The bushfire crisis has shown a way forward for Australia – and revealed who we truly are | Van Badham | Opinion | The Guardian

 Individualism can't define us community can and should.(ODT)

I suggest if we want to see our country and our people not only Individualserved but represented than we must. Because if there’s a second optimism we can seize from the fires, it’s the example of a collective selflessness that has come to define Australians through this crisis.
From the unpaid, relentless firefighters to the neighbourhood volunteers, the heaving instinct to charity to the painful empathy that we realise in our grief and sadness, we’ve learned a nation-building truth about ourselves.
There may indeed be one instinct alone that culturally defines what it means to be Australian. It’s community.

Bushfire-ravaged communities just need 'tax exemptions' says IPA

 Pay attention to the essence of Roskam's statement here. Life has as we know it been the same for 1000's of years there is nothing to do but better manage the land as did the first Australians. The IPA rarely admits to anything Indigenous as "better". So that's a major jump for Roskam. 

Well, things have changed and changed dramatically and there is more than a strong scientific argument that climate change has resulted in the extreme global spike in the weather one that needs to be addressed and not just talked about. Scientists have talked and warned us about what Roskam et al have denied for 40+ years the rate of heating of the planet. The change is reflected in the rapid acceleration in the RATES of emission of CO2 and Green House Gases in the past 200 years with a concomitant accelerated rate of planet-warming and an increase in the incidences of the extremes in global weather conditions.

 Like the associated arguments in comparing different rates of lung cancer in smokers, the probability of connection becomes revealed and reasonable. In the case of smoking Quit. In the case of the high suicide rate among Indigenous Australians our historical narrative has been wrong and needs changing to incorporate theirs for a start. Today there is a need for positive discrimination greater opportunities and self-management in place of what was lost 200 years ago. As all Australians, we have to change the narrative that denies them it doesn't happen in a single generation. So we need to accept the science of Climate Change which requires far, far more than just improved land management but a massive reduction in global emissions and we need to be ppp active in that international effort. Yes, a Carbon Tax would be a good start and the de-escalation in the use and mining of fossil fuels another. Nothing will happen without a change in the historical/political narrative. (ODT)

Active management of public land through measures such as controlled burning and hazard reduction is essential to manage the risk of bushfires. None of this is new.
Bill Gammage’s 2011 book, 'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia', describes how Indigenous Australians managed the land for thousands of years. Roskam

That would be before Western civilisation arrived, chained up/shot/poisoned Australia’s inhabitants trashed the joint, gouged its earth, sent innumerable species extinct and then, like a mad rooster, crowed its triumphalism and dominion over all things.
Our most recent bushfire tragedy has caused businesses, individuals, sports teams, clubs and other bodies to open their wallets, in an attempt to help those affected.
As the least suspenseful question so far this year, how much do you reckon the IPA has donated?
You got it.

 

Tax the Kids

Childcare fees up 3% in last quarter and 34% since Coalition took power in 2013