Note a report from Murdoch's Australian
The Afghanistan War: Australia’s longest-running deception
What our prime ministers said about Australia’s longest-running military engagement, the War in Afghanistan. Michelle Fahy’s report follows secret information about the Afghanistan war obtained by The Washington Post.
Key revelations by The Washington Post:
Key revelations by The Washington Post:
- Behind-the-scenes consensus was that the war was not well-managed. There was no strategy, no real plan, no real knowledge of who the enemy was.
- What started as retaliation for 9/11 to fight al Qaeda soon became muddled. Within six months, al Qaeda’s leaders had been captured, killed or had fled.
- Confusion reigned about why Americans were still there, and what the US was fighting for. Planning was a disaster.
- Leaders knew things were not going well. Yet, in public, they were claiming “it’s a tough fight, but we’re making progress: we just need more money and more troops.”
Exclusive
Detention centres
'I am done': A Manus Island security guard took her own life. Her suicide note was addressed to Scott Morrison.
Diane Parker, 53, was one of 18 former staff to pursue compensation through the courts - with the first case to proceed to trial next week.
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald can reveal Ms Parker pleaded with the government to settle her claim in a hand-written letter addressed to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who was immigration minister in 2014 when weeks of protests by asylum seekers erupted into three days of violence.
"Scott Morrison, My name is Diane Parker, I was working on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea in February 2014. Do I need to go on?"I have PTSD and have committed suicide. I am over the courts, over the delay, over people not caring," Ms Parker said in the letter on June 27, 2019.
Dutton and the conservative extremists: Civil disobedience is not terrorism
“Sally McManus has written to Scott Morrison, urging government action to assist the 3.3 million workers who don't have access to paid leave. Says these workers must not unfairly bear the brunt of the economic impact of the coronavirus.”
Consider what happens if people without paid leave have coronavirus. They’ve got two options:
- go to work anyway and spread the virus
Consider what happens if people without paid leave have coronavirus. They’ve got two options:
- go to work anyway and spread the virus
- fall into debt, and possible face eviction from their homes because they can’t work, putting more strain on stretched social systems.
This is the cost of running down workplace conditions. IT IS FELT BY EVERYONE.
This is the cost of running down workplace conditions. IT IS FELT BY EVERYONE.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has urged the Morrison government to…
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has urged the Morrison government to…
FAKE NEWS
NO TOILET PAPER SHOWS HOW QUICK WE ARE TO FREAK
And this is how people panic over something that's so far killed just one of 25 million Australians: "US warehouse retailer Costco sold out of toilet paper in two of its big-box stores and shoppers stripped shelves of staples including rice and flour." Note: coronavirus gives you a cough, not the trots.
Teaching a generation of children to be catastrophists: "A growing number of children are being affected by eco-anxiety... BBC Newsround conducted a survey of 2,000 eight to 16-year-olds... Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) added that they were worried about the state of the planet." They'll either grow up to be panic merchants or wiser to them.
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