Monday 1 August 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 1/8/22; Garma; LNP; Albanese polls 61%;

 

 

 

Garma Indigenous leaders urge Voice unity

A day after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's historic Voice to parliament speech at the Garma Festival, Indigenous leaders have started planning the next steps in their push for reconciliation.

Garma Indigenous leaders urge Voice unity

 

Whenever the former prime minister paid his respects to Indigenous leaders past, present and emerging, he would include a shout-out to any servicemen and women in the audience. At best, it had been a clumsy attempt by Morrison to drape himself in the Australian flag; at worst, a passive-aggressive reminder that the white man was in charge.

Why the Coalition risks a backlash if it breaks the Voice

 Murdoch's pollster is Murdoch's pollster and ought to be ignored is the only lesson to be gleaned from this.

 
Anthony Albanese has recorded the highest satisfaction rating of any new prime minister, according to a new poll in The Australian. And the country could be facing an "alarming" shortage of gas next year. It's the morning news you need to know, and it's free to read. (Crikey)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is off to a strong start in the first Newspoll since Labor won the May federal election.

PM on 61pct satisfaction rating: Newspoll – Michael West

 

They really do want to kill him. Perhaps it is high time that his detractors and sceptics, proven wrong essentially from the outset, admit that the US imperium, along with its client states, is willing to see Julian Assange perish in prison. The locality and venue, for the purposes of this exercise, are not relevant. Like the Inquisition, the Catholic Church was never keen on soiling its hands, preferring the employ of non-church figures to torture their victims.

Penal Assassination: The Gradual Effort to Kill Assange – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

 

 

 

It all changed this year.

While Australia has reported 9,225,519 cases since early 2020, 96% have been this year. This has led to Australia’s global ranking of cases, hospitalisations and deaths being among the highest in the world. – Michael Toole Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute, Brendan Crabb Director and CEO, Burnet Institute.

We’re not special, of course. Omicron and its friendly little sub-variants are everywhere. But it feels like we’ve just given up here, even on the basics. Nobody is calling for lockdowns.

Appeasing the deranged.

 

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