Free to Ban and Sanction where and whatever ever it chooses
Ed Husic is a self-declared quantum nerd. “I want to make sure we’re at the front of the quantum pack,” the federal industry and science minister told a quantum commercialisation forum at CSIRO’s Lindfield site in Sydney. “It absolutely burns me, when I just recall how there were five countries in the 1940s that built their own computer, and we were one of them and we just gave it all away,” he said.
Source: Australia eyes ‘front of the quantum pack’ – Michael West
The US has long been highly selective about whose sovereignty it might respect or totally disregard while conferring on itself extraordinary extraterritorial powers to do pretty much what it likes – invade nations, engineer coups, seize assets and impose trade blockades.
Source: Worried about Australia’s sovereignty? Don’t be, it’s gone
Despite trying to soften his image, Peter Dutton remains prodigiously unpopular, writes Belinda Jones.
Source: Perennially unlikeable: Peter Dutton is fooling no one
The Biggest Fantasy Show in Australia’s News Industry.The Murdoch
News Corp’s own News Awards. Always presented before the Media’s true
event the Wakeleys. This is what Trump would do to get respectability in the face of none.
Fri 14 Oct 2022 14.11 AEDT There’s one thing guaranteed at the annual “prestigious” News awards for journalism. A News Corp Australia journalist will win every category. Judged by News Corp editors, and usually attended by Rupert and/or Lachlan Murdoch, the in-house awards will be handed out across company mastheads at a gala ceremony on 8 November.
Source: News Corp again scoops the pool at News Awards as Walkleys reveal nominations | Amanda Meade | The Guardian
As we all know 1) Lawyers aren’t cheap 2) Unlike America Australian or British law makes ambulance chasing and class action suits more complicated and difficult. However there are companies that insure and invest contingency cases. It's always however been easier for the Duttons of this world to sue and defend than it ever been for average Journo like Shane Bazzi 3) Dutton lost but Bazzi felt the impact far more than Dutton despite being crowd funded.4) Murdoch media retains Australia’s top lawyers to protect their stable of reckless talking heads while promoting free speech yet suing Crikey for practicing it. 5) If they're threatened their suits negotiate rapid and N-D settlements well before any court cases see daylight.
According to a must read by John Birmingham
As Charlie Sykes points out, “it’s important to put this into context,” and the context is a global ‘conservative’ movement in which the crazy is not only tolerated — it’s encouraged.
Jones’ toxic, anti-governmental conspiracy theories have slowly but surely infiltrated the political waters. Things that 10 years ago would have been dismissed are now being repeated in the halls of Congress. And of course, former President Donald Trump is right there in the middle of it all…
Jones flourished in the right’s growing alternative reality bubble where he could drive the political narrative. Instead of being shunned or marginalized, Jones found that lying was a lucrative business model that leads to celebrity and political clout.
By imposing a cost on his lies, the Sandy Hook parents make the project of undermining reality and subverting democracy that little bit more difficult and expensive.
The parents (and an FBI agent whose life and career Jones also destroyed) don’t have to chase him for those pennies. They can simply sell the debt he now owes to one of the thousands of companies that’ll be happy to chase him for every fucking dollar from this day until the heat death of the universe. If he tries to hide his income or assets, he goes down for criminal fraud.
( John Birmingham )
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