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ditto...Labor and the Greens have blasted new annual emissions projections, and the Turnbull government’s review of its climate policies, characterising the Coalition’s action on climate change as woefully inadequate.
there’s our “special friends” & everyone-else …The government’s plans to address foreign influence in Australian life provide an opportunity for the first time to define the level of Israeli activity designed to influence the making of our foreign policy. George Brandis didn’t plan this. But it is likely to be an outcome.
season's greetings from some of the usual suspects...
will the unlawful search find anything? no....
deceit, the constitution and the XYZ affair...it is now a year since President Trump took office in the White House. It is becoming possible to discern his political ambitions, despite the destructive confrontation in the US between his partisans and his adversaries, detrimental to all. The facts are all the more difficult to establish since Donald Trump himself masks his principal realisations behind a flood of contradictory declarations and Tweets, and his opposition presents him, via their own medias, as a lunatic.
feed the man something! he looks like a thin shadow of himself...Get ready to hear what people are having for dinner tonight. Because that's the hot topic at the centre of UberEATS first brand campaign in Australia via Special Group and The Glue Society. Read more:
inside the shitosphere...
mixed metaphors... straight to the pool room....
on the road to perdition ...
... we watched too many alien movies... and made too many sequels of star wars...
This week, scientists are preparing to study a mysterious cigar-shaped object, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system.
revisiting the future of australia in cartoons past...From Leunig (1976, Nation Review)...
frugality...
Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo paid $55,000 to have lunch with Bill Shorten in October 2015, documents uncovered by the ABC reveal.
the fox and the mouse fan club...Or is there another game afoot? Brian Wieser, senior research analyst at Pivotal Research Group, was as surprised as anyone by the Murdochs decision. “There are economies of scale in media,” he said, and the deal is easy to justify on that basis. But the Murdochs had always seemed more interested in legacy and influence than straight financial rationales for deals. “The rationale is less interesting than the catalyst,” he said.
of romance...The majority of Mab Treeby’s known Bulletin cartoons, were drawn in the 1920s-early 1930s after she had moved to Sydney. They continued to feature smart society women making vapid wisecracks, eg ‘Kitty: “I’d hate it to ... Read more: https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1482621?c=people
You’re an octogenarian cartoonist. A twenty-two year old Miss World comes and sits on your knees. What do you do? What is happening? — your name is Donald Trumpotsky. or... — it’s Christmas, or...
a leaky irish border...
Theresa May arrived in Brussels to meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Commission's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier for a final round of negotiations within the first phase of Brexit talks.
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