"This is a long process we've set up now … with people putting up their hands up today and were chosen, we've got a very large working group that will continue to work on this process for the next while," she said.

Sadly once again, yet another suicide bomber has acted his revenge on innocent people in Manchester. The predictable Nazi sock puppets are out on behalf of their corporate backers, screaming for more surveillance, greater military, and an increasing attack on the Muslim community at large. Same old crap, same old conservative hatred and spin.

Adapted fiction from the New Yorker (this is a bad Gus spoof -- though a frightening possibility)

RESISTANCE, AGENCY, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION

It is increasingly evident how pernicious the privatisation myth is. Two recent examples have underlined it: the failings in Australia’s privatised energy grid and the usurious pricing in airport car parks. Both examples demonstrated that it is folly to expect a public benefit to inevitably emerge from private profit seeking.  

Just consider the accusations that have been levelled at the President:

• He has betrayed the Constitution, which he swore to uphold.

If Australian UFO enthusiasts hope to retain government money, they may need more proof of terrestrial activity.

Despite overly optimistic, but what should be called laughable forecasts in the budget, wage growth in Australia is now the lowest it has been since the mid-1990s. And it’s not hard to see why.