When Sam Dastyari was promoted to the shadow ministry earlier this year, Bill Shorten was unable, because of the opposition’s salary cap rules, to give him a pay rise.

The world's largest gorillas have been pushed to the brink of extinction by a surge of illegal hunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and are now critically endangered.

The Government's main climate change advisory body has split, with two board members calling for tougher action to reduce emissions.

From Professor Clive Hamilton of Charles Sturt University and Professor David Karoly of the University of Melbourne — Members of the Climate Change Authority. Their report can be viewed at www.climatecouncil.org.au.

Australian author and social commentator Richard Neville has died at the age of 74.

The media gorging itself, on the falsehoods that Ms Jackson peddled, eventually destroyed the Gillard Government. There were other elements as well, including the undermining by the merde-och media using the former Labor leader (whatizname) as a destructionist of the Gillard government, but the Jackson lies, peddled by the media, would have had a strong detrimental effect on the plebs, us, in the following elections and the "coup" by the former Laborious leader.

Kate McClymont should hang her head in shame but she wont. 

Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun

Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical.

The G20 meets in tech hub Hangzhou, China, at an extremely tense geopolitical juncture.

“Good morning, we have an interview with Liberal, Mr Whine.”

“Good morning, pleased to be here.”

NBN Co staff must be feeling as little less confident about the upcoming launch of its second satellite, after Facebook's broadband internet satellite was destroyed in an explosion during launch testing on Thursday morning in Florida. 

While NBN Co has insured the launch of its satellite, the explosion highlights the risk of sending expensive communications equipment into space.

They thought I was bonkers when I dug this hole

and filled it with rooms as an ultimate goal

of an underground home they'd forgotten was there

unseen in the light of the rocket's red glare

As soon as the missiles start to fall

to the supermarket I'll make a quick call

for a fellow can only eat so much baked beans

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