Canberra showed up for a free Palestine today.

Australia spends far less of our GDP on healthcare than the US. It’s almost as if the PBS and Medicare save taxpayers money.

Beware graph crime in an election campaign! Pie charts are often extra gnarly. But don't worry, the @australiainstitute.org.au liveblog has you covered.

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Anne Twomey making sense in the SMH today. Hung parliaments don’t mean chaos. They can result in improvements in integrity and accountability

Richard Flanagan on inaction from federal Labor and its devastating consequences www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Turns out it’s possible to scoff books down if you are antisocial on holidays. Reading from 20 Dec included Lessing, de Kretser, Winton and Kingsolver. Onto Lawrence’s The Rainbow now.

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Have you read Clare Wright’s Naku Dharuk yet? Am only 20 pages in and it’s such a humane, intelligent and beautiful book. Will be buying this for Xmas presents.