I think NSW police said 90k was on the bridge, so I’m guessing the discrepancy is from the huge numbers on the Southside who didn’t get onto the bridge before police shut it down.

Israel was the precedent.

If you're not identifying yourself as a law officer, surely the public can only assume that you are committing a crime?

If taxes were being reduces from 4% to 0.1%, would they still say that growth would be stimulated? What about all the necessary public goods (roads, education, healthcare, basic research, government bureaucracy, functioning courts, etc) that are necessary for growth?

Maybe combine with use of the ICEBlock app?

Making friends again with France, the only other country apart from US and China with submarine capability in our region, seems like a pretty good idea to me.

We call them collaborators where I’m from (Shanghai).

Neo-colonialism is having our national wealth be siphoned off by former great powers for the promise of security that they can’t afford to provide.

So as Richard Marles is still insisting that Australia is not involved in the Middle East, I hope he is also considering what it would mean for Australia to be strategically wedded to a US that could justify any number of hostile actions in the Indo-Pacific under the rubric of “self-defence.”

Also possible!