She didn't issue a 'partial apology', she doubled down with a set of snide insinuations framed as an apology. Didn't the journalist here read the quote they put in the article?

My grandkids are a lot younger than that!

Implemented here in Oz last year. My grandkids tell me it's easy to get around. If they made it so it wasn't, eg by requiring actual ID, most people would quit social media because it would make identity theft virtually certain. Of course they could always regulate social media companies instead 😂😂

So, Taylor gets to be leader because he has a deep voice? I guess when you're this close to the bottom of the barrel there has to be some way of choosing.

That's extremely sad. 😢😢

Assimilation won big in the referendum and they've been riding it ever since, with diminishing returns.

A bit too good, so they gutted it.

Also, Qld had a proper Crime and Misconduct Commission thanks to Tony Fitzgerald.

Yep.

Gordon Nuttall, former Qld Health Minister, went to jail in 2009 for taking bribes. Also Craig Thompson in 2014 although for crimes committed before his election. Hanson was released on appeal which despite my loathing for her I believe was fair - she was more likely stupid than criminal.

Yep.

It's a transparent trap. Hamas is a. the governing party in Gaza and b. a mass political movement. Hence anyone who wants to do anything in Gaza apart from invade it has to have some sort of 'link with Hamas'.

They have no opposition on this aside from Greens and the odd independent. Both major parties and Porleen are on the same blood-smeared page.

You will notice that he also avoided the question. Yes, Anthony, there is a real cost. How will we afford it? The obvious answer is that the polluters should pay it, but he ain't going there.

I've read most of these but I can't believe that my little grandson's all-time favourites didn't even make the list - Laura and Philip Bunting's 'Koala's Eat Gum Leaves' (infinitely superior to their two listed books, he thought) and The Very Blue Thingamajig by Narelle Oliver.

I beg to differ. Aside from the hate bill and perhaps the crappiness of the NACC, they gave no indication before the last election that they would be any different. Hence they only got 1/3 of the votes but got a thumping majority on preferences because the main alternative was so bad.

Which one was that? There are so many I can't keep track.

What's more worrying is that the ideas they spout come from people with PhDs - Peter Ridd, Ian Plimer etc.

When you have a hammer everything looks like nail - so we respond to antisemitism with an authoritarian "law and order" response. What could possibly go wrong?