Look! Up in the sky! Is that a dad joke floating by?

Apart from climate change itself, the inability of people like this to doubt themselves or their ideologies is the greatest issue we face. It seems endemic amongst the rich and powerful and they act like generals fighting the last war as a result. Rapidly changing reality requires a change of mind.

2/ ... which was rampant a few years ago but now quiesant again, and citrus gall moth which devastated citrus for years but now seems to have largely gone again. So it's an ongoing story of change, but still one unlikely to have a happy outcome.

We have this here (NE Naarm/Melbourne) too, but it is not problematic atm, possibly because of our uninviting soils. But I have noticed the same changes to bird and plant life, some of which surged to excess then faded into the background again. Two examples are Clematis microphylla, ... /2

I do wonder what is going on in their brains when they spout nonsense like that ... I'm pretty sure that they lose more primary votes every time they trot out the same tired old lines.

I've been keeping an eye on this as a possible next phone. It likely doesn't have Israeli tech, but I haven't confirmed that and it's availability in Australia is still unclear; it might be available through a third party.

Me too! And while I don't fully understand the structure of the conspiracy, I'm pretty sure that it pertains to maintaining that great condradiction in terms 'liberal democracy' ... in other words, follow the money!

And the British/American imperialists and their local fellow travellers combined to overthrow an Australian government via a constitutional coup. Lesson taught and learned; no Australian government has deviated from the imperial path since.

2/ retiring about now and, like me, may well be harboring some anger over how the early promise of the internet has been undermined by malign actors and like the idea of fighting back.

Yeah, yeah, what a joke, right? Mum and Dad's Army! Well, I'm long retired, but I was technical manager of a small internet service provider in the 1990s and, while my meagre skills from back then have atrophied a lot, some of the younger systems and network administrators I worked with would be /2

Ha! When I first read this comment, I thought of all the government money going to private childcare, aged care, etc. Not to mention subsidies to fossil fuel producers and the like ... but presumably the CIS wouldn't mind those govt expenditures because it is going to private providers!

Not news for perhaps 40% of the country no, but the other 60% includes at least some people who are seriously ill informed (plus rascists and quite a few who are all in on the colonial project of oppression) and yet even The Guardian neglects to put the news in context.

Not mentioned in the article (Why not?), but most of those incarcerated are indigenous (and many are children). Which is the actual but unspoken point of the harsh laws; it is part of the continuing oppression of Australia's first people in the place where that ancient is still most intact.