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Building a Dam to Save a Dam
Okay, I can see why this might take two to three years. We’re talking big holes in the ground through which to pour concrete.
The Popularity of Flounder in Massachusetts
Stuff is a corporate train wreck and nothing Sinead Boucher and her team of executives do or say gives me any confidence whatsoever.
When the Columnist Swears for Clicks
If the product is good, you don’t need sweary opinion writers. The swearing is just reason 1,001 not to read Stuff – except to be impressed by just how far it can fall.
Go and See Auschwitz. Now. (Auckland)
We need to understand what we are capable of. The unbelievably monstrous evil. And the courage. And the humanity that somehow survived inside it. Just go. You will not regret it.
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The Pen and the Gun
The moral inversion of accountability. The consequences are downstream, but responsibility begins upstream.
Taxes That Spark a Criminal Turf War
Australia tried to end smoking with punitive taxes. Instead, it created a lucrative trade for smugglers and a wave of violent attacks on retailers.
He Didn’t Do It, Nobody Saw Him Do It, You Can’t Prove a Thing
Whatever it was, Islamic preacher denies it.
The Government Doesn’t Trust You to Think for Yourself
The most powerful influencer in Australia isn’t a teenager on TikTok. It is an institution that can regulate what others say, spend hundreds of millions promoting its own messages, subsidise parts of the information industry, define what it believes is in the public interest – and send you the bill.