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Could TOP Decide the Next Government? Farrar and Williams Break Down the Numbers
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How Do The Parties Rate For On Free Speech Freedoms?
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John Banks Checks In With Final Predictions & Reflections On Election Campaigns
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Time to Look Back in Anger
The police exist to establish facts, investigate criminality and protect the public. They should not be enforcement officers for political orthodoxy. Some officers are clearly now more concerned about appearing sufficiently progressive rather than exercising independent professional judgement.
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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
The West’s Free Speech Consensus Is Fracturing
European crackdowns on citizen speech is provoking Washington to respond. Will free expression become a transatlantic fault line?
To Save the Environment We Need to Bring Back Plastic Straws
In 2023 we found out the paper straws have more ‘forever chemicals’ than plastic straws. While plastic straws have the teflon style (PFAS) ‘forever chemicals’ – the paper straws had even more of them.
Australia Dragged Back to GFC Days
Australians are now worse off than they were 18 years ago.
Greens Back Satire, Just Not About Themselves
The authority’s complaints board chair ruled the complaints settled on 30 October, without deciding whether the advertising code had been breached.
The Earth Abides Without End
The world has been about to end since forever – yet, here it still is.