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I was delighted to get a full review of Fraudcast News in a recent issue of The Friend magazine. Below is an excerpt while this a link through to the complete article.

How Bad Journalism Supports Our Bogus Democracies – A Review

An article by Elizabeth Redfern that appeared in the 4th July 2014 edition of the Friend.

Readers who are already part of SF fandom have probably seen a lot of this WisCon 38 fallout already, but since this sort of institutional memory-holing of relevant history regarding serial harassers is precisely the sort of social convention that...

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In commemorating the Great War, which broke out 100 years ago next month, we recall one of history’s greatest crimes writes Tom O’Lincoln in Red Flag. Sixteen million dead and 20 million wounded. Such a grubby mix of murder and profit-hunger confronts us. Dividends rise and workers fall.

All the Birds Singing is the winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award, given to a book judged to be ‘of the highest literary merit’ which presents ‘Australian Life in any of its phases’. I don’t have a very good history with literary prize winning books, and I’ve only read one of the other five short-listed books – Eyrie, by Tim Winton (and you can see my post on that book here). But I think this time they’ve got it right.

Joe Hockey just said on PM that requiring young people to make forty applications per month would get the ‘most hungry’ into jobs, and Big Business’s view that the plan was ‘nuts’ was wrong.

With the Royal Commission due back tomorrow with Kathy Jackson being called in for further questioning I thought now was as good a time as any to post my witness statement in full.

You will note that I don’t embellish too much as I chose to let the documentation speak for itself and not try and push any interpretation.

There are hyperlinks to all of the relevant documentation.

Some of the scans of cheque requisitions are quite faded and for that I apologise, the originals are with HSU National Office and are available for the Royal Commission

The statement has not been edited or modified in any way.

A 10kW solar system at Gawler Community House SA becomes second such project funded by the Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia (CORENA).

TAI report says Australian solar industry employs more than coal fired generators, and are more efficient that international peers.

By Leith van Onselen From The Australian comes news that members of the Parliamentary into into foreign property investment will embark on a week long tour of China to help ascertain the degree of investment in Australian property: The delegation is being led by committee chair, Kelly O’Dwyer, who is joined by fellow Liberals Peter […]

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LED streetlights could achieve efficiencies of 97% by 2020 – much higher than domestic or commercial lamps. But are our governments enlightened enough?

NSW should focus on restructuring its electricity business rather than trying to sell an old business model.

Putin currently graces the cover of Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel and The Economist, together with a host of lesser publications. Always unfavourably of course, with the possible exception of Time where the headline is “Cold War II” and the subhead “The West is losing Putin’s dangerous game”.

In the midst of this stampede, it’s refreshing to find authors who take a longer view. Two popped up today, both writing in conservative publications and from a realist standpoint.

The Abbott Government has just signed off on development of one of the world's largest coal mines. There goes the neighbourhood, literally.