I’m literally one of those people who you say is vanishingly small.

It’s not even a “the world is bad and I don’t want to subject my child to that” kind of decision. It’s more like a series of thoughts over the years: “is this the right time to have a kid?” and it’s never a good time.

I expect to hear in a few years that Carlson has been on the payroll of the Russians for years.

Ah, I see

Police weren’t happy about gay pride back in the 1970s and it seems they haven’t really evolved since then.

There’s no such thing as Miranda rights in Australia - that’s an American law. We do however have “the right to silence”, and must be informed of that right by police on arrest so it has a similar effect.

Here’s one on his lack of mental compentence to testify at his own trial.

Apparently Singapore contacted our intelligence service and ASIO organised the sting with the FBI. Prior to that he had no buyer. That’s consistent with the Wikipedia article.

I can’t find a reference now for the documents not actually being classified - I remember this from media coverage at the time. I think the story was that they were USGS maps which were subsequently publically available or something like that.

Even worse I can think of two other cases of the Federal Police and ASIO doing similar things:

• Scott Rush, one of the “Bali 9”, was imprisoned in Indonesia after a tip-off from the AFP. This followed his parents alerting the AFP in advance and them reassuring the parents that they’d keep him out of trouble - then waiting until the crime had been committed and tipping off the Indonesian police to take the credit.
• Jean-Philippe Wispelaere was a defence intelligence officer with mental illness who was caught selling secrets to Singapore. The “secrets” turned out to be publically available maps - not secret at all - and he hadn’t committed any crimes until the sting operation organised by an Australian government organisation and the FBI. He was arrested by the FBI and remains in prison today.

I guess for police it looks good on your resume to have caught a bad guy, and it’s easier to track if you’re making it all happen in the first place.

I never thought to see the day that a former News Limited CEO was installed as head of the ABC by Labor. Surely they’ll regret this at the next election when the ABC becomes like another Fox News.

Nuclear is more expensive than renewables pretty much everywhere, and it’s getting more expensive while renewables get cheaper.

Not so “Top Secret” any more, now that it’s been in the news…

More than that, press criminal charges since they’re unlawful.

I’d call that not so much a victory as a sad indictment of planning that it ever happened in the first place.

Half an hour average to just get out of your estate? What a miserable way to live.

I’m curious about their definition of “lakes” here. Lake Eyre in Australia is an enormous salt pan. Once every few years when it rains in the desert it briefly becomes flooded. Does that make it a lake?

The fuck you say?

Contrary to what the other comments are saying, there’s no compelling reason why goods transport by train can’t be done here when it can be done elsewhere. It was done in the past but then we started spending billions to subsidise trucks and passed a variety of laws to benefit road transport. Plus allowing the taxpayer to cover the cost of road wear caused by trucks which totals more billions per year.

So in the end it was a pure policy decision - in the 1950s various lobby groups pushed for the introduction of laws to favor road transport over rail transport and in 1957 the first laws were passed. The rest is history.

People deye their hair more now. That’s the biggest difference.

Here’s a random tip I heard about music inspiration: if you’re in a rut do something completely differently from how you normally do it. Do something the opposite way from how you usually do it or start using a different approach from usual. Maybe give yourself an arbitrary restriction like “no thirds, use more sixths instead” or pick something you normally do and do the reverse. If you normally start writing songs with chord progressions try starting with a melody instead. Or start with a rhythm instead. Just do something different so you’re forced to have a fresh take on composition. Hopefully that’ll help you see things in a fresh light.

Grimes would have recorded at a studio in the US along with the other English language voice actors.

This is then opposition leader Tony Abbott when Julia Gillard was Prime Minister:

So yeah, misogyny is pretty much standard operating procedure for the Libs.

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