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…talk about wider partnership with EFA failed because it was conditional on EFA providing the email addresses of its members to GetUp!. This was not only a patently offensive demand to an organisation whose central remit includes privacy, but illustrative of where the organisation’s core interests lay.
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Fascinating article challenging public perception of GetUp!, and a particularly disturbing situation described here.
The proposals to start wiretapping social media use, store your data, control communications infrastructure and lock you up when you won’t cough up the password to your laptop or phone are classic War On The Internet measures. They seek to re-impose analog-era control structures on a world fundamentally altered by interconnectedness
Mad Mex advertising: misogynist, offensive, and horrible.
Inequality and the top 1% in Australia
Matt Cowgill (responsible for this excellent analysis into the ‘typical Australian’s income’: http://bit.ly/oGP5b9) comes through with the goods yet again. This piece looks into the measures of income inequality and economic mobility in Australia - the foundations of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the USA. Cowgill points out that we’re doing quite well overall (close to the Scandinavian countries) but that as our taxation system flattens out between higher and lower income earners, we will see increasing inequality. Seems to me to be a strong argument against yet more tax cuts for the 1% (those earning approximately over $250,000, according to Cowgill).
Climate Change and the End of Australia
via @rachaelhills
What a disturbing article. It presents an overall view of the climate change impacts being felt currently in Australia, and likely to be felt over the course of the coming century. And it scares the bejeesus out of me. I’m feeling like the frog in the slowly boiling water. Reading it summed up like this makes me realise just how bad it is, and how much worse it will get.
Which cafe, restaurant or pub has the surliest staff in Melbourne?
I particularly love what the staff at Josie Bones have apparently said to customers.
Australia disappoints me
Not as prolific social networking users as NZ??
About Schmaltz on wry
Living in Melbourne, Australia. Known for my brownies, filthy sense of humour, rampant sarcasm and exceptional vocabulary.
