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I for one wish to thank climate change for preventing wooly mammoths rampaging through Melbourne...

Some of those deniers will say that climate change has saved us from a new ice age!

Simply his well known "grab them by the pussy" recorded sound bite would be his death knell anywhere but the USA, Sean...

In virtually any other western democracy (certainly here) "paying to keep someone he slept with quiet during an election" would guarantee criminal charges, and would make that person unelectable...

I wonder how much of this is due to the left-over hatred evinced by many on the right on the whole Covid/mask wearing thing, and how much is down to the publicly advanced position of stopping protestors from hiding their identities...

Yeah, it was a long one. It was one of the few movies I've watched in the past few years (not really a movie person) but I did enjoy it.

Some of the pro-Palestine protests have edged over into anti-semitism.

And our government wants to increase our gas production greatly. I realise we are going to need gas for some time, but it should be steadily diminished, not increased...

The temptation to corrupt practices is ever present for politicians of all stripes. The very nature of their path to being elected, with its wheeling and dealing, means that they are often pre-adapted to the slippery slope of corruption...

Saying that Israel should not exist is not criticising Israel. Most of the people (outside radical Muslims etc.) who are currently criticising the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza and the West Bank defend the right of Israel to exist as a state, but they want Palestinians to have the same ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-05/tokyo-says-biden-remarks-unfortunate/103806612 Japan has hit back at US President Joe Biden's comments about the Asian ally being "xenophobic" like China and Russia, calling the characterisation "unfortunate" and misguided. Mr Biden lumped together allies Japan...

Who (aside from elements within Hamas etc.) is calling for the genocide of Jews? "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" Now, I can well believe that some of the people chanting that slogan are too ignorant to know what it actually means, even after Hamas kindly clarified it for them re...

Who (aside from elements within Hamas etc.) is calling for the genocide of Jews? The vast majority of pro-Palestinian protestors in western countries currently are criticising the Israeli governments policies on Palestinians and current military actions in Gaza, and calling for a ceasefire. The majo...

The actions of any government should be open to criticism by anybody. No law should conflate "Fight the Zionist occupiers" with "Death to the Jews".

What today's youth needs is vast amounts of algebra!