Oceania ElectsAustralia (Western Australia): Nedland MLA Jonathan Huston has resigned from the WA Liberals (LIB, Centre-right), citing disagreement over issues like mining royalties.
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Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScotOh FFS. I’d only just told a few local Liberals that far from criticising Huston, they should have been embracing his fresh ideas.
Now we presumably get to see how quickly Gina and Pauline can quash his suggestions about raising tax on miners *sigh*
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Nedlands MP Jonathan Huston qu...
Now we presumably get to see how quickly Gina and Pauline can quash his suggestions about raising tax on miners *sigh*
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Nedlands MP Jonathan Huston qu...
cass-Aby-andrahate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
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CHOCCY MALK™ 
@ohmu this feels like a very accurate read of the situation. It would be nice to see a greater focus on the long and difficult work of repairing the fabric of the city’s neighborhoods instead of over policing.
That said, along with the recent promise to over police came over a million in funding for programs in those areas which could actually prove useful. I guess it’s a good time to become a self proclaimed neighborhood rep.
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The US is arguing about the *type* of roadside testing it should do for THC, while Australia can’t even admit there’s a difference between presence and impairment. This is why we don’t need RFK Jr and his like in Australia, people - we’re dumb enough as it f$€$€ing is. #freetheweed #auspol #wapol
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Washington Privacy OrganizersFISA fake “deadline” June 12. Will Schrier, MGP, and Strickland side with Republicans again?
Given Roger Cook’s WA Govt has sat on its hands for more than six months on this issue, isn’t it time for @[email protected] and Road Safety Minister @[email protected] to admit that the nations largest state is behind the eight ball yet again, and simply adopt the NSW laws here in the West? #wapol
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Maude NificentVale Bill Grayden — A decent bloke.
His name is on the 1956 Report which exposed appalling conditions in the Warburton Ranges. The resulting “Warburton Ranges Scandal” and associated posturing eventually led to the campaign for 1967 referendum.
Many of the people at Warburton had been relocated to that place from Maralinga, because of plans for atomic testing. White people in this country have rarely grasped the idea that having a “place to live” is not the same thing as having a “way to live”.
The committee reported that more than 1,000 Aborigines were living and dying under the "worst conditions in the world. '
Federal Minister for Supply, Mr Beale told the SMH the select committee's report revealed that some of the aborigines in the Warburton-Laverton area were living under bad conditions, but it was “absurd to suggest that the Commonwealth Government was in any way the cause” (oh well, okay then)
In February 1957, Rupert Murdoch wrote an article saying things like <These fine native people have never enjoyed better conditions> and <All were obviously well- fed and happy>.
Pastor (later Sir) Douglas Nicholls travelled with a film crew to the Warburton Ranges in 1957. In the Advocate, Catherine Kaye reported
The film of these starving natives on the Warburton Reserve was shown on GTV 9 — It was called Manslaughter and we were told that every Australian was guilty of manslaughter as long as this horror continued.
Television barely existed at the time in Australia, and the film was mostly seen by people in eastern states because it was shown in local halls. In Western Australia the film was shown with the title Their Darkest Hour.
Images are available, but should probably be classified “famine porn”.
It should not be so hard for us to accept the truth, or do the right thing.
