ArtSrc
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I am also artsrc on Reddit, and an @art_src twitter.
Am I crazy to think this "terrorism" is a more humane way to fight a war than conventional battles?
In the original civil penalty for what is commonly understood to be rape was $5M.
The penalty for describing what is commonly understood to be rape, as rape is $23M.
It is not that I object to the findings. But I find the amounts of the verdicts to be odd.
@ABC surely we can just increase interest rates and prices won’t rise. /s
@johnquiggin I am also a middle aged man and I know my shirts are old because I left the USA in 2007, and many are from there, and others are inherited from my father who died 9 years ago.
My son, not middle aged, and I essentially divided those shirts and he wears them too, and he wears them with larger holes in them than I do.
So not just middle aged men.
The stats don’t apply to my middle child either.
But the 14 year old definitely has not worn the same shirts for 10 years.
My belief is that people expect governments to address, confront, and solve problems.
A small target government does not work politically, especially when people perceive that a problem needs to be addressed.
The failure to address problems is politically costly for a government.
That is why Dutton blocked the immigration limits. He wants the government to fail to address the problem, and then for the public to punish them for it.
If Labor actually wanted these housing measures passed earlier they would have negotiated with the Greens, and passed them earlier.
The cost of living crisis, created by a decline in real incomes, and the high cost of housing are problems people want addressed.
Social media is a vector for foreign interference.
Here is how our allies used it:
Free speech laws were not written with this in mind.
A serious think about how to regulate our media is long overdue.
The AUKUS idea was never safe, and it was never very sound.
There is the possibility that the oceans become generally "transparent" https://ssp.mit.edu/publications/2019/invisible-nuclear-armed-submarines-or-transparent-oceans
Even now if an adversary scattered a line of upward looking sensors on the ocean floor around choke points, and ports would submarine be visible?
The UK has never been a reliable defence partner for Australia, and would abandon us, as it has in the past.
The technical issues with a complex project like this, especially the Australian built part, are significant.
The strategic landscape, with a potentially more powerful China will evolve.
The unreliability of an "ally" in the America First, post Trump world also just another factor.
> Trump says he would encourage Russia to ‘do whatever the hell they want’ to any NATO country'
That is not an ally.
There needs to be a way forward for Australian indigenous people.
I don't see much point to pursuing reconciliation at the moment with an Australian public that is not strongly inclined to care, and an opposition that is included to sabotage.
I think we should focus on addressing for indigenous people, in things like health, education, housing and employment. And also to deliver maximum control of policy, and how these issues are addressed to indigenous people. Ideally not just in an advisory way, but with direct control.
I don't see any reason to seriously curtail the budget. There will criticism any spending, so you might be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
@ABC I don’t see that more houses and more roads are going to make traffic issues go away.
Serious investment in new rail in these areas makes sense to me, along with regulation and infrastructure for E-Bikes and E-Scooters.
I don't understand exactly what she said. Is there a video?