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by SpeakTruth

29 November 2023 3 dys

The Early Education Rip Off In Australia

I have a daughter working in child care in Australia. She loves her job and is very good at what she does. However, she is paid a pittance for her skills in this space and the undervaluing of early education in Australia is a disgrace. Listening to Jessica Rudd from The Parenthood advocacy group speak at the National Press Club was enlightening and inspiring. Very little has shifted over many years in this space. The early education rip off in Australia continues. Ten years of Coalition federal governments did next to nothing for the nation in this important sector.

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by SpeakTruth

28 November 2023 4 dys

American Politics Is So Full Of Shit

You can look at the national civic scene in the United States and shake your head in disbelief and disgust. American politics is so full of shit. It is easy to point the finger at the people and berate them for their childishness in believing so many lies. However, they have been lied to from the very beginning of their republic. The fear mongering by vested interests is legion. This whole anti-communist thing is such a load of garbage. I mean there has never been any iota of danger in America becoming a communist nation. It has been a complete beat up from its invention some hundred plus years ago.

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by SpeakTruth

23 November 2023 1 week

America Is So Ideologically Fraught

If you dip into American political history you are confronted with a whole bunch of surprising anomalies. America is so ideologically fraught and vulnerable to domestic propaganda. The riven polarising state of politics in America today is not as unusual as some commentators make out. Perhaps, it is more a reflection on the general ignorance about America’s past that we get this emphasis today. Political leaders have been lying to and manipulating their citizens for the life of the nation. Trump’s lies are legion but they are nothing new in the political framework of the United States.

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1 Dec

Impressed with Alan Kohler’s assessment of the Australian housing shemozzle. Especially, identifying John Howard’s key role in gutting the capital gains tax on the family home as the turning point.

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I’ve been thinking back on the Australia I knew as a kid, the pre John Howard Australia. Australia then was a much more egalitarian place, where your personal determination, and hard work, were the main factors that determined how successful you were in life. Equality in…

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1 Dec

America’s attitude toward China in 2023 is aggressively competitive and geopolitically toxic.

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1 Dec

A Trend Toward A Concern For Individual Freedoms

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Episode 10: The Bedroom: Sleep & Sex - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

The bedroom is home to our inner prince or princess of the underworld. Here we find the nascent and sensitive self who passes back and forth between our states of consciousness. The most famous bedroom princess is Persephone, Demeter’s daughter, who was snaffled by Haides, god of the underworld, whilst playing in a flowering meadow and taken to his dark kingdom where she ate pomegranate seeds and thus was condemned to remain there for the most part of each year. To eat of the fruit of love with the dark lord and to consume his seed, would be my reading of the situation. Persephone becomes the goddess of spring, as it is then that she is able to return to the world above, and so she brings new life back from the inchoate darkness of the unknown. A very apt metaphor for our own unconscious realms and the role it plays in our own lives and especially in our creative dimensions.Our bedroom is fundamentally a place, which contains a bed, and where we go to sleep. It is a portal between worlds, of the conscious and the unconscious. It is our temple of sleep, where we go, after our day’s labour and nightly feast, to lie prostrate upon a flat couch and quietly beseech the god of the underworld to come and take us to his realm. It is interesting to examine the bedroom in these terms, to see its function in light of the split between these states of being. I think that we would all agree that we rescind our autonomy when we go to sleep, and our consciousness is removed into the ocean like world of dreams. We no longer have the illusion of being totally in control of our lives and destinies. House Therapy - Discover More of you at home?Robert Sudha Hamilton

South Korea is desperate for more babies — just not in cafes or restaurants, please 1 December 2023
The number of no-kids zones in South Korea has exploded in the past decade, but some parents say it's creating a culture where children are unwelcome and restricted from learning how to behave in public.
James Oaten
Casket holding Cleveland Dodd's body lowered into the ground on Yamaji country after boy's death in custody 1 December 2023
Hundreds of mourners gather for the funeral service for the teenager who died inside WA's juvenile detention system.
Daryna Zadvirna and Jake Sturmer
Search for mysterious websites using unlicensed Pokémon branding leads from Sydney to computer in Ukraine 1 December 2023
A search for the operator of mysterious websites using unlicensed Pokémon branding to spruik an upcoming game has proved trickier than catching the Nintendo characters themselves.
Jamie McKinnell
When you're on the 'wrong' side of club-ready, where do you go to dance? 1 December 2023
This week, singer Jessie Ware re-lit the disco fire in my soul enough to make me want to go out dancing. But where? There's no dance scene for women my age anymore – and maybe it's been ever thus, writes Virginia Trioli.
Virginia Trioli
Women's sport is rising faster than ever before — but which sports are keeping pace with wages? 1 December 2023
The momentum of women's sport is in unstoppable motion, but the wages of some codes compared to others shows not all sports are created equal, writes David Mark.
David Mark
'Hate attacks, death threats': Unprecedented rise in Islamophobia and anti-Semitism amid Israel-Gaza war 1 December 2023
Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents in Australia are at unprecedented levels as the Israel-Gaza war rages.
Zena Chamas and Mazoe Ford
Israeli leaflet drop warns southern Gaza of coming conflict 1 December 2023
After the collapse of the week-long truce, fighting has resumed with Israeli warplanes pounding Gaza while Hamas sent rockets from the enclave into nearby towns.
After the floods comes the feast, as rare birds relish heavy rain 1 December 2023
With its soft, twittering tune and brilliantly bright plumage, the scarlet-chested parrot is one of Australia's rarely sighted birds that is rejoicing in recent rain in South Australia's Riverland.
Sophie Landau
Long COVID research offers 'light at the end of the tunnel', finding symptoms ease over time 1 December 2023
Giuliano Gaspri spent eight months in hospital with COVID. He's part of a study of long COVID patients which hasn't found the cause, but did find life can return to normal with time.
Brooke Chandler
What is COP28? Here's what to expect at this year's UN climate talks 1 December 2023
Talks about how to wean the world off fossil fuels are taking place in one of the globe's leading petrostates. Massive increases in green energy and who should pay will be up for discussion.
Daniel Mercer
East Coast Low makes way for severe thunderstorms, a December scorcher, and Coral Sea cyclone 1 December 2023
Next week to bring a repeat of wild weather across many parts of Australia, after a surprisingly wet November.
Tom Saunders
Why female Putin critics from Russia and Ukraine might be the target of a new wave of poisonings 1 December 2023
The Kremlin is yet to comment on the alleged poisoning attempt on the wife of Ukraine's chief spy, but if Russian agents are involved, it suggests that Soviet era tactic remains alive and well in the new age of war.
Lucy Sweeney and Lucia Stein
From a secret location in the Top End, these soldiers use ancient techniques to defend Australia 1 December 2023
In an era of spy satellites and nuclear submarines, Australia's vast northern borders are still being defended by squadrons of soldiers using techniques that are thousands of years old.
Matt Garrick and Michael Franchi
'Shrinkflation' is becoming more widespread, but there's one thing shoppers can do to avoid it 1 December 2023
The product feels lighter, or it's smaller, and you can't quite put your finger on the change… but there is a change. Shrinkflation is becoming more widespread, but can anything be done about it, asks David Taylor.
David Taylor
Three young actors took to the stage in keffiyehs. A bitter and dangerous debate was unleashed 1 December 2023
What happened in the aftermath of the Sydney Theatre Company performance is a reflection of how the latest conflict in the Middle East has erupted into bitter and dangerous reductionism in political debates in Australia, writes Laura Tingle.
Laura Tingle
Judge blocks US state of Montana's first-of-its kind state ban on TikTok 1 December 2023
The US state was set to ban the app on January 1, saying it violated the free speech right of users.
Rafael Nadal to make tour return at Brisbane International 1 December 2023
Former tennis world number one Rafael Nadal will return at the Brisbane International warm up event for the Australian Open in January, the Spaniard said on Friday.
Supreme Court judge faces court on assault charge, media barred from court building 1 December 2023
Justice Gregory Geason has appeared in an out-of-hours session in the Hobart Magistrates Court, charged with one count each of assault and emotional abuse. The media was barred from entering the court building.
Adam Holmes
Min Woo Lee storms to three-shot Australian Open lead 1 December 2023
Min Woo Lee is on track to complete a golden winning double after storming to a three-shot lead at the Australian Open golf championships in Sydney.
An airline's cancellation of all December flights on one route has devastated families' holiday plans 1 December 2023
Budget Australian airline Bonza cancels all December flights between Darwin and the Gold Coast, leaving families who purchased tickets exasperated, furious and now at the mercy of exorbitant flight prices to make it to their destination.
Myles Houlbrook-Walk