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Gay people are being persecuted in Syria - so why aren't they on the govt's "persecuted minorities" list?

It's not like he needs another media outlet to control:

[FREE] The late night chat show is dead, long live the late night chat show.

It was all going so well ... or at least not disastrously.

Well, if you dish it out ...

We rush to help Syrian refugees while letting Rohingya languish closer to home:

Just who will be able to access the government’s new facial recognition “hub”?

When is a cage not a cage? When the ACT Education Minister won't admit a school locked up an autistic child:

"He’s played it well. The racist minority can be happy with the war and the prelude to the intake decision. The humanitarian majority can be happy we are welcoming refugees at a rate slightly north of embarrassing."

Now Tony Abbott is on the same side as Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

The GOP race is less about winning hearts and minds and more about schmoozing donors, says Guy Rundle.

Legislation so your nudes won't be abused .

"The slaughter in Syria doesn’t discriminate, and nor should we."

Tony Abbott says we're going to bomb Syria AND take in more Syrian refugees.

[FREE] So what now?

[FREE] Oddly enough, the only people who think sending a vote on legalising same-sex marriage to a plebiscite is a good idea are the people who do not want it to pass.

The ATO wants your metadata, and it's probably going to get it. Thanks, Brandis.

Lycra libertarians: Senator David Leyonhjelm has called for submissions to an inquiry into "nanny state" laws, and it seems that most Aussies want nothing more than to ride their bike to the shops without messing up their hair.

[FREE] Extending Australia’s military involvement against Islamic State will reinforce the narrative of Islamist aggression and make us less safe.

[FREE] How Reuters put its journalists at risk and did nothing to support them.

Looking for Lucy? How dealers are selling illicit drugs on Australian Craigslist and (nearly) getting away with it.

[FREE] Here's an infographic to show anyone who says asylum seekers are queue-jumpers.

[FREE] "In just two years in office, the Abbott government has managed to forfeit all goodwill, not merely from voters but also from its natural supporters in the business community."

"Abbott may be the first politician who used the Holocaust as an example of something that was not actually that bad."

[FREE] Good news for community television. We think.

Guy Rundle ponders what Abbott was thinking.

[FREE] The larger the supermarket, the lower-quality the food?

[FREE] How good is the IPA at killing carbon taxes? They've been doing it for 20 years, the Atlas Network reckons.

So many gaffes, so little time.

[FREE] How should the unions respond to the Royal Commission now? Some suggestions ...