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

So much for compassion. While the government is continuing with it’s line about prioritising “women, children and families” from “persecuted minorities” in the intake of 12,000 refugees from Syria, it is difficult to imagine a minority more persecuted than gay men living in Syria and Iraq. The so-ca…
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It's not like he needs another media outlet to control:

News Corp is an undemocratic, rent-seeking, power-abusing giant. Things will only get worse if it takes over Ten.
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[FREE] The late night chat show is dead, long live the late night chat show.

Well, it's happened. Tuesday night in the US, Stephen Colbert, minus the slicked down side-parted conservative-do, strode out in front of the audience at the Ed Sullivan Theatre to the music of post-jazz supremo Jon Batiste and started a new and brave era of late-night TV. Really? No, of course not.…
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It was all going so well ... or at least not disastrously.

The government has found yet another way to damage itself and particularly the man it is relying on to fight the crucial battle with Labor over CHAFTA.
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Well, if you dish it out ...

Spare a thought for those who don't want to legalise gay marriage. The media are awfully mean to them and call them rude things like
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We rush to help Syrian refugees while letting Rohingya languish closer to home:

When Australia finally rediscovers its heart, we don't need to look as far as Syria to find people who need us.
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Just who will be able to access the government’s new facial recognition “hub”?

The next time you sign up to a phone plan, your mobile provider could gain access to a treasure trove of government photos of you as part of a new identification system planned by the federal government.
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When is a cage not a cage? When the ACT Education Minister won't admit a school locked up an autistic child:

A controversial image is at the centre of a debate around disability rights and the ACT's education system.
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"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."

Abbott has managed the incredible feat of turning a serenade to the base and an act of unproductive war into significantly increased approval. God help us all.
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Now Tony Abbott is on the same side as Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

Australia is now part of the Syrian civil war -- effectively on the side of a regime bent on slaughtering its own population. How did it come to this?
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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 .

Tim Watts and Terri Butler hope their proposed legislation will fit into the government's family violence agenda.
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"The slaughter in Syria doesn’t discriminate, and nor should we."

The Syrian civil war has hundreds of thousands of Sunni Muslims targeted by the Assad regime with chemical weapons, bombing, torture and rape. Yet the government insists others must come first.
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Tony Abbott says we're going to bomb Syria AND take in more Syrian refugees.

Australia has announced it will take in 12,000 Syrian refugees this year.
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[FREE] So what now?

The public prosecutor’s office in Paris has issued a statement confirming that the wing part of a Boeing 777 that was recovered from the shores of La Réunion on 29 July comes from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, missing since 8 March 2014. Investigators had been examining the flaperon, part of the…
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[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.

Letting Parliament deal with same-sex marriage itself would be a whole lot cheaper than a referendum or plebiscite.
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The ATO wants your metadata, and it's probably going to get it. Thanks, Brandis.

Although it was originally excluded from a list of agencies that can access your metadata, the Australian Taxation Office now wants in.
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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.

David Leyonhjelm's nanny state inquiry has brought out the Lycra libertarians ...
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[FREE] Extending Australia’s military involvement against Islamic State will reinforce the narrative of Islamist aggression and make us less safe.

“There is a little difference between the legalities of air strikes on either side of the border,” Tony Abbott said on Friday about bombing Islamic State in Syria instead of in Iraq.
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[FREE] How Reuters put its journalists at risk and did nothing to support them.

While hardworking journalists sweated it out under threat of a defamation case in Thailand, Reuters head honchos sat in their boardroom, writes journalist David Harrison.
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Looking for Lucy? How dealers are selling illicit drugs on Australian Craigslist and (nearly) getting away with it.

What to do when you can't sell drugs on the
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[FREE] Here's an infographic to show anyone who says asylum seekers are queue-jumpers.

Just 0.5% of the world refugee population are offered resettlement, so it's not really a matter of queuing, more hoping you number comes up. Infographic designer Jake Stevens demonstrates the problem.
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[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."

Although Tony Abbott was never popular with voters, he began his term as prime minister two years ago with considerable goodwill.
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"Abbott may be the first politician who used the Holocaust as an example of something that was not actually that bad."

You have to hand it to Tony Abbott — he is well on his way to wrecking the relationship between the right and Jewish and Zionist peak community groups.
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[FREE] Good news for community television. We think.

Community TV stations will get an extra year on air -- if they meet certain conditions, of course.
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Guy Rundle ponders what Abbott was thinking.

Abbott may be the first politician who used the Holocaust as an example of something that was not actually that bad.
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[FREE] The larger the supermarket, the lower-quality the food?

A study comparing eight countries concludes there’s a very strong correlation between obesity and the size of supermarkets. The authors suggest large supermarkets emphasise quantity over quality
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[FREE] How good is the IPA at killing carbon taxes? They've been doing it for 20 years, the Atlas Network reckons.

The IPA is up for a very prestigious prize.
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So many gaffes, so little time.

The government's current performance is so appalling what were once show-stopping political moments now go by barely noticed.
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[FREE] How should the unions respond to the Royal Commission now? Some suggestions ...

By deciding not to recuse himself from the trade union royal commisison, Dyson Heydon is now vulnerable to union attacks.
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