I don’t do surveys… You know the type of "rate our service levels” for the delivery of a ton of bricks. It’s a bit like “were we good in bed?” question. Or imagine, as an artist, giving a survey to the purchaser of my pseudoneosurrealistical work.

A major opinion polling company used by GetUp!, Greenpeace, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and some political candidates is co-owned by union heavyweights the CFMMEU and the ACTU, an ABC investigation has discovered.

Kerryn Phelps: How the member for Wentworth ... - Daily Telegraph

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Tony Abbott's re-election campaign held a fundraising event at a private golf club run by a fugitive Chinese casino tycoon with deep ties to the Communist Party. 

First a few points made by some other people about societies...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if he is re-elected.

 

Pauline Hanson has again taken to social media from her sick bed – this time to claim she knows the date of the looming federal election.

One can only laugh at the feeble efforts by some mobs to tell us that religion and sciences are compatible, complementary or even the same thing and that god, vishnu and allah absolutely rule relativity. 

How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the

The Hall of Silence, located at the centre of the Sydney War Memorial, is striking in its starkness, and has a powerful effect on visitors.

 

The UNO destroyed by US « exceptionalism »

by Thierry Meyssan

Now weakened in comparison with their Russian and Chinese competitors, the United States have returned to their historical reflexes. In terms of foreign relations, they have abandoned the liberal international order and returned to the doctrine of exceptionalism. By questioning their own engagement with the Security Council, they have opened the way to the deconstruction of international Law and the end of the United Nations. This evolution, which shocked the countries of Western Europe and plunged them into confusion, had been anticipated by Russia and China, who were preparing for it.