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In this episode of Good Weekend Talks, award-winning feature writer Stephanie Wood chats with Stuart Blanch, a conservation scientist with WWF-Australia, about the plight of our cuddly national icon: the koala.

 

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The daily Telegraph cover today (11/03/2021) is amazingly jam-packed...

 

If you have missed the important bits of news because you're not paying attention, let me help you:

 

trapThe parents are furious. They send their kids to a prestigious New York school, Harvard-Westlake, thinking their little flowers would learn the art of making money. It cost them a little money, around $40,000 per year, out of their petty bourgeois fortunes.

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The Queen has broken her silence over Prince Harry and Meghan's tell-all interview, saying allegations of racism were "concerning" and they would be handled by the royal family "privately".

 

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"The law is an arse" said the ass (donkey) of the fable. “An ASS!” said Diogenes… 

fishThe influence of religion in politics just got a shot in the arm with the election of Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, the Catholic, as the 46th President of the United States of America. Unlike his Catholic predecessor, JFK, he won’t be assassinated by the secret service.

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Christian Porter has identified himself as the Cabinet minister who is facing a historical rape allegation.

 

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Mikhail Gorbachev is 90. America also needs its own perestroika

 

During the recent years, the number of Russian people who believe that the first and last president of the USSR has done more harm than good to the country has slightly decreased. The number of those who positively assess Gorbachev's input has increased by one percent.

 

A poll conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre among 1,600 Russians revealed that the number of people who believe that Gorbachev brought the country more harm than good has decreased. In 2019, 54 percent of respondents thought so, and in 2021 - 51 percent.

 

Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as they scrambled to shut down during last week's deadly winter storm, Reuters reported Sunday.

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Despite all his short-comings, his sanctioning of this and that, and slapping tariffs on capers, and being loony, Trump actually was a better diplomat than Joe Bomber Biden... So far the pundits at the "liberal" press have missed the implication of what the Biden crew is doing  — and is about to do... But they love him because he says the right things while reading the autocue...

 

WW3 has never been so close to midnight. And Biden will be leading the final "cruzade" from behind — or under — his desk, like a mad Churchillian character in the worst of Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest", while hugging a Christian cross and praying at high speed (as much as his old legs can muster) on the rosary beads in his pocket... Meanwhile, instead of diplomacy (what is that again?), Old Joe goes for the bombs and Christ, and we all kiss our arse goodbye.

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Down the rabbit hole, the world was upside down...

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Murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee and a UN human rights investigator have slammed the United States' decision not to impose direct sanctions against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the wake of a declassified intelligence report finding he likely ordered Khashoggi's death.

 

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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the Cabinet Minister at the centre of a historical rape allegation to "front up" in order to clear the reputational cloud now hanging over his colleagues.