It is increasingly evident how pernicious the privatisation myth is. Two recent examples have underlined it: the failings in Australia’s privatised energy grid and the usurious pricing in airport car parks. Both examples demonstrated that it is folly to expect a public benefit to inevitably emerge from private profit seeking.  

A new poll shows that more than half of Germans support the idea of introducing a “dominant culture” as recently presented by the country’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. His proposals ignited debate in political circles and on social media.

Satire is mortally wounded. The future is dead. The smiling idiots are winning. 

No, I’m not depressed. It’s the natural progression in a world where cockroaches are next in line to become more intelligent than humans. You can spray your place with Killbug but the kritters know the only safe place for them is inside your computers and electronics. Here they learn Quantum mechanics in five minutes, better than you can do in a lifetime.

At the Press Freedom Dinner, the main speech by Sky News Political editor, David Speers, concentrated on “fake news”. It was a bit lame in the sense that it became an expose of how fake news can change the course of history (but not that much). He did not mention that fake news has been with us since humans developed language and communication skills using a stick to draw something in the sand. He mostly harped on the way fake news (from Macedonia) was used to sway the US Presidential elections. 

President Trump’s choice to be ambassador to China pledged Tuesday to leverage a personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping to persuade China that it is risking its own security if it fails to prevent a nuclear crisis with North Korea.

Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.

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“Arrogant, disrespectful and shallow … a man who doesn’t understand his job as Prime Minister,” says Anastasia Palaszczuk in disgust, bringing a hapless Malcolm Turnbull down to earth with a bump, ending a flag-waving, morale-boosting, troop-rallying week.

The Queensland Premier pronounces him to be a worse PM than Tony Abbott.

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