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I vote conservative in two countries.

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@ListenToLewko @OzraeliAvi theres always someone bigger

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@emmagward @DrewPavlou @PeteZogoulas judges work for the state... they believe the state is all powerful and can afford the compassion

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why does she need to fly anywhere at all?

[7NEWS Australia @7NewsAustralia]

Labor Senator Charlotte Walker tells The Issue podcast that she now flies in economy. It comes after the 22-year-old politician copped heat for spending $148,309.99 on taxpayers expenses between April and June this year.

For more tune into The Issue on the LiSNTR app, 7Plus or YouTube. #7News #TheIssue #PaulineHanson

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@benonwine retrospectively?

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@ChrisEconomist @insteconomics amazing we can still crawl

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@Terri_1987a @theheraldsun @BenCarrollMP aren't they the ramping specialists?

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@Ausbobsmit they used Bondi to bring in the Islamophobia Commissioner... there are no depths they will not plumb

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@SirMickW Houso commie bludger

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still, Lula is a communist

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

Lula vs. Bolsonaro: I was held in solitary confinement for 1,901 days for revealing the truth about the U.S. government's killings and espionage, including against Brazil and its industries. Out of power, Lula fought for my freedom. In power, Lula discussed my persecution with Pope Francis, who decided to meet with my family and offer help. After my release, Lula and I met in Rome to mourn the Holy Father's passing. Lula was kind to my children and asked for nothing in return. In contrast, Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro did nothing and said nothing. Yet without the ability to say no to Washington and Tel Aviv, there can be no domestic policy, only foreign instructions. Those orders are always the same: "Expand our theft of resources and wages, and keep your mouths shut about us murdering children." Sellouts will surrender everything in exchange for a cut, even their own tongues.

[Stephen Chavura @ChavuraStephen]

Epic atomic fact bomb on Australian history

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@AuronMacintyre the bottom has fallen out of the wage market for engineers and doctors

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@shellenberger @TheEconomist The Ecommunist? I'd go with never...

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@GrumpyOLSoldier @Martina just because they can say men are not women doesn't mean they're not retarded about everything else

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@TheOnlyDSC it's an engineer glut

[TheRoadknight @RoadknightThe]

I note that a lot of people today are questioning Aboriginal history and culture.

So, here's some modern 'ancient' 'Truth-telling', some you may know, some not:

- Dot paintings were invented in 1971 by Geoffrey Bardon who then taught the style and technique to Aborigines.

- The Welcome to Country Ceremony was invented in 1976 by Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley to welcome Maori performers.

- There is no Aboriginal word or phrase for Welcome to Country, unlike the Maoris’ welcome/wardance, the ‘haka’. As such, it cannot have been invented prior to colonisation and the introduction of English. How, in ancient times, would they have asked “Who’s doing the Welcome to Country Ceremony?” if there were no words in Aboriginal languages for it?

- The Acknowledgement of Country was invented in the 1990s

- There is no film or video evidence of any of these ceremonies existing at important events such as Royal Tours, the 1956 Olympics, etc. prior to the 70s.

- The not mentioning the name of deceased Aboriginal people or showing an image or providing a warning in an article is also modern. As recently as 2011 when boxer Lionel Rose died, not even the ABC did this.

- ‘Walkabout’ is now considered an offensive term, since it implies someone is late or lazy, despite it being an integral part of initiation ceremonies.

- ‘The oldest living culture’ is not just factually incorrect, it defies logic. The branch of the tree cannot be older than the tree itself. Humans evolved in Africa. There are African tribes that live almost exactly as they did 100,000+ years ago, without welfare, 4WDs, mobile phones, etc. Aborigines are descended from these tribes as humans moved out of Africa and around the world. As such, Aboriginal culture cannot possibly be older than the cultures from which they are derived. (See: diagram)

- Aborigines were never categorized or classified in Australia under the Flora and Fauna Act, despite Linda Burney and many others claiming this. This has been fact-checked and verified by the ABC as a complete and utter myth.

- The term ‘First Nations’ has been culturally appropriated from North American natives.

- The term ‘totem’ is used now widely. Many Aboriginal people adopt or are given a totem. But if this is, as claimed, an ancient tradition, what are the Aboriginal words, in any of the many languages, for ‘totem’ or ‘totems? ‘Totem’ is word from the Ojibwa tribe of North American natives. It is not an ancient Aboriginal word. It, too, is appropriated or 'stolen', ironically.

- ‘Deadly’ is not an Aboriginal word. It was a popular term in the 60s: ‘deadly good’. It was often used to describe a bicycle: ‘a deadly treadly’.

- Uluru (Ayers Rock) is, according to the area’s most senior elder, Paddy Uluru, of no cultural significance and is not sacred. Only recently has this been claimed to stop people climbing it.

- The Lake Bolac ‘eel’ rock arrangement required a machine to move the rocks. Which is more likely: that Aborigines arranged the 100+kg rocks 1,500 years ago or it was created more recently in the 20th Century to promote the Annual Eel Festival?

- Neologisms: ‘On country’; ‘Blak’; ‘First Nations’, ‘Blakfullah’, ‘Blak’, ‘First People’, ‘Welcome to Country Ceremony’, ‘Smoking Ceremony’, ‘Rainbow Serpent’ and ‘Dreamtime’ – all English-language-derived, not Aboriginal, such as ‘gangurru’ (kangaroo).

- Things that have fallen out of fashion: ‘Pointing the bone’; curses; photography stealing the soul.

- In almost every instance, the occurrence of a ‘massacre’ was settlers’ retribution for Aborigines stealing sheep, killing workers and/or raping wives and daughters. The notion that settlers or troops went out riding to kill Aborigines for ‘sport’ is a myth.

- The notion of a government-mandated, sanctioned or planned ‘genocide’ isn’t supported and the scale of Aboriginal deaths is widely disputed. Estimates vary so wildly that they cannot be replied upon: from over 1,000,000 to around 200,000 to 100,000 to just 10,000.

- Rainbow Serpent is not translated from any Aboriginal language. Similarly, ‘Dreamtime’ is not translated from any Aboriginal language. (See: diags)

So, what hasn't been made up in the past 50 years?

You tell me.

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or they just like the free a/c

[Cameron Murray @DrCameronMurray]

Happened to be at a Westfield shopping centre today.

Absolutely packed.

This "cost of living crisis" can't be that widespread from what I see.

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@DanielJHannan "John Trump, an MIT electrical engineer, made major contributions to its WWII advancement and deployment through the MIT Radiation Laboratory, including directing European operations for D-Day."

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@rusinc_ parked for now... i already told off both teams of boys for standing on the pitch during inspection... that should do me

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the stumps are skewiff at each end... I'm just going to park my OCD and let the umpires take it from here

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@rusinc_ they fixed one end... sort of...