Mark

[Mark @markmichell]

@PhillipAdams_1 Dersu Uzala, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Napoleon Dynamite, Rear Window, 2001, Dead Man, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Last Wave, Burnt By the Sun, Ten Canoes, Tree of Wooden Clogs, Secrets and Lies, Koyaanisqatsi, The Quiet Earth, Distant Voices Still Lives

[Mark @markmichell]

@MikeCarlton01 Who?

[Mark @markmichell]

@PhillipAdams_1 One of my all time favourite cryptic crossword clues was “Broadcaster rules the toilet (4, 4)”. Who would have thought social commentary could be so compact?

[Mark @markmichell]

@Kateemoon @theage @smh Depressingly accurate.

[Mark @markmichell]

@latikambourke make sure their efforts and sacrifices are not washed away by our long term indifference to the changes they may have achieved.

[Mark @markmichell]

@latikambourke often the case that assisting other peoples to achieve their aspirations - a la Timor Leste. Disaffected neighbours are far more likely to be angry at us and try to do us harm. We need to think of our ADF as first responders, after which we have a continuing responsibility to...

[Mark @markmichell]

@latikambourke for his reasons.
3. The primary definition of the ADF should surely be to ‘keep Australia and its citizenry safe from harm by foreign parties’. There are times when, in this light, it must indeed strive to ‘win our wars’. In these more interconnected times, it will be more...

[Mark @markmichell]

@latikambourke that conflict as ‘our’ war. It was always overwhelmingly a war between opposing Afghan parties. Yet there was little acknowledgement of this as an Afghan war. Blindly going all the way with Dubye as our impetus and justification meant we were fighting his war under his command

[Mark @markmichell]

@latikambourke through generations of invasion. It is now obvious we were never serious about firmly embedding democratic rule of law or respect for human rights. Pretty much anything else is a holding operation until we get tired of being there.
2. We were also fatally misguided in entering

[Mark @markmichell]

@latikambourke Hastie says that the mission of the ADF is to win our wars. I think this is a problematic statement on multiple levels...
1. We were never clear on what we meant by ‘win’, at least as far as that war is concerned, especially against adversaries whose mindset had been honed...

[Mark @markmichell]

@PhillipAdams_1 Beyond bizarre

[Scott Morrison - Former PM of Australia (parody) @scottyfrommktg]

Yesterday I told President Trump that Australia would always help its great mate the USA, and if they take military action against themselves we will be there to both attack and defend alongside them.

[Mark @markmichell]

Amazing how quickly it happens!

[Mark @markmichell]

@ProfPCDoherty Are there a few Darwin Awards in the offing here? Though they may take a hundred or two with them.

[Mark @markmichell]

Serious question: Could Trump be hurting his own re-election prospects by encouraging potentially fatal behaviour which is more likely to be followed by his supporters? A 1-2% differential in fatality rates between Trump supporters and others might be enough to make a difference.

[Lis Power @LisPower1]

This story is WILD

ICE created a fake university, then:

- enticed foreign-born students to attend
- charged them money
- arrested them
- deported them

Students had come legally on student visas, but since the school was fake the visas weren't valid https://t.co/N39KWZTFV0

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

This is devastating. Just utterly devastating.

[💥Dr💥 Julia Baird @bairdjulia]

Dedicating the week to being this guy in the car ❤️