2016.05.03 Bollocks to the Budget
England has got to be true to herself. She is not being true to herself while the refugees who have sought our shores are penned up in concentration camps, and company directors work out subtle schemes to dodge their Excess Profits Tax. - George Orwell
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"England has got to be true to herself. She is not being true to herself while the refugees who have sought our shores are penned up in concentration camps, and company directors work out subtle schemes to dodge their Excess Profits Tax. It is goodbye to the Tatler and the Bystander, and farewell to the lady in the Rolls-Royce car. The heirs of Nelson and of Cromwell are not in the House of Lords. They are in the fields and the streets, in the factories and the armed forces, in the four-ale bar and the suburban back garden; and at present they are still kept under by a generation of ghosts. Compared with the task of bringing the real England to the surface, even the winning of the war, necessary though it is, is secondary. By revolution we become more ourselves, not less. There is no question of stopping short, striking a compromise, salvaging 'democracy', standing still. Nothing ever stands still. We must add to our heritage or lose it, we must grow greater or grow less, we must go forward or backward. I believe in England, and I believe that we shall go forward."
England Your England is the first part of a much longer essay entitled The Lion and the Unicorn ... written in 1941 primarily concerning itself with how the bullshit of class was hampering the English war effort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_and_the_Unicorn:_Socialism_and_the_English_Genius http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_ter
Emu War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
F.U.
Stadia deal http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-14/sydney-football-stadium-refurbished-instead-of-demolished/7326466 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/football-codes-unit-against-mike-baird-new-sydney-stadium-plan/7318044 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-12/nsw-opposition-says-sfs-plans-shambles/7318450
Sinodinos refused to show at Senate Committee http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/28/arthur-sinodinos-defends-no-show-at-senate-inquiry-on-political-donations http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/02/arthur-sinodinos-under-constant-stress-over-nsw-liberal-donations-revelations
Wicked Campers http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/28/wicked-campers-offensive-slogans-hard-to-ban-says-expert
Carbon Farming http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/apr/28/could-carbon-farming-be-the-answer-for-a-clapped-out-australia http://www.carbonfarmersofaustralia.com.au/Landholders/getting-started-with-the-erf
Trees and trams http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/04/26/sydney-artefact-site-not-significant-aboriginal-area-says-environment-minister http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hunt-rejects-call-for-halt-to-light-rail-project-to-protect-aboriginal-artefacts-20160425-goe2x7.html http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2016/04/28/elders-denied-access-artefact-site-delaying-tactic-says-heritage-expert
People setting themselves on fire
Shame Australia Shame http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/03/tragedy-on-nauru-we-do-not-need-to-act-like-a-stupid-and-brutal-nation
Dutton blames refugee advocates
We're now being warned about permanent reputational loss http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/03/australia-cant-out-trump-trump-on-refugees-qa-warned
Orthodox church fires in Australia http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/02/authorities-in-melbourne-and-sydney-investigating-orthodox-church-fires
RIP (aka Coming to an End)
John Kaye http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/03/nsw-greens-mp-john-kaye-dies-at-60
Shakey
The baby in Aleppo that broke McCool
Muhammed Maaz http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/05/02/cctv-shows-aleppos-last-paediatrician-seconds-fatal-airstrike
And yet bombing MSF hospitals isn't a war crime? https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/05/02/pentagon-deems-msf-hospital-bombing-not-a-war-crime-ngos-emphatically-disagree/
ABC fact checking http://m.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/budget-2016-michelle-guthrie-calls-for-more-diverse-abc-as-fact-check-unit-faces-chop-20160502-gojsd9.html
NEWS
Good budget visualisation tool http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-03/budget-2016-sliced-diced-interactive/7363834
Iraqi parliament http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36176910
This should be fine - no unintended consequences could possible flow from this ... http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/01/australia-budget-2016-15m-eradicate-carp-herpes-virus-murray-darling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09hZe3hviUM
Kidman empire purchase rebuffed http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-29/sale-of-s.-kidman-&-co-'contrary-to-national-interest':-morrison/7370926
Justice for the 96! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-26/hillsborough-verdict-jury-says-96-fans-unlawfully-killed/7360586
Negative Gearing http://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2016/apr/28/how-negative-gearing-replaced-the-great-australian-dream-and-distorted-the-economy
This is a little encouraging http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/03/west-papua-un-must-supervise-vote-on-independence-says-coalition
Bananaland
May Day. Solidarity Forever Comrades! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-02/labour-day-public-holiday-may-hurts-business-traders-say/7375520 http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/frail-bob-hawke-joins-labour-day-celebrations/news-story/4d15de7ed646e9b148d1544c6cc294e6
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