Quote

'America, America, it's killing its youth.' - Alan Vega

F.U.

MH370

Wooden escalators?

Ecclestone's mother-in-law, Aparecida Schunk (67) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3719401/Kidnap-boss-told-wanted-live-girlfriend-Inside-100-month-flat-gangsters-held-Bernie-Ecclestone-s-mother-law-NINE-days.html

Suicide, live on-air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

Renewables and Mr Coal http://www.afr.com/news/politics/josh-frydenberg-says-coal-on-the-decline-and-gas-and-renewables-needed-20160726-gqehv6 (firewalled?)

Census http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/Census-2016.html

NT and child detention https://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2016/07/26/adam-giles-corrections-get-hole/

Brandis and the Royal Commission https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/george-brandis-has-made-a-hash-of-the-royal-commission-into-juvenile-detention

The story of Brandis rise to silk http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/silk-for-senator-angers-lawyers/story-e6frg6nf-1111112517903

Alison Anderson, ex-Labor, ex-CLP, ex-PUP, ex-Ind, announces she will not stand at NT 27 August election http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-08/nt-a-g-dismisses-claims-govt-could-abolish-seat-of-maverick-mp/6078208

Ricky Muir https://twitter.com/BenOquist/status/760716843778772992

Geocentric Datum of Australia http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/aust-latitude-longitude-coordinates-out-by-1-5m-scientists/7666858

RIP (aka Things Coming to an End)

Forbes Carlile http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/australias-oldest-olympian-forbes-carlile-dies-at-95/7681638

Alan Vega https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/18/suicide-alan-vega-punk-pioneer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woMEExMZXg

Telstra CIO. Fifth CIO in 6 years. Not a mark of stability. Telstra COO and CTO have also recently departed. Culture and business screwed? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/03/telstra_cio_erez_yarkoni_quits/

See also: NBN http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/28/first_telstra_hfc_nbn_service/

Richard Colbeck out of the Senate for Tasmania (onya Lisa Singh) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-27/senator-richard-colbeck-loses-senate-seat/7665266 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/09/labor-lisa-singh-liberal-richard-colbeck-senate-voting-below-the-line-election-tasmania

This poor lady at Pacific Fair today http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/traffic-reports/emergency-services-on-the-scene-of-car-accident-at-broadbeach-waters-shopping-complex/news-story/03662bdc15b56bb2f12b03c989f78257

NEWS

DNC

Trump

Weather and Climate

Anthrax is baaaack thanks to anthropocentric climate change http://kottke.org/16/08/permafrost-thawing-in-russia-has-led-to-an-anthrax-outbreak

Tetanus

Rain Bombs http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-29/forget-tornadoes-rain-bombs-are-coming-for-your-town https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/07/29/rain-bomb-seriously-this-is-the-kind-of-thing-that-gives-weather-media-a-bad-rap/

Rumtown Gazette

Packer's Casino http://www.smh.com.au/business/legal-challenge-launched-to-james-packers-2b-barangaroo-casino-20160802-gqjest.html

Traditional Owners: The Obeid Family http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/dozens-of-lawyers-huge-expense-as-obeid-family-begin-case-against-icac-20160802-gqiy7g.html http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/obeids-hire-pi-in-case-against-icac-20160731-gqhndd.html

Sirius Building http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-01/artist-outrage-after-sirius-building-denied-heritage-listing/7677850

Iraqi Christians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Iraq

Bananaland and Crocland

Ray's Sinkhole http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/ipswich-sinkhole-swallows-backyard-west-of-brisbane/7682332

Sex abuse limitation http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/queensland-government-remove-legal-limits-sex-abuse-civil-action/7682018 http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2016/08/statute-of-limitations-changes-what-next-for-abuse-survivors.html

SPORT

Are the Olympics dead?

St Albans http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/murder-and-mayhem-in-the-western-suburbs-st-albans-has-highest-rate-of-homicide-20141012-115044.html

The Greens and Green Gully http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-03/green-gully-fc-liam-boland-had-a-crack-against-mariners-ffa-cup/7686352

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