Thieves of private property spend their lives in chains. Thieves of public property in riches and luxury. - Cato the Elder

Beauty RIPper Mayte

Gustav Born https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/989770232242683905.html

Terry Mackenroth http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-30/terry-mackenroth-former-minister-deputy-premier-dies-lung-tumour/9704708

F.U.

Crypto Wars Part 439, in which the Australian government imagines a life with backdoored crypto. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/13/australian-bill-to-create-back-door-into-encrypted-apps-in-advanced-stages

"I wouldn't trust a government that can't keep Medicare information protected to be inserting a back door into a tin shed." - Greens senator Jordon Steele-John

Air Force One fridges https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/01/27/air-force-ones-new-refrigerators-will-cost-taxpayers-24-million/

NBN http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-27/nbn-boss-attributes-network-problems-to-government-mtm-model/9704276

Royal Commission http://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/ex-amp-ceo-craig-meller-resigns-as-a-turnbull-government-adviser-20180430-p4zcf6.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-30/amp-chairperson-catherine-brenner-steps-down/9709874

"It would be a great shame for policy makers to use the findings of the banking royal commission to further regulate the financial industry." - Tom Switzer

Senior counsel Rowena Orr QC: "ASIC can pursue civil penalties. How many (actions) have you taken against financial advisers in the last five years?" Louise Macauley: "None"

Michaelia Cash

Suicide http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-01/david-goodall-to-travel-to-switzerland-for-voluntary-euthanasia/9714292

Facebook http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43906956

Tasmanian Govt http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-01/tas-analysis-of-sue-hickey-being-elected-speaker/9716472

Korean Peace

China and India, sitting in a tree

Iran