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"Whenever I think about the war on terror, I usually view it from the perspective of everyone else and that is, we're largely being terrorised by our own state." - Chelsea Manning

F.U.

States failing to take up lifesaving phone service for Indigenous prisoners https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/29/states-failing-to-take-up-lifesaving-phone-service-for-indigenous-prisoners "The NSW service takes about 15,000 calls a year, and only one Indigenous person has died in police custody since it was implemented 18 years ago."

Nigel Farage fans heckled as 'Nazi scum' outside event in Perth https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/02/nigel-farage-fans-heckled-outside-event-perth-australia

How Morrison played everyone - The Saturday Paper https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2018/09/01/how-morrison-played-everyone/15357240006796

Things

Palaszczuk cuts Katter party staff over Fraser Anning speech https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/02/palaszczuk-cuts-katter-party-staff-over-fraser-anning-speech http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/premier-likened-to-sir-joh-over-stripping-katter-party-staff/10194382?section=politics

Morrison won't confirm leaked Turnbull $7.6bn road and rail plan https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/03/morrison-wont-confirm-leaked-turnbull-76bn-road-and-rail-plan

Speaking of rail plans https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/thirty-years-experts-say-rail-loop-could-be-built-in-half-the-time-20180829-p500ie.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-28/melbourne-suburban-train-loop-promised-by-labor/10172184

Australians drinking less alcohol now than any time in past 50 years https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/03/australians-drinking-less-alcohol-now-than-any-time-in-past-50-years

'We need to grow up': Malaysian MPs condemn caning over lesbian sex https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/malaysian-mps-condemn-caning-lesbian-sex

Catholic church rejects royal commission call to disclose abuse reported in confession https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/priests-wont-report-abuse-disclosed-in-confession-australian-bishops-say

Heps F, G, and H http://innvista.com/health/microbes/viruses/hepatitis-f-g-h-viruses/

Sports and Games (specifically excluding chess).

Down with Federer http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-04/us-open-john-millman-beats-roger-federer-in-maor-upset/10198332