2018.10.16 Incapacity and Ignorance
We ought to be angry, with a deep determined anger, that a country as rich and skilled as ours should be producing so much inequality, so much poverty, so much that is shoddy and sub-standard. - EGW
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All of us as Australians have to insist that we can do so much better as a nation. We ought to be angry, with a deep determined anger, that a country as rich and skilled as ours should be producing so much inequality, so much poverty, so much that is shoddy and sub-standard. We ought to be angry – with an unrelenting anger – that our aborigines have the world's highest infant mortality rate. We ought to be angry at the way our so-called leaders have kept us in the dark – Parliament itself as much as the people – to hide their own incapacity and ignorance. - EG Whitlam, Blacktown, NSW, November 13th, 1972
Full speech: https://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1972-gough-whitlam
F.U.
WA Indigenous community tries to rid water supply of unsafe level of uranium https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/03/wa-indigenous-community-tries-to-rid-water-supply-of-unsafe-level-of-uranium
Things
RIP Quentin Kenihan https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/07/quentin-kenihan-australian-author-actor-and-disability-advocate-dies
RIP Paul Allen https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/15/paul-allen-co-founder-microsoft-dies
So, ScuMo’s new plan is just to half-arse everything, but to do it quickly and flexibly …
- Indonesia and Jerusalem
- Religious Freedom https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/12/scott-morrison-backtracks-law-expel-gay-students
- Anti-White Discrimination - It's OK to be white. - Administrative error? https://www.betootaadvocate.com/entertainment/pauline-hanson-tells-great-barrier-reef-its-ok-to-be-white/
- Opera House
- Aged-care https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/09/aged-care-royal-commission-will-help-re-establish-trust-morrison-says
Dave Sharma farts straight out of his brain https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/16/dave-sharma-says-jerusalem-embassy-move-would-be-no-threat-to-australia
Tasmanian Greens https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/04/tasmanian-greens-leader-accused-of-racist-dog-whistling-as-party-split-over-china
Stuart Roberts' Internet https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/05/stuart-robert-charged-taxpayers-2000-a-month-for-his-home-internet https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/06/liberal-mp-stuart-robert-to-repay-huge-home-internet-bills
Donation Laws https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/05/coalition-bill-that-overrides-state-donation-laws-unconstitutional
Nauru https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/06/nauru-orders-msf-to-stop-mental-health-work-on-island https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/11/medecins-sans-frontieres-calls-for-immediate-evacuation-of-all-refugees-on-nauru https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/11/inquest-to-hear-whether-iranian-refugee-set-himself-alight-with-intention-to-die https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/12/as-doctors-working-on-nauru-we-thought-we-were-helping-now-i-know-we-were-not
Is Swannie our only hope? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/04/wayne-swan-urges-labor-to-muscle-up-against-rightwing-thinktanks
2018 Nobel Prize in Economics - William D. Nordhaus https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economics/2018/nordhaus/facts/ - Paul M. Romer https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economics/2018/romer/facts/
Gen X and politics https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/29/passing-the-baton-will-young-people-take-up-the-fight-to-save-the-planet https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/australias-politicians-should-live-by-my-schools-motto-not-for-ourselves-alone
"Explained" - Vox Media on Netflix
Sports
50 years ago today https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02274/smiff_2274278b.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norman#1968_Summer_Olympics
Awer Mabil https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2018/oct/16/i-feel-like-im-dreaming-awer-mabil-on-scoring-on-socceroos-debut-video https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-16/awer-mabil-and-thomas-deng-make-socceroos-debut/10381292
