Backlash Resident Matijo Beams says, ‘To the person who took my blue umbrella and silver watch from under the trees at the end of the track to Tallow estuary (edge of National Park) while I was walking and swimming early on Sunday morning: please don’t take things that are obviously not yours, I was still using them. Please return them to the same spot, I swim every morning. Let’s show more respect.’ Q Q Q Q
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If you want a free weekly exposé of fossil-fuel hooliganism, get yourself on Eve Sinton’s mailing list. Eve, a former Echo journalist, publishes the Fossil Fool Bulletin, and the first edition’s lead story shows how a Queensland government agency set up to protect politicians from stalkers is being used, Sovietstyle, to silence a gas company whistleblower. Email fossil. fool.bulletin@gmail.com with the subject ‘subscription’. Q Q Q Q
Oh dear – according to findings by the Monash University-Scanlon Foundation Social Cohesion Program, just 28 per cent of Australians ‘trust the federal government to do the right thing by them, either most of the time or almost always, compared to 48 per cent in 2009’. So what can a largely privately educated political class that swims in a swampy soup of corporate donations do about that? Q Q Q Q
Finally banks will get a royal commission! But as it’s their own idea and they own the government, it will probably lack the probity of other royal commissions. PM/banker Turnbull again didn’t come across well; he ignored grow-
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ing public sentiment and then had to to backflip after his masters told him what to do. More by Mungo, page 14. Q Q Q Q
Last time a banking royal commission nearly got legs, it was narrowly defeated by the vote of big QLD pro-mining, anti-environment MP George Christensen (Nationals), who was spooked at the time because the nation’s AAA rating might be tarnished. Isn’t it better to live in a world of reality than illusion though?
Andy Paine and Tim Webb. They are the six ‘peace pilgrims’ who last September entered the secret US spy base Pine Gap, located near Alice Springs. They escaped jail on Tuesday after facing
a possible seven-year jail term and instead were fined between $1,250 and $5,000 for ‘unlawful entry.’ One of the activists, Andy Paine, said, ‘We have no regrets for standing up against war.’
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Who doesn’t adore frogs? Unfortunately many of the nation’s known 240 native frogs are under threat and to help combat the population decline, the Australian Museum have launched the smartphone app FrogID. To find out more about the crowdsourcing project visit www. frogid.net.au. It’s not easy being green, as our decorative councillors may well attest to. Q Q Q Q
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