Backlash Spaghetti Circus are back in business! Make up classes have already started and will go through till July 4 to compensate for classes missed at the end of Term One. Term Three returns on July 20 through to September 26. Q Q Q Q
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Independent media publisher Crikey reports that the Catholic Church, who pay no tax, has been collecting JobKeeper. ‘Not only that, but the church bureaucracy has been writing to its priests who, in their capacity as its “employees” have been receiving the federal money, asking them to pay between $500-700 a fortnight of it back – to the church. Which intends to keep it.’ Q Q Q Q
Reuters Institute has published a survey of Australia’s most trusted news brands, and thankfully sanity is so far prevailing. Despite the Liberal/Nationals’ best efforts to neuter the ABC with funding cuts and poor management appointments, it comes in top at 72 per cent. SBS is next at 71 per cent, then BBC at 66 per cent. Regional and local newspapers come in next at 63 per cent. Q Q Q Q
This week we farewell the last printed Byron Shire News (owned by Murdoch). Other regions across Australia will be less informed, having also lost their newspapers. Most of Murdoch’s print titles will now go behind a paywall. Q Q Q Q
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Remember Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban and then campaigned for girl’s education? She just graduated from Oxford, in humanities. In the same week, the Morrison government hiked
After months of forced iso in the kitchen, Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs are back on stage doing what they do best: bitchin! Women Like Us kicks off with two shows at Byron Bay Services Club: Saturday at 8pm (sold out) and Sunday at 3pm. And then later in July at the Mullum Ex-Services on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 July. Tickets are available on www.womenlikeus.com.au. Photo Jeff ‘ROFLMAO’ Dawson uni fees – for humanities. Access to education maketh a smart and prosperous nation of critical thinkers. Unfortunately, this nation is being led by a religious extremist, coal fired PM who clearly needs to be educated. Q Q Q Q
Business journo Alan Kohler has again raised the sensible idea of avoiding massive national debt by quantitative easing (printing money). It’s remarkable so many, including politicians, believe that government finances are the same as personal finances. Who, apart from a sovereign nation, prints their own money?
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In other news (by New Scientist), ‘The Milky Way is about to completely obliterate a neighbouring galaxy’. Of course it will, it’s 2020 after all.
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