Backlash Time again to be COVID-19 vigilant, peeps. Flights are bringing Melbourne holiday makers to the region at a time when the city is experiencing a virus breakout in certain suburbs. According to Vic Health, hotspot suburbs include Keilor Downs, Albanvale, Sunshine West, Maidstone, Hallam, Broadmeadows, Brunswick West, Fawkner, Reservoir and Pakenham. Q Q Q Q
The Mullumbimby District Neighbourhood Centre say, with winter in full swing, they are ‘seeing an unprecedented demand on our services since COVID-19’. Nearly 5,000 frozen meals have been provided since April, they say, and their ‘biggest and most genuine concern is being able to maintain services – and to do that – we need your help’. Tax-deductible donations can be made via www.mdnc.org.au. Q Q Q Q
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ICYMI, Ballina Shire Council has closed their Waste Management Centre until further notice owing to a fire event. Q Q Q Q
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen pranked a far-right militia movement rally in Washington last weekend, after posing as a sponsor and filling the rally with his own entertainment and security staff. Online videos show him in overalls while singing in a bluegrass style that Obama, Hillary Clinton and US Infectious Diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci should be injected with ‘Wuhan flu’. He also mentions chopping up members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) ‘like the Saudis do’.
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There are limits to the 45th US president! He deleted his tweet which showed a video of his supporter chanting ‘white power’. Meanwhile, good friend of the 45th US president, Aussie PM Scrote from Marketing, brazenly lied to the nation on TV last week about no cuts to the ABC. There’s never been a better time to divide society for selfish political gains.
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ICYMI, it looks like mainstream media were tipped off to cover the AFP raiding the house of NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane. Imagine the rainbows that would appear if mainstream media instead pressured Peter Dutton over his botched handling of the Ruby Princess virus ship? Or examined why Scott Morrison’s Robodebt disaster has resulted in at least 2,000 deaths (according to Department of Human Services).
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Should jails be handed to the private sector to manage? It’s a good question to ask given the new $700m Grafton mega jail has just opened. It will be joint managed by the NSW government and corporations John Laing, John Holland and Serco. Will incarceration rates rise given corporations pursue profits at all costs?
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