Backlash Forget a reality show about vacuous social media ‘influencers’– how about Netflix create its first Australian reality TV about the real local influencers: Byron Council? Last week’s meeting again attracted only a handful of online viewers. Democracy, at all its three governmental levels, appears in real trouble. Promising news from The Economist: ‘Research has shown that one hectare of seagrass can soak up as much carbon dioxide each year as 15 hectares of rainforest’.
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‘He was a fattish, but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasm – one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.’ – from George Orwell’s 1984. BREAKING NEWS: Prince Philip is still dead. We cross now, LIVE, to our correspondents in London, Sydney, New York and Tokyo for updates on this developing story. Meanwhile, in less important main stream media news, the Great Barrier Reef is in serious trouble, climate change is real, Indigenous people continue to die in custody and the Morrison government is still engulfed in scandals of incompetence, embezzlement and alleged sexual criminality. ‘Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey
electrical licence no. 255292C CEC member since 2010 No joke – Myanmar’s military have reportedly arrested the country’s best-known comedian, Zarganar, as around 80 protesters were killed last week. In early March, SMH reported that Australia suspended military cooperation with our close neighbour and ‘redirected aid to non-government organisations in response to escalating violence’.
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‘The last person to trust with power is someone who is dying to have it. The best person to wield power is someone who is reluctant to do so, but who will do it for a while as a civic duty. That is why term limits should make it impossible to have a whole career in politics’ – Thomas Sowell. NSW Nationals have announced that a piece of coal, ahem, sorry, David Layzell, is their candidate for the Upper Hunter. His campaign launch was at a coal mine, and given Layzell has no experience in farming, nor governance, presumably if elected, he will be a good coal/Nats lapdog.
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A petition calling for local councils to refuse the proposed Netflix reality show is at www.bit.ly/3ddrqiY. Instead, the petition asks Councils and guvmint to ‘focus on supporting our community to address systemic issues of housing affordability, coastal erosion, increasing unemployment, traffic management challenges, low high school completion rates and high levels of gendered and domestic violence’. Since the PM botched the vaccination rollout and now can’t provide a completion date, here at The Echo, we would be happy with an election date.
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