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I'm listening to the ABC Rewind's Boycott series, and in 1986 John Howard called the (eventually successful) boycotts of apartheid South Africa by Australian unions "a futile exercise". He said it wouldn't help black South Africans, that it would backfire and that Australians were shooting themselves in the foot.
Of course he did. The script for conservative opposition to human rights activism never changes.
Boycotts are very successful against repressive regimes when done correctly. And they send an important message to people suffering under oppression that we're on their side.
A helpful reminder from the past.
#auspol #ABC #RadioNational #apartheid #podcasts #historypodcasts
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ABC RN's The Bookshelf has published the books that came in at 101-200 on their Favourite Books of the 21st Century poll. I'm not going to repeat a full-blown analysis, but few things:
* I've only read ~30 of these, compared with 57 of the top 100.
* Two more more of the books I voted for made it: #157. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and #171. The Good People by Hannah Kent. (I had 3 in the top 100.)
* There are quite a few more fantasy & scifi books: The Name of The Wind, a couple by Margaret Atwood, and Sarah J Maas, and by RF Kuang, a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Three-Body Problem, plus a couple of YA: Percy Jackson, and Nevermoor. Not a terrible selection. -
ABC RN's The Bookshelf has published the books that came in at 101-200 on their Favourite Books of the 21st Century poll. I'm not going to repeat a full-blown analysis, but few things:
* I've only read ~30 of these, compared with 57 of the top 100.
* Two more more of the books I voted for made it: #157. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and #171. The Good People by Hannah Kent. (I had 3 in the top 100.)
* There are quite a few more fantasy & scifi books: The Name of The Wind, a couple by Margaret Atwood, and Sarah J Maas, and by RF Kuang, a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Three-Body Problem, plus a couple of YA: Percy Jackson, and Nevermoor. Not a terrible selection. -
ABC RN's The Bookshelf has published the books that came in at 101-200 on their Favourite Books of the 21st Century poll. I'm not going to repeat a full-blown analysis, but few things:
* I've only read ~30 of these, compared with 57 of the top 100.
* Two more more of the books I voted for made it: #157. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and #171. The Good People by Hannah Kent. (I had 3 in the top 100.)
* There are quite a few more fantasy & scifi books: The Name of The Wind, a couple by Margaret Atwood, and Sarah J Maas, and by RF Kuang, a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Three-Body Problem, plus a couple of YA: Percy Jackson, and Nevermoor. Not a terrible selection. -
ABC RN's The Bookshelf has published the books that came in at 101-200 on their Favourite Books of the 21st Century poll. I'm not going to repeat a full-blown analysis, but few things:
* I've only read ~30 of these, compared with 57 of the top 100.
* Two more more of the books I voted for made it: #157. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and #171. The Good People by Hannah Kent. (I had 3 in the top 100.)
* There are quite a few more fantasy & scifi books: The Name of The Wind, a couple by Margaret Atwood, and Sarah J Maas, and by RF Kuang, a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Three-Body Problem, plus a couple of YA: Percy Jackson, and Nevermoor. Not a terrible selection. -
ABC RN's The Bookshelf has published the books that came in at 101-200 on their Favourite Books of the 21st Century poll. I'm not going to repeat a full-blown analysis, but few things:
* I've only read ~30 of these, compared with 57 of the top 100.
* Two more more of the books I voted for made it: #157. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and #171. The Good People by Hannah Kent. (I had 3 in the top 100.)
* There are quite a few more fantasy & scifi books: The Name of The Wind, a couple by Margaret Atwood, and Sarah J Maas, and by RF Kuang, a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Three-Body Problem, plus a couple of YA: Percy Jackson, and Nevermoor. Not a terrible selection. -
I couldn't resist doing some analysis of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
How much more likely were people to vote for books because they had read them in recent memory (recency bias)? You would expect that good books are spread out evenly across the years, but it's hard to remember books that you read many years ago! Turns out there was an even spread of books across 2000-2019. But there were 40% more books than expected from 2020-2024. (See first graph.)
Were newer books more likely to be lower down the list? I thought this might be lkely because votes for recently read books might spread out more. But that wasn't completely true. The bottom 40 of the list did lean new, but so did the top 20. (See second graph.)
How diverse were the authors on the list? Not very! Only 22 of the books were by authors with diverse backgrounds, by which I mean non-white or not hetero-normative. The top 20 were the least diverse, but it was pretty even across the range. Probably not surprising - people might connect most strongly with books that speak to their own experience. Would be fascinating to see more demographic info on the voters.
Most books were by authors from Australia (35), the USA (31), the UK (17) and Ireland (7). Ireland seemed to punch above its weight. New Zealand only had one author! (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz).There were very few non-fiction books, especially if you exclude memoirs and true crime. I count 4: Dark Emu, Stasiland, Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything. And yet non-fiction accounts for something like 40% of book sales. I wonder if that is because a non-fiction book tends to focus on a particular subject, which would have less widespread appeal. It could also be that the type of people who vote in this sort of poll are book nerds, and book nerds mostly read fiction.
As a keen #fantasy & #scifi reader, I was disappointed. Project Hail Mary is the only full-blown scifi, but I wouldn't say it is a good representation of the genre. There is Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but both are young adult. The others (Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, Piranesi, Never Let Me Go) feel borderline (I've not read the last two).
How did the list compare with my own ratings? I've read 57 of the 100 books, and I did rate higher books better, but the relationship was very weak. (See third graph.)Highest ranked book that I didn't really like: #12. Where The Crawdads Sing. (Runner up The Dry.)
Lowest ranked book that I really liked: #86. Cloud Atlas
Highest ranked book I'd never heard of: #9. A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaI've got 43 books to catch up on in the next few years, plus the favourites as voted by my friends. Never short a good book!
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I couldn't resist doing some analysis of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
How much more likely were people to vote for books because they had read them in recent memory (recency bias)? You would expect that good books are spread out evenly across the years, but it's hard to remember books that you read many years ago! Turns out there was an even spread of books across 2000-2019. But there were 40% more books than expected from 2020-2024. (See first graph.)
Were newer books more likely to be lower down the list? I thought this might be lkely because votes for recently read books might spread out more. But that wasn't completely true. The bottom 40 of the list did lean new, but so did the top 20. (See second graph.)
How diverse were the authors on the list? Not very! Only 22 of the books were by authors with diverse backgrounds, by which I mean non-white or not hetero-normative. The top 20 were the least diverse, but it was pretty even across the range. Probably not surprising - people might connect most strongly with books that speak to their own experience. Would be fascinating to see more demographic info on the voters.
Most books were by authors from Australia (35), the USA (31), the UK (17) and Ireland (7). Ireland seemed to punch above its weight. New Zealand only had one author! (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz).There were very few non-fiction books, especially if you exclude memoirs and true crime. I count 4: Dark Emu, Stasiland, Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything. And yet non-fiction accounts for something like 40% of book sales. I wonder if that is because a non-fiction book tends to focus on a particular subject, which would have less widespread appeal. It could also be that the type of people who vote in this sort of poll are book nerds, and book nerds mostly read fiction.
As a keen #fantasy & #scifi reader, I was disappointed. Project Hail Mary is the only full-blown scifi, but I wouldn't say it is a good representation of the genre. There is Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but both are young adult. The others (Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, Piranesi, Never Let Me Go) feel borderline (I've not read the last two).
How did the list compare with my own ratings? I've read 57 of the 100 books, and I did rate higher books better, but the relationship was very weak. (See third graph.)Highest ranked book that I didn't really like: #12. Where The Crawdads Sing. (Runner up The Dry.)
Lowest ranked book that I really liked: #86. Cloud Atlas
Highest ranked book I'd never heard of: #9. A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaI've got 43 books to catch up on in the next few years, plus the favourites as voted by my friends. Never short a good book!
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I couldn't resist doing some analysis of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
How much more likely were people to vote for books because they had read them in recent memory (recency bias)? You would expect that good books are spread out evenly across the years, but it's hard to remember books that you read many years ago! Turns out there was an even spread of books across 2000-2019. But there were 40% more books than expected from 2020-2024. (See first graph.)
Were newer books more likely to be lower down the list? I thought this might be lkely because votes for recently read books might spread out more. But that wasn't completely true. The bottom 40 of the list did lean new, but so did the top 20. (See second graph.)
How diverse were the authors on the list? Not very! Only 22 of the books were by authors with diverse backgrounds, by which I mean non-white or not hetero-normative. The top 20 were the least diverse, but it was pretty even across the range. Probably not surprising - people might connect most strongly with books that speak to their own experience. Would be fascinating to see more demographic info on the voters.
Most books were by authors from Australia (35), the USA (31), the UK (17) and Ireland (7). Ireland seemed to punch above its weight. New Zealand only had one author! (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz).There were very few non-fiction books, especially if you exclude memoirs and true crime. I count 4: Dark Emu, Stasiland, Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything. And yet non-fiction accounts for something like 40% of book sales. I wonder if that is because a non-fiction book tends to focus on a particular subject, which would have less widespread appeal. It could also be that the type of people who vote in this sort of poll are book nerds, and book nerds mostly read fiction.
As a keen #fantasy & #scifi reader, I was disappointed. Project Hail Mary is the only full-blown scifi, but I wouldn't say it is a good representation of the genre. There is Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but both are young adult. The others (Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, Piranesi, Never Let Me Go) feel borderline (I've not read the last two).
How did the list compare with my own ratings? I've read 57 of the 100 books, and I did rate higher books better, but the relationship was very weak. (See third graph.)Highest ranked book that I didn't really like: #12. Where The Crawdads Sing. (Runner up The Dry.)
Lowest ranked book that I really liked: #86. Cloud Atlas
Highest ranked book I'd never heard of: #9. A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaI've got 43 books to catch up on in the next few years, plus the favourites as voted by my friends. Never short a good book!
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I couldn't resist doing some analysis of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
How much more likely were people to vote for books because they had read them in recent memory (recency bias)? You would expect that good books are spread out evenly across the years, but it's hard to remember books that you read many years ago! Turns out there was an even spread of books across 2000-2019. But there were 40% more books than expected from 2020-2024. (See first graph.)
Were newer books more likely to be lower down the list? I thought this might be lkely because votes for recently read books might spread out more. But that wasn't completely true. The bottom 40 of the list did lean new, but so did the top 20. (See second graph.)
How diverse were the authors on the list? Not very! Only 22 of the books were by authors with diverse backgrounds, by which I mean non-white or not hetero-normative. The top 20 were the least diverse, but it was pretty even across the range. Probably not surprising - people might connect most strongly with books that speak to their own experience. Would be fascinating to see more demographic info on the voters.
Most books were by authors from Australia (35), the USA (31), the UK (17) and Ireland (7). Ireland seemed to punch above its weight. New Zealand only had one author! (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz).There were very few non-fiction books, especially if you exclude memoirs and true crime. I count 4: Dark Emu, Stasiland, Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything. And yet non-fiction accounts for something like 40% of book sales. I wonder if that is because a non-fiction book tends to focus on a particular subject, which would have less widespread appeal. It could also be that the type of people who vote in this sort of poll are book nerds, and book nerds mostly read fiction.
As a keen #fantasy & #scifi reader, I was disappointed. Project Hail Mary is the only full-blown scifi, but I wouldn't say it is a good representation of the genre. There is Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but both are young adult. The others (Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, Piranesi, Never Let Me Go) feel borderline (I've not read the last two).
How did the list compare with my own ratings? I've read 57 of the 100 books, and I did rate higher books better, but the relationship was very weak. (See third graph.)Highest ranked book that I didn't really like: #12. Where The Crawdads Sing. (Runner up The Dry.)
Lowest ranked book that I really liked: #86. Cloud Atlas
Highest ranked book I'd never heard of: #9. A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaI've got 43 books to catch up on in the next few years, plus the favourites as voted by my friends. Never short a good book!
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I couldn't resist doing some analysis of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
How much more likely were people to vote for books because they had read them in recent memory (recency bias)? You would expect that good books are spread out evenly across the years, but it's hard to remember books that you read many years ago! Turns out there was an even spread of books across 2000-2019. But there were 40% more books than expected from 2020-2024. (See first graph.)
Were newer books more likely to be lower down the list? I thought this might be lkely because votes for recently read books might spread out more. But that wasn't completely true. The bottom 40 of the list did lean new, but so did the top 20. (See second graph.)
How diverse were the authors on the list? Not very! Only 22 of the books were by authors with diverse backgrounds, by which I mean non-white or not hetero-normative. The top 20 were the least diverse, but it was pretty even across the range. Probably not surprising - people might connect most strongly with books that speak to their own experience. Would be fascinating to see more demographic info on the voters.
Most books were by authors from Australia (35), the USA (31), the UK (17) and Ireland (7). Ireland seemed to punch above its weight. New Zealand only had one author! (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz).There were very few non-fiction books, especially if you exclude memoirs and true crime. I count 4: Dark Emu, Stasiland, Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything. And yet non-fiction accounts for something like 40% of book sales. I wonder if that is because a non-fiction book tends to focus on a particular subject, which would have less widespread appeal. It could also be that the type of people who vote in this sort of poll are book nerds, and book nerds mostly read fiction.
As a keen #fantasy & #scifi reader, I was disappointed. Project Hail Mary is the only full-blown scifi, but I wouldn't say it is a good representation of the genre. There is Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but both are young adult. The others (Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, Piranesi, Never Let Me Go) feel borderline (I've not read the last two).
How did the list compare with my own ratings? I've read 57 of the 100 books, and I did rate higher books better, but the relationship was very weak. (See third graph.)Highest ranked book that I didn't really like: #12. Where The Crawdads Sing. (Runner up The Dry.)
Lowest ranked book that I really liked: #86. Cloud Atlas
Highest ranked book I'd never heard of: #9. A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaI've got 43 books to catch up on in the next few years, plus the favourites as voted by my friends. Never short a good book!
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I'm looking forward to the final 40 of Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century this afternoon.
I reckon these with rank highly:
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, and maybe also Lola In The Mirror
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Something by Margaret Atwood, maybe Oryx & Crake
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (could be #1)Less sure of:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Song of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin (surely a proper fantasy book has to make an appearance?)
The Martian by Andy Weir (I'd prefer a better sci fi, maybe Seveneves by Neal Stephenson?)
Stasiland by Anna FunderWhat have I missed? Will be fascinating to see!
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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I'm looking forward to the final 40 of Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century this afternoon.
I reckon these with rank highly:
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, and maybe also Lola In The Mirror
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Something by Margaret Atwood, maybe Oryx & Crake
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (could be #1)Less sure of:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Song of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin (surely a proper fantasy book has to make an appearance?)
The Martian by Andy Weir (I'd prefer a better sci fi, maybe Seveneves by Neal Stephenson?)
Stasiland by Anna FunderWhat have I missed? Will be fascinating to see!
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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I'm looking forward to the final 40 of Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century this afternoon.
I reckon these with rank highly:
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, and maybe also Lola In The Mirror
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Something by Margaret Atwood, maybe Oryx & Crake
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (could be #1)Less sure of:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Song of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin (surely a proper fantasy book has to make an appearance?)
The Martian by Andy Weir (I'd prefer a better sci fi, maybe Seveneves by Neal Stephenson?)
Stasiland by Anna FunderWhat have I missed? Will be fascinating to see!
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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I'm looking forward to the final 40 of Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century this afternoon.
I reckon these with rank highly:
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, and maybe also Lola In The Mirror
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Something by Margaret Atwood, maybe Oryx & Crake
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (could be #1)Less sure of:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Song of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin (surely a proper fantasy book has to make an appearance?)
The Martian by Andy Weir (I'd prefer a better sci fi, maybe Seveneves by Neal Stephenson?)
Stasiland by Anna FunderWhat have I missed? Will be fascinating to see!
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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I'm looking forward to the final 40 of Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century this afternoon.
I reckon these with rank highly:
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, and maybe also Lola In The Mirror
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Something by Margaret Atwood, maybe Oryx & Crake
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (could be #1)Less sure of:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Song of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin (surely a proper fantasy book has to make an appearance?)
The Martian by Andy Weir (I'd prefer a better sci fi, maybe Seveneves by Neal Stephenson?)
Stasiland by Anna FunderWhat have I missed? Will be fascinating to see!
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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This is fun. Hottest 100 for book nerds (me)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books/1-100
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The first of my favourite books has made it into Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century: #68. Educated by Tara Westover.
Only expecting a couple more of mine to make it ...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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The first of my favourite books has made it into Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century: #68. Educated by Tara Westover.
Only expecting a couple more of mine to make it ...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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The first of my favourite books has made it into Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century: #68. Educated by Tara Westover.
Only expecting a couple more of mine to make it ...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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The first of my favourite books has made it into Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century: #68. Educated by Tara Westover.
Only expecting a couple more of mine to make it ...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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The first of my favourite books has made it into Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century: #68. Educated by Tara Westover.
Only expecting a couple more of mine to make it ...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books
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Only a few more days to #vote in Radio National's Top 100 #Books of the 21st Century: https://top100books.abc.net.au
What about you?
My list primarily consists of non-fiction (except for Trent Dalton & Sally Rooney), and the decision-making process centred on the books I've lent to people the most.
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Murray Watt on #RadioNational
The EPA laws were "Delayed/prevented by the Coalition and the Greens".Bullshit.
Tanya Plibersek had the Greens squared-away. The Coalition was irrelevant. The EPA was shot in the head by Albanese to keep WA seats safe. End of.
And now? When they could lay waste to WA seats, and *still* easily win the next election? Now, when the full range of nation-changing levers are just begging to be pulled? Now, what is the most important item on the agenda?
Send Murray Watt to WA to kiss the gas ring of Santos and Woodside, and deliver the message that an EPA will never be able to reject based on climate.
The ALP is clearly saying #GetFucked to the #Greens (and to the #climate). We need gas, coal and oil more than we need you.
The remaining question:
#Tanya, really, are you seriously going to sit there taking this shit?
#ALP how fucking meek will you be? You have two terms to change the nation. Is "meh" all you fuckers have got written on your wishlists? -
Murray Watt on #RadioNational
The EPA laws were "Delayed/prevented by the Coalition and the Greens".Bullshit.
Tanya Plibersek had the Greens squared-away. The Coalition was irrelevant. The EPA was shot in the head by Albanese to keep WA seats safe. End of.
And now? When they could lay waste to WA seats, and *still* easily win the next election? Now, when the full range of nation-changing levers are just begging to be pulled? Now, what is the most important item on the agenda?
Send Murray Watt to WA to kiss the gas ring of Santos and Woodside, and deliver the message that an EPA will never be able to reject based on climate.
The ALP is clearly saying #GetFucked to the #Greens (and to the #climate). We need gas, coal and oil more than we need you.
The remaining question:
#Tanya, really, are you seriously going to sit there taking this shit?
#ALP how fucking meek will you be? You have two terms to change the nation. Is "meh" all you fuckers have got written on your wishlists? -
Murray Watt on #RadioNational
The EPA laws were "Delayed/prevented by the Coalition and the Greens".Bullshit.
Tanya Plibersek had the Greens squared-away. The Coalition was irrelevant. The EPA was shot in the head by Albanese to keep WA seats safe. End of.
And now? When they could lay waste to WA seats, and *still* easily win the next election? Now, when the full range of nation-changing levers are just begging to be pulled? Now, what is the most important item on the agenda?
Send Murray Watt to WA to kiss the gas ring of Santos and Woodside, and deliver the message that an EPA will never be able to reject based on climate.
The ALP is clearly saying #GetFucked to the #Greens (and to the #climate). We need gas, coal and oil more than we need you.
The remaining question:
#Tanya, really, are you seriously going to sit there taking this shit?
#ALP how fucking meek will you be? You have two terms to change the nation. Is "meh" all you fuckers have got written on your wishlists? -
Murray Watt on #RadioNational
The EPA laws were "Delayed/prevented by the Coalition and the Greens".Bullshit.
Tanya Plibersek had the Greens squared-away. The Coalition was irrelevant. The EPA was shot in the head by Albanese to keep WA seats safe. End of.
And now? When they could lay waste to WA seats, and *still* easily win the next election? Now, when the full range of nation-changing levers are just begging to be pulled? Now, what is the most important item on the agenda?
Send Murray Watt to WA to kiss the gas ring of Santos and Woodside, and deliver the message that an EPA will never be able to reject based on climate.
The ALP is clearly saying #GetFucked to the #Greens (and to the #climate). We need gas, coal and oil more than we need you.
The remaining question:
#Tanya, really, are you seriously going to sit there taking this shit?
#ALP how fucking meek will you be? You have two terms to change the nation. Is "meh" all you fuckers have got written on your wishlists? -
Murray Watt on #RadioNational
The EPA laws were "Delayed/prevented by the Coalition and the Greens".Bullshit.
Tanya Plibersek had the Greens squared-away. The Coalition was irrelevant. The EPA was shot in the head by Albanese to keep WA seats safe. End of.
And now? When they could lay waste to WA seats, and *still* easily win the next election? Now, when the full range of nation-changing levers are just begging to be pulled? Now, what is the most important item on the agenda?
Send Murray Watt to WA to kiss the gas ring of Santos and Woodside, and deliver the message that an EPA will never be able to reject based on climate.
The ALP is clearly saying #GetFucked to the #Greens (and to the #climate). We need gas, coal and oil more than we need you.
The remaining question:
#Tanya, really, are you seriously going to sit there taking this shit?
#ALP how fucking meek will you be? You have two terms to change the nation. Is "meh" all you fuckers have got written on your wishlists? -
Weird issues with #ABC #RadioNational on DAB tonight.
Driving out to dinner at 6, we noticed that the same sentence was being repeated over and over. Other stations were fine.
Got back in the car several hours later, and the exact same sentence is still being repeated. Nothing sinister, just something from a book review or similar.
Checked the home DAB receiver and ruled out it being the car stereo having a problem.
The webcast seems fine, though.
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CW: #Genoocide
You have a reflex response when a guest uses the word "genocide" (the one that Israel is doing, not the ones done to Jews, Armenians, Aborigines.... apparently). Francesca Albanese pointed out your ridiculous position really well on Radio National this morning.
Do not redefine #genocide.
I'll give you a hand: In the ninth ed. Macquarie, it is on page 649 between Genoa cake and Genoese. This word is not fuzzy. The actions of #Israel (and the planned actions of the #USA, announced by their President) are very clearly genocidal. As an organisation who's profession is words, you should be confidently using them in the manner the dictionary documents, then standing firmly behind the battlement of the definition.
(It is worth looking up the writings of the brilliant Raphael #Lemkin too - particularly the bit about preventing the 'rise of future Hitlers'. Maybe it is time for a Background Briefing about the word.)
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Patricia Karvelas to Leave Radio National for Broader Role at ABC NEWS
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Patricia Karvelas to Leave Radio National for Broader Role at ABC NEWS
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Patricia Karvelas to Leave Radio National for Broader Role at ABC NEWS
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Patricia Karvelas to Leave Radio National for Broader Role at ABC NEWS
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#RadioNational , has a show #GlobalRoamingABC.
Latest episode is #TheRiseOfPopularism with guests #MalcolmTurnbull and #AnneApplebaum.An argument for a #Centrist approach is made and do all present seem to think it is what's needed?
You could post your response, I appreciate having such things taken apart before me.
Or you could debate the issue with the sock I'll put in my hand - be sure to tell the sock what it's position is before you start
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/global-roaming/103954220
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#RadioNational , has a show #GlobalRoamingABC.
Latest episode is #TheRiseOfPopularism with guests #MalcolmTurnbull and #AnneApplebaum.An argument for a #Centrist approach is made and do all present seem to think it is what's needed?
You could post your response, I appreciate having such things taken apart before me.
Or you could debate the issue with the sock I'll put in my hand - be sure to tell the sock what it's position is before you start
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/global-roaming/103954220
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#RadioNational , has a show #GlobalRoamingABC.
Latest episode is #TheRiseOfPopularism with guests #MalcolmTurnbull and #AnneApplebaum.An argument for a #Centrist approach is made and do all present seem to think it is what's needed?
You could post your response, I appreciate having such things taken apart before me.
Or you could debate the issue with the sock I'll put in my hand - be sure to tell the sock what it's position is before you start
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/global-roaming/103954220
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#RadioNational , has a show #GlobalRoamingABC.
Latest episode is #TheRiseOfPopularism with guests #MalcolmTurnbull and #AnneApplebaum.An argument for a #Centrist approach is made and do all present seem to think it is what's needed?
You could post your response, I appreciate having such things taken apart before me.
Or you could debate the issue with the sock I'll put in my hand - be sure to tell the sock what it's position is before you start
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/global-roaming/103954220
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#RadioNational , has a show #GlobalRoamingABC.
Latest episode is #TheRiseOfPopularism with guests #MalcolmTurnbull and #AnneApplebaum.An argument for a #Centrist approach is made and do all present seem to think it is what's needed?
You could post your response, I appreciate having such things taken apart before me.
Or you could debate the issue with the sock I'll put in my hand - be sure to tell the sock what it's position is before you start
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/global-roaming/103954220
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For the second time on #ABC #RadioNational I hear #Homosexual behaviour being described as a failure to develop normal sexuality.
The latest had an early teens interaction with a man being the reason the interviewee had sought out gay sex.
The previous time a therapist/counselor/psych (?) put forward the gayness of her client as proof that his childhood had so damaged him as to prevent him developing a normal sexuality.
Anyone know what/who is going on at Radio National?
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“Stalin’s dead? Nobody tells me anything” - classic Phillip Adams on #abc #radionational #auspol
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The #ABC has stopped #Coronacast - last episode was on Tuesday 7 November 2023.
No explanation was given for the sudden end.
Link belowAt timestamp 12:00 #TeganTaylor asks #NormanSwan: "What is your kinda main take-away from the pandemic?"
#RadioNational #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #IndoorAirQuality #Aerosols #ItsAirborne
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The #ABC has stopped #Coronacast - last episode was on Tuesday 7 November 2023.
No explanation was given for the sudden end.
Link belowAt timestamp 12:00 #TeganTaylor asks #NormanSwan: "What is your kinda main take-away from the pandemic?"
#RadioNational #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #IndoorAirQuality #Aerosols #ItsAirborne
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The #ABC has stopped #Coronacast - last episode was on Tuesday 7 November 2023.
No explanation was given for the sudden end.
Link belowAt timestamp 12:00 #TeganTaylor asks #NormanSwan: "What is your kinda main take-away from the pandemic?"
#RadioNational #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #IndoorAirQuality #Aerosols #ItsAirborne
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The #ABC has stopped #Coronacast - last episode was on Tuesday 7 November 2023.
No explanation was given for the sudden end.
Link belowAt timestamp 12:00 #TeganTaylor asks #NormanSwan: "What is your kinda main take-away from the pandemic?"
#RadioNational #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #IndoorAirQuality #Aerosols #ItsAirborne
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The #ABC has stopped #Coronacast - last episode was on Tuesday 7 November 2023.
No explanation was given for the sudden end.
Link belowAt timestamp 12:00 #TeganTaylor asks #NormanSwan: "What is your kinda main take-away from the pandemic?"
#RadioNational #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #IndoorAirQuality #Aerosols #ItsAirborne
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#DrNormanSwan #NormanSwan #HamishMacdonald #ABC #RadioNational #RNBreakfast #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #MasksAsBandAidForDirtyAir #IndoorAirQuality #DirtyAir #AerosolsRN Breakfast
Monday 20th November 2023Chilling currents in this short piece:
"we're not quite sure what exactly is happening"
"nation ... not responded systemically ... air inside hospitals ... dirty... and masks .. bandaid"
Transcript in next post.
Start of Covid audio at 6:05 (7:24)
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#DrNormanSwan #NormanSwan #HamishMacdonald #ABC #RadioNational #RNBreakfast #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #MasksAsBandAidForDirtyAir #IndoorAirQuality #DirtyAir #AerosolsRN Breakfast
Monday 20th November 2023Chilling currents in this short piece:
"we're not quite sure what exactly is happening"
"nation ... not responded systemically ... air inside hospitals ... dirty... and masks .. bandaid"
Transcript in next post.
Start of Covid audio at 6:05 (7:24)
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#DrNormanSwan #NormanSwan #HamishMacdonald #ABC #RadioNational #RNBreakfast #Covid #CleanAir #MaskUp #MasksAsBandAidForDirtyAir #IndoorAirQuality #DirtyAir #AerosolsRN Breakfast
Monday 20th November 2023Chilling currents in this short piece:
"we're not quite sure what exactly is happening"
"nation ... not responded systemically ... air inside hospitals ... dirty... and masks .. bandaid"
Transcript in next post.
Start of Covid audio at 6:05 (7:24)
