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@luciedigitalni 👏 The #Saturdaypaper Some #Liberals in the lower ranks probably dream of being described as 'unneccesary'

"No-brainer"

#AusPol #SaturdayPaper

A reminder about the Sunday Paper, begun as a middle finger to the #SaturdayPaper deplatforming a certain group of writers.

www.thesundaypaper.com.au

Did the Saturday Paper Quiz with the paper.

26/40, best score this year!

Not the best percentage though.

#saturdaypaper

First cryptic crossword clue I've genuinely thought might just be a typo. But knowing #lr it's unlikely?

But yikes.

From today's #SaturdayPaper:

"PR pro rD? (4,6)"

That is it, character by character. Sic, and all that.

(No un-content warninged answers yet please)

#CrypticCrosswords

Today’s “Post” from the #SaturdayPaper summarises what’s the go about International plans for #plastic.

recently i mentioned we should ban plastic bottles. a web-search for Guardian+Plastic+CocaCola will provide links to lots of articles about the scale of this problem. coca cola became a worldwide hit long before plastic bottles became standard, and it could revert to glass quite successfully if we had the political will to demand it.

on the other hand, i don’t believe an immediate and total ban on all plastics is practical — just one example is that the plastic wrap used to store silage is an important part of the food supply chain. it will take time and further effort to transition away from ALL plastics without putting lots of people at risk of hunger or malnutrition [as if low wages, urban design etc aren’t already bad enough] — but this doesn’t mean we should do nothing about plastic at all
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US fights plastic production caps

As talks to develop a global treaty combating plastic pollution continue, the Trump administration has circulated a memo in direct opposition of more than 100 countries supporting the proposed measures.
The talks, which began in Geneva on Tuesday, involve almost 180 countries and are scheduled to run for 10 days, aiming to create a legally binding instrument to reduce plastic solutions (SBS).
The delegations for several countries received letters from the US, urging them to reject limits on plastic production (Reuters).
“We will not support impractical global approaches such as plastic production targets or bans and restrictions on plastic additives or plastic products – that will increase the costs of all plastic products that are used throughout our daily lives,” the memo sent by the US delegation read.
Ahead of the negotiations, The Lancet reported that 8000 megatonnes of plastic now pollute the planet, posing a grave health risk (ABC).
A report released by the UN Environment Programme in 2023, outlined that re-orientating the plastics market towards circularity, as opposed to single use, could eliminate plastic pollution by up to 80% by 2040 (The Saturday Paper).

Hasta que un escrito o relato mío fue difundido por mi universidad! Gran huella que dejé en mi instituto! No fue proyecto tampoco propuestas, sino un pensamiento y creatividad convertida en letras! 
#SabadoDeEscritorio 
#saturdaypaper

The boys and girls club of senior #APS Australian public servants amazes.

Findings against one, who gets a job as vice chancellor at a university and a friend gets a defence of them published in the #SaturdayPaper.
#RoboDebt
#HowManyDied?
#SocialPariah
#AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/24/saturday-paper-journalist-lashes-publications-unethical-defence-of-robodebt-bureaucrat

#auspol #Woolworths #Coles #inflation #SaturdayPaper

Gifted Link: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/16316/28mBLH85

In #SaturdayPaper #books and #writing this week:

Novelist Mierille Juchau on Vigdis Hjorth's novel of maternal trauma, Is Mother Dead; Nathan Smith review's Paul Biegler's book on new possibilities for dealing with chronic pain, Why Does It Still Hurt? and Linda Jaivin on Don's Watson's The Passion of Private White.

And also new #fiction from Kate Harris, The Joy of Arriving. “Of course it’s not real! We’re on a fucking magical train for fuck’s sake!”

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/fiction/2023/02/04/the-joy-arriving

#SaturdayPaper #arts and #culture this week:

A profile of young Australian bandoneónist and #tango composer Owen Salomé from Cameron Pegg; #architecture critic Naomi Stead on the Art Gallery of NSW's Sydney Modern; Robert Reid on history, art and the Melbourne Theatre Company's Sunday; John Kinsella on Iggy Pop's Every Loser; Neha Kale talks to art duo The Huxleys on queer icon Leigh Bowery;

#music #theatre

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/music/2023/02/04/bandoneonist-owen-salome

Some great reads in today's #SaturdayPaper #culture and #arts:

Christos Tsiolkas: Cate Blanchett is magnificently troubling in Todd Field’s #film Tár.

Carolyn Barnes: The Peter Tyndall retrospective #VisualArt.

Jini Maxwell reviews the charming #game Pentiment.

In #music, Miriam Cosic profiles Kronos Quartet founder David Harrington.

Kate Holden: Xavier Hennekinne on the #philosophy of Michel Serres

#Fiction: Let them eat cake, by Eleanor Limprecht

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2023/01/28/tar

If you haven't yet read Claire Coleman on #LandRights and Gareth Evans on the #Voice in last weekend's #SaturdayPaper, you should take the necessary 20 minutes to do so. These are important matters, particularly this week.

This week's #Books and #Writing at the #SaturdayPaper:

Fiona Wright reviews Hayley Singer's "thanatography", Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead.
Andy Jackson on Lucy Dougan's new poetry collection, Monster Field: "The voice of the poems is somehow both casual and composed."

John Martinkus on the Painter and Dockers' lead singer Paulie Stewart's autobiography All The Rage.

New #fiction from John Kinsella: Sandbagging Yeats’ tower: finding the uncaged bird

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/fiction/2023/01/21/sandbagging-yeats-tower-finding-the-uncaged-bird

Back from leave at the #SaturdayPaper with a fab issue! This week's #arts:

Nadine von Cohen swaps notes with David Sedaris

Tristen Harwood reviews Tomás Saraceno at Mona, Hobart

Isabella Trimboli on how Frances O'Connor's biopic of Emily Brontë’ reduces her life and work

Chantal Nguyen looks over the highlights of the Sydney Festival

Pixy Liao on Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus

#Culture #VisualArt #Film #Performance #Writing

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/comedy/2023/01/21/humorist-david-sedaris

Final #SaturdayPaper arts of the year:

The year's best in reviews: #Television from Sarah Krasnostein, #Music by Shaad D'Souza, #Architecture by Naomi Stead, #Film by Clem Bastow and Christos Tsiolkas, and #VisualArt from Andy Butler/

And an absolutely delightful profile of actor Michael Sheen, on his passion for #theatre and many other things, from Romy Ash

#arts #culture

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/theatre/2022/12/17/actor-michael-sheen

#SaturdayPaper Books: Andy Jackson reviews Heather Rose Heather Rose's Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
Tristen Harwood on Diana Wood Conroy and Bede Tungutalum, Tiwi Textiles
Olivia Muscat on the anthology Admissions: Voices within Mental Health

#Fiction #MentalHealth #IndigenousArt

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/books/2022/12/31/nothing-bad-ever-happens-here-memoir-loss-and-discovery

In today's #SaturdayPaper arts: Carly Findlay profiles actor Kiruna Stammell's brilliant career; Luther Uthayakumaran looks at the tropes of colonialism in Belvoir's The Jungle and the Sea; Lisa Radford reviews Barbara Hepworth's "about nothing except love", then and now; Fiona Murphy on Peter Knight's Shadow Phase; opera star Nadine Sierra on her favourite role; and new fiction from Katherine Brabon.

#books #opera #theatre #art #music #fiction #ShortFiction

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2022/12/03/actor-kiruna-stamell

Why does a paper like the Saturday Paper, whose authors express socially progressive views and are well aware of anthropogenic climate change, still publishes all these meaty recipes? Today it’s coq au vin. It’s the reason why I don’t buy the #SaturdayPaper. For the same reason I don’t subscribe or donate to the #Guardian.
#AnimalAgriculture is a major contributor to climate change, and they know it.

A reminder that if you're not a #SaturdayPaper subscriber and are interested reading more than one #arts and #culture story a week, you should sign up to The Arts newsletter, out every Tuesday with lots of shiny free links.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/newsletters

This week #SaturdayPaper books:

Jeff Sparrow on Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin's Chokepoint Capitalism

Ben Abbatangelo on Amy Thunig's Tell Me Again

Vyshnavee Wijekumar on Shankari Chandran's Song of the Sun God.

#Books #nonfiction #memoir #fiction

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/books/2022/11/30/chokepoint-capitalism

In this week's arts in the #SaturdayPaper: Tristen Harwood's beautiful profile of acclaimed Māori artist Lisa Reihana; Christos Tsiolkas reviews The Menu; Gail Priest on new music ensemble Forest Collective; Neha Kale talks to S. Shakthidharan on the Mahābhārata; Yen-Rong Wong reviews Queensland Theatre's First Casualty; "Creaking Hallway", superb new fiction from Jessie Cole.

#art #IndigenousArt #culture #music #film #theatre #ShortFiction #NewMusic

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/visual-art/2022/11/26/artist-lisa-reihana