This corrosive billionaire puts a lot of money into Australian politics, I think it's important to know what you're enemy is thinking.

I was honestly hoping that people would see trump, see Dutton trying to emulate him, then go "ahh no maybe not."

I remember reading that the government was hoping that because we run a trade deficit with the yanks they wouldn't do this. Look forward to that just being the assumption and the government having done 0 planning.

"deliberate" seems like a pretty high bar. Of course it doesn't stop employer groups crying that literally stealing is being made illegal.

Senator Birmingham criticised the Greens, saying their failure to vote for the motion cut against cross-party efforts to improve parliamentary culture.

Yeah don't suspend Pauline for being a racist though dw about it.

Honestly, reducing the teaching + publish-or-perish + the constant need to apply for grants would go a long way towards fixing the review process. Academics have to spend a lot of time doing a lot of non-academic work that peer reviewing properly sometimes gets pushed down the list of priorities.

You're assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn't cause damage. I doubt that.

Seems like they did:

The canvas of the painting is protected with a glass screen, a factor Just Stop Oil said they had taken into account.

While its true that there are open-access journals and conferences without such costs

To publish open access normally costs upwards of $3k USD as well. There's practically no point in the publishing chain where academics aren't getting screwed.

Let's also not forget that you have to review other people's papers for the journal for free.

There's a lot of "it's probably concealed for a reason" type posts that I don't think I'd be seeing if this was the LNP.

Also how can Australians trust the government to make national security laws if they aren't informed on national security issues?

NSW police are famous for their well measured and reasonable use of power so you're probably right.

As someone who drives almost every day I can confirm that I perceive motorists to be less than fully human just based on their behaviour.

But what about the economy‽

Also to be fair, Australia's unemployment system is especially cruel with mutual obligations etc... It's basically designed to kill people.