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	<description>current affairs, social justice &#38; civil rights commentary from a dual US-Australian citizen in the Blue Mountains of NSW</description>
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		<title>Portrait of a douchebag: How MediaWatch got used to grind an axe</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=749</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fairfax reporter Adam Turner made the grave error of referring to Tony the Abbott in rather foul terms while livetweeting the Mad Monk&#8217;s post-election speech- and found himself the subject of a segment on MediaWatch. This indiscretion got Turner reprimanded by his boss.
[Adam Turner] has received an official first and final warning.
— Statement from Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian elections as viewed from Taiwan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t accuse the Taiwanese of a lack of a sense of humour.   
 
-weez  
(h/t to Angelica from Taiwan for this screamingly funny vid.)
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		<title>The 500 crazies in Bennelong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the SMH:
Some 500 people have since signed a petition objecting to the tower and have put candidates on notice it will influence their decision come election day - a threat the major parties are not likely to ignore considering the seat is tipped to be decided by a handful of votes
Proof that there&#8217;s at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s mandatory ISP level internet filtering: It&#8217;s dead, Jim</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=746</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hockey has announced that the Liberal Party will block Labor&#8217;s internet censorship scam.
The Greens had announced their opposition to Labor&#8217;s impossibly stupid internet censorship idea almost as soon as it was floated.
Family Fist&#8217;s Steve Fielding had indicated his support for the scheme (and also thinks global warming is a hoax). However, Fielding will almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voting below the line? Of course you are. This makes it easy.</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=745</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the benefit of non-Australian readers, Australia has a preferential voting system, which facilitates participation of small and special interest parties. This arrangement has ups and downs. Read on.

There&#8217;s a couple of ways to vote on our &#8216;bedsheet&#8217; ballots. You can vote above the line, for a party. Just a &#8216;1&#8242; in the box for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 seconds in slow-motion, 20 years ago</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=742</link>
		<comments>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=742#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 25, 1990 at 12:34:40AM, I was riding a motorcycle in Indianapolis, southbound on Meridian St, on my way to see a gal I was dating, in her downtown high-rise apartment.
At the same time, one Mary V. Slafkosky, who was loaded up with quite a lot more than the (then) legal blood alcohol limit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first rule of censorship&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=744</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is that you cannot talk about censorship.
image:ARNnet.com.au

No Minister: 90% of web snoop document censored to stop &#8216;premature unnecessary debate&#8217;
BEN GRUBB
July 23, 2010
The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians&#8217; web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Brown- a 9/11 truther? Yes, but not Greens Senator Bob Brown</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=743</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian ran a story on 21 July in which &#8216;Bob Brown&#8217; was quoted, regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks in the USA:
&#8220;The 9/11 commission was not conclusive that al-Qa&#8217;ida was responsible,&#8221; the Western Port News quotes Mr Brown as saying. 
&#8220;There are huge questions that need to be asked &#8212; one building came down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSW HCCC spanks doughy Dorey&#8217;s AVN with a feather</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=741</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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I can&#8217;t decide whether Meryl Dorey is a full-on masochist or just has the cognitive capacities of a brick. Could be some of each.
Check out Meryl getting mangled by Murray &#38; Murray on 2UE.
Mind, that Meryl doesn&#8217;t really have to care, given that she can safely ignore the HCCC&#8217;s &#8216;request&#8216; that AVN place a disclaimer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Newton on censorship and power dynamics</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=740</link>
		<comments>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=740#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second post in 5 years which is devoted solely to a single link:

The State of trust: it&#8217;s a one way street
{&#8230;} A decision to censor is, at root, a failure of trust. When a Government  prevents you from reading or viewing something, they&#8217;re saying a number  of things about the electorate.
To begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSW Healthcare Complaints Commission swats anti-vaccination liars</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=739</link>
		<comments>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=739#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Cannane reports on the HCCC ruling against the Australian Vaccination Network:

Newsflash, Meryl: Your twisted fantasies and conspiracy theories are not medical science. Mind you, if you&#8217;re certain you&#8217;re right, you won&#8217;t mind a big ol&#8217; dose of poliovirus.
Downside: The HCCC doesn&#8217;t really have any teeth. Dorey and her flying monkeys will be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC News 24 to go on HD? Why?</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=738</link>
		<comments>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=738#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ABC have decided to slot their new 24 hour news programming on their HD channel, displacing ABC1 to standard definition.
Can someone please tell me why a channel that will mainly be running regurgitated, infinitely repeated content, often sourced from low-resolution sources, deserves high definition more than the largely beautifully videographed programming that currently runs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conboy backpedals on internet censorship- too little, too late</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=737</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More tinkering around the margins, another long delay, but still Conjob doesn&#8217;t get it. Moreover, Gillard is supporting him. If Gillard really understood the issue, she&#8217;d never support it. Why the hell did the ALP bother changing leaders? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I&#8217;m most dismayed to see that my ISP, Optus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conroy: &#8216;Internet censorship opponents are paedophiles&#8217; (again)</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=736</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of people, including myself, had thought Conroy had wised up since his ill-thought strawman accusations in Parliament that those opposed to his internet censorship scam are paedophiles.
Not so.
From ITWire:
Q: Have you had any indication from Julia Gillard about how she  would consider the opt-out or opt-in amendments to the filter that  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott proposes compulsory christianity</title>
		<link>http://machinegunkeyboard.com/?p=735</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WTF moment of the week in Australian politics:

All kids must read the Bible, federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says 
BIBLE classes should be compulsory so children have a fundamental understanding of Christianity on leaving school, Tony Abbott says.
&#8220;I think everyone should have some familiarity with the great texts that are at the core of our [...]]]></description>
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