To Whom Have We Outsourced Our Freedom of Speech? [with comment by Paul]
The London Times reported today that Mark Zuckerberg turned to Nick Clegg to decide how to handle Facebook’s politically-motivated banning of President Trump:
Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook executives that he would defer to Nick Clegg on how to handle Donald Trump’s ban.
The Facebook chief executive is understood to have let the former deputy prime minister take the lead on whether an independent panel should decide if and when the former US president should be allowed back on its platform. …
Zuckerberg, 36, defended the decision in a post on Facebook the next day, which had been drafted by Clegg, 54, the night before.
The reforms needed for aged care will take time to implement. Aged care needs better long-term resourcing, not just one big year of increased funding. While we do need a cash injection upfront to make up lost ground and ensure all providers are achieving the basic minimum standards of care, the long-term plan is the most important.
We should look at the budget to see whether it indicates a thoughtful, transparent approach to planning for a better aged care system. It is more important to consider where and how the funding is allocated, not just how much.
So, do we really want a government to be spending money when it has not even finished thinking through the strategic plan for reform? No matter what happens on budget night, remember, the official government response to the royal commission is due on 31 May â three weeks after the budget is delivered. True change will only occur if the community holds governments accountable.
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Six months before she was murdered, Noelene Beutel was beaten within an inch of her life; beaten so badly she ended up in hospital, her teeth cracked and her face covered in bruises.
Two Queensland police officers came to the hospital to take a statement, but Noelene wouldnât speak to them. She was antagonistic â a response borne of fear and distress. At the same time her attacker was at home, looking after their infant daughter.
So the police turned and left. According to the state coroner they âresponded poorly ⦠and wrote off the jobâ.
Australiaâs space race held back due to under-skilled graduates: Qld government
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Australiaâs multibillion-dollar space race was being held back, the Queensland government argued, because young people were not aware of careers in the industry and were not getting the training they needed.
The claims were made by Queenslandâs State Development Department as part of a federal inquiry into developing Australiaâs space industry.
A federal inquiry is probing Australiaâs space industry.
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In a submission, the department said a âbeyond STEMâ program was needed because careers in the space sector were sometimes less visible and not understood, and not considered for course creation by universities.
A trove of more than 11,000 photographs of migrant agricultural workers in the Yakima Valley in the 1960s and 1970s spent decades in a basement at Washington State University, but a recent effort to digitize the collection has breathed new life into the photos and the stories they tell. More Headlines