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In the midst of a record cold snap where Texas’ grid has failed to meet demand, misinformation is running rampant. Among the most pernicious memes propagating online are that Texas’ wind turbines have frozen and that that has led to the blackout.
Why a âdeliciously funnyâ old Australian news show has Dan Ilic hooked
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What Iâve been watching: I recently caught
The Lobster on SBS On Demand. Wild stuff. Itâs a satire on relationships that swings tonally from comedy to horror, back to comedy and then horror. If you can imagine Wes Anderson doing horror, thatâs the tone of
The Lobster. Itâs set in an alternative universe where single people are marginalised and forced to go into an institution where they have to couple with other people. If they donât they are turned into animals. If they escape theyâre shot at for sport. The whole premise is if youâre not in a couple you are useless. As someone who was single for a long period of their adult life, it made me laugh a lot.
4 Corners interview with Tarrio adds, other than the journalistic ‘clout’ of an exclusive interview.
Journalist Natasha Mitchell pointed out that sitting Tarrio down automatically renders him a serious, normal subject with views worth receiving the fact he’s wearing a backwards cap and sunnies during the chat isn’t the catch-all
4 Corners seems to think it is.
It’s also questionable why
4 Corners felt it necessary to fly to the US to cover the Capitol riots, given the pandemic, that it has been widely covered and interrogated elsewhere, and that there’s plenty to report on in terms of Australia’s own role in the rise of fascism in America.
INVASION DAY PROTESTS
Thousands of people have marched in largely masked, peaceful, and socially-distanced Invasion Day protests, with
The Guardian reporting that just a handful of people including some white nationalists were detained in Sydney and Melbourne.
The Melbourne/Naarm march, which came after
Scott Morrison declared Australians “have risen above our brutal beginnings”, saw Greens senator and Gunnai Gunditjmara/Djab Wurrung woman
Lidia Thorpe reiterate calls for a Treaty by announcing “a war was declared on the first people of this land” in 1788 that “has not ended”.
Elsewhere,
Russell Broadbent has called on the Morrison government to adopt the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart which calls for both a First Nations Voice to Parliament and Makarrata Commission for developing treaties in full.