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Social service body says Qld's breach bail laws were made in 'echo chamber'
Alex Brewster
Queensland's peak social service body has accused the state government of making laws in an "echo chamber". The LNP administration's latest measure to curb crime, breach bail, go to jail, is being e ...[Continue Reading]
ABC News (AU)
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Mike Johnsons is the GOPs top scaredy-cat
Alex Galbraith
If youve ever read anything by biographer Robert Caro, you get the feeling that he could wring 100 pages out of what he had for breakfast. His books on New York City planner Robert Moses and Presiden ...[Continue Reading]
Salon
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Hopi farmers have grown maize in northern Arizona on roughly 250 millimetres of rain a year with no irrigation at all, by planting seed up to 30 centimetres deep to reach stored moisture. The varieties they use have been selected for that depth over centu
Kiran Journals
The standard number that conventional crop scientists give for growing corn is thirty inches of rainfall a year, roughly 760 millimetres. Thats the figure the farming press has repeated for decades, ...[Continue Reading]
Space Daily
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Israel is killing the people who could end its wars
Mahjoob Zweiri
In international politics, it is often assumed that wars end when the fighting becomes unbearable and the parties turn to diplomacy. But diplomacy requires interlocutors figures with the standing to ...[Continue Reading]
Al Jazeera English
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MI5 accepts it gave evidence based on lies in neo-Nazi spy case
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The hearing follows a damning official report, published in July, which concluded that MI5 gave evidence based on "lies" to three courts while defending a violent neo-Nazi spy whose abuse was uncover ...[Continue Reading]
BBC News
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'Information-collecting monstrosities' Are Chinese connected cars really worse for your privacy?
chiara.castro@futurenet.com (Chiara Castro) , Chiara Castro
All across British roads, a new albeit increasingly familiar silhouette is rapidly taking over. Nicknamed the "Temu Range Rover," feature-packed Chinese SUV models from companies like Jaecoo, Omo ...[Continue Reading]
TechRadar
1 day ago