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Minneaplois City Council votes to abolish police department

In a long overdue decision, the Minneapolis City Council has demonstrated incredible forward vision by voting to abolish the city's police department, to be replaced by a yet to be announced new law and order regime based on love, inclusiveness, comp

'Merica: Just how f@#ked is it?

1. Very,  lots, or heaps?

Hope you're doin' OK Tad :)

I noticed a couple of days ago that Tad hadn't been around - and today I noticed that his old posts aren't on the site and thus he is no longer a member.

Tad was a kind sole and a regular poster on here - he had a passion for social issues and was alw

AUSTRALIA'S PISS WEAK LAWS ALLOWS GRUBS TO HAVE LITTLE FEAR

is this where we are headed? - robots enforcing social distancing in Singapore

Must watch documentary by Michael Moore. "Planet Of The Humans"

Even the hard left now realise that solar and wind just don't cut it. It has to be nuclear, hydrogen, gas, ocean waves and low emission coal etc

The greatest leader of time - On par with snake oil salesman!

The race to be ready - COVID 19 and our health system

Coronavirus is hurting America's place as a world leader while China appears to rise

Updated about 6 hours ago 

Yesterday in America, 1,940 people died from coronavi

The one COVID-19 number to watch

ABC NEWS

By Simon Elvery, Ben Spraggon and Matt Martino

Story Lab

There are 12 unmentioned victims in the Pell verdict: the jurors

April 8, 2020 — 4.24pm

Malcolm Knox Journalist, author and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Sanders out of US prezzy race.

Can anyone really envision Biden mounting an sort of challenge against the orange one?

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/bernie-sanders-drops-out-of-us-presidential-race/news-story/39c724ae14d1201489525ab10c68c8e9

South Australian councillor spat at in racist coronavirus attack

ABC  NEWS

A South Australian councillor says she was spat at during a coronavirus-related racist attack as she went to pick up groceries last week.

Border Force Australia received phone call over coronavirus fears hours before Ruby Princess was due to dock

ABC NEWS By Emma Elsworthy

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has confirmed it received a concerned phone call from the state port authority about the Ruby Princess

George Pell High Court ruling on appeal against child sex abuse convictions to be handed down in a virtual vacuum

ABC NEWS

By Sarah Farnsworth and High Court reporter Elizabeth Byrne

It was never going to be a regular criminal court case by virtue of the man accused: Cardinal

The exponential growth of coronavirus can be explained by rice on a chessboard. And we should be worried

ABCNEWS

By business reporter Gareth Hutchens

There's a reason Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia's households may have to self-isolate for another six months.

It's the maths.

There's a mathematical law driving the growth in the number of co

Easter Lockdown looming despite declining new cases

Many wards in NSW hospitals are empty awaiting the coronavirus explosion. Staff are being stood down. Expect more severe restrictions over Easter when they can be more easily tolerated because people will have planned to be off work and school. Presu

Coronavirus pandemic pushes small businesses to brink but billionaire landlord stands firm on rents

Updated about 3 hours ago

A self-made billionaire, who is one of Australia's biggest private landlords, has de

Federal Government offers $130b in coronavirus wage subsidies for businesses to pay workers. $1500 per fortnight.

By political correspondent Brett Worthington (ABC NEWS) 

Businesses will receive a fortnightly wage subsidy up to $1,500 per employee as part of a Federal Government bid to prevent millions of people from losing their jobs to the coronavirus pandemic