JULIA Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW today. BDS action at UNSW has turned ugly, with anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying material appearing on a Facebook page opposing the opening of a Max Brenner chocolate shop on campus. Postings on a Facebook page [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Australia, Economics, Education, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Media, Middle east, Politics
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Also tagged anti-Semitism, BDS, boycott divestment and sanctions, chocolate, IDS, Israel, israeli strauss group, Julia Gillard, Max Brenner, max brenner boycott, Palestine, university of new south wales, zionism
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February 6, 2013 – 4:55 am
Facebook. Besides being invented for the social glue that is the ‘poke’ (who do YOU poke and how often and can anyone explain why) it’s for sharing cool stuff like this 1930s aerial photograph of Edinburgh, the legendary city where I live. Originally by Alfred Buckham, I nicked it off SL’s page where it was [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Art, Britain, History, Internet, Personal, Politics, scotland
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Also tagged alfred buckham, Edinburgh, eye candy de heir, eye candy du jour, photography
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September 28, 2012 – 7:36 pm
Here in Melbourne we’ve been absolutely devastated by the disappearance of Jill Meagher. Ms Meagher was a 29-year-old Irishwoman who worked at the ABC. Last Friday, she went missing after going to drinks with colleagues in Sydney Road, Brunswick. A colleague offered to walk her home; but she lived only 800m away and declined the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Feminism, Internet, Law, Media
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Also tagged criminal law, due process, Jill Meagher, media law, presumption of innocence, social media, vigilante, vigilante justice
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… Just write the following as your status update: [skepticlawyer] is getting rather sick of the politics of envy – served with a toxic topping of fat hate – being flung at Gina Rinehart. Here’s a tip: if a woman has a great deal more money and talent than you, and also refuses to play the [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Academia, Art, Australia, Blogging, Economics, Fark!, Feminism, Media
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Also tagged CP Snow, Fairfax, fat-hate, Gina Rinehart, politics of envy, social media, The Two Cultures
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SAN FRANCISCO _ Dressed in his trademark hoodie and jeans, Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg kicked off a cross-country road show to pitch his company’s initial public stock offering. Hundreds of institutional investors stood in long lines Monday to pile into a ballroom at New York’s Sheraton Hotel to hear the billion-dollar pitch from the [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Economics, Entrepreneurs, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Politics, Popular culture, Racism, Society, Technology
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Also tagged america, barack obama, crime, hoodie, mark zuckerberg, social media, trayvon martin, US politics, USA
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When you commence a legal action against someone, it follows that you have to bring that legal action to that person’s attention. The law says that you have to serve the documents on the person i.e. give the documents to them personally so that you know that they know about it. As I worked in [...]
As many of you may be aware, Australia’s leading left-leaning blog, Larvatus Prodeo, is closing down. Its last post went up today (I think, remember I’m in the UK and so should allow for time differences). Leaving everything else aside, Mark made the following observation: There’s no longer the same need for a hub for [...]
August 18, 2011 – 3:33 pm
Social networking sites bring up a whole load of complications as they can lead to a blurring of the line between personal and professional. In a post on the topic of social networking I wrote a while back, a commenter, Chris, alerted me to a powerpoint slideshow on social networking here. It’s worth looking at [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Internet, Law, Privacy, Society
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Also tagged bullying, discretion, employee, employer, employment, employment law, Fair Work Australia, friendship, Internet, sexual harassment, social media, social networking, termination
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For those who live overseas, the Australian Prime Minister has recently unveiled a plan to introduce a carbon tax, after brokering an acceptable deal with independent and Green MPs. In this post, I want to look at a possibly interesting shift in opinion about the need for direct action on climate change, upon which the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Environment, Politics, The Left
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Also tagged airplanes, australia, Australian politics, carbon offsets, carbon tax, climate change, climate change policy, Economics, Jetstar, Julia Gillard, Lowy Institute, moral hazard, revealed preferences, stated preferences, tax
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