#140 - The Self-Serving Checkout




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Summary: The Seagull Section Abbott acted against Defence advice on subs Survey Finds Only One House In Capital Cities Affordable For Single Person On Newstart Elections aren’t lotteries and a Senate seat isn’t a prize. Australia needs reform | Ben Raue Fact check: Did abolishing negative gearing push up rents? - Fact Check Budget Leaks - Drip, drip | The Monthly Government backdown on online shopping tax Ambassador to France offers resignation after ‘bizarre’ Abbott airport incident It’s about a fair go: Alan Joyce on same-sex marriage Transurban lobbyists were former advisers in previous Labor govt Scripture classes: Calls for crackdown on public schools Monash hospital agrees to female-only doctor requests after complaint The Focus Group Struggle Street Struggle Street protesters stage garbage truck blockade of SBS | Television & radio | The Guardian Struggle Street: the first review Domestic violence calls going unanswered as demand spikes Homeless, young job seekers miss out as services close Bali Executions Bali Nine: Indonesian ambassador offers sympathy to families of executed men Bali Nine: AFP strenuously defends actions over 2005 drug-smuggling case The AFP On Chan And Sukumaran: It Was Legal, We Might Do It Again Has anything changed with the Greens? 10 facts about Richard Di Natale | Greens MPs Milne’s Legacy And Di Natale’s Challenge Supermarket Sweep Shoppies union pay Coles and Woolworths millions to boost membership Why is the union that represents supermarket workers stopping gay marriage? Australia’s fresh food workforce: How does it operate and who is involved? From Suburban Cafes To The Fields Of Queensland, Worker Exploitation Is Rife In Australia Australia versus Humanity Indigenous Australia Mark Di Stefano on Twitter: “The Herald Sun’s anti-Aboriginal protest angle is just so embarrassing for them http://t.co/f3Q3eqkcIN” The Herald Sun Has Doggedly Re-Run A Headline Which Spectacularly Backfired The First Time Around In Andrew Bolt’s World, Black Is White And Peaceful Protest Is War Memo to the Australian: blast Kelly, not me Andrew Bolt Blog Asylum Seekers Red ink flows from Serco’s detention centres Europe denies talks with Abbott Bill Shorten signals harder line from Labor on asylum policy and boat turn-backs Bill Shorten: I live a little better each day backing policy that stops deaths at sea Australia Blasted For ‘Paying Cambodia To Take Refugees Off Its Hands’ Stop The Press People Are Being Offered £100 For Pro-Tory Success Stories To Appear In The Sun - BuzzFeed News The Telegraph mails readers and tells them to vote Tory Tony Abbott’s War On Journalism: Media Union Scathing In Annual Press Freedom Report The future of ‘the end of TV’ Foreign investors face crackdown on Australian property purchases Australian envoy to France ‘resigned after defying ruling on gay partner’