Merce Cunningham, Changes: Notes on Choreography
Government 'leaks like a sieve' when it suits it, critics of ABC raid say - The Guardian
Scott Morrison grilled on press freedom after AFP raids on ABC, journalist Annika Smethurst - ABC
Government 'leaks like a sieve' when it suits it, critics of ABC raid say - The Guardian
Scott Morrison grilled on press freedom after AFP raids on ABC, journalist Annika Smethurst - ABC
Former bank executive has tax evasion conviction quashed
- by Kate McClymont
Amid the high-wire excitement of Macau gambling tycoon Lawrence Ho’s purchase of 20 per cent of James Packer’s Crown Resorts empire, Karl Bitar found the time to step out for lunch at Chifley Tower eatery Azuma yesterday.
Bitar, the former national Labor secretary who now runs corporate affairs at Crown, was spotted tucking into the sushi with Airbnb public policy boss Brent Thomas. They've presumably known each other since the days Thomas was chief of staff to former police minister Carl Scully. aliens of bitar ang doubted Tomaš fame ...
The taxman comes knocking on Uber's door AirBnb next ?
- ibhuti Sharma, Tanvi Mehta, Karina Dsouza and Arjun Panchadar
China is the key suspect in the theft of huge volumes of highly sensitive personal data from the Australian National University, which intelligence officials now fear could be used to "groom" students as informants before they move into the Australian public service.
The hacking, which occurred despite the government's elite electronic spy agency last year helping the university bolster its cyber defences, hoovered up 19 years’ worth of personal data including bank numbers, tax details and academic records of students and staff.
- NOLA.com’s John Pope has a splendid obit on Leah Chase, who was known as New Orleans’ matriarch of Creole cuisine.
- By now, you already know that James Holzhauer’s winning streak on “Jeopardy!” came to an end Monday. But many knew before Monday’s show aired that Holzhauer had lost because of leaked video and several news reports. Poynter’s Al Tompkins had a few words for those who spoiled the fun.
- A testy exchange took place between Fox News’ Chris Wallace and Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand over abortion during a town hall Sunday.
'Precarious': Labor and crossbench join forces in the NSW lower house
For the first time this century, the NSW government almost lost a vote on the floor of parliament.
Dear Kids, In The Late 20th Century, We Were Into This Thing Called ‘Human Rights’
The entire concept – and certainly the promise of human rights as a way out of suffering for millions, if not billions – appears to be disappearing. “The human rights idealism of the late 20th century has itself become historical. It is time to review and count our losses, to admit that, in light of the outsized expectations, human rights will always fall short.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
US Will Now Require Visa Applicants To Reveal Their Social Media Accounts
Previously, only applicants who needed additional vetting – such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups – would need to hand over this data. But now applicants will have to give up their account names on a list of social media platforms, and also volunteer the details of their accounts on any sites not listed. – BBC
Suicide Epidemic Has Swept Across American West Rolling Stone
Here’s a prediction: In the future, predictions will only get worse
Quartz: “The Australian election produced a winner no pollster predicted: Prime minister Scott Morrison’s ruling coalition remained in power, despite all expectations to the contrary. After the surprise outcomes of the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump as US president, what now feels like the most predictable outcome of any election is that the pollsters will be wrong. There are many reasons why they keep getting it wrong, including confirmation bias, when journalists and pollsters looking for data that validates their prior beliefs. It could also be the nature of some of these events is so unusual they were impossible to predict.
Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found Science
Hundreds of Birds Died During Test of a 5G Antenna In The Netherlands USVegan (furzy). Not a great source, but readers in the Netherlands might be able to track this down.
Nuclear Power Dying A Slow Death OilPrice
How To Make Your Own AirPods for $4 Motherboard
Three decades of neoliberal policies have decimated the middle class, our economy, and our democracy Joseph Stiglitz, MarketWatch
