What Collapsed the Middle Class? Of Two Minds
A small army of specialised nurses will travel to 190 towns around the country to deliver the first Pfizer vaccines to residents in aged and disability care from Monday, as 16 state-run hospital hubs prepare to inoculate frontline workers.
Woy Woy in NSW, Bendigo in Victoria, Bundaberg in Queensland, Rockingham in Western Australia, Alice Springs in the Northern Territory and Burnie in Tasmania are among the first towns that will receive the vaccine under the federal government’s phase 1a plan outlined
Even for a company that specialises in PR disasters, Facebook has excelled with its Australian blackout
Why has Facebook banned news and what does it mean for you?
Chief GameStop Tout and Registered Representative Keith Gill, Target of Class Action Suit, at Congressional Hearings Today
The leader of the GameStop short squeeze, Keith Gill, should have anticipated that he was running legal risks as a securities professional
Raffaele Cutolo, mafia boss who ruled from prison cell, dies aged 79
The day when the people of Campania understand it is better to eat a slice of bread as a free man than to eat a steak as a slave is the day when Campania will win.”
Feared head of Neapolitan Camorra known as ‘the Professor’ spent most of his life behind bars
Because of his strong ties with politicians, Cutolo was a piece of the Italianstate,” said the Gomorrah writer and author, Roberto Saviano. “He was very powerful, more than a prime minister.”
Further Bloomberg coverage of the China hack.
Gang rule and governance in Colombia.
Why political staffers are vulnerable to sexual misconduct — and little is done to stop it
Given the world they inhabit is secretive,
it’s hard to know how common are instances of bullying and sexual harassment
by staffers and their bosses in ministerial and electoral offices.
Labor’s nervous troops fear an election under Jodi McKay
NSW Labor MPs are in a heightened state of anxiety this week following damaging revelations involving leader Jodi McKay.
Break Into Tax
The Subway Was Their Refuge on Cold Nights. Now It’s Off-Limits. New York Times
Edward D. Kleinbard (USC) (1951-2020), What's Luck Got to Do with It? How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream(Oxford University Press 2021)
If there is no crisis in VET, why is it so difficult to tackle “acknowledged weaknesses”?
How does the Productivity Commission see vocational education and training: is it about quality training needed now by employers and employees and provided by TAFE during the Covid-19 pandemic, or about a competitive training market? Continue reading
Scandal spoils Gladys farewell party
Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay slugged it out in Parliament House this week as if their political futures depended on it. Continue reading
A grubby and corrupting traffic in misery
Commissioner Bergin’s report did not devote a word to the sleazy and improper way James Packer was effectively given Barangaroo by a new Liberal Premier, Barry O’Farrell. And not a word about the slew of former Labor and Liberal Party apparatchiks who moved on to make their fortunes prostituting their inside knowledge and their access to politicians.