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- Martin Amis and what it means to be English
- What are your favourite books in translation?
- MH370: Chinese plane spots 'white objects' - live updates
- Australian companies accused of jeopardising conservation in Indonesia
- Barack Obama seeks European support for harder line on Russia sanctions
- Mining tax, bigots and Mr Potato Head – as it happened
- Oscar Pistorius trial – live coverage – Monday 24 March 2013
- Eric Abetz denies report his office was urged to ‘scale up’ jobs figures
- Sydney storm: man dies after being swept into stormwater drain
- Sexing up science
- Yes, Daily Mail – black and Asian women can be qualified to talk | Dreda Say Mitchell
- Humanitarian crisis looms as refugees from South Sudan pour into Ethiopia
- Greens attempt to have Julian Assange and Edward Snowden give evidence
- George Brandis: 'People have the right to be bigots'
- Libya is a disaster we helped create. We cannot simply walk away | Owen Jones
- Chinese manufacturing slows again – but markets up on stimulus hopes
- Arthur Sinodinos was warned ‘about the company he was keeping’, Icac told
- Mathias Cormann hits pause on future of financial advice reforms
- Paul Howes to quit as national secretary of Australian Workers’ Union
- Icac inquiry: Nathan Rees called AWH a ‘bunch of crooks’
- MH370: Chinese planes spot 'white objects' in search area - reports
- George Pell rejects former colleagues' testimony, labelling one a 'muddler'
- Russian troops seize Ukraine base
- The growing threat to Australia's media plurality | Scott Ludlam
- Home insulation scheme’s speedy rollout was ‘insane and unsafe’
| Martin Amis and what it means to be English Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PDT  The author may spend most of his time outside the country but he seems to understand that, for many, national identity is still linked to race Like a schoolboy lobbing stinkbombs through an open window, Martin Amis has been holding forth on cohesion as we experience it, and getting quite a lot of stick for it. America is an immigrant nation, he says. The Pakistani in Boston, says Amis, could call himself American, while the Pakistani in Preston couldn't call himself English (without raising an eyebrow): "There's meant to be another layer of being English. There are qualifications other than citizenship and it's to do with white skin." This might tell us more about the company Amis keeps than the views of the general population; especially if you tire of these showy contributions from someone who spends most of his time somewhere else. But there are indeed those who insist that while minorities can be British – at a push – they cannot really be English. It's the sort of line you might encounter at dinner parties thrown by old-style rightwing Tories and was once an approach much favoured by the nastier columnists in the Spectator. The less discerning football hooligans held fast to the idea too. Old timers will recall how they would refuse to acknowledge any goals scored by black England players, such as John Barnes and Laurie Cunningham. Seems almost comical now. Yet, Amis may have a point. If the stats are to be believed, many people continue to associate Englishness with whiteness. According to census analysis by the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity at Manchester University, 72% of white Britons and 47% of those of mixed heritage described themselves as English rather than British. In terms of religion, Christians and Jews were more likely to claim an English-only national identity. Then there were interesting stances taken by those who described themselves as mixed. "Three fifths of the mixed white-Caribbean and two fifths of the mixed white-Asian groups describe themselves as English only," report the analysts. "This suggests English is predominantly a white identity which some people feel they have access to. More than a quarter of the Caribbean and black-other ethnic groups also report only an English national identity, suggesting that some people in the ethnic minority groups that are most likely to have mixed offspring are able to feel an English identity too." What does that tell us? Old habits die hard. Change takes time. theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| What are your favourite books in translation? Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PDT  Fan of Asterix? Tintin? The Moomins? Pippi Longstocking? Cornelia Funke? Fairy tales? Then you are a fan of translated fiction – that is books that were originally written in another language – even if you might not even know it! Join our discussion on brilliant books that were originally written in a language other than English! Here's a sad fact we bet you didn't know: less than 3% of all books sold in the UK are translated fiction. In other words, most of the books we buy in the UK are written in English, by British or American writers. So what, you might think? Skellig author David Almond explains why we should care: "children need to read the best books by the best writers from all parts of the world… our children are missing out." We don't want to miss out do we? That's why are devoting this week to translated fiction! The first thing to say is that you might not even be aware that some of your favourite books, even some absolute classics, are actually translated fiction at all! From the Moomins to Pippi Longstocking to Tintin, all these books were written in another language and then translated into English, by hugely talented translators who bring their own ideas and poetry to the text – and sometimes even make the translated version better than the original. So what are your favourites? We want to know! We want you to tell us which translated books you love and recommend to others. Email us childrens.books@theguardian.com and tell us! Or you can Tweet us, @GdnChildrensBks. Here are a few ideas from some of our site members to get you thinking…TheBookThief BookwormReader Amazed Earthling Noggin Safah Sugar, in Paris What I think is that very few of all the good books we find here in French and German and Italian are translated into English and I want to know why not? We are lucky because we have more languages but it's not right others can't read them too! Alex TwilightVi The Millennium RIOT readers Hai The Book Doctor Do email your own suggestions childrens.books@theguardian.com and keep coming back to the site this week to see what else we've got to say! Here's a plan of what translated delights we've got in store for you this week. Links will be added as the articles and features go live!Later on today we've rounded up some of our best reader reviews of translated fiction. Members, take a bow; we are at the cutting edge of children's books reviews! Did you know that the first ever review of Oksa Pollock was published on our site by one of our French-speaking reviewers, before the book was even translated into English – thanks for that SophieDophie, your review probably helped the book to get translated in English so non-French speakers can enjoy it too! On Tuesday 25 March, challenge yourself in our translated fiction quiz! Then from midday we're running a live blog of the world's largest children's literature award, the Astrid Lindgren prize, named after the creator of Pippi Longstocking herself. We also have an extract of a real classic work of translated fiction Letter for the King by Dutch writer Tonke Dragt – and we also have 10 copies of the limited edition paperback to give away to lucky readers. On Wednesday 26 March, we've got a fascinating interview with the creators of Oksa Pollock, the witch who is being called the French Harry Potter. The book started life as a self-published book in France. Now the Oksa series is being translated into English and Pollockmania is beginning to spread across the whole world! On Thursday 27 March, Anthea Bell, the legendary translator of all the Asterix albums, gives us her top 10 children's books in translation. And on Friday 28 March we've got a gorgeous gallery of a new and very cute book April the Red Goldfish, which was written in French by Marjolaine Leray and has been translated into English by Sarah Ardizzone. Sarah explains something of the great craft, art and skill of a translator in her revealing gallery captions (we have books to give away too). We hope you enjoy this week of translated fiction fun and remember to email us with your top translated books childrens.books@theguardian.com, as well, of course, as your reviews! theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| MH370: Chinese plane spots 'white objects' - live updates Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:59 AM PDT Follow live updates after a Chinese plane spotted potential debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Southern Indian Ocean, more than two weeks after it disappeared with 239 people on board       |
| Australian companies accused of jeopardising conservation in Indonesia Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:57 AM PDT Mining firm's 'high-potential' Sumatran holding borders on Sumatra's important Leuser ecosystem, home to many endangered species  |
| Barack Obama seeks European support for harder line on Russia sanctions Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:52 AM PDT Russian troops storm one of last Ukrainian bases in Crimea as US president arrives in Netherlands for talks with G7 countries       |
| Mining tax, bigots and Mr Potato Head – as it happened Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:51 AM PDT Senate to debate the repeal of the mining tax as controversy continues over the resettlement of asylum seekers on PNG       |
| Oscar Pistorius trial – live coverage – Monday 24 March 2013 Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:43 AM PDT Live updates from David Smith as trial of Olympic and Paralympic athlete for the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp continues  |
| Eric Abetz denies report his office was urged to ‘scale up’ jobs figures Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:35 AM PDT Employment minister says advisers never told him to manipulate statistics to fit Tony Abbott's election promise       |
| Sydney storm: man dies after being swept into stormwater drain Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:29 AM PDT Two men struck by lightning as a month's worth of rain falls in an afternoon, causing chaos across the city       |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:21 AM PDT Dean Burnett: sexing-up science reports would be one way of increasing their impact. It would also be unspeakably awful, as these examples show  |
| Yes, Daily Mail – black and Asian women can be qualified to talk | Dreda Say Mitchell Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT  Two scientists were challenged over their right to speak on TV. Why are our credentials called into question so often? Making assumptions about people, who they are and what they do, can be a problematic business. Those who come from old money can be famously careless about how they dress because they don't need to impress. So if you have half an eye on a news channel and there's an interviewee in a crumpled jacket and a shirt that could do with a good iron, it's probably unwise to assume it's report about the homeless; it may well be a feature on country houses. This tendency may explain why the Daily Mail's diarist, Ephraim Hardcastle, was a little confused last week by an item on Newsnight. He clearly thought the presence of two guests, one Asian, one black and both female, must mean the viewers were being given a hard time about racism again. When it became clear that they were there to discuss the origins of the universe, the confusion deepened. As Ephraim reminded us, it's white men who do all this serious science stuff, not females from ethnic minorities. The two experts were admirably well qualified, as the Mail subsequently admitted – Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is an honorary research associate in the UCL's department of physics and astronomy, and Dr Hiranya Peiris is a reader in astronomy in the same institution – so why were their expertise and skills being questioned? This syndrome of calling into question the credentials, academic and otherwise, of professionals from minority groups is pervasive and goes back over the generations. In the 1950s Caribbean migrants soon discovered that employers were unimpressed with their teaching, nursing and other qualifications, even though in those days the islands were British colonies. Many professionals ended up driving buses. And even in contemporary Britain, there can be few black professionals who aren't familiar with this attitude. A few years ago, when I went to a school in London to do some educational consultancy, a member of staff helpfully asked me if I was looking for the kitchen. And this incident was in the multi-ethnic capital, where the PC brigade is supposed to receive education in manners. Even when professionals from minorities do get their credentials accepted, they may still face typecasting. One black lawyer told me people tend to assume he can't wait to get his hands on discrimination cases or stick it to the white establishment in courtrooms, rather than just practise law as he was trained to do. This assumption that black people can't do anything without being "black" about it can get a little wearing. The media, another profession tagged with the liberal label, isn't immune. News organisations tend to be happy to invite minority pundits to air their opinions on "their" subjects but are not so keen when it comes to issues that affect society as a whole. The problem with that is it does reinforce the idea that minority groups aren't really members of mainstream society and don't really care about it. As someone who's been on several TV and radio discussion programmes, I know that, if there's a controversy in the news about race (and there usually is), it's always a good idea to keep your phone handy, as you may well get a call. If it's politics or health in the headlines, you can safely forget where you put your mobile. Many black academics, writers and politicians found themselves turning into full-time media riot correspondents in August 2011; not so many who were white did. I found myself much in demand that summer. You would have thought the obvious people to ask would have been the multicultural crowd who were rioting. It's a natural human tendency to internalise stereotypes and make assumptions, and we're all prone to doing it. Sometimes these can be fairly harmless, and I don't suppose any members of the cabinet lose much sleep over having the upper-class twit label stuck on their tweed jackets. But making assumptions about people's qualifications and whether they have them or not is far more damaging, especially for minorities. One final word of warning for any beggars in the neighbourhood: I dress as carelessly as any member of the aristocracy, but that doesn't mean I've got any old money – or, indeed, any new money. Please don't make assumptions. theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| Humanitarian crisis looms as refugees from South Sudan pour into Ethiopia Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT  Ethiopian official insists borders will not be closed despite influx piling increasing strain in one of the country's poorest regions "We left all our property – our home, our goats and chickens. I ran out and this is all that I have," Nyakuom Tongyik says, pointing to the floral dress and pink scarf she is wearing. The 22-year-old is one of more than 70,000 refugees who have crossed the border into Ethiopia, fleeing fighting and devastation in South Sudan. Her husband and father were killed when clashes erupted in their home town of Malakal, she says, sitting in her cramped, hot white tent at Leitchor refugee camp in Gambella, western Ethiopia. She escaped with two of her children, but was separated from the third amid the chaos. During the 20-day walk to the Akobo border, Tongyik's daughter fell sick. "She died on the way," she says. "There was no way to get her to the hospital." Gambella, one of the poorest regions in one of the most food-insecure countries, was home to more than 76,000 asylum seekers from South Sudan when fighting erupted in Juba in December. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, is preparing to accommodate an influx of 150,000 refugees, but the government is concerned that the actual figure will be much higher. "I don't want to exaggerate, but maybe 300,000, maybe more than that because there is no food in South Sudan and the rains start in this region in May, so people will come to Ethiopia to seek refuge," says Ayalew Aweke, deputy director of the Ethiopian Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (Arra). Refugees from South Sudan are also escaping south to Uganda and Kenya and north to Sudan, but with the onset of the rainy season, options will be limited and many more civilians will be driven towards Ethiopia. Transporting food and other supplies to the refugees will become more difficult and expensive as the few existing roads, many of them little more than dirt tracks, become impassable. Then there are the additional threats around sanitation and health – malaria, diarrhoea and cholera included. Moses Okello, the UNHCR representative to Ethiopia, is aware of the pressing need to respond. "The rain is bringing to us an urgency, the need for us to act very, very quickly to get things in place where they are not." In response, the World Food Programme is pre-positioning 1,530 tonnes of food in the region – enough to cover the needs of 80,000 refugees for one month. UNCHR is also trying to secure the use of helicopters to help move people and provisions before the rains begin. About 95% of those seeking refuge in Ethiopia are women and children – an unusually high proportion. "I came with many women from the village. The men went to fight. We were only women," Marsara Nyakuicak, a refugee from Gul Guk, South Sudan, says. Almost all the refugees interviewed had friends or relatives who had joined the rebel forces. "We have heard reports of children as young as 14 and 15 being kept behind deliberately by the fighting forces on the South Sudan side," says Dr Peter Salama, a representative of the UN children's agency, Unicef, in Ethiopia. The refugees deny forced conscription is taking place, but 19-year-old Kong Chul said he had been requested to join the White Army – a Nuer militia originally formed for cattle raiding – but no arms had been available to him. Salama is also concerned about the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border – more than 500 have been registered so far. Brothers Gatluak and Nhial Koang, aged eight and 10, respectively, were separated from their parents. "The fighting was very close to our village. When we saw others running we started running away," Gatluak whispers, tightly holding his brother's hand. "We don't know where they are," he says. As the crisis continues, the physical condition of arriving refugees is deteriorating and the prevalence of malnutrition is alarmingly high. A recent survey recorded global acute malnutrition levels of almost 38%, more than double the critical emergency rate of 15%. "We've also got huge issues with measles," Salama says. Outbreaks of the disease in South Sudan have been reported, and 60-70 cases were documented across the border in Ethiopia during the past week. Unicef, together with Arra and the regional health bureaux, is supporting a mass immunisation campaign. To date, more than 22,000 children have been vaccinated, but Salama is worried about a possible epidemic. "We have a very short, time-limited window of opportunity to scale up this operation if we are going to avoid an enormous amount of preventable deaths and disability," he says. The response of the central and local authorities has been roundly praised. "The Ethiopia government and the people have been very generous. They have opened up their borders and allowed refugees to come into this country and this is not the first time they've done this," Okello says. But the absorption of a huge number of people into a region with a population of about 307,000 is bound to present problems. So far, the local communities have welcomed the refugees – it helps that the exiles and their hosts are from the same Nuer ethnic group. However, Gatluak Tut Khot, Gambella's regional president, is aware of the possible tensions. "We received them peacefully,' he says. "The host community are very willing and very happy. There is no problem, but they are asking that if the town is growing there may be some contribution for the indigenous population." Despite the strain placed on Gambella, Gatluak insists the borders will not be closed. Ayelew confirms this, and appeals for assistance from the international community. "The world knows that there is a problem in South Sudan but they don't know that people are coming to Ethiopia … Our efforts are overstretched and still people are coming," he says. "I don't know when they will stop coming to Ethiopia unless some great assistance is given in South Sudan." theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| Greens attempt to have Julian Assange and Edward Snowden give evidence Posted: 23 Mar 2014 11:57 PM PDT Scott Ludlam is reportedly trying to get pair to testify via videolink to the Senate inquiry into the Telecommunications Act       |
| George Brandis: 'People have the right to be bigots' Posted: 23 Mar 2014 11:06 PM PDT The attorney general confirms the government will go ahead with plans to remove sections of the Racial Discrimination Act       |
| Libya is a disaster we helped create. We cannot simply walk away | Owen Jones Posted: 23 Mar 2014 11:00 PM PDT  Who could object to the removal of Colonel Gaddafi? But what has happened since shames western interventionists It's called the pottery store rule: "you break it, you own it". But it doesn't just apply to pots and mugs, but to nations. In the build-up to the catastrophic invasion of Iraq, it was invoked by Colin Powell, then US secretary of state. "You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people," he reportedly told George W Bush. "You will own all their hopes, aspirations and problems." But while many of these military interventions have left nations shattered, western governments have resembled the customer who walks away whistling, hoping no one has noticed the mess left behind. Our media have been all too complicit in allowing them to leave the scene. Libya is a striking example. The UN-authorised air campaign in 2011 is often lauded as a shining example of successful foreign intervention. Sure, the initial mandate – which was simply to protect civilians – was exceeded by nations who had only recently been selling arms to Muammar Gaddafi, and the bombing evolved into regime-change despite Russia's protests. But with a murderous thug ejected from power, who could object? Today's Libya is overrun by militias and faces a deteriorating human rights situation, mounting chaos that is infecting other countries, growing internal splits, and even the threat of civil war. Only occasionally does this growing crisis creep into the headlines: like when an oil tanker is seized by rebellious militia; or when a British oil worker is shot dead while having a picnic; or when the country's prime minister is kidnapped. According to Amnesty International, the "mounting curbs on freedom of expression are threatening the rights Libyans sought to gain". A repressive Gaddafi-era law has been amended to criminalise any insults to officials or the general national congress (the interim parliament). One journalist, Amara al-Khattabi, was put on trial for alleging corruption among judges. Satellite television stations deemed critical of the authorities have been banned, one station has been attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, and journalists have been assassinated. Some human rights abuses began in the tumultuous days that followed Gaddafi's removal, and were ignored by the west. Ever since the fall of his dictatorship, there have been stories of black Libyans being treated en masse as Gaddafi loyalists and attacked. In a savage act of collective punishment, 35,000 people were driven out of Tawergha in retaliation for the brutal siege of the anti-Gaddafi stronghold of Misrata. The town was trashed and its inhabitants have been left in what human rights organisations are calling "deplorable conditions" in a Tripoli refugee camp. Such forced removals continue elsewhere. Thousands have been arbitrarily detained without any pretence of due process; and judges, prosecutors, lawyers and witnesses have been attacked or even killed. Libya's first post-Gaddafi prosecutor general, Abdulaziz Al-Hassadi, was assassinated in the town of Derna last month. But it is the militias that filled the post-Gaddafi vacuum who represent the greatest threat to Libyans' human rights and security. "Libya has been sitting on the international community's back burner as the country has slipped into near chaos," warns Human Rights Watch. In an attempt to integrate militias into the state machinery, the weak central government pays 160,000 members of these often violent gangs $1,000 a month and charges them with upholding authority. When residents of Benghazi – the heartland of the revolution – protested against militia rule in June last year, 32 people were killed in what became known as "Black Saturday". In another protest in Tripoli last November, 46 died and 500 were injured. Under militia rule, Libya is beginning to disintegrate. Last summer forces under the command of the warlord Ibrahim Jadran took control of eastern oil terminals, demanding autonomy and more resources for Cyrenaica, the long-neglected oil-rich east of the country. Oil exports collapsed from about 1.5m barrels a day to fewer than 500,000, costing the country billions of dollars. Although Jadran's forces initially only drew support from the Magharba people, other ethnic groups have now joined his struggle. It is these forces which hijacked a oil tanker this month, prompting threats from Libya's prime minister that it would be bombed until US forces captured it this weekend. Clashes have broken out in Jadran's home town of Ajdabiya. In painful echoes of Iraq's nightmare, a car bomb exploded at a Benghazi military base last week and killed at least eight soldiers, and Libya's main airport was shut on Friday after a bomb exploded on its runway. One of the great perversities of the so-called war on terror is that fundamentalist Islamist forces have flourished as a direct consequence of it. Libya is no exception, even though such movements often have little popular support. The Muslim Brotherhood and other elements are better organised than many of their rivals, helping to remove the prime minister, push through legislation, and establish alliances with opportunistic militias. Ominously, Libya's chaos is spilling across the region. The country is awash with up to 15 million rifles and other weapons, and a report by the UN panel of experts this month found that "Libya has become a primary source of illicit weapons". These arms are fuelling chaos in 14 countries, including Somalia, the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Niger. Qatar is helping to deliver Libyan armaments to Syria, where Russian-made weapons bought by Gaddafi's regime are being given to fundamentalist Islamist rebels. In what has all the hallmarks of mission creep, a small number of US soldiers are being sent to Tripoli to begin training troops. But a stable future for Libya seems remote, however much the country's strife is safely hidden away from the headlines. It is dividing along every fracture line imaginable: whether it be ethnic, tribal, regional or political. Most Libyans have failed to even register for upcoming elections. There is a real prospect of the country collapsing into civil war or even breaking up. Unless there are negotiated settlements to its multiple problems, Libya will surely continue its descent into mayhem, and the region could be dragged into the mire with it. No wonder western governments and journalists who hailed the success of this intervention are so silent. But here are the consequences of their war, and they must take responsibility for it. Twitter: @OwenJones84 theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds       |
| Chinese manufacturing slows again – but markets up on stimulus hopes Posted: 23 Mar 2014 10:41 PM PDT Shares rise on expectation of government boost despite weakest growth rate in key sector for eight months       |
| Arthur Sinodinos was warned ‘about the company he was keeping’, Icac told Posted: 23 Mar 2014 10:08 PM PDT Kerry Schott tells inquiry she thought Australian Water Holdings, which paid Sinodinos $200,000 a year, 'may be dishonest'  |
| Mathias Cormann hits pause on future of financial advice reforms Posted: 23 Mar 2014 10:08 PM PDT 'I want to have further conversations with key stakeholders and remind them what they agreed to,' finance minister says  |
| Paul Howes to quit as national secretary of Australian Workers’ Union Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:54 PM PDT High-profile unionist, who will relinquish leadership in July, says he will not be moving straight into federal politics       |
| Icac inquiry: Nathan Rees called AWH a ‘bunch of crooks’ Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:49 PM PDT Infrastructure company, in which Obeid family had alleged 30% stake, under scrutiny for charging 'excessive' costs  |
| MH370: Chinese planes spot 'white objects' in search area - reports Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:46 PM PDT 'Suspicious items spotted by Chinese planes as Malaysia jet makes emergency landing in Hong Kong  |
| George Pell rejects former colleagues' testimony, labelling one a 'muddler' Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:32 PM PDT Cardinal disputes testimony given by former vicar general and his ex-private secretary and takes responsibility for key changes made to 'rejection letter' to abuse victim John Ellis  |
| Russian troops seize Ukraine base Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:16 PM PDT Shots fired as troops backed by helicopters force their way into one of the last remaining Ukrainian bases in Crimea       |
| The growing threat to Australia's media plurality | Scott Ludlam Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:04 PM PDT Scott Ludlam: If the Abbott government succeeds in deregulating media ownership – using the web as cover – stand by for local news services to be cut and vested interests unexposed       |
| Home insulation scheme’s speedy rollout was ‘insane and unsafe’ Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:01 PM PDT Technical expert says the two-year time frame did not allow new installers to be properly trained  |
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