Super Awesome Taboo Topics: 12 June 2024

1. Have you noticed how Australian media networks are cooking up their own news. This is seen in Ben Roberts Smith’s network funded defamation battles that inadvertently indicated guilt and Bruce Lehrmann’s endless network funded litigation. Now the heroic Liam Mendes (who has "form" for ambushing patricians) from Murdoch’s Australian has been knocked over by Channel Nine Chairman Peter Costello's "charm".

2. 25 cruise ships are due to visit Eden NSW next season with passengers walking, bussing, googling and goggling at the wonders of Sapphire culture. Why do they do it? Is it Eden’s midwinter hula dancers in black face rowing their canoes up to the ' big ships of Captain Cook's descendants? Is it the Garden of Eden and other Biblical selfies?

3. Are tourists here for stupefied viewing of the next round of Brown Mountain's roadworks? These miracles begin 17 June through to mid August boasting a $1.9million budget, 1100 linear metres of soil nails; and 180 square metres of shotcrete. Are tourists being spoilt with too many local wonders?

 

4. Covid experts see this plague peaking in mid Winter is due to a drop in vaccinations and a blasé public. The impact of a “big wave” of Covid-19 infections is being made worse by a rise in influenza, respiratory illnesses, whooping cough and pneumonia. Are we doomed?

 

5. Are you across Albo’s vs the Dutzi’s (Dutton's) climate wars? Does Australia’s target set in the Paris December 2015 agreement of 43% of greenhouse gas emissions less than the 2005 levels by 2030 make perfect sense? Australia’s net greenhouse gas emissions in June 2005 were 559 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2-e). By March 2023, 7 years 10 months after the Paris agreement, emissions were 466 Mt CO2-e ie. 24.4% below 2005 levels. I reckon Australia will meet its Paris targets by 2030, but I think I missed something.

Is (my precious!) Golum P. Dutton's - claim nuclear energy is a strait forward benefit for Australia somewhat simplistic?

 

6.  Australia's best kept secret. Albo's bold impartial, National Anti-Corruption Commission has closed sessions largely making it toothless. eg. It decided not to question those senior officials most responsible for the deadly - Robodebt scheme and it also kept their identities secret. Is Albo's efforts not to offend any monied interest group proving too contradictory?

7. Is Dutton warmly welcoming main rival Frydenberg back to the Libs or is he joshing?

8. Ex student Beatrice Tucker who said on ABC radio "Hamas deserves our unconditional support" has been expelled from ANU. Problem being Hamas is a terrorist organisation under Australian law (this type of stuff normally being classified). Separately are pro-Palestine protesters in Melbourne, Australia, who  express their love of Peace by assaulting office workers, smashing consulate windows and splashing red paint on Labor Party electorate office windows unduly favouring Labor?

9. A substance naturally occurring in pomegranates can improve memory and the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study concluded. Forgetfulness, difficulty finding words, and confusion about time and place are all common symptoms impacting the faculty of the University of Copenhagen. Professor Neils Bohr Jr found urolithin A, a naturally occurring substance in pomegranates, can boost language skills in mice.