Australia:
Refugee on Nauru convicted of attempted suicide to 'deter' others - It's official, we are atrocious.
Why the federal budget is not like a household budget
Labor calls for banking and financial services royal commission
Turnbull might have to ditch the double dissolution
Germaine Greer comes under fire for controversial transgender comments
Next Generation of Banknotes: $5 Banknote Design Revealed
Geelong Council, including mayor Darryn Lyons, set to be sacked
Indigenous Actor Jack Charles Has Been Refused A Cab. Again.
Coal collapse turns 50 as Peabody fails, “clean coal” exposed as myth
This might not be the last act for ousted MP Bronwyn Bishop - oh, I think it will.
Turnbull picks a move on truck drivers, not banks
Fundraiser for Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer to be sponsored by NAB amid banking firestorm
Tumbleweeds roll across the Senate chamber as a double dissolution election looms
In defence of Abbott: for the 'delcons', electoral victory doesn't matter
Labor refers Sophie Mirabella's claims to auditor general over $10m ‘political retribution’
PM out-manoeuvred by Labor
Former member for Indi Sophie Mirabella in spat with current member Cathy McGowan
Mirabella's grubby deal is unacceptable
Palace Theatre to be demolished: VCAT - Vandals!
River on fire in Greens MP's video is natural, not fracking, says CSIRO
Founder of private training empire accused of writing lewd messages on toilet walls
US:
The word most often used to describe the conditions that lead to gun mishaps is nearly always the same: “somehow.”
Five Panama Papers takeaways
Trump Is The Weakest GOP Front-Runner In The Modern Era
Clinton Is Winning The States That Look Like The Democratic Party
NOPD: Fully loaded handgun found inside former Saints player Will Smith's car
LSP responds to attorney's request to take over Will Smith shooting death investigation
Ted Cruz’s college days as a widely hated masturbator have come back to haunt him
Harriet Tubman Ousts Andrew Jackson in Change for a $20
Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill papers over racism
Jack Mehoff Endorses Donald Trump - Still chasing Wayne Kerr's vote.
Learning to Talk About Class
UK:
No one would listen to Stephen Fry if he was poor
A ban on state-funded academics using their work to question government policy is to begin on 1 May. It’s either a cock-up or a conspiracy - Want to talk about free speech?
This terrifying Rupert Murdoch quote is possibly the best reason to stay in the EU yet
Meet the snooker superfan who flies 11,000 miles to spend 17 days in Sheffield every year
Email from Victoria Wood
Why DID Paul McCartney marry such a lying money grabber?
World:
Furious French wine makers hijack Spanish tankers, pouring 90,000 bottles down the drain
Artists in Pakistan target drones with giant posters of child victims
Chernobyl’s Silent Exclusion Zone (Except for the Logging)
Music:
Remember That Time Prince Kicked Kim Kardashian Off The Stage?
Prince went to small Australian venue Bennetts Lane and asked 'can I have a gig here?'
Brian May Blasts Sacha Baron Cohen Over Freddie Mercury Biopic
David Bowie interview from 1996: 'I have done just about everything that it’s possible to do'
The truth behind that remix of Macca’s ‘Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five’
Blood, Sugar, Sex, Dickheads
12 of the best vinyl test records
Media:
'I'm in trouble': Messages show 60 Minutes may have rejected fallback escape plan after child snatching
The Fight for the Future of NPR
60 Minutes: Child recovery team 'very upset' Channel Nine left them in Beirut prison, lawyer says - Gee, what's the world coming to when mercenary people smugglers can't trust the media cowboys who bankrolled them?
Society:
Is it organic? When lifestyle choices have gone too far
The age of loneliness is killing us
The film making us face the idea disabled people have sex
Mourning Prince and David Bowie, who showed there's no one right way to be a man
Science:
Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom
Coffee Workers' Concerns Brew Over Chemical's Link To Lung Disease
Tech:
SQL injection vuln found at Panama Papers firm Mossack Fonseca
Windows 10 system overheating and CPU Core Parking
The Kindle Oasis. A strategic review
History:
The Dismissal: the 'what-could-have-been-live' blog
Culture:
Dogs in Space, 30 years on – a once maligned film comes of age (contains spoilers)
Jock Scot, performance poet – obituary
Mental health:
People Are Using The Hashtag #WhatYouDontSee To Show What Depression Is Really Like
No, Beyondblue, we do not need more awareness about mental health - This link is not an endorsement.
Literature:
TfL has made a Shakespearean tube map to mark 400 years since his death
Shakespeare's deleted scenes
I got stupid on me and now I'm wiping it off on you:
Flash of credentials can’t disguise self-interest in taxes letter - Yeah Gerard, because your thinktank doesn't have any conflicts on interests, does it? tl;dr: What makes people think they know so much just because they're experts?
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