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The Bureau of Meteorology has just provided a weather update on the dangerous fire conditions being experienced across parts of eastern Australia:
Severe Weather Update: Dangerous fire conditions for parts of eastern Australia. Video current at 1:30pm AEDT 31 October 2023.
Latest: https://t.co/jlOoTZL1iF or the BOM Weather app.
This video includes data from: @QldFES, @NSWRFS, @dfes_wa & Bushfires NT pic.twitter.com/ohBn4oHfwN
— Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) October 31, 2023
5m ago23.54 EDTPaul Karp
John Anderson accuses “elites” of “going around” Voice result
The former deputy prime minister, John Anderson, has spoken to the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship – a global group fronted by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and backed by a pro-Brexit hedge fund billionaire and a Dubai-based investment group.
At its first conference in London, Anderson made some comments about the recent Voice referendum:
We’ve just had a constitutional referendum in Australia. It’s very difficult to change the Australian constitution – and what happened was that every elite grouping in the country, as far as I can tell … all of the academia, 90% of the media, it was just astonishing the corporate types, the sporting codes saying ‘you need to insert this modest little proposal’ that just happens to be a group right for one group of Australians based on their ancestry or their colour or both depending on how you chose to pitch the argument.
Fact check: wrong on a few counts, but most egregiously claiming the Voice was about “colour” – as has been explained repeatedly the criterion is Indigeneity, not race. Secondly, as if 90% of the media were for yes. In newspapers,…
2023-10-30 22:49:43
Article from www.theguardian.com
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