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'Wisteria': Mieko Kawakami’s story of female longing adapted for stage Theater company Mum&Gypsy and author Kawakami are collaborating on a stage adaptation of her work for the fourth time.

One house, one woman and just a single actor on stage embodying a story of multitudes in the latest adaptation of Kawakami’s work.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Major improvements for both Higgins and Wilkinson in the appellate court finding on Lehrmann’s appeal.

Does that mean she can get the TV station to pay a higher percentage of her costs?

The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target | Clear air The public stoush is really about whether the party will drop the charade or maintain it while shuffling some words

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The size and richness of the Simandou iron-ore deposit in Guinea could shift the industry’s power dynamics and help transform the nation’s economy.

Read more: bloom.bg/4oL3DZl

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The people of Little Village showed the nation what courage looks like: standing unarmed, united, ＆ unafraid in the face of ICE’s tear gas ＆ violence. They protected their neighbors, not with weapons, but with peaceful ＆ fierce solidarity.

Shrinking casts, diminished reach, less ambition: the arts in Australia needs more than just tax reform | Eamon Flack

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Appalling. You are right. Netanyahu & his cabal cannot be allowed to get away with it and most importantly it has to be stopped.

Let’s scuttle AUKUS before it sinks While our purchase of Japan’s frigates is a solid investment, Britain’s claim that it will defend Australia exposes the absurdity of AUKUS: a show of solidarity as substantive as a mirage within a hol...

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This is a great, moving & chilling series and should be read by all Australians. Something that no-one in either my or my children’s generation were ever taught in school

Why we should run the arts like our sporting industry

I agree. I’m the US it is the system that is wrong. In Australia, we have an independent commission that both supervises the districting based only on population and demographic changes and also runs the election for the whole country. Rarely any complaints and then only minor.

I think the 75% figure specifically applies to Victoria in the 15 years post its colonization. Not diminish the horror of it, and there was no doubt as bad or worse in other areas, but just to get it right.

Opinion | The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn (Gift Article) Trying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

Becoming Ma Jingfen At 93, a Chinese entrepreneur’s daring new chapter

Fantastqic true story
And resolent of post-Mao China
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy suspends UK-Israel trade negotiations and summons the Israeli ambassador over IDF actions in Gaza, which he says are "incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relations" and an "affront to the values of the British people."

5 huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver In its previous term, Labor laid the groundwork for stronger climate action. Now, in an expanded majority government, it has the chance to capitalise.

Great contribution on how to achieve realistic but ambitious gals on climate action without suggesting major disruption to industry/jobs (such as the NW Shelf)
theconversation.com/5-huge-clima...

5 huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver In its previous term, Labor laid the groundwork for stronger climate action. Now, in an expanded majority government, it has the chance to capitalise.

Great contribution on how to achieve realistic but ambitious gals on climate action without suggesting major disruption to industry/jobs (such as the NW Shelf)
theconversation.com/5-huge-clima...

Right. SOS I see. The original appended article was from 2018 and she didn’t win that time and as explained earlier, I am far from convinced the will this time even though the libs have often won the 3rd spot.

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Did them a lot of harm at the recent state election.

Having said which, I doubt that the position #3 she has will get her elected in the current mood over here

Thanks. The article you appended to your earlier post was from 2018 and about the 2019 election. The latest one does say she will be the in the 3rd candidate spot for this upcoming election which I agree is alarming and shows how much the Libs in WA are still controlled by the Clan (which, btw …

I could have it wrong but clicking through from the article you posted revealed that she stood for them at the 2019 election (& lost) but not at the 2022 one, nor does it seem she is standing this time. I agree with your general point but she seems to have disappeared into the woodwork (I hope)

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.

The American taliban