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[tielan]

Probably not picked up amidst everything with OzDay going on: Australia drops on the anti-corruption index.

A Country Where The Poor Drown

As Floods Worsen, It's Time To Rethink How Queenslanders Build For The Future

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The Strong Towns approach: about building towns that work - I think this is the one about towns that actually will pay for themselves rather than the ones that require cheap petrol/diesel, and which will fall apart as councils/counties run out of money to fund them.

Abolition of the family: Twin Oaks Communal Parenting

Because We Could Not Stop For Death: I'm pretty sure this one is about COVID

Carl Lentz and the Trouble At Hillsong: relevant since both Houstons (father who founded, and son who took over) have had to resign from the directorship of the church - the father a decade ago, the son very recently.

Something Something American Politics? Sorry, I just had this in the list of article links and haven't got the time or inclination to check...

A mildly magnificent "fuck you": To My Old Master. MILDLY. MAGNIFICENT.

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[novel_machinist]

That fuck you gave me life.

[tielan]

Isn't it beautiful? So exquisitely civil.

[velithya]

What a beautiful letter!

Because we could not stop for death was very something, for sure. As case numbers soar in WA I'm having a lot of feelings about the (federal) government's decision to have us all Live With Covid, for sure.

It didn't have to be like this.

[brokenhighways]

The Hillsong Church saga is a mixture of unsurprising and horrifying. The fact that they covered up the older Houston being a paedophile is wild, yet...typical of these organisations.