Julian Burnside is not one to rush to judgment
Greens candidate Julian Burnside on Twitter on Saturday:
Same-sex only clubs are a relic of the past. I joined the Savage Club 40 years ago as a very different person to the one I am today. I’ve argued for change from within but it’s too slow in coming, so I am resigning my membership until it welcomes all people.
Kel Watt replying to Julian Burnside on Twitter:
Resigning today?! Not 40 years ago? Not in the 80s when Hawke introduced Equal Pay & Discrimination law? Or the 90s when Lawrence & Kirner became premiers? Or a decade ago when Gillard fought sexism? But today. After exposure on TV. On the eve of the election! Seems sincere.
Julian Burnside replying to Kel Watt:
Sorry, but I was a bit busy fighting pro bono human rights cases, so I wasn’t paying attention to issues like that.
The Daily Telegraph on March 4:
Polling in Sydney’s most marginal seat shows PM Scott Morrison is a surprise weapon for Gladys Berejiklian in the NSW election.
A weapon with a silencer? Sky News anchor Charlotte Mortlock on Twitter yesterday:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison attends NSW Lib launch but not invited up to the podium to speak.
William Blackstone in 1766:
Better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
Christian Morrow in the Byron Shire News on Friday:
A cardinal sexually assaulting schoolchildren, can it get any worse? Of course it can. He could win his appeal against the conviction.
Actor Alyssa Milano branching out on Twitter on Saturday:
I’m trans. I’m a person of colour. I’m an immigrant. I’m a lesbian. I’m a gay man. I’m the disabled. I’m everything. … Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know or understand. No one wants to hurt you. We are all just looking for our happily ever after.
The Canberra Times on Saturday:
The Canberra Balloon Spectacular’s volunteer flight team has said it is embarrassed by the ACT government’s decision to ban a balloon authorities described as racist. At a pilot briefing on Saturday morning, when hot air balloons taking part in the event were grounded for the day because of rain and wind, a joint statement from the volunteers was read out. Flight director John Wallington would not confirm the contents of the statement when contacted by The Sunday Canberra Times, but a photo of the statement posted on social media called the decision farcical. Events ACT … decided last month to ban the Black Magic balloon, also known as “Golly”, calling it racist and offensive.
Perfection. CBC on Thursday:
A man threatened to sue a technology magazine for using his image in a story about why all hipsters look the same, only to find out the picture was of a completely different guy. The story in the MIT Technology Review detailed a study about the so-called hipster effect — “the counterintuitive phenomenon in which people who oppose mainstream culture all end up looking the same”. The inclusion of a version of a Getty Images photo of a bearded, flannel-wearing man, tinted with a blue and orange hue, prompted one reader to write to the magazine: “Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.” But it wasn’t actually him.