With Australia day bearing down on us with the heat of a thousand hot takes, you could do worse than checking out this chat between comedian Aamer Rahman and Yorta Yorta rapper Briggs over at Vice.
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Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt is a powerful man, but apparently, even he can’t choose family.
With his first cousin Clarity Greenwood – or, more formally, Jen Hunt – said to be hugging a tree in the Pilliga State Forest to protest against a coal seam gas project that Minister Hunt will have to approve – the festive season may have been a little awkward this year.
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It’s a quiet news day over at Buzzfeed – there’s no whistleblowers to mock, there isn’t a Quokka in sight, and Philip Ruddock is on holidays, thus unavailable for a feature piece about how, since his discovery of Snapchat, reported here on Buzzfeed,* he’s using the technology to send provocative messages to small children he jailed while he was Immigration Minister.
So we thought we’d help out.
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An interesting social experiment is playing out on Facebook right now, in the form of a Facebook page which has sprung up called ‘Chuck Another Flag On The Barbie’.
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Regular readers of New Matilda will probably be familiar with the story we ran last week about a game being sold through Apple, Amazon and Google, which enabled players to ‘beat to death a virtual Aborigine’.
By way of update, the game has been removed from all three retailers. And federal minister Mitch Fifield has demanded ‘an investigation’ into how it occurred… or at least that’s how some media reported it. In truth, an ‘investigation’ might be a bit of a stretch – Fifield has in all probability simply asked for a briefing… mindful, of course, that in a week this will no longer be news in the mainstream outlets, and we can all move on.
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