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The climate wars are not over. Denialists have just moved on to oppose renewables. The opposition and its media mates now seek to deny renewables as a cost-effective alternative energy source – in this country with its abundance of solar, wind and organic waste feedstocks, in quantities that are the envy of most other parts of the world.

You can hear the emptiness when he breathes. It comes out of his nostrils in little, whistling snorts. Like so much else, he mistakes this noise for gravitas.

At a meeting with the then editor of The Australian newspaper, I was told I needed to understand they had an agenda ... if I advocated off their agenda, I could expect to be chastised and criticised for doing so, and that was a certainty.

Labor is convinced Dutton shares with Morrison the same vulnerabilities in appealing to voters. Its research suggests the opposition leader is particularly unpopular in Victoria … Yet campaign insiders say that in the byelection this may not be a deal-breaker for the Liberals.

The convict mentality was not merely a 19th-century phenomenon. It has persisted through Australian history, morphed into many forms of imprisoning, each incarnation more sophisticated, more technologically advanced than the previous one.

Peter Dutton was elected to parliament in 2001. He was born inside one of John Howard’s worst lies. He benefited directly from the outrage of children overboard and the shame of the Tampa. This is how it began.

The behaviour of some of the commissioners and revelations of conflicts between them suggest ASIC has had serious troubles stemming from its leadership ... The response from ASIC on all these matters suggests an approach of ‘nothing to see here’.

If the Liberals fail to win Dunkley, the rational case for Peter Dutton continuing as leader essentially evaporates. Dutton’s obvious successor was glimpsed in the surface fleet announcement this week: opposition defence spokesperson Andrew Hastie.

This is the system that kills us – the chain reaction that starts when our kids are taken from us and ends with more Black deaths in custody, more kids without parents set on the same path, more trauma for the next generation.

Sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday, Julian Assange will find out if he is to be extradited to the United States. It is likely a plane will be waiting for him. After this decision, there are no other options.