Jackie Cooper

Israeli ambassador says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ to question legal basis for war on Iran Israel’s new ambassador says Australia was on the “right side of history” by backing strikes against Iran as he warned against calls for a ceasefire.

"Israel’s new ambassador to Australia says it is mind-boggling anyone would question the legality of the US-Israeli strikes against Iran"

it is mind-boggling that this propagandist for a genocidal apartheid rogue state is cited as an authority on international law.
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Aarrghhh!

A helpful overview of the Straight of Hormuz and the global ripple effect of an Iranian blockade.

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This draconian political overreach is provocative and does nothing to foster social cohesion.
When government masquerades as the thought police, it is an attack on human rights.
Wake up!
#auspol

The evangelical creepshow returns. I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo.

I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo. Yet somehow Scott Morrison came back from the dead this week.

All the money, none of the submarines: AUKUS deal paying upfront for hopes and dreams When Kerry Packer bought Channel 9 back from Allan Bond for effectively half the price Bond had sold it to him, Packer famously said “You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime, and I’ve had mine”.

"The #AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point."

And yet, here we are, explains @grogsgamut.bsky.social . #auspol
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Called it right

Are we listening to this, Australia

This is what all EU countries (AND the UK) should do …

Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people

did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies?

But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs…
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Australia has been 30 years without a mass shooting. Gun control works, and needs to go further.

Ghost of Joh

We should not ally with the US. This is piracy, and frankly a casus belli. Will Oz send troops to support this extra-judicial action? Sorry, guys, the US is not to be trusted.

In UME 19, the Disney Concert Hall, LA, 2005. We write critical captions, and Paolo Tombesi goes backstage with ‘Precisely Loose: On Disney Hall and the Technology of the Curtain’. Revelatory. To see, go to Umemagazine.com home page and click on articles to download as pdfs. Free.

On Frank Gehry: as architectural editors and publishers Haig and I also hit our stride in our 50s. We published Gehry buildings in UME and asked Paolo Tombesi to write critiques. In UME 12, 2000, Building ‘B’, der Neue Zollhof, Düsseldorf. Lots of drawings. Paolo wrote ‘Boundaries of Expression’.

To see this article, and read Frank Gehry in his own words, go to the home page of Umemagazine.com And click on International Architect, and then download the article as a pdf. Free. BTW It’s our favourite building of his.
Jackie Cooper and Haig Beck

he could only experiment on the renovation of his own house. We we fortunate as young editors to spend a day with him during which he candidly explained his intentions and working method, which we published in International Architect. 2/3

Noticing a few posts on Frank Gehry. We published the house in International Architect, 2, 1978. 13 pp, drawings and photographs. He was almost 50 when he designed this house, an age when most great architects are hitting their stride. But he was a relatively unknown ‘commercial’ architect, and /3

An Institution Betrayed GH on the State Library's post-literate plans

Mr Gideon Haigh on why the ongoing, incompetent and dull-witted enshittification of the State Library of Victoria is so heartbreaking, so stupid, and so dangerous. Please share. www.cricketetal.com/p/an-institu...

#RealHeroes Vs #ClimateCriminals, #Australia - #auspol.

BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.

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Our beloved and trusted AUKUS ally

So now Australia will be making F35 fighter jet parts for Saudi Arabia. A country that Amnesty says ignores people’s basic human rights, restricts their freedoms and inflicts severe punishment. The regime also kills dissenters. No one even asked us.

Australia’s greatest ally

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

Nice one, Philip.

An erratum of editors.

Same