Australia has dropped the prosecution of Bernard Collaery, who was accused of helping to reveal that Australia had bugged the Timorese negotiating team. Australia was negotiating at the time the division of oil rights between East Timor and Australia.

However, prosecution of other whistleblowers that revealed Australian government wrongdoing continues. This threatens human rights and democracy.

Covering fields of crops with plastic sheets increased local temperatures by around 0.7°C and humidity by nearly 25%.

The large-scale use of this practice changes the region's weather.

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The Federal government habitually helps state governments get personal data from databases, and from people's computers. If it doesn't take action to avoid this, it will help states find abortion patients or abortion providers.

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This criticism applies to the plutocratist Democrats, but we should not hold it against the progressive Democrats.