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Is AUKUS a boondoggle?
Boondoggle: “An informal term for an expensive and wasteful project, especially one funded by the public.” – Cambridge Dictionary. I’d come across the American word ‘boondoggle’ and was puzzled by this bizarre verbal mishmash. What did this weird word mean? I looked it up, and found the word was used by Americans to describe wasteful…
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Stoking hate in the Sunshine State
In March, the Crisafulli government in Queensland introduced controversial hate speech legislation, outlawing two expressions deemed antisemitic: “From the river to the sea” and “Globalise the intifada”. The Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies urged a ban on expressions that incited violence, harm or offence. They said the two phrases played a key role in intimidating…
