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Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says

New thread for the only thing that's happening after the previous one closed. Here's the latest graphs - https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest - from Jordan Burn-Murdoch

This has been in the works for a bit but the site has been announced for a purpose built capital, moving away from the hegemonic Java entirely, to a place near the centre of the country on a whole different island with a Javanese minority but several other major ethnic groups. They're expecting...

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison just called the Australian federal election for May 18, roughly as late as possible, and something we've known is coming for months. It's a Westminster system with no fixed term legislation so that's the PM's prerogative. Early voting starts April 29 It's...

It's really good, hey. I recommend seeing it quickly. And since it's really Thanos' movie you can get away only having a fairly vague sense of who the Marvel heroes are and with not having seen many (maybe even any?) of the previous movies. I suspect when the rest of the world gets it there's...

The Ashes just started at the Gabba literally seconds ago so I thought we could have a thread for it. Predictions? Takes on team selections (do we think Marsh and Warner were a risk with their injuries?)? Sledges for the hated Englishmen?

The last few months Australia has done this stupid postal survey/process on marriage equality because parliament couldn't do its job. Today we got the results back, a crushing win to the "yes" campaign: The response rate/turnout was 79.5% which is pretty stonking for a voluntary postal vote...

Trying to get a sense of people's mental urban geographies. From my point of view (and this is talking about urban or metropolitan areas not administrative boundaries because local government boundaries are often very stupid) I think the transition from town to city is somewhere around the 50k...

"New Zealand's top cop has admitted police have an "unconscious bias" against Maori - discovered after they started analysing how officers apply their discretion over charging people." https://nz.news.yahoo.com/top-stories/a/30220948/police-admit-unconscious-bias-on-maori/ I don't think...

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5-4 decision by SCOTUS holding that the 14th amendment requires marriage between same sex couples.

New Zealand is gonna vote on a new flag, you can submit your design here

Wait. California and Arizona don't have water use restrictions in times of drought? This was split off from the "Clown Car" thread

Mostly just Twitter sources at this stage. Seige in central Sydney at Martin Place, the area including Channel 7 studios has been evacuated. There appear to be hostages in human shield positions at the window of the Lindt chocolate shop holding a flag up. The flag isn't ISIL as was initially...