Also: wait until climate change really starts to kick in. The Syrian refugee crisis is only the beginning.

Also: wait until climate change really starts to kick in. The Syrian refugee crisis is only the beginning.

Originally shared by Glenn Murray

There’ll come a time – pretty soon, I’d say – when Australia will have to start taking its global responsibilities re refugees seriously. Our detention centres are considered illegal by the countries hosting them, the UN has condemned our approach, the Australian Human Rights Commission has condemned our approach, Amnesty International has condemned our approach, the medical and legal communities have condemned our approach, and the church has condemned our approach. We’re chucking a hissy-fit over a few thousand refugees, breaking numerous international laws in the process, while the rest of the world is dealing with a genuine refugee crisis. Stand up, Australia. You’re better than this. 

He may scrape back in but his policies and alliances are increasingly on the nose.

He may scrape back in but his policies and alliances are increasingly on the nose. Hung parliaments are not such a bad thing, they are far more responsive to democratic pressure than governments with clear majorities.

Shows you what a long running economic downturn can do to the outlook of a generation.

Shows you what a long running economic downturn can do to the outlook of a generation. Things are not showing any signs of improving and the political and economic consensus of the previous thirty years—the so-called Great Moderation—has been left in tatters by the GFC.

Politics inevitably has to change.

Originally shared by Andres Soolo

Washington Post reports on a certain spectre haunting America.

In <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/25/bernie-sanders-is-profoundly-changing-how-millennials-think-about-politics-poll-shows/?tid=pm_business_pop_b>, WP suggests the visage of the spectre.

The main problem is that online advertising is that it is a two way scam both for readers and advertisers.

The main problem is that online advertising is that it is a two way scam both for readers and advertisers. The scam has been obscured by all the data collected but the uncomfortable reality is that scarcely anyone is really looking at ads, let alone being influenced by them.

Whether 1% or 99% of readers are blocked from a site, the end effect is the same but throwing up barriers to ad blockers, these sites are foregoing traffic and this puts a dent in their ranking and influence in the media space.

The sites that have done the better have avoided anti-blocking while maintaining the fiction to their sponsors that their advertising actually works.

Originally shared by mathew murphy

Well, duh.