Daily review 19/11/2020

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Daily review is also your post.

This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

12 comments on “Daily review 19/11/2020 ”

  1. joe90 1

    #ScottyFromMarketing flew to Tokyo to sign a landmark defence treaty between Australia and Japan, which paves the way for the two nations to conduct more joint military exercises throughout the Indo-Pacific on China's doorstep.

    Beijing responded….

    https://twitter.com/RushDoshi/status/1329076394228269056

    "China is angry. If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy," a Chinese government official said in a briefing with a reporter in Canberra on Tuesday.

    The dossier of 14 disputes was handed over by the Chinese embassy in Canberra to Nine News, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in a diplomatic play that appears aimed at pressuring the Morrison government to reverse Australia’s position on key policies.

    https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/if-you-make-china-the-enemy-china-will-be-the-enemy-beijing-s-fresh-threat-to-australia-20201118-p56fqs.html?

  2. greywarshark 2

    There's that cliche about not passing over people who deserve consideration in important decisions – 'What about the children'. Well overseas people who have come here for whatever reason are vulnerable like children. I know we tend to fluff our responsibilities to fellow humans when they we can't get millions out of them, but come on NZ isn't there one Minister or MP of good character who can look out for people caught up in the invisible barbed wire at the border.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/431017/graduate-international-students-locked-out-of-new-zealand-plead-for-exemption

    Recent graduates who spent thousands on their education in New Zealand are questioning why they were left out of a border exemption to get them back to their homes and jobs.

    After months of being locked out of New Zealand, many say they feel abandoned by the government after years of living here and paying taxes.

    Protests have been held around India, including 150 people at a demonstration in Delhi this week bearing banners of #Migrantlivesmatter, and another is planned for Monday.

    We want to be better than Australia don't we? We seemed to be so let's not drop the ball now.

    • solkta 2.1

      If they are graduates they have achieved what they came here for. Can't see that we owe them anything.

  3. greywarshark 3

    solkta I have heard that absinthe has a bitter taste. I wonder if it is like many of your comments.

    Guerilla Surgeon on Bowalley Road put up a link from Newsroom. The cruel violence of ‘kindness’ and ‘unity’

    Dylan Asafo argues that it’s impossible to govern for "all New Zealanders” in an exceptionally unequal society like ours

    You cannot serve the interests of wealthy conservatives, and then claim to be remotely interested in addressing poverty, homelessness, mass incarceration and climate change. You have to choose one – there is no legitimate and honest middle ground or ‘centre’.

    https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/the-cruel-violence-of-kindness-and-unity/ar-BB1b8yjS?ocid=msedgdhp

    And Chris Trotter has put up a bitter post of losing/lost hope in Labour.

    https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-hollow-persons-with-apologies-to-ts.html

  4. In Vino 5

    It seems that the Australian Defence Ministry is issuing a much better apology than our miserable lot managed for misbehaviour by both our gallant forces in Afghanistan.

    Once again, we are being out-performed by our trans-Tasman cousins.

    I wouldn't blame Hager and Stephenson if they joined the brain-drain trend, and moved to Oz.

    Not doing a link – just look at any news currently going.

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