How do we the people restrain and control the greedy and power-hungry who try to lord over us? Murdoch, Trump, Abbott, Bush, Rinehart…
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    Tired of seeing the millionaires, billionaires and entitled, the greedy and the grasping, getting positions of power. They regard us as merely as workers or profit makers, or a rubble to be strictly controlled.

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    @maxcelcat
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    How do we really fight world hunger and poverty? Or is it possible to get rid of inequality altogether?
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    I am asking this question because the UN has identified a set of development goals such as equal access to education and eradication of poverty that it made me wonder if we as citizens of the world can truly achieve these goals.

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    @mikaelakristin
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    What is Australia’s “national security” policy and strategy?
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    The Government and Labor Opposition often cite the importance of “national security”, most frequently in the context of countering terrorism and Islamic extremism. But there is no extant national security policy and strategy, and little public debate on this critical topic that should concern all Australians.

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    Michael G. Smith
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    Will we ever evolve to a place where we make decisions, not just on the financial and economic benefit but for “The Greater Good” of the majority not just the powerful and financially wealthy ?
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    Because, having watched as, at least those in the West, have turned away from the principles offered by the Ten Commandments and instead adopted the principles of The Seven Deadly Sins (with great enthusiasm I might add) we seem to be losing our humanity. Social justice is fading away and social depression and hopelessness is its replacement. Why does it matter to me? I guess because I actually care about people and it makes me angry and sad to see us destroying, not just the planet, but ourselves. I guess it’s the “no man is an Island…” and “Do unto others” Once we forget those, what do we become – non humans? Who says “history never repeats” they were nuts !

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    Elaine
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    Why must professional swimmers train so early in the morning? The races are not at this time. They have all day to swim.
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    I’ve always wondered. Every swimmer says they hate the early starts. So swim later. YOU HAVE ALL DAY TO SWIM! The races are often at night. Pools are indoors. It makes no sense!!

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    Michelle Clarke
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    People who load the toilet roll under/behind style are monsters. How do they sleep at night? HOW?
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    Because hotels and sensible humans all over the world only load it forward.

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    @reubenacciano
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    As a community, how can we support a person with a mental health issue, without creating stigma?
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    I have a mental illness in a regional city. I had an episode of anger which I understand is due to acute anxiety, at my daughter’s school. Three years on, people still cower, there is gossip about me, that is of the effect that I am going to coffee shops to ‘meet’ and ‘pickup’ men, and that I am most interested in meeting married men. I am told I have to just move around and amongst the society, (by my psychologist) but I find it safer and apparently I am becoming more reclusive, to remain at home. I don’t condone aggressive behaviour. The school and my workplace, were trying to ‘support’ me, by having psychologists at the school, monitor my behaviour and have people behave ‘accordingly’. I began to feel I was living ‘The Truman Show’, and realise none of my interactions were authentic. Initially those people were being ‘kind’ but misguided, in supporting me, and I guess, my daughter. I have 3 years until she leaves school. I will go ‘somewhere else’. Michael Kirby has spoken of the chaplaincy program being a ‘front’ to filter through students of need/risk. I plod on. This stigma came into my new workplace. I plod on. Btw: this is not my paranoia. Underneath, I find it deeply alienating and distressing.

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    Stigma_or_Getoverit
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    Should Elizabeth St in Melbourne become a creek again?
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    Elizabeth St in Melbourne is prone to flooding, and beneath the streets runs a creek (Williams creek) which seems to be desperate to reassert itself. Other cities have successfully (re)integrated waterways into their cities, notably Seoul, South Korea. Should Melbourne do the same?

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    @nightlightguy
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    If you could choose the legacy you leave behind, what would it be and why?
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    What we should be doing for our future is important.

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    @thatrahrah
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    Why do humans produce tears when we get upset ?
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    Is it a protective reaction to dtop us from seeing things that cause us pain ? Evolutionary mystery.

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    Jen
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    How many parts per million of co2 were recorded in the atmosphere today?
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    El nino and la niƱa are natural weather phenomena. Climate change is not. Is a scientist or two measuring co2 in the australian atmosphere so that we can mitigate our behaviour and transit to market in a considered way. This affects peoples living standards. Let’s avoid poverty!

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    Carolyn Eccleston
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    How do we solve the very real problem of the role the media play in causing political and economic instability in Australia?
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    Genuine problem that needs solving/debate/discussion.

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    Brendan
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    Is meditation good for everyone? Is there an alternative?
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    I can’t bear meditation – am I the only one? It’s such a buzz-concept at the moment; others must be wondering too.

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    Catherine
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