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2022 - 9 - 9

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Letters of September 9, 2022: Inflation headlines hide reality (The Australian Financial Review)

RBA, Interest rates, inflation, Queensland, land tax, green power, renewables.

Queensland has a dubious history of leading the country in taxation initiatives; not all of them have been conducive to a fair and better overall tax system. With a level playing field of taxation, investment will be attracted to where there is greatest demand for development. The former position, consistent with the position in other states, excluded the value of land holdings in states other than Queensland. Nobody should be too surprised at the changes made to the calculation of a landholder’s land tax liability in Queensland (“Qld tax ‘grab’ will hit house prices, lift rents”, September 6). How long will it take other states to follow suit ? It’s hard to see “green steel” as an economically viable alternative to the coal-fired blast furnace. It is time to return responsibility for policy on interest rates to our democratically elected governments. However, it looks to contradict Davis’ point that leadership is “about people, not abstraction”. The applicable tax will then be calculated as if all that land is in Queensland, and then the tax payable will be the proportion of the value of Queensland land to the total value of land in Australia owned by the landholder. Big businesses should be forced to fulfil their obligations to employees. Wage increases, not interest rises, are going to alleviate our problem. But this is not what is happening.

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Newspaper headlines: 'A life in service' and 'we loved you ma'am' (BBC News)

The UK press reflect on the end of an era, in their first editions after the Queen's death.

"He [Huw Edwards] was speaking very, very slowly, but with exactly the layer of gravelly Welsh gravitas the occasion demanded. It chooses a photograph of then-Princess Elizabeth, taken in 1952, looking straight into the camera with a determined gaze. [The Guardian points out](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/queen-elizabeth-ii-obituary) that her reign saw some of the greatest changes in industrial, economic, technical and social development of any era. [its lead story](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-dies-sfcmbcqgc), reporter Valentine Low says "history will deliver its verdict in the fullness of time but it is hard to conceive of her being remembered as anything other than one of the greatest monarchs in our history". Its front page carries a black and white portrait of the Queen in her later years with a still, gentle smile. But you couldn't help admire how the Queen did her duty, got on with her job and never complained." [The Financial Times abandons business news ](https://www.ft.com/content/a30366d6-998b-4b32-9193-11d2d66203cb)for its front page, dedicating it almost entirely to a beaming Queen. The Times' back cover carries a quotation from the Queen's Christmas broadcast in 1957, the first to be televised: "I cannot lead you into battle. [the paper says](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11195469/JAN-MOIR-Solemn-Bible-BBC-caught-moment-best.html) the mood on-screen on the BBC was "as solemn as a Bible". It describes her death as a "watershed moment in the life of the nation". Here are their historic front pages. [lets the striking picture of the newly-crowned monarch stand alone](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/queen-elizabeth-ii-britains-longest-reigning-monarch-dies-aged-96) - other than her name and dates of her reign - while the Times adds the words: "A life in service."

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101 'Mental Headlines' That Are 100% Weird (New Pics) (Bored Panda)

Just take a look at the 'Mental Headlines' Twitter account. With nearly 119k followers, the social media project features some of the funniest, weirdest, and ...

[101 images](https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-mental-headlines/?all_submissions=true&media_id=4287445). "It's still the case that overall people now have many more competing and varied potential sources of information than they did decades ago when people read one newspaper, watched one television news broadcast, and maybe listened to one radio station. because, to an extent, news accuracy has always been a problem, weird beliefs pervade human history, and audiences interact with content in more complex ways than is often claimed." People need to become informed and savvy consumers of media and always question the stories they come across. "Like the recent front page headline in the Metro about Boris Johnson that read "Even when stuff is obviously nonsense, it serves in a kind of boundary space between fact and fiction — just as things like the Weekly World News used to do, online media does that now." The best headlines (and the most hilarious ones!) grab the reader’s attention and invite them to a noteworthy adventure. So, news is kind of predisposed to the unusual, unexpected — even in the routines of things like political news, the search is ever for the latest brewing scandal, or gaffe or what have you." The relative costs of trying to find something that has a wide reach when compared to traditional media content, a Hollywood genre film, say, are also much lower," Dr. Vincent Campbell](https://le.ac.uk/people/vincent-campbell), Deputy Head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. "The pithy, clipped tabloid use of language suits the rapid clickbait culture of online and social media. With nearly 119k followers, the social media project features some of the funniest, weirdest, and downright bizarre titles and news stories spotted online.

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Headlines for September 09, 2022 (Democracy Now!)

Climate Crisis Brings Fire and Floods to California as Global Temperature Records Fall. Sep 09, 2022. Southern California is bracing for torrential rainfall ...

Kim Jong-un made the comments at a gathering of North Korea’s parliament, where members on Thursday approved a new law allowing North Korea to carry out a preventive nuclear first strike, while declaring the nation’s nuclear-armed status “irreversible.” This is Ariel Koren, a Jewish former Google employee who says she was forced to quit due to her activism and support of Palestinian rights. The vaccine was produced by researchers at the University of Oxford, who published their results in the British medical journal The Lancet this week. Slate magazine legal writer Mark Joseph Stern tweeted, “The problem, of course, is that Cannon is not a real judge, but a Trump judge, and one of the most corrupt of the bunch.” The DNC’s rejection of a ban comes after dark money flooded Democratic primary races across the country this year, targeting progressive candidates seeking to challenge Democratic incumbents. CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin said in a statement, “The White House and Congress are fueling this war with a steady stream of weapons instead of pushing for talks to end the conflict. Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth, died Thursday at the age of 96. Truss said it’s part of a larger plan to increase domestic oil and gas development, aimed at lowering energy costs across the U.K. The South Carolina Senate has proposed to reduce the time rape and incest survivors have to seek an abortion from 20 to 12 weeks. The storm is expected to bring up to a year’s worth of precipitation, but instead of relief from a historic drought, officials are warning of dangerous flash flooding and high winds that could whip up raging wildfires. The activists say the reforms would weaken environmental laws, limit court challenges to oil and gas projects and clear the way for new pipelines, including the proposed Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline in West Virginia. Hundreds of climate protesters rallied in Washington, D.C., Thursday to demand lawmakers reject changes to how the federal government grants permits for oil and gas projects.

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