Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created some bingo cards for 2024. Two sets of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re half-way through the year, so let’s see how we went.
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In this episode we talk about Thai politics, the ongoing myth of a Melbourne airport railway, Rupert Murdoch and the nature of marriage, music created by AI, Nirvana, The Veronicas, the ongoing battle against HIV, mental illness, the South Pacific nations, Peter Dutton, and much more.
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A platypus of many talents. Interested in politics, food, pop music & basketball.
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[1 January 2024] On New Year’s Eve Snarky Platypus and I created this bingo card for 2024 listing 25 distinctly possible things. And we list another 25 possibilities that didn’t make the cut.
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[25 June 2024] Australia has been added to China’s visa-waiver program as part of a new agreement announced by Chinese Premier Li Qiang last week in Canberra.
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[2 April 2021] Computer-generated artificial tracks by Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse and Jim Morrison highlight a new project that helps bring attention to mental illness
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[22 April 2021] Lost Tapes of the 27 Club was developed by Over The Bridge, an organization that aims to change the conversation about mental health in the music community while providing a compassionate environment for members to thrive. This song was created using artificial intelligence. An AI algorithm learned from the music, then generated a string of all-new hooks, rhythms, melodies, and lyrics.
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[29 March 2024] The Veronicas return at #6 with Gothic Summer. It’s the Aussie duo’s sixth studio album, all of which have reached the top 10. Their first three albums all peaked at #2: The Secret Life Of… in 2005, Hook Me Up in 2007 and The Veronicas in 2014.
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Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer, Alex Owens, who aspires to become a professional ballerina, alongside Michael Nouri, who plays her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh.
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[15 June 2024] Tim Parker has taken the reins of a project that has crushed the dreams of so many over the decades. But he insists it can become a reality.
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[3 June 2024] Sorry, ladies! The world’s most eligible 93-year-old bachelor — at least among the Succession set — has tied the knot to Elena Zhukova.
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Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG (??m??rd?k? MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor.
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Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC (2 October 1913 – 5 March 2000) was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor. She was the first woman to hold a number of positions in Australia – the country's first woman judge, the first woman to be a Queen's Counsel, a chancellor of an Australian university and the Governor of an Australian state.
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[9 May 2024] The Prime Minister has told Melbourne Airport to "get serious" about a major rail project. Victoria's latest state budget has delayed the Melbourne Airport rail link by a further four years. Airport operators want a train station to go underground. The state government claim the option is too expensive. The Commonwealth has appointed a mediator to break the deadlock but so far no agreement has been reached.
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[8 July 2024] Melbourne Airport has agreed to the Victorian government's request of an above-ground railway station.
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[27 March 2024] Deal had been thrown into doubt during election campaign in Tuvalu over sovereignty concerns.
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[7 June 2024] The visa opens a major new migration pathway for Australia's closest neighbours, letting up to 3,000 citizens from Pacific countries and Timor-Leste migrate each year.
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[4 June 2024] In short: Foreign nationals will be able to serve in the Australian Defence Force in an attempt to boost recruitment.
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Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein... Under the Terran Federation, only veterans of Federal Service (including, but not limited to, military service) enjoy full citizenship, such as the right to vote.
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[25 June 2024] The number of young people in rural areas is declining, hit by falling fertility rates and migration into the big cities, and Japanese agriculture is increasingly relying on workers from abroad to take their place. [This may not be the story referred to in the podcast but it's indicative of Japan's problems.]
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[26 June 2024] Text messages asking ‘did we miss a party room meeting?’ pinged between Coalition MPs, caught out by new ‘position’ on 2030 emissions target.
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Slow Horses is a British spy thriller television series based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron. The series premiered on Apple TV+ on 1 April 2022.
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For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama television series created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi and produced for Apple TV+. The series dramatizes an alternate history depicting "what would have happened if the global space race had never ended" after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States.
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[12 June 2024] NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed to guarantee that Hungary won’t have to take part in the military alliance’s deepening support for Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
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Space Force is an American workplace comedy television series created by Greg Daniels and Steve Carell for Netflix. It centers on a group of people tasked with establishing the sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces, the United States Space Force. It stars Steve Carell, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Diana Silvers, Lisa Kudrow, Tawny Newsome and Jimmy O. Yang.
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[7 June 2024] “Neighbours” winning the best daytime drama Emmy would surely mark the perfect fairytale ending to a storyline full of the sort of twists and cliffhangers worthy of any soap opera. But could this TV icon from down under break the dominance of the four long-running U.S. giants, shows which have effectively been divvying up the honor amongst themselves for the last four decades?
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[28 June 2024] Ryan Moloney has announced plans to move behind the scenes as a director on the series. What's next? Moloney says he doesn't know what's in store for the character and whether he'll be given a conclusive exit or reappear occasionally in future episodes.
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Ryan Moloney (born 24 November 1979) is an Australian actor, known for his portrayal of the fictional character Jarrod "Toadfish" Rebecchi in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1995 until his departure in 2024.
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[7 June 2024] “General Hospital” led night one of the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards, winning four prizes — including the outstanding daytime drama Emmy. “General Hospital” won the top daytime drama award for the fourth year in a row.
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Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.
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The recipe of pad thai has evolved over time. It is believed to be originally a Chinese dish and later on got adapted to the taste of Thais. It is not clear when pad thai became popular but the first pad thai recipe was published in the cookbook ‘Rabiang Phaeng’ in 1917.
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[17 April 2024] The popularization of the noodle dish, as it turns out, was but one of several measures taken by Thai authorities in the 1930s and 1940s to both Westernize and modernize the country. The others, as The New York Times noted over the weekend, included changing the country’s name from Siam to Thailand, banning local languages and dialects from the nation’s schools, and promoting the word sawasdee as a means of greeting. “Part of Phibun’s nation-building strategy was to develop 'Thai-ness' and impose a ‘Thai Great Tradition’ to demonstrate the strength and unity of the Thai nation,” Penny Van Esterik wrote in her book Materializing Thailand.
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Char kway teow (sometimes also spelled as char kuey teow, Chinese: ???; Pe?h-?e-j?: chhá-kóe-tiâu) is a stir-fried rice noodle dish from Maritime Southeast Asia of southern Chinese origin. In Hokkien and Teochew, char means 'stir-fried' and kway teow refers to flat rice noodles. It is made from flat rice noodles (Chinese: ??; pinyin: hé f?n; Cantonese Yale: hó fán) or kway teow (Chinese: ??; Pe?h-?e-j?: kóe-tiâu; pinyin: gu? tiáo; Cantonese Yale: gwó tìuh) of approximately 1 cm or about 0.5 cm in width, stir-fried over very high heat with garlic, light and dark soy sauce, chili paste, whole prawns, shelled blood cockles, chopped Chinese chives, slices of Chinese sausage, and bean sprouts. Other common ingredients include fishcake and belachan.
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[3 June 2024] Uncle Roger is the creation of comedian Nigel Ng.
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[5 April 2024] With the first three months of 2024 complete, here’s how the electric vehicle sales race is shaping up in Australia.
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Richard Kingsmill is an Australian radio announcer and music journalist. He worked for ABC radio station triple j from 1988 until his redundancy in December 2023, and was the station's longest-serving presenter. From 2017 he was group music director of triple j, triple j Unearthed, Double J, ABC Country, and ABC Local Radio.
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[17 June 2024] Courts due to hear cases on Tuesday on PM Srettha Thavisin, the Move Forward Party, former PM Thaksin Shinawatra and the Senate elections.
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The Senate of Thailand (Thai: ???????, RTGS: Wutthisapha, pronounced [wút.t?í.s?.p???]; formerly known as the Phruetthasapha, Thai: ??????, RTGS: Phruetthasapha, pronounced [p?r??t.t?á.s?.p???]) is the upper house of the National Assembly of Thailand, Thailand's legislative branch. In accordance with the 2017 constitution of Thailand, the Senate is a non-partisan legislative chamber, composed of 200 members – all are selection by the candidates from 20 groups. Senators serve five year terms in office.
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Seanad Éireann (???æn?d ???r?n, ??æn?ð? SHAN-?d(h) AIR-?n, Irish: [??an???d?? ?e????n??]; "Senate of Ireland") is the senate of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature)... It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its members senators (seanadóirí in Irish, singular: seanadóir). Unlike Dáil Éireann, it is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members chosen by various methods.
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[22 June 2024] Gilead Sciences announced that no HIV infections had been seen among 2134 young women and adolescent girls in South Africa and Uganda given twice-yearly injections of its innovative anti-HIV drug, lenacapavir, as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in its PURPOSE 1 study.
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38. Orcas 'attacking' boats are actually just bored teenagers having fun, experts say | Live Science[4 June 2024] Orcas off the coast of Iberia are spending less time hunting and more time exploring new games thanks to the recent recovery of their favorite prey, Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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[25 June 2024] News Ltd papers were the first to report the image, which shows 18-year-old Tom Dutton in a Surfers Paradise apartment holding a clear plastic bag that appears to contain a small amount of a white powder. The image was captioned “Birthday day treat” and “Hello how u goin”.
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[25 June 2024] A leaked Snapchat pic of Peter Dutton’s son holding a bag of white powder has sparked a media storm - but there’s an uncomfortable truth about the furore.
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[26 June 2024] Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has made his first trip to Australia since his election last month, meeting Anthony Albanese for talks in Canberra.
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The 4 main retailers are Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Metcash and account for over 80% of the total grocery market.The Woolworths Group is the market leader with a share of 37% of the market followed by Coles 28%, Aldi 10% and Metcash 7%.
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[Undated, but tagged "Updated 3 years ago] In recent years, evidence has emerged to show how the extraordinarily vast array of microbes parked inside your intestine – the gut microbiome – feeds into mental illness development and progression.
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[2 July 2024] T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB (pronounced tee-core-bore) or the "Blaze Star," is on the precipice of a massive explosion — one that should be visible from Earth. According to calculations by Brad Schaefer, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Louisiana State University, along with data from amateur astronomers affiliated with the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), the nova should occur within a few months of May 2024.
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