Reading

Some interesting reading:

• Outing a person rarely brings us closer to their truth https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/02/outing-a-person-rarely-bring-us-closer-to-their-truth-eva-wiseman?CMP=share_btn_tw; 
• How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism - When the Nazis came to power, the writer Charlotte Beradt began collecting dreams. What did she learn? https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism; 
• Why Democrats share the blame for the rise of Donald Trump - I was part of a Democratic administration that failed to fix a rigged system – I know our current president is a symptom of our disunion, not its only cause. "Trump is not the cause of our divided nation. He is the symptom of a rigged system that was already dividing us. It’s not enough to defeat him. We must reform the system that got us here in the first place, to ensure that no future politician will ever again imitate Trump’s authoritarian demagoguery." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/01/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-state-of-the-union; 
• Is this the end of the liberal international order? And what might take its place? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-31/liberal-international-order-under-threat-china-us/11905652; 
• Could the science of kindness make the world a better place? https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-02-02/evolution-science-of-kindness-make-the-world-a-better-place/11886430; 
• View from The Hill: Bridget McKenzie falls – but for the lesser of her political sins https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-bridget-mckenzie-falls-but-for-the-lesser-of-her-political-sins-131011,
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  Remembrance of rorts past: why the McKenzie scandal might not count for a hill of beans https://theconversation.com/remembrance-of-rorts-past-why-the-mckenzie-scandal-might-not-count-for-a-hill-of-beans-130793; 
• Heat kills. We need consistency in the way we measure these deaths - https://theconversation.com/heat-kills-we-need-consistency-in-the-way-we-measure-these-deaths-120500; 
• Proposed Queensland laws silencing charities risk breaching the Constitution - https://theconversation.com/proposed-queensland-laws-silencing-charities-risk-breaching-the-constitution-130528.