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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Australia is great. I lived there for a year and loved it.

But, it's far from everywhere. Getting there takes an extremely long time on a plane, and burns a lot of carbon.