June 2021

June 9, 2021

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In an anti-intellectual society, people who know nothing about a complex subject are emboldened to ridicule experts who have spent a lifetime studying it.

June 8, 2021

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Mediscare

By admin | Australian Politics | 2 Comments

In the runup to the election of 2019, the Labor Party asserted that Medicare was under threat from the federal government. Numerous people in the media termed this the ‘mediscare’…

It is difficult to characterise in a single phrase the devastation that the plausible evidence presented in this proceeding forecasts for the Children. As Australian adults know their country, Australia will be lost and the World as we know it gone as well. The physical environment will be harsher, far more extreme and devastatingly brutal when angry. As for the human experience – quality of life, opportunities to partake in nature’s treasures, the capacity to grow and prosper – all will be greatly diminished. Lives will be cut short. Trauma will be far more common and good health harder to hold and maintain. None of this will be the fault of nature itself. It will largely be inflicted by the inaction of this generation of adults, in what might fairly be described as the greatest inter-generational injustice ever inflicted by one generation of humans upon the next. [Sharma v Minister for the Environment]

Justice Mordecai Bromberg

June 6, 2021

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"I'm going to be reinstated as president and become Speaker of the House" is all the proof you need that the family of raccoons living inside Donald Trump's head have completely chewed through the wires.

Jeff Tiedrich

June 6, 2021

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The demise of the Liberal Party is under way in South Australia

By admin | Australian Politics, Society | 8 Comments

I wrote a few articles about the effective takeover by the religious of the Liberal Party branches in Victoria1,2, Western Australia2,3, Queensland2 and federally4, and how this will eventually lead to…

Religious astroturfing

By admin | Society | 7 Comments

Astroturfing is the attempt to create an impression of widespread grassroots support for a policy, individual, or product, where such support is not common. This is often manifest online and…

Scott Morrison couldn't lead a dog on a leash. He's a follower. He waits for someone else to do and say something, and if it looks like it might be a goer, he rides on their coat tails; then he calls press conferences to big note himself and take the credit.

G. Dixon

June 1, 2021

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An ex-conservative friend of mine told me a story about a conversation she had with someone who remained much more active in the conservative movement. The active conservative had raged about “liberal elites” until finally my friend could stand it no longer: “You went to law school. Why aren’t you an elite?” The active conservative paused, reflected, and then answered, “Well, what do you want me to call the people I hate?”

David Frum

In an anti-intellectual society, people who know nothing about a complex subject are emboldened to ridicule experts who have spent a lifetime studying it.

Mediscare

"I'm going to be reinstated as president and become Speaker of the House" is all the proof you need that the family of raccoons living inside Donald Trump's head have completely chewed through the wires.

The demise of the Liberal Party is under way in South Australia

Religious astroturfing

Scott Morrison couldn't lead a dog on a leash. He's a follower. He waits for someone else to do and say something, and if it looks like it might be a goer, he rides on their coat tails; then he calls press conferences to big note himself and take the credit.

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