It was Noam Chomsky who stated “that’s the standard technique of privatisation: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, then you hand it over to private capital”. You…
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A recent paper in the journal ‘Behavioral and Brain Science’ (Hibbing et al., 2014) is enlightening in that it studied the difference between conservatives and ‘liberals’, as they are called…
To be able to stand for election to either the House of Representatives or the Senate, a person must be: At least 18 years old; and An Australian citizen; and…
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal….
Homeopathy is a system of ‘complementary medicine’ in which it is claimed that substances that cause the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure the same disease in…
I have been around long enough to see Italians, Greeks, Czechs, Hungarians, Croatians, Serbians, Austrians, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Sri Lankans and assorted other immigrants and refugees arrive in Australia. They were…
If you are sick to death of being annoyed by self-appointed ‘climate experts’, who think that it’s colder today, therefore climate change isn’t happening, or that climate change is all…
Humans have been inventing gods since agriculture began, if not from before. There is evidence that ritual burial of the dead extends as far back as 100,000 years or so….
The Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) passed a law, which enforced an exclusion zone around a clinic in Canberra. This clinic sometimes provides women with abortions. The…