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I went to an Extinction Rebellion meeting to discover what the movement was about. Lo and behold there were a lot of rich folk there…lots of family homes are built on the coast and river foreshores, and they love their children and future grandchildren too. After the floods and fires the penny is dropping that slowing climate change from human folly and greed is the priority.

Margaret Cowan
May 23, 2022

The intrigue about ‘who would run the country’ if [Anthony Albanese] travels to Japan for the Quad is hilarious in the extreme - because let’s face it - the only answer that really matters is - it wouldn’t be Barnaby Joyce.

Laura Harding
May 19, 2022

For [Scott] Morrison, words are just distracting noises that come out of a hole in his head. They are not connected to any logic or fact or principle. They are not constrained by anything he has said or done in the past, nor do they commit him to any future course of action. To expect otherwise is to make a categorical error. Morrison’s political career provides no grounds for believing that he will ever give a straight answer to any question, offer a cogent and consistent argument, explain himself in any way, or do anything he says he will do. He has never baulked at any hypocrisy, small or large. He speaks in order to make the very act of questioning him an exercise in futility, addressing no concrete reality beyond the immediate imperative to generate static. It is a form of anti-oratory: the rhetorical equivalent of avoiding an awkward conversation by starting up a leaf blower. [https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/amen-snorter-rotten-fish/]

James Ley
May 16, 2022

When Christians talk about how they are being ‘persecuted’ what they really mean is that they are discontent at no longer being able to use social and political power to force their views, their morality or their dogma onto other people the way they once did. They can no longer burn people at the stake, prosecute people for blasphemy, and have much less of an ability to oppress minorities and ‘keep them in their place’. The dogma, ignorance and authoritarianism that is required for Christianity to maintain control has greatly diminished and religious authorities and their institutions no longer have the power nor the respect that they once had. This makes them feel that they are being unfairly persecuted, though they actually have no real understanding of what that word really means.

Ephraim C. Brown
May 13, 2022