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December 12, 2020

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Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison

By admin | Australian Politics, UK Politics | 13 Comments

When the federal Coalition was elected to government in 2013, they took a great deal of glee in repealing the very effective Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). It was in…

December 11, 2020

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A lack of imagination

By admin | Australian Politics, Science, UK Politics, US Politics | 6 Comments

I read a piece in the New Yorker by Anthony Gottlieb about the Cambridge mathematician Frank Ramsey1, a person of whom I had never heard. Reading about Ramsey makes one…

December 6, 2020

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Two things I want you to imagine: 1) The media reaction if Victoria had made a mistake and allowed international arrivals fly elsewhere without quarantine. 2) The media reaction if the two people who flew to Melbourne avoiding quarantine had been black.

Claire Coleman

December 3, 2020

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Republicans think that children being slaughtered in their classrooms with weapons of war is the cost of freedom but that wearing a mask to save lives during a pandemic is too high a price to pay.

Bradley Whitford

November 29, 2020

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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.

Toni Morrison

November 29, 2020

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Morrison excels himself

By admin | Australian Politics | 2 Comments

Everyone probably has heard of the Brereton enquiry into alleged war crimes by Australian troops in Afghanistan1. A few days ago, Lieutenant General Rick Burr, the Chief of Army, faced…

November 28, 2020

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Call me a radical lefty if you'd like, but I refuse to accept a system that enables Jeff Bezos to grow his wealth by $66,000,000,000 in 5 months — during a pandemic that's left 40,000,000 Americans on the brink of eviction.

Robert Reich

November 27, 2020

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Berejiklian’s hypocrisy

By admin | Australian Politics | 2 Comments

In 2011, current New South Wales Premier, Gladys Berejiklian cast aspersions on the motives of then Premier, Kristina Keneally over the decrease in the fares for the Airport Rail Line,…

November 26, 2020

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Now that the stock market has reached an all time high, even as millions of Americans are in bread lines trying to fend off starvation during a plague, perhaps more people will finally get it that the stock market is not the economy.

Bill Palmer

November 23, 2020

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The truth hurts

By admin | Australian Politics | 3 Comments

An investigation into the behaviour of members of the Australian Defence Force has recently been completed and the report stemming from it has been handed to the government. The investigation…

Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison

A lack of imagination

Two things I want you to imagine: 1) The media reaction if Victoria had made a mistake and allowed international arrivals fly elsewhere without quarantine. 2) The media reaction if the two people who flew to Melbourne avoiding quarantine had been black.

Republicans think that children being slaughtered in their classrooms with weapons of war is the cost of freedom but that wearing a mask to save lives during a pandemic is too high a price to pay.

Morrison excels himself

Call me a radical lefty if you'd like, but I refuse to accept a system that enables Jeff Bezos to grow his wealth by $66,000,000,000 in 5 months — during a pandemic that's left 40,000,000 Americans on the brink of eviction.

Berejiklian’s hypocrisy

Now that the stock market has reached an all time high, even as millions of Americans are in bread lines trying to fend off starvation during a plague, perhaps more people will finally get it that the stock market is not the economy.

The truth hurts

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