Liberal Member of the Victorian Parliament, Ryan Smith announced his resignation from politics and will leave on July 7, triggering a by-election in his electorate of Warrandyte, north-east of Melbourne….
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While thinking about the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I realised that this was in part a world war by proxy, in that it was one of totalitarianism against democracy,…
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.
I have written about the insanely murderous gun laws in the United States a couple of times, as the problem they create only seems to worsen1,2. More recently, I also…
The difference between Canberra lobbyists and the Voice is that one operates in the dark, with few rules and plenty of space for sneaky deals, the occasional back scratch or pocket filler. The other will be a constitutionally enshrined body operating according to legislation, transparent and legal and representative, offering little chance for backroom deals and post-retirement sinecures. No wonder the opposition dislikes the latter. [https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/at-last-a-pm-who-leads-a-government-with-purpose-20230525-p5db3k.html]
After writing a piece about the idiocy of the US gun culture and the enormous number of mass murders by gun1, I wondered just how generally murderous the US was….
While there is a great deal of smugness about the gun buyback scheme instituted by the Howard coalition government after the Port Arthur massacre, when compared to the murderous availability…
The first essay I wrote on this blog, back in January 2017, was about gun violence in the US. It was entitled appropriately ‘Gun nuts’1. At that time, the essay…
Everybody who reads newspapers or their websites knowns that the relevance deficit disorder sufferer, and NSW One Notion upper house member, Mark Latham, tweeted something disgustingly homophobic (and deleted it…
Deep in the basement recesses of the library at Geoscience Australia is a journal entitled Original Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory1. Decades ago, these were sent, unsolicited, to the…