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June 15, 2019

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Christian love/hate

Most people would have heard of Israel Folau’s transgression on Instagram, where he stated: “Warning: Drunks, Homosexuals, Adulterers, Liars, Fornicators, Thieves, Atheists, Idolators: Hell Awaits You. Repent! Only Jesus Saves.”…

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Noam Chomsky

June 9, 2019

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Modern macroeconomists “solve” the problem [of market imbalance] by assuming it away: the standard models assume that somehow the economy is in equilibrium, with demand for labour and goods somehow just equalling supply. That we achieve this beautiful equilibrium is, like the belief in market efficiency itself, a matter of deep religious conviction, and the path we take to get there a matter of mystical revelation. If a problem crops up in this all-encompassing theory – if there is unemployment, for example – the response is simple: blame the victim, meaning workers, for demanding too-high wages, or migrants, for flooding the job market. If only wages were sufficiently flexible, the theory goes, or borders sufficiently forbidding, the economy would always be at full employment.

Joseph Stiglitz

June 7, 2019

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Genocide is not just a murderous madness: it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Michael Ignatieff

June 4, 2019

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They want dominion

By admin | Australian Politics, Society | 16 Comments

It seems to be mostly the far-right fruitcakes who are scared of the imposition of Sharia Law in Australia. People like One Notion’s Pauline Hanson ramble on about it seemingly…

Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.

Jim Hightower

June 1, 2019

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Nobody wants to live in a country where, despite a strong economy, families are homeless, where our environment is being rapidly degraded and people with mental health issues do not receive the support they need.

Jacinda Ardern

May 25, 2019

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I thought we had compulsory voting

By admin | Australian Politics, Society | No Comments

Australia was one of the first nation states to give (white) women the vote (in 1902), nearly a decade after New Zealand did so, in 18931, and we often pride…

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

David Frum

May 21, 2019

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I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.

[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]

Mike Funnell

Christian love/hate

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

They want dominion

Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.

Nobody wants to live in a country where, despite a strong economy, families are homeless, where our environment is being rapidly degraded and people with mental health issues do not receive the support they need.

I thought we had compulsory voting

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.

[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]

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Society

Christian love/hate

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

They want dominion

Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.

Nobody wants to live in a country where, despite a strong economy, families are homeless, where our environment is being rapidly degraded and people with mental health issues do not receive the support they need.

I thought we had compulsory voting

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

I love a timid country A land of scare campaigns Where mindless bogan slogans Just overtake our brains The stunted, short horizons Of those who will not see Who, presented with alternatives Think only: me, me, me. [apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]

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I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.

[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]