Freedom! March 2, 2019
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I was discharged from hospital two days ago. I enjoyed the experience, or I became institutionalized very quickly. They fed you, and even make your bed. They do not let you go, if they are any question marks over your health, for example higher than the norm blood potassium readings.
Eight Weeks and Eight Days July 11, 2016
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The election ran for eight weeks, and then the count took days to sort out who had a bare majority in the House of Reps to form the government. I tired of being told seemingly endlessly that the 76 members represented an absolute majority.
Invasion Day: Ignoring History January 28, 2016
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History, we are told is written by the victors. If history is not is not accurate it has little value as memory. Propaganda can be very serviceable. Means have a habit of presaging ends. Orchestrated delusion, or at least failure to address the truth of the past, or worst to embrace ignorance, does not serve the larger of cause of humanity.
GET A WARRANT! March 25, 2015
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In this instance, Get UP were nicer than I am prepared to be. They merely suggested a specific warrant is necessary, as in the case of that other country moved to oppose and dispose the general warrant of the King, now 239 years ago. Now we are under officially surveillance by the state. This is both totalitarianism, and of doubtful utility for achieving its stated objectives. Representative Democracy necessarily involves trust which when broken goes deeper than a mere constitutional crisis. (more…)
THE CLIMATE CHANGE PROBLEM February 10, 2015
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Climate change is a problem that will not go away. It is as Kevin Rudd said: “the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time” I would prefer to describe it as “the defining issue of our time” – a rhetoric co-opted for income inequality.
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ARISE SIRE ABBOTT! February 9, 2015
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The chances are good that Tony Abbott will be given his priors today. And then again he might survive the ship wreck. The problem with shipwrecks is that the boat cannot float any longer. Ask the captain of the Costa Concordia how that goes.
WHERE TO FOR THE FEDERAL LNP? January 30, 2015
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I don’t claim any special insights into Australian federal politics. I am just wondering.
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AN UNQUALIFIED FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION? January 12, 2015
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The denizens of Catallaxy are too concerned with matters of great moment to be bothered to response to my propositions this morning. Furthermore, I might well have been censored.
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CORPORATE TRIUMPHALISM, DEMISE OF DEMOCRACY? December 23, 2014
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If this is the challenge, how do we meet it? Let me quote myself from a comment posted in response to “The Ship of Fools”:
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MORALITY AND REFUGEE POLICY December 5, 2014
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Green Senators spoke with emotion on the treatment of refugees in the last evenings debate on the amendment to the legislation. The debate, such as it is, was delivered to a near empty Senate chamber.This is a moral case, and as democratic citizens we have to take responsibility, and hold those who presume to rule us to account.
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DEMOCRATIC REVIEW AND PROSPECT November 21, 2014
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Australian democracy is in crisis. The crisis is exemplified in the observations and comments of the prime minister.
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SYNTHESIS REPORT OF IPCC’S FIFTH ASSESSMENT REPORT November 6, 2014
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an interesting institution within which climate scientists from around the globe work together. What is possible for science, remains impossible for politics. I notice that the report is dedicated to the memory of Stephen H. Schneider 1945 – 2010.
CLOUD COVER AND OCEAN CYCLES October 3, 2014
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It may seem odd that political attention and resources are focused now on Sunni extremists, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and not on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa or Climate Change. We are told that the Government’s focus is to keep Australians safe.
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INTENTIONALITY, AUSTERITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT August 7, 2014
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Gary at Public Opinion posted on “tabloid politics” and the unemployed. The facts of the situation seems to be there is a mismatch between the available advertised positions and the applicants.
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UN(FOR)SEEN IRAQ June 27, 2014
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So who is ISIS? Where do they get their money from? Why are they so well trained and effective? Are they part of a holy war that might loosely be interpreted as a jihad or struggle?
DUSTING OFF THE NEO-LIBERAL PLAYBOOK June 20, 2014
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The budget was unanticipated and a shock. Neo-liberalism is the Government’s pervasive ideology.
WAR AGAINST THE HUMAN FUTURE June 13, 2014
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This is a provocative suggestion. However, for governments to allow the cutting down forests, the source of oxygen,thus destroying ecosystems we cannot recreate, and particularly refusing to take effective actions on climate change the case is clear.
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HOMELESSNESS May 19, 2014
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Now that border fascism has been brought home by the cruelty of the Federal Budget, as could have been predicted, the question and ramifications of homelessness might merit consideration.
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A BUDGET REFLECTION May 15, 2014
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The Federal Budget will affect everybody, perhaps in different ways, including those people who live and work, or at some future point once lived and worked around the neighbourhood.
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