The Journal

2023

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    Teaching and Learning

    Amazing! Who would have thought that actual teaching helps with actual learnng? Incredible…

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    Responding to Jehovah’s Witnesses

    When Jehovah’s Witnesses come to your door, they may offer you a pamphlet, compliment your house or garden, and ask if they can come in to share some important news about the Bible. Whether you say…

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    Hunting Biden

    Yeah but, this is just a co-incidence… Well, it was a good investment for Kazakhstan, China, and Ukraine, anyway.

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    Uluru Statement from the Heart

    The first words of Prime Minster Anthony Albanese’s victory speech following the 2022 Federal election were these: “I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I pay my respects to…

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    A Voice, but Shut Up

    The last thing proponents of The Voice want you to do is to listen to the voices of indigenous people. The Voice proposal is not about a voice, it is about power. Click the image above…

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    Acupuncture is a Scam

    In case you still did not realise, acupuncture is a scam. It doesn’t work. Not for anything. It doesn’t reduce pain or inflammation, it doesn’t release the flow of energy in your body (much the same…

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    AC/DC, Brian Johnson, and Geordie

    People still think of Bon Scott when they think of AC/DC. He should not be forgotten, of course, nor his earlier work, like My Old Man’s a Groovy Old Man, with the Valentines. But Brian Johnson…

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    FIFA Women’s World Cup

    Excitement builds to fever pitch as the FIFA Women’s World Cup gets underway… The FIFA Women’s World Cup takes place every four years. This is the year, so it is also the year of incessant whining…

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    Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

    Ridly Scott’s historical movies always need to be taken with a grain of salt. I love Gladiator, but as a history lesson, no. Kingdom of Heaven was dire, both as a movie and as history. Alien…

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    A Voice for Whom?

    Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Linda Burney has made emotional appeals for Australians to agree to the Voice, a constitutionally enshrined extra body of representation for people of a particular race, on the basis that this will…

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    Me Too? No Thanks

    The article below is from Spectator Australia. Too important not to read. Do the right thing and visit the Speccie. If you find it interesting, subscribe. You will disagree with some of the articles, but you…

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    Need a Loan?

    My brother Andrew has a mortgage broking business in Ipswich, Queensland. He has lived in Ipswich for more than forty years and knows local property, real estate agents, and banks. He is a hard-working and genuinely…

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    Bullying, Bigotry and the US Supreme Court

    US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer dissented from the recent Court decision that a Christian web designer cannot be forced to create websites for gay marriages. “Today, the Court, for the first time in its history,…

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    World Bosses and Helltide in Diablo 4

    World Bosses As at the current patch (1.0.4.42942), there are three major world bosses in Diablo 4: Although these bosses have their preferred location, any of them can spawn at any of the following places: Caen…