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Current Affairs
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Syrian Refugee (?) Fake Hate Crime
I have pretty much gotten to the point that whenever I see news of a hate crime committed against blacks, gays or muslims I assume it is a hoax. There is a long. Very long. And…
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ISIS Supporter Attacks Australian Soldier in Prison
An ISIS supporter has been charged after allegedly carving “e4e” — representing “an eye for an eye” into the head of an Australian Digger he was sharing a cell with. The former soldier, who served in…
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Killing the Kaffirs
A couple of days after that advertisement appeared, Tanweer Ahmed, a Sunni Muslim, traveled 200 miles in an Uber car from Bradford in England, to Glasgow in Scotland, where he waited for Assad Shah to leave…
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More Money Worries for Australia
Two articles from the Financial Review, both warning about Australia’s debt levels. The first about the National Australia Bank’s concern that further debt increases will risk Australia’s AAA credit rating – meaning higher interest rates, and…
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Nikki Haley for President!
It is pretty clear now that Donald Trump will not get the required number of delegates to win the Republican nomination. There will be a contested convention. At this stage, although he has a majority of…
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What Kind of Conservative Wants a Shorten Victory?
The answer, Miranda, is none. I was a great admirer of Frank Devine. One of Australia’s greatest newspaper men, a person of imagination and integrity, and a superb writer. His daughter Miranda is an insightful and…
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Of Course, I would Have …
Not waited? Called the police? Done something to help? Rescued the girls? Saved the planet? The need to believe ourselves morally superior to others has impacts on our understanding of history, the way we respond to…
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“Safe Schools” Has Nothing to do with Making Schools Safe
“How different then is that gentle, tentative sexuality between parent and child from the love of a paedophile and his/her lover?” “Love, warmth, support and nurture is an important part of the paedophilic relationship.” The author…
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Life in Australian Aboriginal Communities
For, women, it was nasty, brutish and short. An excerpt from an article by Tony Thomas on the Quadrant Magazine website. Newly-arrived British and French were shocked at the local misogyny they encountered. First Fleeter Watkin…
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Oh So True
Even though our eyes are on the US presidential contest at the moment, this applies everywhere. Even in Australia.
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No More Children in Refugee Detention in Australia
8,000 refugee/asylum seeker children were placed in detention during the Labor/Green alliance governments of Gillard and Rudd. Some 1200 men, women and children lost at sea. Now, for the first time in a decade, there is…
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Disagreeing With Us is Mean. You Will Be Stopped.
Anyone who has ever expressed an opinion other than the currently approved opinions will find him or herself nodding in agreement throughout this video. For some people, free speech, the exchange of ideas, discussion of evidence,…
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No Future for Truck Owner Drivers in Australia
The end of the road for truck owner-drivers in Australia. How is this even possible? “Some 35,000 people, mostly men, drive their own long-haul trucks. They have borrowed around $15 billion from Australian banks and other…
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Denmark – The Happiest Country in the World??
So Denmark is the happiest country in the world, right? With free education, free childcare, free health care, early retirement … Except, of course, none of those services really is free. Doctors don’t work for nothing,…
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The Great Climate Con
A dazzling speech by James Delingpole to the meeting of the World Taxpayers’ Associations in Berlin. This is a sample. Read the whole thing. Last year Climate Change Business Journal – calculated that the total annual…
