The Journal
Current Affairs
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High Commissioner Surprised Australians Still Thinking
Britain’s new high commissioner, Baroness Valerie Amos, has expressed surprise that Australians are still debating whether humans cause climate change and says other nations have long since ”moved on”. Not only have we stopped thinking, she…
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Israel Is An Amazing Country
News yesterday that an Israeli judge refused to sentence an Arab teenager to jail for throwing stones at a police car. The judge disqualified the youth from driving for two years, ordered that he pay approximately…
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Tough Love Breeds Smart Kids
You could quibble about the headline. By tough love, the ABC reporter means parents setting boundaries and sticking to them. Children don’t seem to be smarter, just more resilient, more confident, more capable. And setting consistent…
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Fort Hood Murderer Is Muslim Radical
There has been a lot about the Fort Hood shooting on news sites and blogs. I haven’t commented till now, because I really hoped that the fact that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was a muslim was irrelevant…
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Maine and Marriage
A referendum in the US state of Maine has rejected homosexual marriage. There are five states in the US in which homosexual couples’ co-habitation can legally become a marriage. In the majority of those, the necessary…
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NSW Dept of Community Services Stuffs Up Again
A twelve year old girl has given birth to a baby boy after having become pregnant to her fifteen year old live -in boy friend. Live in boyfriend? Yes. The girl lives with her mother, who…
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Hopes Fade For Copenhagen – Yay!
The more hope fades, the happier I will be. Alas for the alarmists, ‘dark clouds are gathering over Copnhagen’ despite an apparent majority of political leaders being committed to ‘take action to tackle the threat of…
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Limp Wristed Loser’s Loutish Lob
A long haired Australian removed a shoe and lobbed it at former Prime Minister John Howard at Cambridge University last Friday. Mr Howard was speaking on Leadership in the Twenty-first Century. This from the ABC News website:…
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Ghosts and Global Warming
Interesting figures here from the Pew Research Center on declining faith in the religion of global warming apocalyptic, with only 36% of those surveyed agreeing there is good evidence the world is warming because of human…
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Free Stuff
Nothing is free. ‘It’s free’ just means ‘Someone else has paid for it.’ ‘It should be free’ means ‘Someone else should pay for it.’ The question to ask is always ‘Why?’ Why should somone else pay…
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Deltoid Again
Like it or not, Tim Lambert is one of Australia’s leading left wing bloggers. I don’t like it, because Lambert’s approach to debate is so often simply to mock or belittle people with whom he disagrees.…
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Leftist Vitriol
I visit leftist blogs and news sites fairly regularly. I can’t remember who it was who said ‘If you only read one paper, read the opposition’s,’ but it was good advice. If we only read the…
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The Real Climate Change Catastrophe
Christopher Booker summarises the arguments of his new book: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Chanage” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Long title, but the answer…
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Wayne Carey Whines
It’s not my fault I’m a drunk, a womaniser and a liar, says Carey in his book The Truth Hurts – my Dad was mean to me. Well maybe. Dad says otherwise of course. This reminds me…
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350 Ways To Look Like An Idiot
I was in Adelaide yesterday to do some buying for my shop, and was interrupted in my travels about the city by about 100 scruffy-looking characters on bicycles. Some of them had painted the number 350 on…
