The Journal
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Not Having The Approved Opinions
Busy at work this morning, but had to stop to comment on the claim this morning from the legacy media that a survey by ‘leading universities’ (I guess as opposed to Australia’s other, less impressive universities) has found that as…
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Grasp Your Flotation Device Firmly!
This is one of those ‘only in Australia’ stories. A young couple grabbed two inflatable women they had lying around the house and took them for a ride down the flooded Yarra River in Victoria. The man and…
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Rare Earths, Monazite, Thorium and China
The rare earth elements are not ‘earths’ but metals. Nor are they rare. They are expensive because they are difficult to extract. Thorium isn’t a rare earth. It is generally found as a by-product of the processing of Monazite…
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Australia’s Leading Expert In Irrelevance
Former Australian Prime Minister and big job at the UN hopeful Kevin Rudd gave a few tips today to the UN General Assembly on how to increase its level of irrelevance. Speaking to a session to which almost one…
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What The Heck?
The blighters were just playing games when they checked Tony Crook’s intentions. What was the point of that? Just to prove that they are the big boys now? No one in the playground is going to push…
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The GG, COI, and a SIATC
In 2009 Greg Sheridan wrote a brief and thoughtful, if confronting, article about the Rudd government’s misuse of the office of the Governor General. The article was not primarily about Quentin Bryce’s political views, but about the…
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Hottest Decade?
It is certainly hot in South Australia – over 40 degrees on Kangaroo Island. Adelaide is even hotter – about 43 degrees. One or two very hot spells in a season are not unusual, however. The hottest day…
