Thursday, May 2, 2024
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The case of intelligence community and leftist leadership giving Wikipedia a bias is serious. Wikipedia is where the young are getting their information. Law & Liberties - Murray Hunter - 1 comment
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Forty-two percent of prisoners in NSW jails are on remand, jailed without a trial. Law & Liberties - Bettina Arndt - 3 comments
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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Many of the same Labor and Green members of that former Senate committee, including Senator Gallagher, that had advocated a royal commission, voted it down. Law & Liberties - Scott Prasser - 1 comment
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When I was a kid living on a small dairy farm in Queensland, we relied on green energy - horses and human muscles provided most motive power; fire-wood and beeswax candles supplied heat and light. Environment - Viv Forbes
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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It's a mystery as to why Julie Inman Grant would attempt to ban a single blurry instance of terrorism while leaving most completely alone. Law & Liberties - Graham Young - 2 comments
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Forget 2050 or even the target of 82 percent renewables by 2030, ZEN's aim is to achieve Environment - John Mikkelsen - 5 comments
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Monday, April 29, 2024
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The United States is on the path of decline, while Xi Jinping and his cohorts in Zhongnanhai foresee a 'rise in the East and fall in the West'. International - Chin Jin - 2 comments
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This war of grinding, nannying censorship – which is what it is – was the prelude for other agents of information control and paranoia to join the fray. The Labour Albanese government, for instance. Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
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Friday, April 26, 2024
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The current federal inquiry into anti-competitive practices of our large supermarket chains in Australia could do well to ask how planning schemes have been mercilessly weaponised to minimise competition. Nation Building - Ross Elliott - 6 comments
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In this subtropical clime, there is a tail to the hot season, I think of it as the scorpion tail, as summer's end attenuates through March to Easter. Religion & Spirituality - Sarah Flynn-O'Dea - 3 comments
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for, the hysteria regarding the refusal to remove images of a man in holy orders being attacked by his assailant suggests a lengthy couch session is in order. Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark - 17 comments
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What makes this especially astonishing is how those same archbishops and school leaders sided with the Labor Party in 2017 over school funding using robocalls and letters to parents to campaign against the Turnbull Coalition government. Education - Scott Prasser - 8 comments
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Many citizens believe that 'renewables' are the answer to our energy future because they have been told that, and it gives them a nice cosy feeling. Nation Building - Charles Hemmings - 9 comments
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Things got a bit more heated by the '80s when AC/DC belted out 'She Shook Me All Night Long' and Joe Cocker followed that up with the equally explicit 'You Can Leave Your Hat On … (yes, yes, yes )…'. Society - John Mikkelsen - 9 comments
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Monday, April 22, 2024
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In the 1980s, Australians fought hard against a similar national ID program, what has changed since then? Law & Liberties - Graham Young - 13 comments
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PTSD is an accepted medical condition just like any other that a person could be diagnosed with – so why is the government allowing insurance companies to deny claims as though these families aren't plagued by real illness? International - Brett Wild - 1 comment
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Friday, April 19, 2024
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Iran’s unprecedented aerial attack on Israel has upended the shadow war between the two countries and created new opportunities to contain Iran while creating a new regional alliance. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 11 comments
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Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was 'considering' the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded. Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Ceasing the world's materialistic demands for the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil will end the fossil fuels era ! Environment - Ronald Stein - 3 comments
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The need for the UN and UNRWA to take such action was especially critical following all 193 member nations of the United Nations failing to accept any of the 1,476,706 refugees registered in the 8 UNRWA refugee camps located inside Gaza. International - David Singer - 1 comment
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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I received the notification on LinkedIn about these honorary degrees and, upon scrolling the comments, found that most of them were aggressively denouncing the lack of gender balance in the award photo. Education - Chris Lloyd - 5 comments
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The announcement last week that the NSW government will cut spending on its own public schools by 1.25 per cent again highlights the failure of state governments to meet their share of the Gonski Student Resource Standard. Education - Scott Prasser - 5 comments
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Campbell revealingly envisages 'a number of areas of conflict and in a number of scenarios that countries acting together' in the Indo-Pacific, including Japan, Australia, South Korea and India. International - Binoy Kampmark - 4 comments
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Domestic right-wing extremism is deeply intertwined, both ideologically and in other aspects, with a variety of factors like economic stability, political transparency, and social connections. Law & Liberties - Mamtimin Ala - 31 comments
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Monday, April 15, 2024
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Mr. Albanese wants to build the industries of the future, but we have an economy that can't even build enough houses for the people that live here. Economics - Graham Young - 10 comments
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There is no China mission for them to justify. No editorial panel to oversee their work. No concern that they may be at risk for writing a story or report news that may be construed as favourable to China. International - Teck Lim - 4 comments
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Friday, April 12, 2024
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Since Hamas' savagery of 1,200 innocent Israelis on October 7, one thing became abundantly clear. Netanyahu, and no one else, indirectly precipitated Hamas' attack. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 32 comments
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The Chinese government's initiatives to reform the country's medical system and boost its domestic market, have led to an accelerated localisation trend, reshaping the competitive landscape, and influencing global trade dynamics. Health - Ivor Campbell - 1 comment
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
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Our farm supported our family of four, 30 dairy cows, one bull, eight draught horses, two stock horses, a cattle dog, two cats, two ponies, plus a few pigs, calves and chooks and, at times, a returned service Uncle recovering from malaria. Environment - Viv Forbes - 8 comments
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Former Labor Minister Craig Emerson's Interim Report of the Review of the Grocery Code of Conduct is the latest attempt by the Albanese government to avoid blame for the cost-of-living crisis. Economics - Graham Young - 7 comments
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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For Australia they concluded that it was 'Death of a Dream: Planners versus the Traditional Australian Home'. Nation Building - Ross Elliott - 4 comments
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Most of the officials within the WHO are bureaucrats with little or no experience within democratic government. They are unelected officials not responsible to any electorate. Health - Murray Hunter - 2 comments
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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Postmodernists believe that all truth is relative-your truth, my truth, but never the truth. This does away with most ideas of sin. Political Philosophy - Graham Young - 7 comments
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The Fed provides a surprising outlook of healthy growth together with a falling Fed Funds rate. Economics - Michael Knox - 1 comment
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Monday, April 8, 2024
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Unbiased opinion polls find that support for nuclear power in Australia falls short of a majority, that Australians much prefer renewables, and most do not want nuclear reactors built near where they live. Environment - Jim Green - 16 comments
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I wonder how many Australians, like me, have found communicating with our national health care bureaucracy, Medicare, about as easy as winning Lotto? Society - John Mikkelsen - 5 comments
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Friday, April 5, 2024
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Peter Weir's The Truman Show turned 25 last year. Impressive when it first aired, it remains so in view of its deep engagement with the human condition. Religion & Spirituality - Craig Thompson - 3 comments
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President Biden has for the first time suggested his readiness to abandon the failed two-state solution embodied in Security Council Resolution 2334. International - David Singer - 10 comments
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Yet our tribe here in Australia is fragmented and our social bonds are weak. The recent shame over Australia Day celebrations exposed this. Society - Jacquie Scammell - 3 comments
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