Monday, April 19, 2021
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In that 510,000 wellbeing years is all the misery caused by lockdowns and social distancing: all the cancelled weddings, all the additional cases of depression, all the extra anxiety. Health - Paul Frijters - 21 comments
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This has deeply split the student movement, were some groups want to focus on reforming democracy, rather than criticise the monarchy. International - Murray Hunter - 1 comment
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Friday, April 16, 2021
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Not only will the Australia that emerges from the pandemic have more debt, higher unemployment and bigger, more-intrusive government; it’s likely to be more lost about what holds us together. Political Philosophy - Tony Abbott - 13 comments
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Economics has traditionally been based on prioritizing scarcity and allocation. Now we seem to be moving to an era of abundance (if not over-supply). Economics - Keith Suter - 7 comments
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While a peace accord was reached in February 2020 to end civil war in South Sudan, the agreement remains extremely fragile and needs international support to hold together. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 1 comment
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
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Women have striven to assert their right to equity, but it was not until the late nineteenth century that real progress started to take place. Today we are at another watershed moment in our nation's political history. Law & Liberties - Shirley Owen - 11 comments
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For me, the primary leadership lesson the Duke taught us is this. A lifelong commitment to curiosity, maintaining an enquiring mind, is the only thing that guarantees longevity in leadership and influence. Political Philosophy - Mal Fletcher - 8 comments
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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Part of the monumental failings of the government can be put down to its stubbornness in prioritising the use of one vaccine. Health - Binoy Kampmark - 5 comments
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Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have a common link via the Crown. We are not just members of the Commonwealth, the Queen is our head of state. International - Jeffrey Wall - 3 comments
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021
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Over the next few decades, we face the major task of making our society more resilient and safer when faced by pandemics, epidemics, the threat of biological warfare and environmental crises as well as physical threats to our nation’s stability. Health - Peter Curson - 3 comments
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Tough-minded people like 'facts', and they are materialistic and pessimistic. The tender-minded rely on principles, and they are idealistic, dogmatic and optimistic. Political Philosophy - Don Aitkin - 19 comments
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Monday, April 12, 2021
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A man such as the Duke of Edinburgh operated in a different dimension, distanced from revolutionary tremor and social evolution, even as the country he presided over with Queen Elizabeth II changed. International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
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He said that 'just because the Australian government may have put most of their eggs in the AstraZeneca basket, this is no reason to continue jabbing Australians with this vaccine'. Health - Brendan O'Reilly - 6 comments
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Friday, April 9, 2021
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We also need to focus on the International - Jeffrey Wall - 4 comments
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The WHO has failed to get a proper answer on COVID from China, and indulges in progressive tokenism, neglecting the real task. Health - David Leyonhjelm - 4 comments
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
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Immunologist Professor Peter Doherty was indignant at the merciless cuts to courses and subjects in Australian universities. Education - Binoy Kampmark - 10 comments
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Just recently, Sam Kerr, Australia's highest paid female footballer, signed a lucrative contract with Chelsea reportedly worth around $2 million for a two-and-a-half year deal. Sport - Chris Lewis - 5 comments
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
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Nowadays the worst crimes you can commit appear to be 'hate' crimes, a failure to be empathetic, or affirmative, enough to a member of a 'marginalised' group. Law & Liberties - Graham Young - 25 comments
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Although GLCs like Maybank, Petronas, and Sime Darby have been run extremely well by a groomed professional Malay class, countless thousands of these companies are inefficient, mismanaged, embezzled, insolvent entities. International - Murray Hunter
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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In reality, the 2021 Bluesfest was cancelled mainly because Byron is now an outer suburb of Sydney, and returning Bluesfesters were at risk of becoming 'superspreaders' who re-ignited 'outbreaks' in the state capital. Health - Paul Collits - 14 comments
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This is why then-US President Donald Trump is to be lauded for, in 2017, refusing to recertify the Iran nuclear deal. International - Slater Bakhtavar - 6 comments
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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The EU has long sought to impose its carbon dioxide abatement policies on the rest of the world. A major setback to this was the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. Environment - Alan Moran - 43 comments
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Life in Thailand’s southernmost border provinces, Narathiwat, Yala, and Patani has taken on a sense of normality over the last 12 months that belies a media-preoccupied insurgency that has largely disappeared. International - Murray Hunter - 4 comments
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
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The time has come for the Australian Government to actively promote in the community its generous aid program in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific. International - Jeffrey Wall - 5 comments
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
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'A coloniser artist intending to produce art with the actual blood of colonised people is abusive, colonising and re-traumatising.' The Arts - Binoy Kampmark - 32 comments
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Policies on offer in 2021 are determined from within a corporatist economic system which has a very different structure of influence to the post World War II mixed economic system based upon the economics of John Maynard Keynes. Economics - Ben Rees - 2 comments
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Monday, March 29, 2021
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Vaclav Smil, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, has written a clear and accessible article suggesting that 2050 is far too soon a target-year for all of this to take place. Environment - Don Aitkin - 16 comments
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Friday, March 26, 2021
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What Australian politicians call carbon tariffs, the European Union labels a carbon border adjustment mechanism. Law & Liberties - Felicity Deane - 6 comments
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The decimated ratings and revenues of American sports codes which have embraced political virtue-signalling is evidence of the truism, 'go woke: go broke'. Law & Liberties - David Pellowe - 10 comments
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
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Exactly what should be done is not always clear, but who should do it is always obvious: 'they', usually meaning the government, council, corporation or whatever. Political Philosophy - Don Aitkin - 5 comments
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Particular concern was expressed regarding claims of economic coercion exerted by Beijing towards US allies, with Australia featuring. International - Binoy Kampmark - 7 comments
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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By its perverse logic, Jews are first and foremost members of the oppressor class, bearing guilt for any wrong done to any non-white group by any white people. Political Philosophy - Eleanor Krasne - 18 comments
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The New York Times, CNN and ABC – who had run with the original Washington Post story - also made similarly embarrassing back downs. International - David Singer - 37 comments
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
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The last thing we need to see in our northern neighbour is more meddling in the PNG health system by the Chinese government and its apologists within the PNG government. International - Jeffrey Wall - 26 comments
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For the hardliners, there is no excuse or sympathy for a positive drug test. According to Dick Pound, former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, 'Everybody who's caught doping says I have no idea...' Sport - Chris Lewis - 1 comment
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Monday, March 22, 2021
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In February, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that 'there are still critical unknowns regarding the efficacy of vaccination'. Health - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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'I pledged to take care of the citizens of Israel and I do so with a deep mission. I brought vaccines and four peace agreements, there are four more on the way.' International - David Singer - 9 comments
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