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Free Trade can be Costly Trade
I have written a few blogs on tariffs for Quadrant online and recently had a to and fro with a Roger Partridge who is the Chairman and senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. The New Zealand Initiative is a free-market think tank. Partridge describes himself as a Classical Liberal. All of this seems fine,…
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ANZAC Day Thread
N.B.: This thread is for thoughts, recollections, and like re ANZAC Day, Australian military history, and the like. Comments relating to other matters should be kept on the OT.
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #101
All it takes is a little confidence. The Sting, evoking a bygone era of gangsters and con men, was the deserved winner of Best Picture Oscar in 1973. It also won Oscars for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay plus a host of technical awards as well. Robert Redford plays Johnny Hooker a small time grifter…
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Between a rock and a hard place on May 3
My internet is down again. This time I know it is the modem because I connected an old modem to the NBN box and it fired up. Couldn’t connect because Telstra no longer supports my old modem, but still it works. I pointed this out to the last Telstra Indian guy who called me back…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #100
Whoever saves one life saves the world entire. Given the events since October 7th, 2023, I tend to feel that Schindler’s List would not be made today, such has been the moral decline we have witnessed across Western societies, and in particular the film industry, since that fateful day. Schindler’s List is hardly the type…
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