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Guest Post: thefrollickingmole – In praise of massive taxes on the rich
No I haven’t gone insane, I seriously praise the people who have released the Pandora Papers and want every truly wealthy person named to be exposed to swinging rates of tax, and the various vehicles used to protect income and wealth exposed to the tender, barbed, acid spewing red hot phallus of government.
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Guest Post: Mother Lode -Playing with Children As If They Were Matches
One of the things that people feel pleased about in the modern world is the extended childhood. A couple of centuries ago kids were expected to go out and help earn at quite a young age. Enlightened us consider this a reprehensible thing, and can scarce think other than those
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Open Thread- Mon 11 Oct 2021
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Guest Post: Cassie of Sydney – War declared in Victoria
One of reasons why Victoria is in such a parlous state is because of the Victorian Liberal Party. For decades now the Victorian Liberals have failed to provide any credible opposition to the Bracks, Brumby and Andrews’ Labor governments. In the Westminster system ineffectual oppositions enable corrupt and inept
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Fisking the debunkers
This has to be one of the best fiskings I’ve seen in a long time and the half of it is because it is delivered without rancour. It is a straightforward critique of a hit piece by the BBC that attempted to debunk numerous studies that have
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Guest post: Vikki Campion – New Premier should not be criticised for his faith
When you visit a St Vincent de Paul charity outlet, you don’t feel like you’ve entered an evil clandestine cabal of corruption. The older ladies sorting donations out of the chipped blue donation bin don’t fanatically launch at customers reciting the bible. Yet, some of the same people who love hunting for vintage Prada at…
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Open Thread – Weekend 9 Oct 2021
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Guest Post: Lysander – Anti-Pell: A Faction Too Much Fiction!
I don’t know many Cats who had as much interaction with the Pell case that I had. Many of my dear personal friends are noted in his prison diaries, visited him, I had family members attend the court on the days that were open to the public and I personally liaised with Richter and got…
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Guest Post: mem – Getting Ready for Glasgow
The overview schedule for the COP26 which is to be held in Glasgow in the first two weeks of November 2021 has been released so participants can prepare for the various workshops. ‘COP’ refers to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (‘UNFCCC’), which is the peak decision-making…
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The baker/ vax problem
The problem before us is whether someone that supports a baker’s refusal to make a ‘wedding’ cake for a gay couple could then oppose the same baker inquiring about their customer’s/ employee’s vaccination status and refusing