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All Souls’ Day
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.-G. K. Chesterton In the OT today, Calli made the following astute comment, We seem to be in a perfect storm of physical and spiritual (or, if you like, moral) degradation, without the will to tackle it in the simplest of ways. That is, starting in the home. Our telescopic philanthropy…
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Open Thread- Mon 1 Nov 2021
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Guest Post: Muddy – A Village Somewhere, Kokoda
Seventy-nine years ago on the 2nd of November, 1942, the village and aerodrome of Kokoda in the Owen Stanley mountains of Papua, was re-entered by Australian soldiers. What follows is not a campaign narrative – there are plenty of those already in existence – but a small collection of related and lesser-known facts. All have…
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Open Thread- Weekend 30 Oct 2021
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Leading Silks’ Open letter opposing Andrews pandemic legislation
We are deeply concerned about the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021 (Bill). The overriding concern is that the Bill, if passed, may allow the Victorian government effectively to rule the State of Victoria by decree for the foreseeable future, without proper Parliamentary oversight or the usual checks and balances on executive…
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Guest Post: Cassie of Sydney – Covid Witchiepoo
Over the last eighteen months Australia has been transformed into a nation consumed with Covid fear and overflowing with Covid hysterics. This hysterical fear has been fomented by various Australian governments, federal and state, as well as bureaucracies, both of which have deliberately nurtured and cultivated fear amongst the populace through manipulation, panic, and coercion.…
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Feminism, modernity, and the new mudsill theory
The news back in August that the state of Texas has outlawed abortion post-fetal heartbeat is welcome. I don’t entirely agree with the drawing of the line at a fetal heartbeat (or viability, or pain) understands the matter completely but I welcome it nonetheless as a step forward in the development of premises that when…
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Guest Post: dot – Submission re Digital Identity bill
The Digital Identity framework does not pass any reasonable cost-benefit analysis. Nor does the framework show any understanding of how e-commerce or digital currencies work. -The PPSR is a white elephant, why won’t this be? -Service providers have engaged in e-commerce for over two decades. -Why can’t banks and shops collaborate to use QR codes?…
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Guest Post: Rabz – Submission in opposition to the Exposure Draft of the Digital Identity Legislation as proposed by the Australian Government
We the undersigned, are lodging this submission to express our implacable opposition to the Australian Government’s proposed Digital Identity Legislation. Australian citizens have no reason whatsoever to be “grateful” that the government will find it easier to access a comprehensive database of information on every single one of them. The legislation is little more than…