Author: Mater

  • A Response to Vikki: A Symbol of Servitude

    I posted this on ANZAC Day 2020, less than a month into lockdowns in Victoria. Having read Vikki’s contribution last night, and being 17 months further into it, with even tighter restrictions on some individuals and families, with even more ‘exempt’ people and occupations coming out of the woodwork, I am posting it again. From…

  • Mater’s Musings #22: What Risk?

    I’m going to keep this short and sweet and to the point. The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has this on its website: It says: “We only register a vaccine if its benefits are much greater than its risks”

  • Mater’s Musings #21: A Metaphor

    I was sent this earlier by a long time Cat. He thought it was a bit of a metaphor for the new ‘Australia’. I agreed, except for the fact that three points of the Federation Star still appear to be united as one…tenuously. I wonder which three States they represent? I think we can rule…

  • Guest Post: MatrixTransform – The Commons

    The missus was back at the dentist yesterday and on the drive back home she told me about the conversation she was privy to between the Doc and the nurse. They were trying to calm her down I guess by playing at idle banter and I reckon they may have had the same conversation 3…

  • Mater’s Musings #20: Did you know?

    Did you know that by this time in 2019 (the year before Covid), 662 Australians had died of the Flu, since the start of that year? …and it wasn’t the worst year we’d had in the last five. Even by government admission, that 662 “associated deaths reported to the NNDSS, does not represent the true…

  • QANTAS Pilot: If he’s willing…

    If he’s willing to lose his job for saying it, I guess we should headline it so people at least hear it!

  • Mater’s Musings #19: If only it had a QR Code attached

    I’ve seen plenty of these in my travels in less than salubrious locations (the military tend not to send people to London, Paris or the Greek Islands). It’s indeed unfortunate that the governments of these places didn’t have the electronic means to attach a QR Code to this sign and link it to every tourist’s…

  • Mater’s Musings #18: More Perspective

    2020 2017 Let’s put that side by side to make it as clear as we can (noting the slight variation of the 0-44 age bracket): Yes, yes, I know – ‘But…but…but the lockdowns prevented greater deaths!’. How do we know it wouldn’t have just dwindled away like every other one before it, just like the…

  • Mater’s Musings #17: Resistance to Interrogation

    Despite what you see in the movies, modern methods of interrogation are more about psychology and less about violence and pain. It aims to maximise the ‘shock of capture’ (which is always an unbalancing experience), and build on that through complete disorientation and disconnection from reality. This they do in order for you to do…

  • Guest Post: MatrixTransform – Who’s Ya Daddy?

    A room full of media advisers and image management consultants and that idiotic Happy Father’s Day message is what Andrews comes out with? Listen to this Mong dress up neglect as care. My bio-father still lives on his own. His heating is broken, and I have to bend all the rules to organise and install…