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Victoria’s ‘Finest’
The following is a compendium of incidents involving Victoria Police attempting to uphold COVID orders following the large protest in Richmond on Sept 18, 2021. This is really only portion of what is probably available so please
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Guest Post: mem – “We have come too far to go back now”
I read a press statement from Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria, “We have come too far to go back now”(21/09/2021) which included in it a paragraph comprised of only one sentence; “We have come too far to turn back now”. My first reading of the statement was that Andrews is saying that regardless of what…
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Guest Post: Vikki Campion – Council’s remit for gender diverse potholes
Not only do we have states which see themselves as walled-off fiefdoms, but now Greens-led councils that see themselves as masters of international intelligence, adept in all manner of military strategy, so much so they object to Australia’s nuclear submarines. “If nuclear submarines enter Sydney Harbour, they will create a significant risk to human life…
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The real cost of unreliable energy
The frog and the scorpion arrived at the edge of a river at the same time. Both wanted to get to the other side. The scorpion asked the frog for a ride on the frog’s back because the scorpion could not swim. The frog objected, saying that the scorpion might sting him if he was…
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Open Thread – Weekend 25 Sept 2021
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Recalling the Black Lives Matter protests in Melbourne last year
These are images from Melbourne’s Black Lives Matter protests. How different things were, and no police in sight. June 6, 2020 at the height of the Covid panic. That was then. This is now: (2) pic.twitter.com/UqVTAe8QTs — New Granada (@NewGranada1979) September 22, 2021 With this as a reminder of what the difference really is.
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Memo to journos: Please don’t share your medical history
Andrew Bolt, evening after evening touts vaccination. Overwhelmingly those in hospital for Covid are unvaxxed he says; those dying are unvaxxed and so on. And, too boot, he is on the record as effectively supporting medical apartheid. OK, he’s not nearly so far gone as Covid crazies like Greg Sheridan but it’s troubling nonetheless. Why…
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“Junta has turned Covid into a weapon”
So there I was, sitting down to dinner, and finally turning to the paper, and there, in The Oz, after its idiotic coverage of the protests in Melbourne yesterday, I found this story with the above headline. Amazing, I said to myself, an actually accurate story of what went on. Afraid not. It was a…
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To be jabbed or to be a pariah?
A local real estate agent cold-called me today, as they do, to offer me a free valuation of my flat. Did she know of a place I could escape to if I were to sell, I asked? Some island haven perhaps, free of despotic Covid diktats. Anyway, I asked her to call back next year…
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Guest Post: Bar Beach Swimmer – Who has the right to work?
When and how does a citizen in a democracy lose his or her right to work? Up until 18 months ago, the only reasonable answer to that question would have been because the person had been found guilty of a crime that carried a custodial sentence: with their freedom forfeited, gaol would have taken away all…