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  • Mater’s Musings #13: The Art of Two Socialisms

    For a change of pace, let’s put Covid-19 aside and turn our attention to the subject of Art. God knows this place could do with some refinement…Arky now appears to have posting rights! These images have always been a source of wonder for me, especially considering they (supposedly) emanate from opposite ends of the political…

  • Danish Health Ministry: COVID ‘no longer a critical threat to society’

    In the words of the Danish Health Ministry, COVID in its extant variants is no longer a ‘critical threat to society’, and as such, it will remove all its current COVID restrictions, including any vaccine mandates, by September 10 having fully vaccinated 71% of the population. The only remaining restrictions involve agreements with other countries…

  • Guest post: Vikki Campion – Aunty plays favourites

    IF you defamed someone, would your boss pay the legal bill? That’s exactly what’s happened when the ABC paid the legal bills of journalist Louise Milligan who defamed someone on her social media accounts. If it had been any other government agency that forked out $79,000 in damages and $50,000 in costs — paid for…

  • Mater’s Musings #12: History

    Inspired by a post yesterday by thefrollickingmole which read, in part: Our older nurse liked the conversation, as it brought up issues she had thought about a bit, the younger chap was full “coercion is fine for the greater good”. I thought I’d put down something that has jumped out at me during this whole,…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 28 Aug 2021

  • In case you were wondering how long the lockdowns will go on

    Forever! Virtually nowhere is there a serious constituency to have them lifted. From The Geek in Pictures.

  • “Getting vaccinated to protect others is not true!”

    The Covid agenda is running hot, but there remain a few who have decided to keep a cool head and see what’s going on, as in: UK data destroys entire premise for vaccine push. Read what’s at the link, but really, what is to be made of this? The report also made one other important…

  • We must trust the government

    Our Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said this in their latest weekly report dated 26 August: “Since the beginning of the vaccine rollout to 22 August 2021, over 17.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given. So far, the TGA has found that 7 reports of deaths were linked to immunisation from 476 reports [of…

  • Guest post: Cassie of Sydney – Tone Deaf

    In a recent podcast for the IPA (an organisation I no longer belong to) Tony Abbott discusses the malaise running amok in the once great Liberal Party of Australia.  Firstly, before I continue, I need to state that I haven’t listened to the podcast and I even if I could I probably wouldn’t listen.  No…

  • I Didn’t See That Coming

    It’s with no sense of satisfaction that I note the materialisation of my prediction on the old Cat. As the lockdowns continue, and the ‘voluntary’ vaccination rates climb, I see the pressure mounting on the hesitant from two different directions. That is, from Governments, in the form of ever louder hints of vaccination apartheid, and…