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Open Thread – Tues 4 April 2023
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Adult Human Female
This is interesting to watch, especially if you can last the distance. Very interesting in parts. On the other hand, look at these people trying to put that genie back in the bottle. Like they never conjured it in the first place. The executive and judiciary will be next.
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Rabz’ Radio Show April Fool’s Day 2023 – Romance, love and fractured cardio organs
Cats, the topic above is what contemporary music has always revelled in. A rich vein of subject matter, so to speak. You’re romancing a personage of the opposite sex – you listen to lots of music about that phenomenon, while imagining that nothing could ever be wrong with the world. Being incapable of thinking about…
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Rafe’s Roundup 1 April
Not joking. Drop in and see what they are up to BEFORE YOU CHECK OUT THE USUAL SUSPECTS, LOOK AT THE OFFERINGS FROM THE AUSTRALIAN SPECTATOR AND SIGN ON TO GET THEM DIRECTLY IN YOUR MAILBOX. And have a look at The Free Press as well. Australiana podcasts, samples from Alexandra Marshall’s Evening Unfiltered; The…
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Open Thread – Weekend 1 April 2023
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Rating the reliability of the grid
We read at RenewEconomy that the Reliability Panel is reviewing the way they rate the reliability of the grid. The Panel operates under the auspices of the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC, not to be confused with the Australian Energy Market Operator, AEMO). The reliability of the grid has been a matter of great concern…
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Guest Post: Santissima Trinidad – Comments on Indigenous Voice Co-design Process Final Report to the Australian Government
Note: p.17 – page number. P.100/272 is the .pdf number, 2 higher than the written page number I’m a very, very long term regular reader and rare contributor. I’ve been through a proggie vengeance attack cycle for public commentary before. So the above is a throwaway nom de plume. Any future contributions of mine will…
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Graphic to be sure, but a capital offence?
I’m not on Twitter. Don’t follow anybody therefore, including Mark Latham. But I was watching Andrew Bolt this evening (Thursday) and he said he was banning Latham from ever again appearing on his show for something he tweeted. I forget exactly how he described it; something like a disgraceful homophobic slur, which Latham had since…
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Open Thread – Tues 28 March 2023
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Who would you fight for?
Recently I had a casual exchange with contributor Bruce of Newcastle on the OT. The guts of our remarks was the number of wars fought by Russia and how this had shaped their national psyche. Further, that Western attitudes and policy towards Russia will continue to be largely ineffective, if not counterproductive, until the West…