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Open Thread – Weekend 14 May 2022
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KnowingHiding where the bodies are buriedMoving to a “post pandemic world,” two Australian states – Queensland and Western Australia – have made two of their most senior pandemic response public servants – QLD’s former CHO Jeanette Young and W.A.’s Commissioner of Police, State Emergency Co-ordinator and previously its Vaccine Commander, Chris Dawson – their respective state’s new vice-regal appointees. In…
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Trump’s star rising and he’s absolutely right about stolen election
On the editorial page of The Oz today there was an article by Adam Creighton with the following heading: Trump’s star rising but he’s dead wrong about stolen election. How incredible and how disappointing, I said to myself, that the only journalist in Australia who writes honestly about the American political system has now gone…
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Meme of the Day #41
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Open Thread – Tuesday 10 May 2022
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Guest Post: Speedbox -Postcard from Kislovodsk #2
Mrs Speedbox is still in Kislovodsk, Russia, although she returns in a few days. The following are additional observations that may be of interest to Cats. 1. With regard to reporting on the war, Russian television is the polar opposite to what we see here in Australia in terms of partiality. That won’t be a…
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Moderates versus Airheads. Like versus like?
Ten little nondescripts trawling for some votes. Nine didn’t make the grade then there was one. My federal electorate is North Sydney, where Trent Zimmerman is the sitting member. Yes, I know, I have your sympathies. There are ten candidates for the seat, including Trent. I have seen Trent twice on the hustings. Once outside…
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Guest Post: Wally Dali goes to the Archibalds, 2022
Of course, I’m nowhere near actually going to see the paintings in the flesh at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, even if the Chief Protector of Natives would let me depart Western Australia, which he won’t. To access it, here, I had to first check an automatically generated box to declare that I…
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Keynesian economics and the Magic Pudding
The level of economic ignorance and stupidity has reached such astronomical levels that I can make the forecast that Australia is heading for many years of falling real incomes and a vast increase in the level of poverty. You really have to stand in amazement at how little flak this morning’s front page in The…
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Rabz’ Radio Show May 2022: the Sixties
The Sixties has a rightful claim as the period in time that produced the most memorable contemporary music in human history. So many genres came to prominence, including: · Jazz · Folk · R&B · Soul · Rock · Psychedelia John F Kennedy – elected 1960, assassinated 1963. During those years, a seismic cultural wave across the Anglosphere was brewing. Motown…