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  • Guest Post: mem – Getting Ready for Glasgow

    The overview schedule for the COP26 which is to be held in Glasgow in the first two weeks of November 2021 has been released so participants can prepare for the various workshops. ‘COP’ refers to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (‘UNFCCC’), which is the peak decision-making…

  • Mater’s Musings #33: Of course they are!

    Cut and pasted from yesterdays CHO Direction: COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination (Workers) Directions Ok, we kinda knew this was coming. Many hoped that such overreach wouldn’t survive court proceedings. After all, self-interest might kick in and see commonsense bubble to the surface, surely? SURELY? “Aha! We’ll thwart that self-interest angle”, says Dan and Brett. Clearly, Covid…

  • Melbourne’ big issue of the moment

    This was the front-page story in the Herald-Sun this morning, as you can see from the above: Gap grows between haves, have nots. And who are these have nots. The have-nots are the families in Melbourne’s newer suburbs where there are fewer swimming pools per head of population than in some other suburbs.  Of course,…

  • If only there were more of this

    Insulate Britain activists attempted to block Wandsworth Bridge in South London, furious motorists weren’t having any of it & did what the police should be doing.https://t.co/EfqW8X26PB — Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) October 4, 2021

  • My IEA article on Covid in Australia

    The Institute of Economic Affairs in London [the IEA] has published an article of mine on Dealing with Covid-19 in Australia. Most of it will be old news for us in Australia but I end with two paras on what needs to be done now: Covid is disappearing as a lethal problem and is rapidly fading…

  • The baker/ vax problem

    The problem before us is whether someone that supports a baker’s refusal to make a ‘wedding’ cake for a gay couple could then oppose the same baker inquiring about their customer’s/ employee’s vaccination status and refusing

  • Guest Post: Mem – Extrapolating Backwards or the Case of the Missing Dam

    During the millennial drought (2006 -2010) there was great concern that Melbourne might run out of water. The Labor government in Victoria pushed for the construction of a desalination plant. Graphs and statistics were presented showing historical records of Melbourne’s water supply and usage, as well as projections for the future. All emphasized the

  • Kimber v Sapphire Coast – Part 1

    I’ve been reading the first half of Commissioner Dean’s dissent in the Kimber decision relating to Ms Kimber’s refusal to take the flu vaccine in 2020 in purported contravention of a Public Health Order (PHO). The first thing that struck me is that previous to this PHO, taking the flu vax in aged care was…

  • Open Thread – Mon 4 Oct 2021

  • Melbourne Syndrome reaches a world’s record

    The Melbourne Syndrome is now officially the world’s worst.  From The Age: Melbourne lockdown becomes world’s longest as state records 1377 new local COVID-19 cases, four death.  Not to mention that Victoria’s Premier is the world’s most incompetent leader. And the first of the pictures The Age chose to run, proudly it seems to me,…

  1. “For a starter every floor of those two buildings weighted around 4,500 tons. A Boeing 767 weighs about 80 tons…

  4. What about “60,000 BC immigrants”? I’m sure the megafauna would love to deport them. Oops, alas there aren’t any anymore.

  5. Reposted for excellence – Digger, late on the OOT, and in response to some resurrected nuffery from over 20 years…

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