New Catallaxy

  • 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,…

  • Guest Post: Vikki Campion – Captain Climate’s holding us all to ransom

    We eulogise our felons such as Captain Thunderbolt as gentleman bushrangers — they gave back a small portion of the money they stole from poor victims, expecting thanks, and absurdly they got it all the way to big brass statues on

  2. Straya done for 338, a lead of 158. Perfect timing. The call centre operators will be subject to two hours…

  4. We are a Christian nation. The jews, arabs, sheiks, muslims, buddists, zoastrians, wefare queens,hindus, quantifarians can get f_cked. And the…

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