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Follow the breadcrumbs
In a recent article in the Australia, Greg Sheridan wrote “How China and its allies are winning the new cold war”. To slightly paraphrase one section, Sheridan wrote: “Beijing is taking every step to equip itself to fight a major war against the US. All the authoritarian (nations) have built, or are building, wartime economies.…
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To serve or not to serve, that is the question
Received a letter from the NSW government dated May 30, informing me that I had been included on the jury roll from June 2024 to June 2025. In a subsequent, hard-on-the-heels, letter dated June 4, I was told that I had been randomly selected for jury duty for a trial of 12 weeks in estimated…
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Guest Post: Peter Greagg visits the Australian War Memorial
Military minded Cats may be interested to hear I was at the War Memorial the other day in Canberra. A volunteer guide told me that an aboriginal man couldn’t enlist in the AIF in 1914 because of his ‘race’. I told him that I thought that was unlikely. I noted that aboriginal men (and women)…
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