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Being gay isn’t anything to write home about
I see that a new museum has just opened in Darlinghurst in Sydney in a disused police station. Its focus is queer history and culture. Qtopia it’s called. Apparently some gay demonstrators were thrown into the cells at the very same police station in 1978. So it’s a bitter-sweet sweep of history which, no doubt, will…
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How many green jobs can we afford?
Keith Pitt, a Queensland MP, compiled a lists of green projects, most in Qld, with the capital cost, the number of workers involved in the construction and the number of permanent jobs. The projects included the Kaban wind plant, costing $37M with 250 construction workers and 5 permanent staff, Clarke Creek wind, 1.5Bil, 350 construction…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #95
The Man from Malpaso (Part 2). Following on from last week’s post on Clint Eastwood where he had just starred and directed the superb western Pale Rider (1985). He followed this up in 1986 with directing and starring in the war drama Heartbreak Ridge where he played a U.S. marine gunnery sergeant nearing retirement. The next few…
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Rafe’s Roundup Feb
ADDITIONS Western Heritage The Free Speech Union of Australia Australians for Science and Freedom Quadrant The Energy Realists IPA Net Zero Aust Spectator Jo Nova Centre for Independent Studies Conservative Vagabond The Monarchists The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies Research Centre The Sydney Institute IPA Mannkal Taxpayers Alexandra Marshall ` Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Party CPAC
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A dunkelflaute day in Sydney town
It’s Monday 1pm in Sydney. My flat is dark as the rain comes down from a heavily clouded sky. I look out my window. It’s still. There is no movement of leaves on the trees. I’ll guess. Any wind and solar power in the vicinity is generating a fat zero. I am in the dark…
Pretty sure Hackman didn’t care about the waste after he was dead enough for his sphincter to let go.