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A moment in time.
When I was seven years old I was a flower girl for one of my female cousins. Twenty-five years later I attended the couple’s silver wedding anniversary. In all that time I had not seen the bridesmaid whom I had been paired with. So when Jenny and I were brought together on that special day,…
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A droplet of hope in a sea of despair
First, I like to acknowledge the country on which we make our home, Terra Australis, whose landmass is over fifty percent under Native Title; whose major oil and gas projects are delayed by judges in thrall of whale song-lines, mythical undersea burial grounds, by mother sea and by rainbow serpents; whose states are busy enacting…
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Bob King’s Summary
WIND AND SOLAR PROJECTS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:- LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK NOW and until 2024 FNQ regional plan 20/11/23 Mount Piper BESS, Wallerawang 20/11/23 Tarong West Wind, South Burnett 23/11/23 Capricornia Energy Hub (CEH) Transmission Project 1/12/23 Sustainable Finance Strategy 11/12/23 and 1/3/24 Accounting Standards for Climate change 19/2/24 Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 amendments PREVIOUSLY 13/11/23 SA’s transmission and…
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Self-defence in extremis
Self-defence is available to individuals to communities and to nations. It is ethically and legally sound to engage in self-defence. The principle of proportionality should be applied when engaging in self-defence. This means that you should do no more advertently, than is necessary to remove the threat. For example, if somebody begins punching you on…
Liberty Squandered: The English Tradition from Magna Carta to EmpireVibhu Vikramaditya, Mises Wire, 23rd November 2024The identity of a people…