New Catallaxy

  • Open Thread – Mon 11 Sept 2023

  • Closing the Gap: The Never-Ending Story?

    What is the so-called ‘gap’? It’s the gap in wellbeing (across factors such as income, shelter, health, lifestyle) between those Aborigines living in circumstances offering no possibility of employment and everyone else. To present the gap as a difference between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians seriously mischaracterises the problem. And I suspect deliberately so. The Yes…

  • Suicidal Power Planning

    Has AEMO lost the plot? How this situation has been allowed to proceed this far is an astounding failure of political leadership and, quite frankly, common sense. Furthermore, it is a plan to transition our country from a safe, independent, cost effective and reliable NEM to one that exposes us to almost complete dependency on…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 9 Sept 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #82

    They fought like seven hundred. The Magnificent Seven (released in 1960) is an American western directed by John Sturges which is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, which in turn took its inspiration from American westerns. Seven Samurai is often hailed by film critics as one of the greatest films ever made but I’ll will…

  • Open Thread – Thurs 7 Sept 2023

  • Beware of pink and green Liberals

    Using nuclear power as a trojan horse The Liberal Party has been plagued by pink and green rats in the ranks since the first emergence in the 1960s of the self-style “moderates” in NSW fighting the so-called “Uglies” for control of the party. Possibly the most destructive blow struck by the rats was the assassination…

  • Rafe’s Roundup 4 Sept

    Reminder Coming soon The Free Speech Union of Australia! Sign up here, don’t delay, Get your free speech while there is still some left. STOCKS LIMITED The usual suspects THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE LIST OF DEPLORABLES The Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC Classical liberalism rebadged as bohemian or hippie conservatism. Inspired by a long lost…

  • Open Thread – Mon 4 Sept 2023

  • Digital Banking: Swings and Roundabouts – Peter Smith

    I am treasurer of my church. Most people now give via online banking but there is still cash and cheque giving on Sundays. I used to bank the offering each week but Westpac closed its local branch earlier this year, as did St George owned by Westpac some months before. Now, because I have to…

  1. To the Yes campaign Bring out your next tactic. Going to be interesting if the number of votes recorded exceeds…

  2. Despite finding against Uncle Dennis, the judges said Australia’s first nations peoples faced “unacceptable differences in health and socio-economic status”.…

  3. Hey bovver boy (part-time)! Can you explain how Qantas paid dividends prior to 2020 out of Covid funding?

  4. London: Stop Oil shut down performance of Les Misérables during climax of signature tune and lock themselves to the stage…

  5. Women are wild these days. I’ve bowdlerised this from the original email. 1. I’m a victim because I expose myself…