New Catallaxy

  • Sport – who really pays

    After the Matildas lost their game to England last Wednesday the TV talking heads tried to outdo each other in their calls for more government spending on sport.   It was probably inevitable that, sensing an opportunity to appease the women’s lobby and maybe garner a couple of votes, Albo swung into action and pledged $200…

  • Open Thread – Tues 22 Aug 2023

  • Democracy in its death throes

    The second amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Important here to understand the thinking. If the government has an army, then it’s important that people have the power…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 19 Aug 2023

  • Open Thread – Thurs 17 Aug 2023

  • makarrata: is it really better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick?

    Along with the proposed referendum for an aboriginal voice, the word ‘makarrata’ – a Yolngu word – has become a noticeable feature in the proposed three stage process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia. But as with the voice, confusion surrounds the notion of makarrata. What it is and how it will work, should…

  • Re-tribalizing Australia

    Update: 14/8 @ 3pm. The agenda of The Racist Voice is now clear. It is about re-tribalizing Australia to approximate the time when bitterly antagonistic tribes roamed across the sparsely populated country. That was sustainable when there were some hundreds of thousands of hunter-gatherers. It will be interesting to see how it pans out with…

  • Open Thread – Mon 14 Aug 2023

  • My great grandmother was Irish

    My grandmother’s mother was Irish, so I was told. If I’ve got the genealogical sum right, that makes me one-eighth Irish. If further proof is required, I have in my possession a green shirt and a green  jumper. Also, if its relevant, my mum Elsie was referred to by some as Aunty Elsie. Though, on…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show August 2023: Cars

    There has always been an intimate link between cars and contemporary music and car stereos (aka sound systems) enable the immediacy of that link. As the (almost) ultimate freedom machines, cars can enable a young man to impress an aesthetically pleasing young woman in more ways than might be immediately obvious. However – there is…

  2. Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob. I’m having an evening inhaling a couple of good single malts, reading John Terraine’s classic…

  3. Anybody seen any story about how fresh D.N.A. on a bandanna, may set one of Janine Baldings murderers free? What,…

  4. what is it with the apostrophe? It’s the septum ring of immaturity. That, and jealousy of Hawai’i. See also the…

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