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  • Rafe’s Roundup 19 Dec

    Roundup of Partners and Fellow-Travellers Drop in and see what they are up to! The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA         Climate and energy program  CIS          The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre  Mannkal Economics Education Foundation           Advance Australia  Taxpayers Alliance  Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond The Rathouse and The Site of…

  • Meet the classical liberal vagabond

    There is a quiet achiever on the liberal/conservative scene, the indefatigable and mercurial Dara Macdonald. Thinker. Writer. Reader. Freedom enthusiast. Conservative Vagabond. Cocktail maker. Lawyer. Dara Macdonald is an Australian lawyer and founder. Dara has worked as in-house legal counsel for various national and multinational companies. Last year she took up a year-long research position with Australia’s…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 17 Dec 2022

    The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #49

    B movies In old Hollywood, B grade movies identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicised bottom half of a double feature. However, this practice largely ceased by the end of the 1950s with the studios changing their departments into TV production divisions. B movies often represented a particular genre e.g. westerns while low-budget science-fiction and horror…

  • Arizona Election Contest

    Over the weekend, lawyers for Kerri Lake filed a lawsuit against Katie Hobbs, both as contestee and in her capacity f Secretary of State, and various election officials of Maricopa County, re the gubernatorial election in Arizona this past mid-term election. You can find the lawsuit filed here. The vote margin at present is 17,117…

  • Open Thread – Tue 13 Dec 2022

    The Census at Bethlehem, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566

  • The War in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future: A Conversation between Michael Vlahos and Douglas Macgregor

    This is a superb discussion involving two well-placed interlocutors, who have been in the middle of international and strategic affairs for at least the last four decades. It comes in three parts. The first looks at the war in Ukraine, its antecedents, and its prospects, particular whether the situation is entering its culminating phase. The…

  • Peace-Mongering, Ukraine style

    News Reports and Analysis Daily Mail, 30th November, 2021 The Daily Mail reported that three gatherings of some Downing Street staff had taken place during November and December of 2020. This was the lifting of the lid on the cesspool of cynicism that characterised the political response to Covid-19 all over the Western world, with…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022

    The Pont de Arts and the Institut de France, August Renoir, 1867

  • Wokey Women

    Being Christmas, this is the time of year I get to attend work lunches at fancy Sydney restaurants. Yesterday, I attended another such lunch, it was my third in a week, about twenty of us went to a particularly good CBD restaurant. I don’t enjoy these lunches. Why? Well, I like to keep my social…

  1. In agricultural news. As Bush posted earlier, the impact of below zero temperatures last week on crops is continuing to…

  2. Old photo I have friends who are plastic surgeons not the cosmetic ones and we have been looking at her…

  3. Unfortunately Politicians, public servants will be exempt from these laws. For thee, but not for me.

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