New Catallaxy

The Covid vax will soon become de rigueur for Australian babies and infants, aged six months to five years. The FDA has approved Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for this voiceless cohort in the U.S. population and our TGA is busying away going through the motions before giving Moderna a tick here. Interesting, isn’t it. At…

The decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation is a necessary victory on the path to eradicating the wrong of abortion. Few would have believed it possible, let alone see it realized in their lifetimes, yet here we are. We have the tireless work of an anti-abortion movement to thank for this, which spent…

After being repeatedly told that the Left is neither Imperialists nor Nationalists, it is always interesting to read the details of “the Great Patriotic War that saved the Motherland”. From Chapter 49 of Antony Beevor’s book, ‘The Second World War’: “It must be very pleasant for you,” Harriman said, making conversation [at the Potsdam Conference]…

Frankenstein Mary Shelley famously wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus which originated in 1816 when herself, her lover and future husband Percy Shelley and Lord Bryon had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After a number of days, Mary Shelley was inspired to write this great novel after imagining a…

Energy, education, health… Is there currently any aspect of life where this doesn’t seem to apply? We see it almost everyday on this blog (H/T Monty).

Ok, let’s see if I understand the basic premise of this Government video. In its drive to eradicate discrimination and bias from its hiring practices, the Federal Government undertakes a trial of a recruiting process designed to remove it. The trial does indeed identify discrimination and bias in the public service hiring practices, just not…