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Tag: vaccine passports

  • Covidiocy may be about to end

    Are we beginning to see the beginning of the end of Covidiocy? First this: England Ends All COVID Passports, Mask Mandates, Work Restrictions. Undoubtedly pushed along by the fact that no one in authority takes Covid seriously, only the media and the population. That is why all over the political class there are so few who…

  • There were a lot more than 20,000

    The headline in the Sunday paper today read 20,000 rally in CBD. There were a lot more than that, as I did my own count as the procession passed by on Flinders Street. This was my calculation. There were approximately 16 persons in each row of the procession. Each row passed by at the rate…

  • Obligatory ignorance

    It is a curious thing that in the midst of a mass vaccination program of heretofore little used en masse vaccine delivery systems that OSHA adopts the following policy: This left me thinking, what does OSHA’s antipodean relation, WorkSafe Victoria, do in this respect? Does it require employers to notify WorkSafe of any adverse events…

  • Scraping by as a vile parasite in society

    “Papers Please” – New South Wales Australia Officially Celebrates Their First Day of Apartheid with The Introduction of Two Classes of Citizens Read the story from the Conservative Treehouse that comes with the heading here. Includes this: Liberty abandoned under the false guise of security can never be regained. You will comply…. or you will…

  • Guest Post: Cassie of Sydney – War declared in Victoria 

    One of reasons why Victoria is in such a parlous state is because of the Victorian Liberal Party.  For decades now the Victorian Liberals have failed to provide any credible opposition to the Bracks, Brumby and Andrews’ Labor governments.  In the Westminster system ineffectual oppositions enable corrupt and inept

  • Guest Post: Bar Beach Swimmer – Who has the right to work?

    When and how does a citizen in a democracy lose his or her right to work?  Up until 18 months ago, the only reasonable answer to that question would have been because the person had been found guilty of a crime that carried a custodial sentence: with their freedom forfeited, gaol would have taken away all…

  • Fisking Ergas’s ‘Even true libertarians can support vax passports’

    In Even true libertarians can support vax passports, (The Australian, 17 Sept), Henry Ergas made a very peculiar argument from a purportedly libertarian perspective in favour of vaccine passports. What follows is a traditional fisking of the entire

  • Guest Post: Augusto Zimmermann – The Unconstitutionality of Western Australia’s vaccine passport restrictions

    In Western Australia, any resident who now leaves the State for New South Wales and is seeking to return “can apply to do so on compassionate grounds, subject to the following conditions … Have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine…”, an August 19th Facebook post from Premier Mark McGowan reads. Section 51(xxiiiA)…

  • Vaccine passports are not inevitable

    There are a number of problems with contemporary conservatism. One involves its near universal voluntary surrender of public office over the last 30 or so years to its enemies. Another is its fatal mistake of thinking that culture was downstream of politics, not vice versa. But the mistake I want to concentrate on today is…