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Tony Abbott’s budget quicksand

*Pic: Corman and Hockey enjoy a quiet pre-Budget night cigar There is a Biblical parable that tells us when reflecting on our...

ISIS, Boko Haram and The Tea Party are just the beginning ... 4

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ISIS, Boko Haram and The Tea Party are just the beginning …

Cognitive dissonance under pressure I think that what seems to have changed in the increasingly heated ideological debate now going on worldwide,...

Leading the Australian economy to the Abbott-oir 7

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Leading the Australian economy to the Abbott-oir

It’s been two months since my How to kick-start the economy: swap the paid parental leave scheme for small business tax concession....

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Sacred Promises

After 70 years in and out of government the Liberal Party remains deeply uncertain about egalitarian values; it has never been able...

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The Mass Mobilization of Populations

Image from Snoopman … which also has Lorde’s censored speech on corporatized totalitarianism : https://snoopman.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lordegrammyspeech.pdf Shaping corporate totalitarianism out of democratic ideas...

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Much learning does not teach understanding

Polumathie noon ou didaskei. Heraclitus (DK B40) Much learning does not teach understanding, else it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras; and...

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Whither the Liberal Conscience?

Some observers would be surprised to see Senator George Brandis in conflict with leaders of ethnic and religious communities – including Greek,...

Imagine if the winning team told the losers to suck it because they lost? SA ... 22

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Imagine if the winning team told the losers to suck it because they lost? SA …

Some random observations on the election results Tasmania’s 2014 House of Assembly election delivered a not unexpected majority to the Liberal party....