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- The Australia Card and Data
- AUKUS- time to make a RUcKUS
- The Law is a Dangerous Ass
- Health Policy- what the Governments should do.
- ‘Health Policy’
- Gaza: The Final Solution?
- Gaza Outcomes
- Secularism Australia Conference 2023
- Power: the 50-25-25 rule
- The Vicious Circle of Modern Politics by Barry Jones
- Hospital Crisis is just part of the story.
- 68th Walkley Journalism Awards- 23 November 2023
- What is Israel’s End-Game?
- Argentinian Populist Wins Election
- Apartheid Education Buses
- Climate Change- a Depressing Update
- Myanmar- some hope in Rebel Victories.
- Israel is Developing East Mediterranean Gas fields without Palestinian ownership
- How Much Exercise Should You Do?
- FB Post to School Students 4 Climate
- Loneliness is a Major Public Health Issue
- A Legal Test Case on Freedom of Speech
- Is Expulsion of the Palestinians the Israeli End-Game?
- The Hamas Perspective on the 7 October attack on Israel
- Burma/Myanmar Sportswashing
- Advocacy to Delay the Silica Benchtops Ban
- Three Words May Save a Life
- What is Happening in Ukraine?
- An Apolitical Public Service?
- China’s Technology
- Smoker with Lung Cancer Sues Crown Casino
- How is the Ukrainian Offensive Going?
- Qantas- What a Tale!
- Power in America
- Reasons for the Rise of Ignorance
- Corruption and the Law
- Putin, Prigozhin and Ukraine
- Private Schools- part of entrenching inequality
- Labor and Liberals Unite to Continue Opacity and Pork-Barrelling
- Modi’s Melbourne Rally has Australia Kow-Towing Again.
- Our government is being privatised by stealth.
- FOI and Secrecy
- Classification of Impairment
- NSW Election Epilogue
- The Arms Industry Distorts US and the World’s Priorities
- UN Security Council Rejects an Investigation into Nordstream Pipeline Sabotage
- Fracking for Gas Destroys Farmland
- Keating Attacks the AUKUS Submarine Deal at the National Press Club
- The Silicosis Epidemic- A Symptom of Wider Regulatory Failure
- An End to the War in Ukraine?
- Outrageous Nonsense on China and Defence
- Liberals Still Need 20 State Election Candidates: Incredible arrogance from Headless Chooks!
- The Triple Lunacy of Westconnex
- At last; some sense on Defence- but not from Kim Beasley.
- Flaws in Constitutions
- Please Write Submission re Vaping by 16 January
- Trust – a letter to Ross Gittins, who wrote the below article on Trust
- A Scientific Approach to Conspiracy Theories
- China Relaxes COVID Zero Policy
- NSW Labor Weak on Gambling
- The Myth of Liberal Competence
- Brittany Higgins trial shows that legal system is not fit for purpose
- Children in Care- a Brief History
- Robodebt- an ongoing saga
- Morrison’s Minister for Everything’ Antics show Constitution is deficient
- The IR Bill- two problems and a suggestion
- Fire Bombing of Friendly Jordie a Litmus Test
- The US is in Trouble and we with it.
- iCare- a letter to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
- Australia’s Role in the COP 27 Farce in Egypt.
- Danny Lim Bashing a bad sign of the times
- British American Tobacco launches new Campaign to legitimise Vaping.
- Immigration – it is Time to Clean it up.
- The Myth of Liberal Competence- 2
- BUGA UP – the issues keep resurfacing
- The Myth of Liberal Competence-1
- BUGA UP Nostalgia
- Submission to Inquiry into Online Gambling
- Albanese seeks to meet Chinese President, Xi Jinping
- Vaping- A WHO Guide
- The Twitter Story- and the bigger subtext
- The Queen and I
- Relevance of Books
- Pressure increases on Governor General David Hurley
- Victory of Liz Truss in UK: Style over Substance
- Want to know about high energy prices?
- Bribing the Governor-General?
- Some Thoughts for the Jobs Summit- Arthur Chesterfield-Evans
- Electric Vehicles: How helpful are they for Climate Change?
- Ukraine- Paul Dibb at the National Press Club
- ‘It’s the Monopoly Game Stupid’
- Roll Out the Barilaro
- An Optimistic View of Australia
- A Robodebt Re-Run? Labor bound by Pre-election contracts?
- Priorities for a Pro-Life US State Senator
- Finland
- Government protects Bonuses of iCare Executives while workers are dudded.
- Easy Money Philosophy the Key to Australia’s Undoing
- A Russian Perspective on Ukraine- (Gregory Clark article below)
- What is Needed in Health
- Huge Corporate Rort with Petroleum Resource Rent Tax
- Australian Human Rights Commission Defunded and stacked by Morrison.
- $55 Billion in grants in Federal Ministerial grants in less than 4 years!
- Belated Federal Govt. Action on Vaping
- Stacked Tribunals- the Liberals’ legacy
- Liberal Preselection problems are significant in a Binary System
- COVID19 Viral Shedding is unrelated to Symptom Severity
- Bullshit Jobs
- Ukraine- what is the future?
- The Struggle for Media Diversity Goes On
- Vaping- the beginnings of a disease description
- Planning Minister Anthony Roberts scraps flood and fire checks in Planning Laws
- China may get a naval base less than 2,000km from Australia
- The Smoke Screen Recurs.
- Vaping is Now Endemic
- Ukraine- a Perspective
- Optional Preferential Voting Won Willoughby for the Liberals
- Loneliness and its solutions
- Gun Manufacturer Remington Found Responsible for Sandy Hooks School Massacre
- Willoughby By-Election Update
- AUKUS Protest Letter- Please sign
- NSW By-Elections:- Greens Hand Willoughby and NSW Parliament to the Libs
- Religious Discrimination Bill Dies- What about the Tax-Exemption?
- Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame at the National Press Club
- Will Russia Invade Ukraine?
- Scam Crime and the Response
- NSW By-Elections Happening on 12 February
- Djokovic goes to Gaol or exile while Hillsong goes Scott-Free.
- NDIS- An Unsuccessful Privatisation of the Welfare System
- Djokovic Fiasco reflects no credit on Australia
- Fake Science now an Industry
- COVID Day 4- a non-PCR Day
- The Chinese Way
- COVID Up Close
- It is Hard to get COVID tests and likely to get Harder
- Scientific Fraud
- Pork Barrelling Works- it probably determined the 2019 Federal Election .
- BUGA UP- Episode 4 of the Earshot Series on Advertising
- Closure of Circus Oz a ‘Management Decision’
- ‘Government Responsibility’ is needed, not just ‘Personal Responsibility’.
- Kerry O’Brien Speaks for Julian Assange
- Morrison’s Character Analysed
- Mental Health and Physical Health
- iCare will repay 53,000 underpaid injured workers
- Australia at Glasgow COP26
- Australian Universities’ Neoliberal Legacy
- Toll Doesn’t Pay Toll
- Fake News a Service
- 31% of JobKeeper recipients checked were ‘not eligible’
- Nuclear Submarines- a horrendous folly to win an election?
- Tasmania Wants 90% of Adults Double Vaccinated before Opening the Border
- Motivation and Money
- Victorian Government Bites the Bullet and Mandates Vaccination
- An OECD Analysis of the Federal Government’s Policies
- Uncontested Grants for NT Gas Exploration Despite Court Proceedings in Progress
- What Has Gone Wrong in Australia?
- Please Sign the Petition to stop the COVID Lockdown Ending Prematurely
- Corruption at Many Levels- the ripping off of Meat workers
- Irresponsible COVID Policies will Destroy the Federal and NSW Liberals
- COVID Vaccine Works!
- Afghanistan- a Callous debacle
- Submission to Statutory Review of Motor Accidents Act 2017
- Attitudes to Anti-Vaxxers- a parallel with smokers?
- The 2021 Census- Why you should put ‘No Religion’
- Privatised Job Services- Guess who benefits?
- Giving out Jobs to Perpetuate the Status Quo
- Chomsky- the 10 Strategies of Media Manipulation
- The Broken Bargain- Australia Institute Webinar
- Is There a Role for the Military in Vaccination?
- NDIS Individual Assessments; A Symptom of a Wider Problem
- COVID19 Vaccines Reduce Transmission
- Threat to Free Speech- when Chinese students pay and have an agenda.
- Christian Porter Rape Allegations
- Collapsing Buildings
- Ransomware Now Done by Privateers
- AUSTRAC and the Banks- is this the Model of Regulation?
- Who Gets to be Smart?
- Aged Care Ad
- NSW Govt tries to Blame Limousine Driver for New Sydney COVID Outbreak
- Barnaby Joyce may make more trouble for Labor
- Likely Changes to the National Party front bench
- The Resurrection of Barnaby Joyce
- 71% of Australians say religion is not important to them.
- NDIS= Privatisation of Welfare
- Australia Passes Illegal Laws
- CTP Insurers Pay 6.3% of Premiums to Injured People. They keep the rest.
- NSW Politics- the Upper Hunter Farce Continues.
- Noam Chomsky’s 10 Media Manipulation Strategies
- Fake Facebook Pages Allow Dictators to Rule
- iCare= Hopeless in Two Reports but the Bad Joke Continues
- Liberal Government Backflips
- One China or Two?
- Clotting Risk from Vaccines and COVID19 Infection
- Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy
- Skilled Migrants Needed as we stopped training people.
- Amateur Hour in Management and Politics.
- Is the Australian War Memorial being hijacked to be a Temple of Militarism?
- Our Military
- Australia to follow the US out of Afghanistan
- Myanmar, What is likely?
- A Look at the NDIS (National Disability Insurance System)
- Politicisation of Vaccine Rollout has caused the Problems
- Vaccines and Probabilities
- The IMF suggests taxing those who have benefited from the COVID pandemic.
- Morrison is very against Rorts done by Little People.
- Labour Hire Companies facilitate Wage Scams
- Myanmar’s Army is murdering its people.
- Government Scandals
- The Answer to our Problems is not More Religion
- The End of Scomo?
- COVID Vaccine Efficacy
- Sex, God, Anger, Mental Health, Guns, and Racism
- Aged Care Reform Now
- Murray-Darling Farce- Another Summit.
- Interested in Clean Air?
- Mutual Obligation and ‘Noblesse Oblige’
- Porter’s Defamation Case Against the ABC
- Ex-Solicitor-General Calls for Inquiry into Porter’s Rape Allegation
- Time to Look at the Legal System
- iCare Doesn’t Know and Doesn’t Pay Underpaid workers
- Scathing PWC Report Finds Perottet’s iCare Incompetent
- Insurance for Farmers with Coal Seam Gas
- JobKeeper becomes an Unaudited Subsidy to Big Business
- Research shows Gambling Increases Mortgage Defaults
- Subsidies for Inequality
- Christian Porter’s Rape Explanation
- Federal Police to Investigate Crown Casino
- Electricity Pricing in Crisis Situations
- The Cost of Colonialism
- Privatisation of Quarantine = Government Collecting Money for Corporations- Permanently??
- Mental Health and Cheating
- Federal Auditor-General Defunded- Government cuts teeth of watchdog
- Facebook will not carry Australian News
- Health Effects of Coal
- Trump Acquitted. Significance?
- Value Capture and Equity in Infrastructure Development
- Governments are Simply Bought
- COVID Problems Caused by Lack of Respect for Knowledge
- Police Leaving the Police On Medical Grounds Triples- Why?
- Welfare Repayment for Some- Nick Scali Optional?
- Myanmar-A Coup. What next?
- Chinese Doublespeak as their World Influence Rises
- Are Google Algorithms Reinforcing Anti-Science positions? 3 Feb. 2021
- Make Google Pay for Content? But who does the money go to? 29/1/21
- Crikey- While Porter Parties, his protection racket inflicts misery, By Bernard Keene
- Submission to Senate Inquiry into Newstart 29/9/2019
- Justice for Some 11/1/21
- University Cheating Cheapens Degrees 11/1/21
- TAFE Merger Fails to Save Money 14/1/21
- China’s Side of the Trade War with Australia 22/1/21
- Dutch Cabinet Resigns over Welfare Debt Scandal. Australian Cabinet Does Not! 16/1/21
- Big Tech’s Media Monopoly 15/1/21
- Congress Impeaches Trump- What is Next? 14/1/21
- Morrison’s Non-Policies in Aged Care led to COVID Deaths 8/1/21
- US Election Aftermath 8/1/21
- Europe-China Treaty is a further step in loss of US Hegemony. 8/1/21
- Assange has Avoided Extradition to the USA for now. 5/1/21
- Veterans’ PTSD costs $241 million 3/1/21
- China and the Taiwan Question. 1/1/21
- The International Criminal Court has Declined to Prosecute Britain for War Crimes in Iraq. 1/1/21
- Privatisation of Research will Kill Millions due to Vaccine Non-Availability 30/12/20
- The Evolution of Lying Proceeds Apace: New Daily 19/12/20.
- Energy Storage is a large problem- the German Experience 13/12/20
- Cooperation on COVID Vaccines? 13/12/20
- COVID19 Vaccine Roll Out 11/12/20
- US Health System and COVID-19 11/12/20
- Global Dimming- another climate problem 5/12/20
- Media Diversity Inquiry 22/11/20
- Aged care: What is the prognosis? 15/11/20
- Medicine, Reality and the US vote 11/11/20
- Biden Wins, but is America Trumped? 9/11/20
- US Election Commentary- Warning- long post, innovative stuff nearer the end 5/11/20
- Gladys Has to Go 15/10/20.
- Marketing Obesity to Children 11/10/20
- COVID19 Second Wave is Happening in Europe 9/10/20
- To Make google and Facebook pay, or not to make google and Facebook pay?
- Workers Compensation in NSW and Victoria- ‘Immoral and Unethical’ – 4 Corners Exposes It. 28/7/20
- Happenings in Turkey, no sillier than NSW mining policy 11/7/20
- The Eden-Monaro By-Election of 4/7/20 was interesting for a number of reasons. 9/7/20
- ABC Cuts are Part of Dumbing Down Australia 28/6/20
- Vale Trevor Morling – the Passive Smoking Judgement of 1991, 10/6/20
- Domestic Violence Becomes a Workers Comp Issue 8/6/20
- The ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protest in Sydney 6/6/20
- Electric Vehicles: How helpful are they for Climate Change?
- Electric Vehicles: How helpful are they for Climate Change? 5/6/20
- Aboriginal Deaths in Custody are not far from the US situation. 5/6/20
- Housing Stimulus: More Middle Class Welfare 5/6/20
- Mental Illness and Stupidity 3/6/20
- East Timor Bugging Case goes ahead in Secret
- NZ Environmental Law Disappoints
- Truth in the COVID-19 Era: Australia
- The China Trade Reality
- Truth in the COVID-19 Era: The USA
- When insults had class ….
- Privatised Job Seeking- just another opportunity for rorts.
- Charity, Government and Institutions
- COVID-19: A large range of Pathological Processes
- COVID-19: The Swedish Response. Is it OK?
- COVID-19: The Swedish Response. Is it OK? 27/5/20
- CoronaVirus COVID-19: Did China do a good job?
- COVID-19: Origin of the Pandemic- 2nd Article
- No Target, No Plan for Carbon-Neutral Economy by 2050: Angus Taylor, Energy Minister
- Australia as a Compliant Colony getting Fracked.
- COVID-19 Non-Treatment, American Style Points to the Need to Fix Medicare
- Government Steals Clean Energy Finance for Fossil Fuel Development
- Gun-Toting Protesters Invade Michigan Capitol Building
- AEC Approves Anti-Vaxxer Party name change
- Submission to Senate Inquiry into Adequacy of Newstart, 30 May 2019
- Newstart Inquiry Reports- Pretty Tepid
- The Murdoch Party
- Angus Taylor Must Resign
- US Health System is worst to control COVID-19 Epidemic
- Liberal Government Rips-off Australia and East Timor for Multinationals then prosecutes Whistleblower
- Limits of Medicine- another COVID-19 Study, and future actions
- Limits of Medicine- another COVID-19 Study, and future actions
- Workers Compensation- WIRO the Watchdog is beheaded 11/12/19.
- Welfare- the target of the conservatives.
- VALI- Vaping-Associated Lung Illness- a New Disease is born.
- Truth v Money in Academia
- Refugees on Lesbos: an observation. 9/9/18
- Limits to the Market and a Solution for Australia? 15/5/17
- Load-Based Pollution 24/12/16
- A Law is Coming to Get Ready for Negative Interest Rates 2/8/19
- CT Scans Increase Cancer Risk 11/10/19
- Capitalism-How Will it End? 1/2/17
- Contamination on 4 Corners tonight is just part of the tale 9/10/17.
- Bolivian Coup- another Leftist government overthrown 14/11/19
- Economic Ruminations on the COVID-19 epidemic 29/3/20
- Centrelink- an Encounter 9/6/16
- Crimeless Victims 22/12/19
- Amorality and Unaccountability is Now the Norm. 7/2/20
- Albanian Life under the Communists- a story 23/9/18
- COVID-19 Taiwan’s Successful Response 1/4/20
- Environmental Vandals using the COVID-19 Crisis to Get Dodgy Projects Up. 24/4/20
- COVID-19 Origin of the Pandemic 19/4/20
- Senate Newstart Inquiry: Terms of Reference 30/9/19
- Dealing with Centrelink 13/6/19
- Giving Out Money Problems
- US Sanctions Will Worsen COVID-19 Effects in Venezuala
- Secret Trial of Witness K- East Timor Whistleblower
- Is 5G Safe?
- ANZAC Day- Lest We Remember
- Saving Virgins
- COVID-19 crisis highlights Market Failures
- Management of COVID-19 in the UK
- COVID-19 Does Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin treatment work?
- How the US does Spying
- Farm Update: Bushfire Time Day 3, 2/1/20
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, a review and comments
- A Coup in Bolivia- How it was Reported in Oz
- Drug Testing and Strip Searching 7/11/19
- Mental Health. Small wins, more needed.
- Drug Research Crisis
- The Rise of Ignorance
- A Law is Coming to Get Ready for Negative Interest Rates 2/8/19
- Religious Freedom in Perspective
- Lest We Remember
- Reflections on Einstein.
- Swiss Democracy. 9/9/18
- My Health. Should you opt out?
- Libs Energy Scheme October 2017 Analysis 21/10/17
- The Privatisation of the Land Titles Office
- A Response to the Libs’ Energy Plan
- Energy Plan- why it is bad, and why there is not much protest.
- The Decline in Trust.
- Political Change or Economic Change? Which comes first?
- Tobacco Control Lobby goes silly on vaping.
- Poland Revisited
- NDIS- National Disability Insurance System.
- Limits to the Market? A New Paradigm Needed!
- The Political Power of Social Media
- The Power of Social Media- Articles 5/3/17
- Doctors for the Environment Recommend Load-Based Licencing for Polluters 27/12/16.
- Power, Injury and Awards
- Trump’s Win- why? 9/11/16
- Trump’s Win- Why?
- CTP Facebook Article- The Facts 11/9/16
- My second Obeid story. 29/6/16
- Eddie Obeid. My First Story. 28/6/16
- Using the COVID19 Crisis for Bad 29/5/20
- Medicare- Did the Liberals try to abolish it?
- Medicare- Did the Liberals try to abolish it? 21/6/16
- Regulating fighting
- House of Welcome is a group that helps refugees.
- Negative Gearing- the real economic problem.