What’s in a Name?
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Your name is important. To renounce it or change it is momentous. To be given a new secret name by an intimate partner is sublime. Imagine a new name, known onl... Read more.
Mountains to Climb, Civilization to Save
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Metaphorical mountains to climb abound in our senseless world these days. Everywhere one looks there are threats and injustices that need to be exposed, overcom... Read more.
Silence of the Damned
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None of our civil institutions shows the slightest inclination to talk about the injustices of the last few years, let alone the possibility that those injustic... Read more.
Letters to the Patronising Fools in Parliament
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One doesn’t have to look too hard, these days, to find examples of foolish patronising poseurs - the various chambers of our state and federal parliaments are... Read more.
We Must Dial Up Our Jabs Against the Tyrants
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The petitioner or the letter writer might be well advised to plan a two-pronged protest when next submitting a statement on a proposed bill or exhorting their M... Read more.
They Want the Government to Spend Even More on Vaccines
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The Grattan (‘We change the nation – for good’) Institute has released a shallow, disingenuous report calling for the government to spend lots of money be... Read more.
Don’t Gaslight Me
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So what is it that they are only at the start of accomplishing as a newsroom? What is it, other than suppressing some stories and promoting others, that they wa... Read more.
Will You Be Convicted of Spreading Misinformation?
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Australia’s new Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 seeks to impose a wide-ranging set of new oblig... Read more.
How to Cope in the Midst of Crisis
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When we see no repentance but rather a continuation and escalation of the catastrophic policies that got us into this mess, it’s hard to continue to believe i... Read more.
We Are All Pretending There Is No Emergency
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Perhaps we all know what just happened, but we are all pretending that it didn’t, from one of two perspectives - either pretending that everything is normal w... Read more.
The Country Without a Man
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In keeping with the narrative of the original story, a fitting response from ‘the Man’ would be to grant the government its wish. If they really never want ... Read more.
An Obituary for Andrew Daniels, Not His Real Name
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Dante’s conception of Hell finds the sinners, many of whom he knows as contemporaries, being subjected to eternal punishments which perfectly, exquisitely, ju... Read more.