The closest I ever came to meeting John Elliott was about ten years ago. At the time, I used to go to the footy at Docklands every now and then with someone who had some business dealings with John Elliott. He once suggested that I join him sometime when he was going to the footy …
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The Dan Andreas Fault – Today’s Melbourne Earthquake
The last time I experienced an earthquake was August 2016. I had arrived in Rome from Florence and was about halfway through my first trip to Italy ever. At around 3am I was woken by some shaking. My first thoughts were that this was not a dream. My second were that one bottle of red …
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We Will Live With A Yellowcake Submarine!
I used to think that the popular Chinese Communist phrase ‘running dogs’, manifest in Mao’s Little Red Book, had gone out of fashion. It was rather cute in its day: ‘People of the world, unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs! People of the world, be courageous, dare to fight, defy …
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Reaching the AFL Grand Final in a Time of Plague
In this, 2021, the second year of Plague, my AFL team, Footscray (aka the Western Bulldogs) have made it into the Grand Final again, for the first time since our Premiership Miracle of 2016, and for only the fourth time in VFL/AFL history. It will be very different to 2016, the COVID plague has seen …
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Continued Lockdown Causes A Crisis In Legitimacy Of Technocratic State Authority
The announcement of 450 new Covid cases in Victoria this morning, some 5 weeks and 2 days after the current lockdown was announced by our technocratic state leader Dan Andrews has caused me some cause for reflection. The escalating numbers over the past few days, where we have been seeing triple figure announcements each day, …
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Little known side effect of the Sinovac COVID vaccine
There is little to laugh about regarding this plague currently making our lives difficult. However one of my friends just wryly commented that Astra Zeneca is much better than Sinovac because at least it works and doesn’t make you think that Tibet is a part of China. When all this is over and we can …
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Up Where Cazaly?
Given that I have reluctantly accepted that God Save The Queen is unlikely to return as our National Anthem, I feel that we really should give serious consideration to adopting Up There Cazaly as our new National Anthem. There are several good reasons for this. One is that the Second AIF, when going into battle …
The Market is Melting Upward!
I once read that Economics can be summed up in the concept of ‘Supply and Demand’. The details are in either understanding how those two terms interact with each other, or in how to manipulate them. Much as I like to believe in the idea of Free Market Capitalism, it is probably a non-existent ideal, …
It’s time for Pieman!
When I was seven, I saw a news report on the TV with all sorts of dirty long haired hippy looking people demonstrating. They wanted to ban something called Uranium from being mined. My instinctive reaction to those protesters was that we should mine more Uranium. So you can surmise that I am not really …
Why Do Bill & Ted Keep Going To Hell?
Given that I went to a government school, my exposure to the Catholic Education system was limited to Monday night indoctrination classes in Grades 4 and 6 at the local parish Catholic primary school, in preparation for my first communion and then confirmation. Hence I first learned of the Church Doctor Saint Augustine when I …
Lost For Words! 