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 …
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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 …
Rule of the Mediocracy? America’s Rise Despite Itself
Harry S Truman’s mother in law never quite felt that Truman was good enough for her darling daughter. I suppose she always saw him as the awkward farm boy courting her, rather than as the returned war veteran who had risen to the rank of major in command of an artillery battery who married Bess. …
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When Fibbing Is Unforgivable – Thoughts on the Andrews Government
At the very back of my memory is a vague collection of some sort of playground game or custom where, if you touched something icky (eg dog poo or used chewing gum), you would immediately touch someone else and call ‘Needles!’ hence passing the contamination from yourself onto them. With the way that the Delta …
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A Walk Along The Bourke Street Mall
I went for a walk at lunchtime through the deserted city. In the Bourke Street mall I decided to look up and appreciate what I can see above street level. In our every day lives we often keep our foot on the ground and our eyes in front. It’s sometimes good to look up and …
It is time for Cricket (the true World Game) to resume its place at the Olympics
It irritates me greatly when the Australian news media, as has been its unpatriotic and irritating habit of the past 15 years or so, to refer to Soccer (aka Association Football) as Football. In Australia, particularly in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the NT, Football means Australian Rules, which I consider true football. …
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Bruce Springsteen’s daughter wins silver at the Olympics
One of my late kinsmen was the village idiot of Sunshine North. He happily used to live some of the time on a vacant block there which resembled a garbage tip with abandoned cars and machinery he collected. He also would have trouble with the RSPCA from time to time as he would harbour wild …
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Reading Maoist Propaganda is most interesting
I have long been in the habit of occasionally reading extracts from Mao’s Little Red Book for laughs. Yes, I do need to get a life. But just in the past few days, I have discovered The Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party’s answer to the BBC and Voice of America, and I must say …
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Lost For Words! 