Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu

In Dark Emu, Pascoe claims Indigenous Australians were farmers with large settled villages in contrast to settled research and buttresses his work by claiming without apparent evidence to be indigenous himself. Pascoe’s work seemed shot through with the ignorant belief … Continue reading

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Who blew Nord Stream?

As everyone knows, except those living under rocks, Nord Steam 1 and 2 are gas pipelines that connect Russian gas to Germany that were attacked on Sept 26. Who attacked Nord Stream? The West has largely accused Russia which makes … Continue reading

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Elon Musk arrives – Social Media Moderation

It always seemed a dumb move for social media platforms to engage in curating or moderating content. Why take on responsibility that is impossible to discharge given the sheer volume of content, the expense of manual moderation combined with billions … Continue reading

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Rawls Theory of Justice – A pragmatic critique

A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work by the philosopher John Rawls (d 2002). As its name implies, the work attempts to provide an ethical foundation to the concept of Social Justice. Rawls claims to have arrived at a set … Continue reading

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Broome – It’s waiting for you

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Some photos from our recent time in Broome.

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What is federal Labor doing?

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First Labor promised to reduce power prices when anyone who bothered to look could see power prices sky rocketing, ageing power generators were breaking down right across the eastern seaboard and then there was rising gas prices. Second we’re caught … Continue reading

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Should Ukraine compromise to avoid Nuclear war?

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Is Nuclear war now a possible consequence of the Ukraine war? It would seem so. Putin has threatened nuclear weapons since February 27th when he raised Russia’s nuclear alert. It was reported on October 4 that Russia repositioned some nuclear … Continue reading

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Libya – Yet another democratic pantomime?

Who has defeated Gaddafi – A rag tag rebel army or an intense NATO bombing campaign? And why are NATO there at all? Supposedly to protect civilians from a Gaddafi atrocities. Yet hasn’t NATO’s involvement extended way beyond protecting civilians. … Continue reading

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