As anyone reading this blog would have guessed, I read a lot of stuff about politics. Mostly I read it to form the basis of the thesis I am trying…
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A few days ago, I noted that the moderate wing of the New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party, was fighting back against the ultraconservatives who are taking over…
In a leaked e-mail federal Liberal vice-president Karina Okotel excoriated the party’s Victorian branch over its shambolic state election campaign. In the e-mail, she accused state director Nick Demiris and…
Before you decide to engage in a respectful exchange of views with a creationist, realise that the last intelligent, honest creationists died a century ago. What we see now are the dregs -- the folks who weren't clever enough to abandon the ship when it was sinking. Anyone who's still on that ship has either chosen to die on it or is trying to sublet their cabins to even dumber people, and they haven't noticed -- or are hoping others won't notice -- that the ship is, at this point, paradoxically, both underwater and on fire.
Last Friday school children walked out of their classrooms and held demonstrations in support of action on climate change, something the current government seems incapable of comprehending, let alone dealing…