Last month, I wrote a piece about doing geological fieldwork along the southern Tasmanian coast, which is only accessible by boat, floatplane, helicopter or a two day walk along the…
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Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care. His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection. [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/abstract]
As readers of this blog may know, we are downsizing from a house to a unit, as in the former, we only use about half the space. Going through a…
The job of downsizing is an onerous one, and in our case has consisted of seven carloads of books to Lifeline, a charity which provides crisis support, suicide prevention services…
[TV Channel] Seven has stations everywhere - a massive platform with free-to-air into so many regional areas. And it has buggered things up comprehensively. I am not sure how viewers could ever again trust what's screened. This week showed us - again - that the best thing you can do to protect your reputation is not to be an utter arsehole. [https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8596279/jenna-price-the-sins-of-channel-seven-and-why-they-matter/?cs=14258]
Some weeks ago, some religious nutter argued online that the rapture* was going to happen on the 9th of April. I am typing this on the 10th of April so it seems…