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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Clancy of the Overflow: How Squatters Made Australia Rich
My great grandfather, John Clancy, migrated to Australia from Cork with his parents in 1841, to find a better life. Their story is typical of the period: following little success on the Bendigo gold fields in Victoria in the 1850s, the family moved to Deniliquin in south-west New South Wales around 1870, where John and his young family squatted, establishing a sheep run. His passion was horses, a love shared with A.B. “Banjo” Paterson, a Sydney lawyer from a wealthy sheep property in New South Wales, who became immortalised in Australian literature through his poetry promoting the pleasures of outback life. The two men developed a friendship through this common interest.
The late 1880s and early 1890s were a devastating time on the land: the worst drought on record, a rabbit plague destroying arable land, economic downturn, product price collapse, and government dysfunction led 1200 New South Wales squatters to walk off their land by 1900, abandoning 8 million acres. John…
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Justice’s legal analysis is superficially plausible but, nevertheless, the judgment is woefully woke. This is because the law, even if it were argued that the Court correctly applied the law, is incompatible with the biological fact that there are two sexes.
Sep 01 2024
14 mins
