Bruce Beresford has selected “On Seeing an Old Poet in the Café Royal” by John Betjeman, and “All the Happiness Ahead” by Michael Cullup. The reader is Lionel Farrell.
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Beware! Advocates of a Supreme Soviet are working quietly at plans to create a great big new central government, and they’re at it at a university somewhere near you.
This government has wasted billions of dollars and put us into debt. Their massive incompetence means taxpayers have to pay billions of dollars in interest each year and somehow repay the capital. And what is there to show for this?
When What’s Wrong With Anzac? came out, why was there not even one eminent military historian apparently prepared to enter the lists to combat the deluded but highly destructive claims being made by its authors?
Quadrant Online's climate debate between Andrew Glikson and Joanne Nova. Join the discussion.
The last thing that should be done is to make a visit to the emergency department of a public hospital brief and pleasant. That will simply encourage people to attend who would otherwise wait to see their local GP or care for themselves.
John Quiggin: “It is necessary to criticise this convention [of debating opposing views] and hammer home the point that the right has become totally disconnected from reality and rational argument.”
Andrew Glikson: "As in other fields of science and technology, credibility lies with the respective experienced authorities and is protected, as much as humanly possible, by the peer review system."
Joanne Nova: "Andrew Glikson backs his arguments with weak evidence and logical errors. Instead of empirical evidence, often he quotes authoritative reports written by glorified committees."
Those who think the government has the answer to everything, and more troubling, those who earn their living from feeding off the government (taxpayer) trough, will always find reasons to seek to expand the reach of government.
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