The story is a continuation of the original “Don’s Party” which takes place in 1969 at an election party on the night of Whitlam’s losing election. Some 41 years later most of the same people are back, a lifetime of experience later, to watch the results of the election in 2010.
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The information, which apparently came from a Senate estimates hearing, also noted that, of the arrivals who had paid a people-smuggler, an unstated number were transactions that had been funded by a family-member. What is unclear is whether these “family members” are living in Australia and how this funding process actually works.
Australia and its SE Asian friends should be concerned when the head of US intelligence thinks the Muslim Brotherhood is about charitable works and civic values.
In the new National Curriculum the human history of the past ten thousand years is portrayed as reaching its climax with AC/DC and Kylie Minogue. That’s the good part.
Demonstrations and uprisings are nothing new to Egyptians. Caesar and Cleopatra had to put down riots as did the Pharaohs before them. What is important about revolutions, riots and demonstrations isn’t the uprising, but what follows.
Some argue the situation would be very different if voluntary euthanasia became legal, as all social constraints would be removed. They ought to look at Oregon in America, where voluntary euthanasia has been legal for over a decade. That experience has been much studied and refutes this and almost every practical argument against legal voluntary euthanasia.
The other day I listened again to the record that was one of the enduring musical milestones of my childhood, though it was recorded when I was scarcely two years old.
As a culture, we’ve come to expect, particularly since the death of Princess Diana, our public leaders to grieve in a profuse, infantilising way, slowly turning the culture into a population of Bambi-eyed grief junkies.
The ones we are playing against don’t follow the rules, or at least the rules we understand to be the nature of the game. The game is undoubtedly intellectual poker. The prize is the heart and soul of this nation.
David Cameron has declared an end to “passive tolerance” of divided communities, and said that members of all faiths must integrate into the wider society and accept core values.
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