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The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
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The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
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The media's talking heads credit Kamala Harris with winning her debate with Trump. Well, yes, they would say that
Sep 15 2024
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In praise of William Baumol
Steve Kates writes:
Let me add a few words about William Baumol (above) who has just passed away at the age of 95, which is very good going. He truly ought to have won the Nobel Prize in Economics. But what I would like to add to the record is what a truly great academic he was to the full extent of the meaning of the word and in the most positive way one can imagine.
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Sep 02 2024
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The Society of Jesus mourns the death of Father Gerald (“Gerry”) O’Collins SJ AC. Fr O’Collins died in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years.
Aug 31 2024
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How could it not be the Jews? That was the immediate surmise of, let us be frank, noxiously aggressive bigots and anti-Semites. Tayah’s restaurant was in Caulfield, the heart of Jewish Melbourne, there was a synagogue nearby.
Aug 30 2024
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