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One for Your Amazon Wish-List
French economist Thomas Piketty has been picking up a lot of attention in the rest of the English speaking world – well mainly the US – thanks to the publication of an English translation of his recent book Capital in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Humour
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Spoiler
Lamest April Fools’ Day joke so far today. There must be better efforts out there. Just post ’em as you find ’em. Please. I could use a bit of ROFLMAO today. Update (9:41 EDST): I wish I’d taken a screen … Continue reading
Posted in Blegs, Humour
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Sovereign Borders, not so Sovereign Nation II: a Nice Little Constitutional Conundrum
In my last post on Troppo I raised this question: …who’s actually running 1 foreign policy these days? Is it Julie Bishop, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, is it Scott Morrison as Minister for Immigration or is it some other … Continue reading
‘…all the way up through the chain.’
Scott Morrison was on RN Breakfast on Monday 25 November, hosing down the idea that the diplomatic row with Indonesia over past spying on the Indonesian President and his wife might impede Operation Sovereign Borders. That was the day before … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration and refugees, Politics - national, Society
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Love, Marriage and Terror in Melbourne’s Outer Leafies
Some memories fade too slowly. I was reminded of one such memory by the TV advertisement being aired in the lead up to White Ribbon Day tomorrow (Monday 25 November). It was late morning on Friday, 20 September and I … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Life, Society
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Nuanced Argument from an Unlikely Source
To defend free speech does not mean you cannot criticise how others exercise it. The very opposite, if anything. With weaker legal restrictions on, say, racist insults there should be stronger social sanctions – criticism, debate, counter-arguments. It’s called manners, … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics - national
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