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Climate Change Politics - international

Global heating heresy?

Ken Parish
November 3, 2024November 3, 2024
  As I argued in a recent article, the election of Donald Trump as President would be disastrous for climate change compared with the current...
Get The Great Housing Hijack Into Your Brain
Economics and public policy

Get The Great Housing Hijack Into Your Brain

Antonios Sarhanis
October 31, 2024October 31, 2024
Cameron Murray’s The Great Housing Hijack is self-recommending. You certainly don’t need a review of any sort to tell you to go read it if...
IT and Internet

New clobber

Ken Parish
October 31, 2024
As you can see we've adopted a new Wordpress theme.  Many thanks to our web guru Tony Sarhanis.  What do you think?  I really like...
Orange Jesus Trump
Climate Change Immigration and refugees Politics - international

Orange Jesus Trump

Ken Parish
October 30, 2024October 30, 2024
Most people throughout the world (except dedicated right wing American Republicans) are contemplating with horror the very real possibility of Donald Trump being re-elected as...
Health History Media Personal

Vale David Tiley

Ken Parish
October 29, 2024October 30, 2024
David Tiley was one of the early generation of bloggers in Australia, starting in 2003, approximately the same time as I started. I first met...
Bullshit Democracy Politics - national

Minority government would be no bad thing

Ken Parish
October 14, 2024October 30, 2024
The common view from politicians and so-called experts is that minority government is dreadful. I don't agree. Nor, it seems, does former Rudd and Gillard...
House of Grief?
Criminal law Law

House of Grief?

Ken Parish
October 10, 2024October 30, 2024
A few years ago I read a book by the iconic Australian author Helen Garner titled "House of Grief". It dealt with the trial and...

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