GDP counts exchanges that involve money (adjusted to avoid double counting). Somebody is paid, and somebody pays. GDP doesn’t tell you who paid, just that somebody did.… Read More No Minister, high immigration will cost us $320 billion
Israelis need to attend to themselves. They need to learn how to heal their own trauma, how to return to being humane people, how to break the cycle and create a peaceful population whose peace will endure.… Read More This Israel has no right to exist
Thousands of blinded people stumbled out of the inferno with long strips of skin peeling off, wailing for help, for water, for their mothers.… Read More Blinded by the light
These are men. Most men could be like this. Not everyone can sing like this, but we can all can care for each other and the world as they do. And threaten no-one. I want to put them in charge of the world. Not doing all the work, but as Wise Elders, guiding those who… Read More Wise Elders
I can criticise Israel and not be anti-semitic. I know this because I have Jewish friends and acquaintances who I feel no need to criticise or condemn in any way. No-one else’s necessarily ignorant claims about my thoughts and feelings can change this. The following historical statements are easily verified. Israel was founded on terrorism.… Read More Israel was founded on terrorism
We are assured our alleged alliance with our great and powerful friend, the United States, is based on shared values. Really? I went to the pictures the other day, to see a doco about Aussie football. It featured a focus on winning, certainly, but by means of teamwork, having fun, having a healthy family life… Read More Shared values?
I have used this blog mainly to post articles I have written for publishing. As my outlets have dwindled basically to one site (Pearls and Irritations), and that only sometimes, and as I have thoughts most days of comments I might make about the absurd state of the world, I will use this site to… Read More Less formal blog
Many people are not happy with the way Australia is going. Many people say we need to be less materialistic, more compassionate, more tolerant of difference, though less tolerant of divisiveness. That’s all true, I would agree. But the great global industrial behemoth rolls on, carrying us inexorably along, it seems. Our wishes and fine… Read More Author’s remarks on the launch of A New Australia
We tend not to notice how far we have sunk. Australia is not in good shape. We need an unflinching assessment of our situation, and also to know we can fix it. [Published in The Canberra Times, 11 Jan 2024 – or so I’m told.] We tend not to notice how far we have sunk.… Read More Admit the mess we are in and reorganise/
The hand-wringing by political ‘centre-left moderates’ about the rise of fascism and the likelihood of another Trump presidency overlooks a key fact: they are a big part of the problem. There is widespread lamentation about the popularity of Donald Trump and the likelihood of another Trump presidency, from Hillary Clinton’s notorious 2016 reference to the… Read More The ‘centre-left’ feeds fascism
