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Gender and principle in the federal Labor party
While in London for the coronation, federal Labor leader and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave an exclusive interview with Piers Morgan. In it, Morgan asked (among other things) “what is a woman?”, to which Albo responded “an adult human female”. The particular string of words Albo used here, which he has used before, has become…
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Scott Morrison, the Minister for Everything, convention, and the law
In a statement yesterday, a spokesperson for His Excellency the Governor-General of Australia David Hurley confirmed reports that, during the height of the response to the COVID pandemic in 2020, he had accepted advice from then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison to secretly appoint him to various ministerial portfolios. This post discusses the legal provisions and political…
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No Conor, Australia is not falling to COVID dictatorship
In 2020, American governments decided that it was acceptable to overwhelm their health system, permanently maim a potentially innumerable number of people with post-COVID syndrome, while slaughtering six hundred thousand of their own people in defence of their citizens’ right to go to a Denny’s. In 2021, the Australian states, who decided not to accept this outcome,…
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Could one stack The New Liberals?
Victor Kline, leader of The New Liberals, an upstart party which seeks to replace the Liberals on the centre, tweeted to those seeking to join the party, but who were unable to pay the party’s modest $50 a year fee ($10 for unwaged people), that there were generous benefactors who would “sponsor” their fees. The…
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Abbott calls for “special courts” for returning jihadists
Terror needs to be dealt with. With the presumption of innocence intact.