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Albanese Is In Appeasement Mode

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In politics you are either moving forward or trending downward. PM Anthony Albanese, the surprise success story of the last few years, has seemingly stopped reaching for progressive momentum. His Labor government has the largest federal parliamentary advantage in Australian history. Indications are that his government is more about defending the status quo than actively making things better downunder. The trouble with thinking that you are representing more people is that you get into appeasement mode. Governments and their politicians begin to make their priority staying in the job rather than pushing for change. Albanese is in appeasement mode, it seems.Continue Reading

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Prince Andrew & The P Words That Cost Him His Title

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Think about some of the words that start with ‘P’. Prince, power, penis, paedophile, perpetrator, prince, penis, power and paedophile. The ‘P’ words. Prince Andrew and the P words that cost him his title. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, has become the latest victim of the long running Jeffrey Epstein saga. Hang on, it might not be right to call him a victim, as he was, by all accounts a perpetrator. OK, perhaps, he is finally starting to get some of his just desserts. It is funny, peculiar, that a former prince is really the first powerful man, who was a customer of Epstein’s sex trafficking, to pay any kind of price for his morally wrong and possibly illegal behaviour. I mean, Epstein pimped and trafficked thousands of girls over a decade or two to lots of his wealthy male clients. Many of these girls were underage and most of them were ill used via a great capitalist imbalance of power. Rich men buying sexual favours from poor girls, who very likely were not getting a fair deal out of it, but Jeffery and Ghislaine likely were to their advantage.Continue Reading

The British Neptune riding Triumphant

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The conversation among my work crew is a fairly good reflection of the average discursive exchange happening around the nation at the moment, I reckon. Dressed as we are in high viz gear and steel capped boots ensconced in our work ute on the way to the site. Smoko ramps up with the news of the day and plenty of opinions. One of my erstwhile colleagues, a migrant from the old country, was voicing her support for those kicking up a stink in Britain. Blaming it on too many immigrants coming into the country and receiving special treatment to the detriment of those who really belong there. Blame it on the poor immigrant.Continue Reading