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What politicians maintain as the necessary costs of government are increasingly sensed as unnecessary costs of ‘over-government’. And its taxes, originally seen by William Pitt as income tax, and accepted for a few years as payment for a good bargain, are being subconsciously but finally resented as too high for the quality and relevance of services available at lower cost and higher quality from competing supplier in the market.
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Category Archives: Cultural Issues
How affirmative action played out for Michelle Obama
h/t Herodotus on the open thread. A piece about the substandard work that Michelle Obama presented to get a higher degree at Princeton where she was clearly out of her depth. As she admitted “I sometimes feel like a visitor … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Issues, Rafe
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Escape From Flu Talk
Working on a screenplay where Scott Morrison’s private jet crashlands somewhere in Victoria and I am sent in to land a glider on the top of Federation Square and extract him by any means necessary. With the help of a … Continue reading
Posted in Books and writing, Cultural Issues
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Slim Karen
Eminem criticises non-mask wearers on new rap track. I just used the same basket as you shoppin’, now I’m in a fuckin’ casket from you coughin.” – Yo. Eminem. UPDATE: Paul Joseph Watson on officialdom’s latest pious scold: “So … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Cultural Issues
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The one-tracked minds of frustrated heterosexual feminists
‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’ – do cities have to be so sexist? [S]ociety’s historical and ongoing ideas about the proper gender roles for men and women (organised along a narrow binary) are built right into our cities – … Continue reading
Posted in civil society, Cultural Issues
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Has the City of Sydney gone renewable? Plus koala myths and our man in DC – the education of black children matters
Update. Japan before and after Fukushima. No. The city of Sydney has not gone renewable. City of Sydney Goes Renewable! _ NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT Have a look at the way RET certificates are traded around the … Continue reading
Heritage Round
Mercedes to race in all-black livery for 2020 season in support of anti-racism movement. These corporate colour ‘gestures’ are starting to reek of an almost watermelon-ish condescension.
Posted in Cultural Issues, International
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The position this country puts Aboriginal journalists in
Bienvenue au pays Covering black deaths in Australia led me to a breakdown, but that’s the position this country puts Aboriginal journalists in. … it was on my couch in Paris that I opened Facebook and saw the George Floyd … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Story, Cultural Issues
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