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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2)
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2) Just how morally bankrupt does someone have to be to be ruled unfit for public office in this country? Paul Bickford, Windsor, Qld ... When is the Labor Party going to conduct a royal commission on the conduct of Sam...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking Payment of Sam Dastyari’s personal bills is not the real issue, and focus on this is merely Bill Shorten’s smoke and mirrors. The real issue is Dastyari’s apparent support for China’s incursion into the South China Sea. The...
Follow The Money
One final thing on Dastyari. The entire episode could be encapsulated in the quote from Deep-throat hiding in the shadows in the underground carpark as featured in the movie about Watergate, All The Presidents Men. "Follow the Money"
Random Note #187,642 — Dastyari relationship problem solved
Like many people and political junkies, I have been wracking my brain over the last week trying to understand and get my head around the type of relaxed and comfortable relationship Sam Dastyari must have had with his Chinese patrons that he could just flick pass his...
Again the wisdom of Richo reverberates and speaks. This time re Sam Sock Puppet, “..Sooner or later the mob work you out..”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking If one reads certain repetitive evidence given under oath to the trade union royal commission, Sam Dastyari had the perfect reason for believing he had a right to send an account to someone he correctly believed would pay for a...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2)
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2) Chinese are reportedly unhappy giving money to politicians and not getting the outcomes they want. They shouldn’t take it personally. We Australian taxpayers also pay politicians huge sums and we don’t get the outcomes...
AND Don’t Say You Guys. Sound Familiar? Campuses Cautiously Train Freshmen Against Subtle Insults — New York Times
Don’t ask an Asian student you don’t know for help on your math homework or randomly ask a black student if he plays basketball. Both questions make assumptions based on stereotypes. And don’t say “you guys.”
Life Is Lived Forward And Learnt Backwards — Dead To History — Quadrant
We must be careful to not project modern ideas, which simply did not exist at the time, onto history. The speed of human progress has led to an extraordinarily rapid change in cultural understandings, political values and scientific theories.