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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsIt’s Polling Day Saturday In Mackellar
Random Note #179,628
Plebiscite The hysteria against a harmless, lil ole plebiscite on gay marriage should have everyone sitting bolt up right and alarmed. I mean, what is wrong with a good dose of democracy? Who could possibly argue with that? Unless, unless, unless of course you are...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
Let us not forget that this is almost the same Labor frontbench that let us down last time. Francis Smith, Caulfield North, Vic Listen up, you lot. This is the big one. The wrong decision will have us ending up, sooner rather than later, like Greece. Ron Elphick, Buff...
Ball’s Got Brains says Jones
"..2GB's Alan Jones anointed him as his preferred successor to Bronwyn Bishop in the relatively safe Liberal seat of Mackellar on Sydney’s northern beaches.." Ball's Got Brains Says Jones
Diddums and Precious Pandering. The Death Of The West
District nurses and carers providing community and mental health services in South East London and Kent have been told they can take the sessions to manage their concerns about the referendum.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
This is all that one needs to know about the election. The Coalition’s objective is to make a bigger pie. Labor’s objective is to secure a bigger slice of pie for its mates, even if the overall pie is smaller. The Greens’ objective is to abolish pie and replace it with tofu.
It’s Morning In Mackellar
A 360 Panorama Of Godzone From Long Reef
Independence Day
For this Independent running on Saturday in Mackellar, I think the hook line of this song, Independence Day from the 90's by Martina McBride captures the 2016 zeitgeist. I used to play the entire song and particularly this uplifting audio bridge quite regularly on my...
Let Brexit be a lesson to elite meddlers.
"..Elites sold Britain down the river in so many ways: why wouldn’t Britons give them a kick in the bollocks? They sold them down the river by failing to regulate banks and rating agencies before the GFC; by posing as saviours of the world’s climate using taxpayers’...
Unbelievable Ignorance
Watching Sky News and a program called Focus Group involving a dozen undecided voters at a round table affair (well, a rectangle table actually) at Rooty Hill RSL. The level of ignorance and of the simple task of recognising photos of political players like party...