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Random Note — The voice or an eminence grise.

The phrase “consent of the governed” refers to the idea that a governments legitimacy is derived from all of the people over which it’s power is exercised, not just a star chamber or committee of twenty or so and I’m getting the distinct impression that with respect...

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Random Note —The Voice

When you peel back all the academic, political and intellectual rhetoric, at its heart, the voice is simply another advocacy and special interest group not dissimilar to the various other voices — The National Farmers Federation, The Business Council of Australia, The...

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Random Note — Trump and 2024

In the years to come, history will record that Trump was the equivalent of a play maker in a football match. A player who identifies and capitalises on the oppositions mistakes, unforced errors and strategy. Someone who sets up the critical play and the tries for others to score.

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Random Notes — The point at which

Idle thoughts and rumination:— The point at which a political, scientific or religious body ceases to be fluid and becomes dogmatic, rigid and irrational is the point at which it becomes a cult, ceases to serve any purpose and exists purely for its own benefit.

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Random Note — Who Is Them?

In this referendum debate we’re hearing about the government creating laws “that effect them”. Who is them? Certainly not the very westernised educated elites we see fronting the debate. If it’s regional and remote people, let them speak for themselves because the way...

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Random Note — Brittany Higgins 

So Brittany Higgins collects a multi million dollar payout from the taxpayers for something that may or may not have happened to her.   Guilt, innocence or blame have never been established because the prosecution dropped the case.   So why? Am I missing...

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