by Jim Ball | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, Weasel Word |
In addition to the Oxford dictionary nominating their word of the year, like post-truth (2016) youth-quake (2017) and, only last week, single-use (2018), might I suggest they develop the idea of nominating a “weasel word” category of the year. The nomination for...
by Jim Ball | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog, Mark Latham, pauline Hanson, Random Notes |
It’s no great secret that nature abhors a vacuum in all respects, including politics, so it should come as no great surprise that if Mark Latham and Pauline Hanson can hang together they could really be a power of force as they move in and takeover the middle ground...
by Jim Ball | Nov 11, 2018 | Blog, Random Notes, Turnbull |
They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. The same could be said about the friends of Malcolm Turnbull and their parlour game of pretends in their quest to get out in front of history and confect their own version in...
by Jim Ball | Nov 11, 2018 | Blog |
Today is the 11 of the 11th, Armistice Day. This is the song that I think best captures the essence, the mood and the spirit of an often forgotten element of war.— The aftermath of all wars in fact for those on the front line and that lives for decades after the guns...
by Jim Ball | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog, Random Notes |
We often hear these days, as we did during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, about how Christine Blasey Ford “spoke her truth”. We hear that expression a lot. That everyone “has their own truth” or that there are many truths. There may be many opinions or various and...
by Jim Ball | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog |
Academics are howling and hissing about a ministerial decision to veto a handful of Australian Research Council grants. Six years ago in Quadrant, Philippa Martyr explained who gets how much for what. Just now seems a very good moment to republish her investigation....
