by Jim Ball | Apr 8, 2023 | Blog, The Voice |
A letter the voice could write to bureaucrats Dear (insert name of head of relevant department/agency/government business enterprise), As you know, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice has been given a constitutional right by the Australian people to make... by Jim Ball | Apr 8, 2023 | Blog, The Voice |
โโฆ.The declared aim of the Yes advocates who have led the drafting of the proposal to place the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice in the Constitution is co-government. Co-government is also what the words of the proposed amendment will achieve. ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐๐... by Jim Ball | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog, Random Notes, The Voice |
Call it what you like. The buried lede, the cats out of the bag, coming out of the closet or hiding in plain sight, but whatever you call it, exactly as predicted by many, many people, over many, many months and which should kill the referendum stone dead in its... by Jim Ball | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog, Random Notes, Trans Gender, Transgender |
If you’re super thin but still think youโre fat itโs regarded as a mental illness called anorexia. If youโre a biological male but think youโre a female, itโs not regarded as a mental illness and should be affirmed and celebrated. As Manuel in Fawlty Towers... by Jim Ball | Mar 31, 2023 | Blog, Random Notes, Trans Gender, Transgender |
Not sure of the etymology or origins of the phrase โ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐โ except that it came into popular culture and usage some time in the last 20 years or so. In a way itโs a sideways version of the 1960โs phrase, โ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ดโ or as Fleetwood Mac expressed on their... by Jim Ball | Mar 25, 2023 | Blog, Random Notes, The International Criminal Court, War |
Some suggest that the maxim to โkeep your friends close but your enemies closer โ originally comes from Sun-Tzuโs, The Art of War but itโs definitely in The Godfather (2). As we saw earlier this week with the love-fest in Moscow, not only has Joe Biden and by...