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 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 30, 2018 | Blog, Nauru, Random Notes, Refugees |
It’s not as if those kids and their parents on Nauru have ever set foot on, lived in, or have ever formed any emotional or psychological connection or sentimental attachment to Australia and therefore can’t be pining to be reunited with something they have never...
by Jim Ball | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Gender, Gender Neutral Sport Language, Gender Wars, Random Notes |
If gender is deleted from birth certificates in Tasmania, why not names. Generally, names are a dead set giveaway as to the gender of a child. Perhaps the next step by the intolerant gender and identity diversity warriors and Brown Shirt activists with their creepy,...
by Jim Ball | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Climate, Climate, Random Notes |
Ten years ago I read a very lengthy column by Ian McFadyen “Our New Established Religion” in Quadrant where he compared the climate cult with organised religion. Reading it again, it is a very dense essay but his overall concept and comparison is brilliant and his...
