Random thoughts and observations
Sometimes it seems the older I get the more passionate I become about certain issues. That contradicts my general tendency to take things as they come. Not much surprises me any more. However, at the age of 41 I’m passionate about child protection. It bothers me that society turns a blind eye to child abuse. [...]
That’s the logo of the Federal Government’s Area Consultative Committees (ACC). Not very impressive, is it? And you couldn’t blame anyone for wanting to change it. However, at what cost should it be changed? Regional Development Minister Anthony Albanese announced just before Easter that ACCs would be replaced by a similar organisation called Regional Development [...]
John Anderson was a strange choice to review the structure and operations of the National Party following its disastrous Federal Election performance, considering he was an architect of the party’s demise. The Nationals were indistinguishable from the Liberals under his leadership. It’s difficult to pinpoint any National Party legacy from the former Coalition Government. The [...]
I have never subscribed to the view that nations or peoples should apologise for things that happened in the distant past. In Australia’s case, white settlement and the so-called “stolen generation” are not reasons in my view to formally apologise to Aborigines today. What happened in the past happened in a certain context which was [...]
In another example of crazy political correctness, the Defence Department has been forced to scrap a clever recruitment campaign because of some feminist complaints. The cartoon-style ads feature a buxom “Diggeress” in various occupational poses including a Dental Corps nurse fairly bursting out of her medical uniform. In other ads, our heroine is cooking, sitting [...]
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