Why I Am a Christian

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Wednesday, 4 April 2018

The High Cost of Preventing AIDS

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     Currently, there are just over 25,000 Australians living with HIV, and the new infections number just over 1,000 each year. By and larg...
Wednesday, 28 February 2018

The Panther - and Other Comics You've Never Heard Of

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     The reviews of Black Panther  have been so good that I shall probably check out the movie when it comes on TV. But I won't be readi...
Sunday, 4 February 2018

Guns in Australia and America

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     I'm writing this because I am tired of having to explain the same things over and over again. Whenever there is a mass shooting in ...
Monday, 15 January 2018

Health Insurance in Australia

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     I don't know what the fuss is about in America over the Affordable Care Act, nicknamed Obamacare. This is not an endorsement, merel...
Saturday, 23 December 2017

The Australian Voting System

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     There are a number of facets of Australian political life which outsiders fail to understand, which I intend to explain in the followin...
Monday, 27 November 2017

Why I Voted for One Nation in Queensland

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      She's b-a-a-a-ck! The implosion of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in the last years of last century was due to its founder...
Monday, 30 October 2017

The Hallowe'en Which Changed the World

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     Hallowe'en, as everyone ought to know, is All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints' Day, "hallow" being simply an a...
Saturday, 14 October 2017

A Licence to Steal

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     Confession is good for the soul, and the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox requirement of frequent confession, in the right hands, wo...
Thursday, 21 September 2017

Pook-A-Noo: a Forgotten Childhood Classic

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     I was only a few months older than three at the time, so I don't remember a single thing about my Uncle Charles except my aunt sta...
Friday, 8 September 2017

The Book Was Right: Breasts Are Meant to be Sexy.

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     If you want to get your books sold, you have to be careful not to raise the ire of the social media mafia. Take poor old Alex Frith, th...