James Allan
“Time and chance happeneth to them all.”
(Ecclesiastes 9:11 – King James Version)
Giving meaning to words
February 14, 2012
Even though Anna Bligh’s infringement here is not threatening any core aspect of democracy, it shows a mindset that will play fast and loose with the rules.
Read more...Man the boats!
January 17, 2012
Perhaps I’m just at core very old-fashioned, but there is something culturally attractive about the ‘hold doors open for women’ ethos writ several orders of magnitude larger and translated to the sinking ship scenario.
Read more...All I want for Christmas
December 21, 2011
Those in this country pushing for a bill of rights never tire of looking for backdoor ways to get some part of one in.
Read more...Tiger hunting
November 22, 2011
I simply cannot see the appeal of watching Tour de France bike racing. I don’t see why they don’t skip all the biking and just give the win to the team with the best steroid chemists, or those with the nicest lycra outfits.
Read more...Go Green, go bust
November 16, 2011
The slight dip in support of late for the Coalition comes from twice siding with the Green Party over the Labor Party. If there’s a near universal rule for the Coalition it should be that when Labor and the Greens differ, go with Labor.
Read more...Anonymous
November 9, 2011
If, and it’s a moderately big ‘if’, you can put to one side the putrid underlying message or theme of this movie, then this is great watching.
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Rugby PC nonsense
October 28, 2011
This is just self-indulgent, unthinking idiocy, if I might be allowed to understate how I actually feel.
Read more...A wish list
October 21, 2011
With things looking so abysmal on the political front, now seems a good time to indulge in a wee bit of hopin’ and wishin’ about what the next couple of years might bring.
Read more...Victoria's lost chance?
September 27, 2011
I simply couldn’t vote for a Baillieu government that muffed this chance to wind back the Charter. I’d spoil my ballot before I gave it to Ted if he leaves this Charter in place as is. And I’d do that even if it meant Labor coming back into power.
Read more...Letter to Mr Abbott
September 15, 2011
That core principle matters to me and to lots of others. It matters a lot. And on the basis of that principle you and the Coalition ought to pass Ms Gillard’s amendments to the Migration Act.
Read more...Samuel Griffith in Brownsville
September 2, 2011
Where else but the home of Bob Brown could you be in a cab on your way into town from the airport and glance over at a billboard enjoining you to ‘Celebrate Threatened Species Day’?
Read more...No free lunch in life
August 24, 2011
Our High Court in recent years has decided a couple of cases in a way I think is awful. In both cases our top judges struck down legislation passed by the elected Parliament.
Read more...How GetUp stole the government
August 10, 2011
The problems started when the political agenda of this government started to sound remarkably like the agenda of the far left special interest group ‘GetUp’.
Read more...Windsor & Oakeshott sink Labor
July 26, 2011
Imagine that Windsor and Oakeshott were genius undercover operatives whose goal was to make Labor unelectable for a decade or more.
Read more...It's all Greek to me
July 17, 2011
We just missed the Greek riots by a day or two, which was a shame because if you can’t riot to be able to retire at 50, on 95% of your final salary, and have German taxpayers pick up the tab for the last 4 decades of your life, then you really don’t understand social justice, do you?
Read more...The publishing game
June 9, 2011
The former Howard government did nothing to stop the creeping pervasive managerialism and bureaucracy of Australian universities and of their overseers.
Read more...Canada today, Australia when?
May 31, 2011
Not a single poll predicted what was coming, namely the near destruction of the left of centre Liberal Party of Canada, the twentieth century’s most successful political party in the western world.
Read more...Why Abbott scares them
May 19, 2011
It is this possibility that Abbott says what he means that makes him so popular with his base. It’s not something many right of centre voters around the western democratic world are used to.
Read more...Look & learn
May 4, 2011
All of a sudden the contortions and backflips of this government make a certain sort of sense. Under whatever guise it can find it needs to bring in more revenue so that it can pretend to be economically conservative and responsible.
Read more...Debating with devils
April 12, 2011
Allan Labor at the national level may well think that demonising Mr. Abbott is good politics. But having started down that road, they can’t complain when the tables are turned and similar tactics used by the Coalition. The rest of us, though, would be better off without all this demonising and imputing of bad faith.
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