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The long term price of short term election rorting for America

Andrew L. Urban Warren Mundine and Alan Jones had just spoken as we broke for morning tea. It was November 4, 2020, and the fateful US Presidential election results were coming in. Several hundred attendees at the 2020 CPAC* in … Continue reading

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Jacinta’s priceless contribution to Australia’s future

Andrew L. Urban Making indigenous ministries and agencies redundant is the best ultimate objective for Australia’s future in the affairs of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander peoples. That is the most positive and attractive argument put by indigenous coalition Senator … Continue reading

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A kiss is just a kiss … not

Andrew L. Urban Luis Rubiales has resigned as president of the Spanish Football Federation following criticism for kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso at the Women’s World Cup final presentation ceremony. Hermoso, 33, said the kiss after Spain beat England was … Continue reading

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Clouds are thermostats, CO2 is beneficial – Nobel winner

“This worry about CO2, the worry about methane, the worry about global warming, is all a total fabrication by shocked journalists and or dishonest politicians,” says Nobel Prize winning scientist JOHN F. CLAUSER, as he debunks the fossil fuel scaremongering.  … Continue reading

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Maui fires v Ukraine invasion is wrong contrast

Andrew L. Urban They’ve got the wrong comparison when they (voters, politicians and commentators) complain that while the Biden administration is handing Ukraine billions in military support, it is only handing out a mean spirited few hundred dollars to the … Continue reading

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Ian Plimer – climate facts for all ages

Using food, farts and facts, geology professor Ian Plimer has written three little books “aimed at parents and grandparents all over the world who might want to deprogram children from the barrage of propaganda that children are exposed to at … Continue reading

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Voice ruptures the bond

Andrew L. Urban No, no, no! It’s not the lack of detail nor the promise of its permanence in the constitution, nor that it is the path to treaty and to the fight for reparations. It is that it is … Continue reading

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Lawyers for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews sued for damages by cyclist

Michael Warner at the Herald Sun continues his reporting on the crash that nearly killed a young cyclist in January 2013 – and its aftermath.  The 000 call may contain the seeds of damnation … 

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A T-bone impossible to swallow

Andrew L. Urban After lunch, a little past 1pm on the hot summer afternoon of Monday, January 7, 2013, then Victorian Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews, his wife Catherine and their young children Noah then 11, Grace then 9 & Joseph … Continue reading

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Terrorist rehab?

Andrew L. Urban Two movies, screening in early May (in Sydney) and a Guantanamo Bay court hearing the case of Southeast Asia’s once most wanted terrorist, each confront the vexed issue of how society punishes terrorists. Is a terrorist a … Continue reading

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