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Category Archives: Quotidian
Virus makes democracy sick
Andrew L. Urban Panic by our Governments has squandered Australia’s good fortune (and natural isolation) of being so lightly touched by Covid19. Panic and weasel politics. Politics that corrupted good government by politicians succumbing to the temptation of feeding fear … Continue reading
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Things to do in Woke-a-Thon 2020
Andrew L. Urban Send a postcard of a circle of barefoot Aussie cricketers supporting BLM to remote Aboriginal communities: ‘Wish you were here’ – signed, The Bats Men Donate to Balmain book fair, Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, autographed by Penny … Continue reading
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It’s not just about “me or Joe”
Andrew L. Urban Many – including our PM Scott Morrison with his unsubtle public phone chat the other day (Nov. 12) with Joe Biden, whom he repeatedly called President Elect – are urging Donald Trump to just concede and go. … Continue reading
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Racist murderer, killer of American democracy … huh?
Andrew L. Urban “He couldn’t be trusted with a microphone button, yet Donald Trump is asking to be trusted again with the nuclear button,” quips Peter Hartcher as if launching into a stand-up routine. Haw haw. A Trump victory would … Continue reading
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Groupthink disease strikes serious columnists
Andrew L. Urban We don’t want groupthink from our top columnists. “Donald Trump can still win the US election. But he would need the greatest comeback in presidential history. The reality is that Trump is on track to lose by … Continue reading
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Cartoon too ‘upsetting’ to print
Andrew L. Urban A cartoon (see below) by veteran cartoonist Michael Leunig scheduled for publication on September 7, 2020, was pulled from The Age because apparently the senior editorial staff thought it conveyed views about mask wearing that might upset … Continue reading
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Live Not By Lies – but by free speech
Andrew L. Urban Gulag survivor and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can’t happen in their country. That’s the motivation for New York Times best selling author Rod Dreher’s new … Continue reading
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COVID19 – Ignoring information has hurt democracy
Andrew L. Urban. Over and above the deadly blunders that have claimed hundreds of lives (the majority of the total), failing to adapt policies and regulations in light of the mass of emerging information about Covid19 has been the most … Continue reading
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Pandemic panic perverts politics
Andrew L. Urban The Wuhan virus aka Covid19 has panicked Western leaders (not all, but most) into behaving irrationally and dishonestly. Australia, so lightly touched by the virus, has been especially poorly served by a panicked political class, an incompetent … Continue reading
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Dense is as dense does
Andrew L. Urban How dense do you have to be to misunderstand Johannes Leake’s cartoon of Joe Biden with Kamala Harris? (The Australian, August 14, 2020) And how uninformed, especially if you are in the media or politics? It was … Continue reading
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