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As you ponder the machinations of the White House administration, do
you sometimes imagine that you must be in some creaky old theatre in
a disused warehouse watching a weird drama by an avant-garde
playwright hell bent on surprising,What can be done about President Trump? -
A SIMPLER TIMERecently the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, visited Sydney for meetings
with the Australian Government. Ardern is the leader of the NZ Labour Party who managed
a ‘come from behind’ victory in their 2017 national election. While Ardern was here she
commented that she would ‘struggle if she was operating in the Australian political environment’. -
The genesis of social disintegrationAs an ordinary citizen, do you sometimes survey the social landscape
and recoil in bitter disappointment as you witness the social order
crumbling around you? Do you despair as you survey the rubble
of social disintegration that now defiles our world? -
POETIC JUSTICE / IRONY / REWARDKarmaKarma is that feeling when you drive past someone beside the road obviously getting a ticket soon after they weaved around you and others on a busy highway. Others would call the feeling poetic justice or note that the situation was rather ironic.
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Once upon a time there was a boy christened Malcolm Bligh Turnbull.
Bligh is a name the family uses in honour of Governor Bligh, of ‘Mutiny on
the Bounty’ infamy, the fourth governor of NSW.Turnbull’s metamorphosis -
BULLYING / OPPRESSION / VICTIMISATIONSpeak even if your voice shakesIn the past couple of years, we as a society have removed the stigma around some previously ‘taboo’ subjects. Assuming the Turnbull conservative government ever stops infighting, they might actually get around to legislating the support mechanisms recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse.
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