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Political quotas
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Simple question. Should political representation be based on gender or ability? If gender then shouldn't we also have quotas for gender 'diverse' people? What about quotas based on race? Where do you stop? Or should we have politicians that are smart regardless of what bits they have or haven't got...
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Awareness Training
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Andrew Laming to undergo awareness training after appearing to dismiss apologies to female constituents (msn.com) Things are getting laughable.
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Where's Tim Flannery?
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The highly 'regarded' weather 'expert' and climate change guru, Tim Flannery, said the rivers wont flow and the dams wont fill. The ABC still rolls him out when they want an 'experts' opinion.
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Travelling in between the two Covid-19 jabs
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Reading the ABC live news blog for Covid-19 Came across some info, which might be good to know, if anyone is thinking of long distance travelling, at the moment Today is Friday 26 March 2021, but I have no idea if things will/may change at a later date The two pics say it better than I could, and the link is a...
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Has Twiggy got the solution for plastic waste?
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I'm starting to like Twiggy Forrest. In this TED talk he appears to be trying to solve the plastic waste problem that is killing our oceans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5g9-4fx60A&t=886 Maybe we'd all better send an email to http://noplasticwaste.org ?
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What is with Australians?
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First everyone 'trusted' our governments to lock us up to keep us safe. Now the vaccine is rolling our everyone wants it yesterday!! Now they don't trust the government to give us the jab. Is it safe or isn't it? Dammed if they do and dammed if they don't. This isn't a crack at the left or right governments...
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Lot of Questions to our Leaders
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Letter to heads of Government / Follow up letter to heads of government. https://concernedlawyersnetwork.net
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Certain Plastic to be abolished in future.
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With what looks like the fact that nearly all plastic material may be abolished, I note that the Company Visy Board has invested in buying a major glass manufacture. Smart move by Visy, as plastic food containers, will almost certainly be on the NO-NO list, and replaced by glass. Looks like were are mo...
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Audio Cassette Inventor Passes Away
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips, the company where he also helped develop the compact disc. Ottens died Saturday at age 94, Philips confirmed. He also had a hand in invent...
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Animal Culls
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MidCoast Council culls menacing dingoes, blames humans for changes in animals' behaviour (msn.com) The council culled five dingos from around the Hawks Nest, Tea Gardens area. How can they do this? What makes dingos different to Sharks, Crocs or snakes. for that matter how come its OK to kill t...
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How do we protect ourselves from our governments and institutions?
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Myanmar - Burma There is no guarantee governments, police or armed forces will always be benign - how should we protect ourselves from the possibility of them being repressive? Edit: Corrected link target. -- Edited by Mike Harding on Tuesday 16th of March 2021 12:43:47 PM
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Meghan Markle and her sidekick
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I wonder what Prince Philip is thinking?
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Where the bloody hell are ya
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Nort Western Victoria, heading towards Mildura. Little town, not really a destination as such but it has three free camps - one at the pub for two drive through, a larger bush camp on the edge of town, and in the middle a cute little Caravan park in landscaped grounds, gravel standing, 4 15 amp outlets,...
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Mendooran NSW Show.
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Great free camp opposite Pub. -- Edited by Possum3 on Monday 15th of March 2021 09:50:39 PM
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Scott Morrison gets second jab
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Scott Morrision and FRIENDS gets second jab when we are on the end of the line. What the hells going on. We a vunerable with medical conditions. WE are on the rear of the queue. @&%_&%#@ OLD &GREY
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Is 'Gerin oil' the root of all evil?
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An article that got me thinking. In the respected Prospect magazine, Professor Richard Dawkins, one of Britain's leading scientists, paints an apocalyptic vision of a world addicted to Gerin oil - a drug which works its way into the central nervous system and can cause "dangerous delusions" if use...
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Who remembers Norman Gunston
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Norman Gunston and Mohammed Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bKg9tMAxt8
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A impressive solar farm in China
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-oyISDfTQ
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Billy Connolly recently wildabeast repeat
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Watched Billy Connolly last week, how he copes https://vimeo.com/24341053
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Oranges.
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Passed through Mildura today and need groceries. So into Woolies. Needed oranges. Not one Australian grown orange to be had anywhere.
Mildura of all places. Sad when in the home of Australian grown citrus you have only USA grown oranges. So we bought a small bag of USA grown/imported oranges. 2 of th...
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