Obeid and nepotism in Australia
The Obeid inquiry continues in NSW but the ABC 4 corners investigation shows what we always knew. Politicians are not our representatives, they are looking after the interests of themselves, and those that gave them our purse strings. Watch this.
I just read an article online which stated the internet has been around for 30 years, and for many much shorter. This got me thinking. Thirty years! I don’t think its been around that long. I’m 41 and can remember playing the first video game “Pong” in black and white on a TV with a [...]
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I am a part time photographer who is lucky enough to have a wonderful view of Melbourne (Australia) from my balcony. I have produced a gallery showing the changing moods of this great southern city. David J Campbell And some moving images to go along with the stills.
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Yesterday 29/10/2011; the 99% returned to the city streets, their want is for the right to protest. They have not camped in the gardens nor in the city for the aggresive police have stopped them. At last notice they were in the grounds of RMIT. Australian plutocracy seems alive and well. QANTAS our national (private) [...]
Continue reading …It is expected by the year 2050 Australia will have increased its population by 75%, rising to 35 million people, Melbourne and Sydney will have populations of over 7 million. The Australian dream of a house in the suburbs with a back yard for children to play in, a back shed to build your own [...]
Continue reading …Unaccountable legislative assembly can be simply summed up with the term Elective Dictatorship. When only a lower (Queensland has done away with its upper house) house exists it is tied directly to the formation and execution of the executive branch of Government, this dominance hampers representative democracy. As a protective measure I advocate for one [...]
Continue reading …Utilitarianism (the maximisation of aggregate utility) is the school of ethical thought that dictates the most moral course of action is that which brings most good or least harm to the most people. It falls into definition problems immediately because one must define good and harm but don’t worry utilitarians solve this by using simplistic [...]
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One forgets the beauty of Australia when the endless repetition of home, train, office and return consumes every waking hour of the modern adult. Recently I escaped from this treading water by driving 45min north of Adelaide to the world famous Barossa Valley. It was not my first visit, as a teenager I had driven [...]
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A fundamental law of economics is that increases in the supply of a good or service will pull prices down, decreases push prices up. As prices rise demand decreases – less can be bought with the same limited funds – and as prices fall demand increases – more can be bought with the same limited [...]
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