Journalism and other writing
Two countries with increasing immigration, Australia and the US, have dealt with accommodating the new people in the past decade in different ways – both with equally poor results.
In the US, financial institutions were allowed to lend people money to buy dwellings even if they had little prospect of repaying. The result has been the financial meltdown. Continue reading “US, Oz housing-finance crises and immigration”
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Biblical quotations quite rightly arouse suspicion. The Bible is hardly science- or evidence-based. Invariably biblical quotes are used by people who want to persuade you of some obviously asinine, apocalyptical or illogical proposition.
But, on this isolated occasion, I cannot resist Matthew’s words: “With what measure ye mete, it shallbe measured to you.” Continue reading “Climate measurement can mislead”
DOUBLE dissolution election is a not likely to be a remedy for the woes of the Rudd Government, despite the mutterings of a least one back-bencher. Continue reading “Double dissoultion no remedy”