Month: April 2012

IN THE early 1960s we had, at the Rectory Beechworth, a state-of-the-art reel-to-reel tape recorder. My father had brought it from England when we emigrated. It was the size of half a suitcase and weighed a tonne. It recorded only through a microphone. Continue reading “Torrent of abuse tackled badly”

FIRST Western Australia, then Victoria, then NSW and then Queensland. Is the ACT next? More of the ACT anon. So, are the conservatives on the march? Possibly. But there is another explanation. Continue reading “State Govts ousted because they just cannot keep up”

AS YOU read this, the Global Atheists Convention is being held in Melbourne. Census statistics show that people describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or of no religion has steadily risen every census since the Australian Bureau of Statistics was founded. Continue reading “Changing rationality and atheism’s rise”

THE longer a government stays in power the more secretive it gets – simply because it has more things to hide. Some further evidence for this proposition emerged last week with the release of the Information Commissioner’s report on charges under the Freedom of Information Act. More of that anon. Continue reading “Very expensive ‘free’ information”