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Geoff has written for publications as diverse as PC User and The Northern Star His weekly columns have been a source of humour and inspiration for tens of thousands of readers and his mailbox is always full.
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admin /29 April, 2012
This is part of a longer article Green gold | Redneck Rage | Rusted on Reds | Clear directions | Sidebar – Red herrings | Greenslanders? Not!
Compulsory voting in Australia builds on our national cynicism, providing a healthy acceptance that the government might be a bunch of ratbags, but they are our ratbags.
The combination of compulsory and preferential voting means that, at least half of us put them higher on our voting ticket than any other bunch of sods. At some level, we said, “Go on, you have a go, you mug. See if you can run the place.”
The 2012 Queensland election result is an interesting case in point. Remember that 90% of the seats have gone to the conservative side of politics and that The Greens have none. Well may Barnaby note that the wheels have fallen of the ALP jalopy.
admin /15 April, 2012
Compulsory voting in Australia helps build on our national cynicism, providing a healthy acceptance that the government might be a bunch of ratbags, but they are our ratbags. The combination of compulsory and preferential voting means that, at least half of us put them higher on our voting ticket than any other bunch of sods. Continue Reading →
admin /15 April, 2012
The great physicist and teacher Richard Feynman, lived and taught by an aphorism of Einstein’s, “if you cannot explain it easily, you do not understand it [properly]”. The greater Green movement has a much clearer view of the future than its political wing. Politics is, in part, the exercise of compromise in exchange for power. Continue Reading →
admin /15 April, 2012
The rural Australians who feel so alienated by modern politics (the dust belt) have a great deal in common with the independent working class of the American right (the rust belt). They dislike government at the best of time and have become the victim of poorly thought out and implemented government policy. Where as US Continue Reading →
admin /15 April, 2012
Given the geopolitical realities facing Australia today, what would a good Green government look like? What would any good government look like? One way to answer that question is to confront the handful of major issues that will dominate government agenda over the next few decades. Those challenges have been spelt out in detail Continue Reading →
admin /3 March, 2012
A snippet from New Yorker with the YouTube reference made in it give an intellectual rigour to sites like Soul Sex.
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Perhaps the single most astonishing text of early Christianity, the long feminist poem found at Nag Hammadi in 1945 and called “Thunder, Perfect Mind”—a poem so contemporary in feeling that one would swear it had been written by Ntozake Shange in a feminist collective in the nineteen-seventies, and then adapted as a Helen Reddy song. In a series of riddling antitheses, a divine feminine principle is celebrated as transcending all principles (the divine woman is both whore and sibyl) and opening the way toward a true revelation of the hidden, embracing goddess of perfect being who lies behind all things:
