The Australian economy has changed dramatically since 2000 – the way we work now is radically different theconversation.com/...

In the Tolkien legendarium, Melkor (aka Morgoth) was the megalomaniac who didn't think the rules applied to him and who wanted to rule everything, while Sauron was the techbro who Morgoth got on side by promising him a free hand to try out his ideas. Any similarities in the real world?

Who really believes in free speech? Clearly, not a lot of those who had plenty to say in defence of it prior to Trump's election.
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I live in Highgate Hill. Fortunately I live about 45m up the hill so flooding won't be a problem. I have prepared as well for the cyclone as I have been able although I would have preferred to have done more.

The latest statement from Universities Australia regarding racism and antisemitism.
universitiesaustralia.edu.au/media-item/s....

I have just finished Susan Neiman's "Left Is Not Woke" and am about to re-read it with a view to writing a view. In the interim, here is what I consider a fair review.
medium.com/@danoneill/b...

There are democratic voices among Israelis and Palestinians.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Tanya, SHY, David Pocock and LEAN are trying to do the decent thing by the environment. Albo, Cook, Payman and the Coalition should get out of their way.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A look at the method in Trump's madness.
www.facebook.com/share/p/18C8...

The Future from the River to the Sea is all a bit Sisyphean
open.substack.com/pub/phlipphl...

Rachel Reeves has forgotten what the classical economists knew, what Karl Polanyi tried to remind us of, and what the best economists of the past 60 years have been rediscovering - that the economy is a subset of the biosphere.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Rachel Reeves ignores the classical economists who knew that the economy is a subset of the biosphere, and all the discussion and policy development of the last 60 years based on rediscovering this reality.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

My latest purchase.

Progressive Israeli commentator Gershon Baskin makes excellent sense on the meaning of the ceasefire and what should follow it.
www.facebook.com/share/p/14pY...

I have begun re-reading Economics In Two Lessons by John Quiggin.

I have calculated the correlation between the "Yes" vote in the 2023 Voice referendum by Commonwealth electoral division, and the percentage of people in each division with a Bachelor's degree or higher qualification (source: 2021 Census). The Pearson's correlation coefficient is 0.8873.

I have started looking at possible relationships between voters' ideological self-identification (as measured in the recent Redbridge report), voting in the Voice referendum, and other pertinent variables. Updates will follow.