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Club Troppo Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 19:34 Source

I was reading some arguments by Bettina Arndt recently about women dominating the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I thought I would the check the facts. This is my modus operandi. Read polar views on an issue (I also consult OurWatch and White Ribbon on issues like this) but then check the facts to see who deceive and lie (which these days go under the Orwellian names of “mis” and “dis” information).

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Club Troppo Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 00:11 Source

If scientific fraud represents five per cent of scientific papers, surely we should expect at least as much philosophic fraud. But how can we detect philosophy’s fraudsters? Here’s a first attempt at some rules of thumb.

This is a long post. So here’s the short version: this post argues that an unknown but non-zero portion of philosophical work is likely to be fraud. That is to say, some philosophical work knowingly offers fake wisdom rather than genuine insight. I use Jacques Lacan as a possible example.

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Club Troppo Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 15:29 Source

As the US presidential election count continues, it becomes increasingly likely that Donald Trump will win. It appears that the majority of Americans believe that Trump is more trustworthy than Kamala Harris on economic issues, and they say that the economy is their principal concern.

The irony in this belief is that it is the opposite of the real situation, at least if we assume that Trump will carry out the promises that he has made.

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Club Troppo Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 17:55 Source

The possibility of one or more Very Fast Train (VFT) lines for Australia has been debated for more than 40 years, most often being treated as a complete joke. However, perhaps that’s about to change.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has long been a supporter of VFT transport for Australia, and his government is now putting its money where its mouth is.  As this article in The Conversation notes:

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Club Troppo Monday, November 4, 2024 - 20:51 Source

There’s a strong gerontocratic tinge to US politics of late  — the youngest of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren and Mitch McConnel is Chuck at 73. 

Many a theory has been propounded to explain this phenomenon, but a simple one shall be put to the test in a couple of days: Trump is the last of the political candidates borne of the media monoculture and so Trump will win the election comfortably. 

What is the Media Monoculture and What Does is Have to Do with a Gerontocracy?

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Club Troppo Sunday, November 3, 2024 - 17:57 Source

 

As I argued in a recent article, the election of Donald Trump as President would be disastrous for climate change compared with the current Democrat administration of President Biden. The situation is quite different in Australia. The election of a Coalition government federally next year, even under Peter Dutton, would not be all that much worse than the situation under the current Labor administration of Anthony Albanese.

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Club Troppo Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 22:49 Source

Cameron Murray’s The Great Housing Hijack is self-recommending. You certainly don’t need a review of any sort to tell you to go read it if you have any interest in the peculiar case of the housing market. Nevertheless, here I supply my own review of sorts and extrapolate on what I consider a couple of Murray’s core points.

The Great Housing Hijack in Miniature

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Club Troppo Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 08:43 Source

As you can see we’ve adopted a new WordPress theme.  Many thanks to our web guru Tony Sarhanis.  What do you think?  I really like it, although I have one reservation.You can’t scroll down the main posts column until the cursor gets to the bottom of the comments column. I suspect that’s a deliberate feature rather than a bug, because it forces the eye to look at the comments first.

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AustralianPolitics.com Friday, September 20, 2024 - 00:01 Source

Four years ago today, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation abolished its 15-minute 7.45am news bulletin.

The 7.45 bulletin was first broadcast in December 1939, at the outset of the Second World War. I have been unable to find the exact date.

Citing cost factors and a declining audience, the ABC announced in 2020 that the 7.45 bulletin would be abolished, 80 years after it began.

The final broadcasts took place around the nation on Sunday, September 20, 2020. Five versions of the bulletin from the ABC’s Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth stations can be played below.

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