The courts have correctly crossed out the "annoyance" part of the NSW legislation that panders to WCYD, but left in the "inconvenience" bit. But how is inconvenience measured?
If we consider dollars, I’d imagine the inconvenience of any traffic snarls and restriction of movement caused by WCYD on the majority of normal people engaged in productive economic activity is much worse than the inconvenience to a few tourists. Are any economists among you able to guesstimate this? Read more »
I welcome Pell’s dangerous comments denying anthropogenic climate change and encouraging dangerous population growth, while at the same time wondering whether they suggest that Pell is a closet Manichee, recapitulating a stance that the Roman Catholic church (and it’s predecessors) has considered the most abominable of heresies, as well as a racist.
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