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Friday afternoon, some guys I know, good with a blade, cut out the melanoma that’d been sneakily growing on the back of my head where I couldn’t see it.

You come at the king, etc.

So I won that round. I needed a skin graft to fill in the hole, however, so the surgery was a bit gnarlier than usual, and I had to go under general anaesthetic for it. I don’t mind that. It’s kinda like getting a free nap. I thought there was a chance I’d end up staying overnight because my procedure was late in the day, but no. They cut me up and turned me out.

Last month, I wrote a piece about doing geological fieldwork along the southern Tasmanian coast, which is only accessible by boat, floatplane, helicopter or a two day walk along the South Coast Track. I related how our RAAF Iroquois transport was organised through a fortunate coincidence*. 

While going through boxes of photographs to determine what we keep and what we don’t in our downsizing, I came across the attached photograph, which was taken by my then supervisor. It is of me being winched down onto a narrow beach near Point Cecil.

Earlier this month, The Australian Population Research Institute (Tapri) released a comprehensive survey showing Australians comprehensively reject high immigration and a Big Australia. Tapri’s December 2023 national survey of 3000 voters (published April 2024) shows a large and growing voter constituency concerned about the level of immigration. In total, 74% of surveyed voters wanted lower

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

Earlier this month, CBA economist Harry Ottley published the below chart showing how the rate of rental growth is highly correlated to the change in population growth relative to apartment construction: The above chart should send shudders down the spines of Australian renters, given that population growth is expanding at a historically strong pace at

The transition away from coal will be messy, but Australians will not forgive political leaders if they muck up the post-coal era.

WASHINGTON — The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside, with Biden instead using the annual White House correspondents' dinner to make both jokes and grim warnings about Republican rival Donald Trump's fight to reclaim the U.S. presidency.

The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the Palestinian populace for whatever future awaits, have been found wanting on accusations that Hamas terrorists packed, stacked and filled UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).  Not that this, in of…

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Even if one doesn’t frequent that cause of so much misinformation, social media, and merely relies on the reliable sources such as Sky After Dark, one will undoubtedly have learned that our society has been overrun by woke communists and Marxists. While those of you who haven’t read “Das Kapital” – and even those of…

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The Ukraine conflict has become a great boon for American Big Five defense contractors, sending their stocks up and boosting their profits.

Before adopting the latest $61 billion package, the US Congress had passed four Ukraine spending bills totaling $113 since the beginning of the conflict in February 2022.

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By Denis Bright   The strategic game of Chinese checkers has replaced the warm handshakes between neoliberal leaders and the leaders of Chinese government in the late Cold War era. Like the other member states of the US Global Alliance, Australia continues to combine renewed commercial ties with China with support for the strategic rivalries associated…

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It is unfortunate that column space should be dedicated to Britain’s shortest termed prime minister and, arguably, one of its most imbecilic and cringingly juvenile. But given that some people still sympathise with her and her views, it falls to one to tackle her latest work which resembles other types of the gloomy genre warning…

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