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Young people are right to be anxious

“I want children growing up in Australia to feel positive about their future, and I think it is important we give them that confidence that they will not only have a wonderful country and pristine environment to live in, that they will also have an economy to live in as well. I don’t want our children to have anxieties about these issues.” Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, urging young Australians to stop worrying about climate change. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the Australian government wants its young citizens to feel positive about the government’s approach to the environment…

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A Cessna 210. Photo from Wikipedia.

The last flight of Mike Delta X-ray

THE only unsolved aviation mystery in Australia since World War 2, the crash of Cessna 210 Mike Delta X-ray on August 9, 1981, has attracted hordes of searchers and spawned a myriad strange conspiracy stories. In 2005 I joined one of the annual searches for the missing plane, stumbling around the steep gullies and ridges of the Barrington Tops with a group of volunteers and returning wearied but none the wiser. I joined the search because I wanted to write about the crash for The Newcastle Herald, and thought visiting the area where the plane was…

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Those demonic corporations . . .

IN the excellent 2003 documentary The Corporation, the film-makers start from the premise that corporations have been granted most of the same rights under the law as individuals are supposed to enjoy, then ask what kind of individuals their behaviours reveal them to be. Sociopathic, seems to have been the main diagnosis, and it’s easy to see why. I’ve often thought that somebody ought to create a comprehensive index of the misdeeds of the multiplicity of corporations that increasingly rule all aspects of our lives. Any time you were interested in a particular corporation you could…

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