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Read more about the article A dip in the shark tank
Photo by Ron Morrison.

A dip in the shark tank

July 24, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray IF you were a little confused by the recent Federal Court decision on the legality of the NSW Government’s penalty clauses preventing the Port of Newcastle competing with Sydney for container traffic, then you aren’t alone. I’m a little confused too. I hope I’m not in contempt of court when I say I find it surprising to read the statement by Justice Jagot that “No private operator of the Port of Newcastle, acting rationally, could have satisfied itself that in the reasonably foreseeable future a container terminal at the…

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Read more about the article Notes from the frontier wars, NSW, 1848
Unrelated illustration from The Town and Country Journal, December 14, 1872. Indicates how white people viewed the frontier wars.

Notes from the frontier wars, NSW, 1848

Ten years ago I was loaned two fascinating letters, which I was told had been written from the NSW settlement of Stroud in 1848. The letters are of great interest since they bear very strongly on the conflict between indigenous people who had been living in the area near Gloucester and the white settlers who were moving into their territory to claim the land as their own private property. For a long time I had no idea who wrote the letters, having been told they may have been written by somebody named "Robert Scott". Since the…

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Read more about the article We are all epidemiologists
Graphic from Rasmussen University

We are all epidemiologists

These days, it seems, everybody is an epidemiologist. If only. If only we could all adopt the habit of thinking in terms of population health - which is what epidemiologists do - then life would definitely be a lot better for a great many of us. But population health can be a little tricky to fully grasp, I find, and even trickier to use as the basis for personal decision-making. The tricky side of population health has been brought to the top of my mind recently by a lot of articles about the efficacy of vaccines,…

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