Month: April 2006
How Whorehouses are Healthier than Hospitals
Richard Prebble’s latest “The Letter” also says As an interesting aside, everyone now agrees that the prostitution law reform has been a failure. There is…
Prebble on Why Health is Sick
From the latest “The Letter” by Richard Prebble. There are now 12,000 health bureaucrats, one for every hospital bed. Despite an increase in hospital spending…
Delahunty Spills Her Guts on Kotare School, Part 2 (Final)
Excerpts from Part Two of a talk given by Kotare School “educator”, Catherine Delahunty in Sydney in 2004. “We Make the Road By Talking?” Part…
Cuba-Venezuelan Parliamentary Fusion
From the Communist party of Australia’s Guardian 12.4.06 On March 31, on the other side of the world, the Speaker of the Venezuelan Parliament, Nicolas…
Trans Tasman Socialist Solidarity Solidified
From the CPA’s Guardian of 12.4.06 Peter Symon, Warren Brewer, Brendan Tuohy and CPA President, Hannah Middleton. The Communist Party of Australia recently had the…
Near Limitless Transport Fuel from Coal?
Maksimovich at Outsidethecube runs an excellent scientific/political blog. Check out his latest post on coal to diesel conversion technology here. Professor Alan Goldman and his…
Newman Explains Labour’s Health Rationing System
In her latest Newman Weekly, Muriel Newman explains how Labour’s health waiting lists work-or more accurately, don’t. To see the full article go to Muriel’s…
Fisking Marxist Matt McCarten
I couldn’t let this piece in todays Herald on Sunday, by Marxist Matt McCarten, go by without a good fisking. Below are some excerpts, with…
W.A.Y.N.C.R.? Number 6, Bob Rigg
Some older readers might remember my sixth Where Are You Now, Campus Radical? profile subject, Bob Rigg, from Victoria Uni in the mid ’60s (he…
More Communists Than Ever?
This is a point of view you’ll never see in the main stream media. Sobering and almost certainly true. Peter Symon, general secretary of the…
The World’s Most Expensive Escargot?
ACT MP Heather Roy, puts things in perspective. Yesterday, Conservation Minister Chris Carter approved the relocation of 250 Powelliphanta Augustus snails to a new home,…
Delahunty Spills Her Guts on Kotare School, Part 1
I like nothing better than quoting socialists own words back at them. Below are excerpts from a speech made in Sydney by Catherine Delahunty taken…
Catherine Delahunty- Red/Green Schoolmarm
The Kotare School’s Education co-ordinator/tutor is Catherine Delahunty. In the role since 1999, Delahunty’s role involves teaching, running workshops and helping to arrange the many…
Who Runs the Kotare Trust?
The trustees of the Kotare School are an interesting mix of “former” communists, socialist academics, “community workers” and the radical religious. Here is a list…
Small Minority Forces Big Backdown
The French government has backed away from planned labour law reform that would have made hiring and firing young workers more flexible. Despite the legislation…
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