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On bureaucracy as anti-democracy
In ‘We need to be more than right: in a liberal democracy we should be making space for small, dissident, and unconventional opinions and parties’, John O’Sullivan writes (my bold emphasis): As Anna Fotyga remarked, there is a surprising problem with the term “liberal democracy.” As a defender of liberal democracy as pure as Marc…
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The Value of Minor Parties in the 2016 Australian Federal Election
I am constantly astounded by the way in which that which the Left, when in power, unfortunately establishes, is perpetuated when the so-called ‘Right’ gets elected instead. What we have been seeing in Australia over the last few decades is a progressive (as in the former USSR usage of that word) move away from…
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On the Alphabet, Google and Kurzweil’s hesitation about the future of democracy
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On the educational merits of student financial vouchers
It was refreshing to open the year with a post from Moshe Feiglin (an Israeli parliamentarian) writing the following within a post titled ‘Moshe Feiglin: Instead of Censoring Books, Let Parents Take Responsibility‘: “Give the money (that you took from Israel’s citizens) to the parents in the form of vouchers worth 4,000 NIS per month…
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Victoria’s proposed legislation on vaccination
On my jmdavid.com political site, I have written about the proposed legislation that seeks to forbid healthy children from participating in Kinders. Here is a link to my open letter to members of the Parliament of Victoria: > On the Question of Kindergartens and Vaccinations The proposed Legislation and its anti-democratic impulse Without the freedom…
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Philosophy Conference (July 2015)
The 2015 COMIUCAP Conference is to be held at the A.C.U. in Melbourne on the 22-22 in July, with the focus: Philosophy’s Role in a Renewed Understanding of the Meaning of Education > Conference link Of especial interest was the description in the call to papers, which I quote at length: Education has been widely…
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Victorian elections 2014
Entering the final week before the Victorian State elections, it’s certainly been a journey as I stand as a candidate for the Upper House (in Victoria called the Legislative Council). For anyone standing as an Independent, the electoral system is stacked against such: never mind that an Independent is likely to have less resources than…
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Wilful Web Woes
Over the last few years, I have used two different servers on which to host the various sites I have (or sub-host on behalf of others). It seems like some maliciously intended people have managed to get in to one of the servers (owned by a UK-based company, but maintained in the USA) and caused…
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Kinders & Vaccinations
Here is a link to my open letter to members of the Parliament of Victoria: On the Question of Kindergartens and Vaccinations Please feel free to share or link to it in any way that may assist. Below I also briefly describe my views on the proposed legislation. Michael Leunig’s cartoon on the same subject…
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Serendipitous reflections
It’s a joy when I haphazardly stumble across an old friend or acquaintance that I have not seen or heard from in years (or decades) and see their success and life directions. Recently, through a series of internet clicks, perusing for a possible firm to engage for marketing Little Yarra, emerged a person who is…
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