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Archive - Apr 2010Submitted by Richard Tonkin on April 29, 2010 - 8:38pm.
Of those grumbling about two bucks a pack back then, the ashes of many would be turning in their urns today on hearing of a quickly-announced Government tax of two dollars a packet to come into effect at midnight.
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Submitted by Hamish Alcorn on April 27, 2010 - 10:06am.
There's a much deeper argument that war cannot end, to do with human nature. It says that we are warlike by nature, and can draw strong arguments from evolutionary psychology. Our ability and constitutional inclination to divide the human world into an 'us' and a 'them', and indeed to feel warlike toward the 'them', seems to be a part of our nature which we can thank for the survival of our family trees for the past million and more years. We can't throw it just by a bit of state indoctrination or mass participation in flower workshops. It's a strong argument.
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Submitted by Paul Walter on April 15, 2010 - 9:55pm.
People start to talk of "othering" - it's an ugly proposition to contemplate in this actuality, if you ask if we Australians are virtually "taking hostages", as some have put it, to our own uncertainties for our own futures?
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Submitted by Hamish Alcorn on April 12, 2010 - 11:58am.
I write this in response to the survey your office distributed recently
entitled, "Your Views, Your Vote." I appreciate your attempt to obtain
some information about the views of constituents, but felt the survey
was inadequate and I could not complete it with any integrity. However I
will attempt to address your twelve points, as well as make some
remarks about things I feel are of critical importance but which the
survey did not include.
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Submitted by Hamish Alcorn on April 1, 2010 - 10:46am.
The term “Drug War” was invented by the warriors themselves, but it is a very descriptive term and we should use it constantly. A war is something expensive, with casualties, and that requires constant justification on the basis of results. If our opponents try to avoid the term, don’t let them. It’s their term, it is apt, and we will insist on it. In our literature we always capitalise “The Drug War” or “The War on Drugs” as it is a proper noun for a historical event with a beginning… and an end.
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