I have no idea, cohenite.

And clicking on a link titled "zombietime" is not in my OLO itinerary.

It's about your speed though.

Carry on....

The article by Julie Bishop is not a bad example of what I think characterises the "rights" thinking on personal vs social.

Its not entirely personal, it's not driven by a blind ideology that ignores the flow on effects of a particular action but rather tries to the balance. Not suggestion BTW that our current crop of pollies generally take that approach.

I liked a point made by Thomas Sowell in the Utube clip linked to earlier that there is always a trade off, that any attempt to create a social good will do some harm elsewhere and its about finding the best balance.

R0bert

they've truly lost it !
They've turned so far to the left they're now hard up against the right's
rear, bring on smellyvision.
It is appalling that we're forced to support such morons.
Thank you Labor ! Thanks for nothing.

Poirot, you're such a snob; and I'm worried about your lack of a sense of humour; let me test it; I'm currently reading a book called 'Cecil the Aardvark goes quantity surveying'; what do you think?

cohenite (my sweet),

I think that is an excellent title.

(It's time for the penguin on top on your TV to explode!)

Who is left, and who is right?
I believe wholeheartedly in Capitalism. I believe in competition. I believe in everyone having the freedom to start their own business, work as many hours as they want or need to, and enjoy an infrastructure that allows everyone a fair go, and the opportunity for everyone to achieve their potential, whatever that may be.
Does that make me a 'leftie'?
I don't believe Arch Capitalists like Capitalism. I don't believe they like competition. The evidence irrefutably demonstrates that the most successful Capitalists hate competition, and want nothing more than the freedom to buy, steal or destroy anyone or anything that tries to compete with them.
The dream of the Arch Capitalist, the Pot of Gold at the end of the Rainbow, is to have a complete monopoly, and to be Too Big To Be Allowed To Fail.
I don't want to live in a world where a small handful of people own everything, and everyone in the world works longer and longer hours just to make them richer.
I don't want my children to either.
Does that make me a 'leftie'?
As parents, we have a simple choice.
We can either try to give our own kids the best possible future, in spite of every other kid in the world, or...
We can try to create a better world for our kids, by giving every kid a better life.
That's the difference between left and right.