Communism is still a problem today and the bodies are still buried in mass graves in Communist countries- though Russia is probably less Communist than it was- are those that hide this truth complicit in the crime?

That's the way I see it- a rose is a rose!

I suppose in Aiden's magnanimous view I am incapable of critical thinking- because I happen to disagree with him.

Comment 3-

Regarding geoinfomatics, interpretation is where the software has made the biggest difference. Where it's necessary to set up modelling, its still likely to be time consuming. BTW I did study both Urban Economics and Geoinfomatics in the second year of my Civil Engineering degree.

Answer 3-

Basically if PM Scott Morrison completed the requirements for an honours degree in Economic Geography I still think that he deserves some extra credit for completing the degree at a high level- over the standard Economics degree- no matter what Aiden's qualifications are.

Scott Morrison when asked about the election result stated
words to the effect that - well people simply want a change.
They wanted to change the curtains.

Actually in this election they did more than change the curtains.
As Nikki Savva pointed out - they bulldozed the house!

As for posts filled with anti-communist alarmism and national
references to "wild-eyed Marxists?" one of the depressing
facts of history is the tenacity with which some people
cling to labels long after the meaning has changed. It's a
proclivity for loose thinking and heated argument that leads
these people to blur the distinction for the sake of common
identification. It is bad logic and bad history. It also
ensures bad results.

( David Spitz - "The Antioch Review").

This is interesting..

http://socialism.com/fso-article/whose-hall-our-hall-trades-hall-council-is-no-place-for-the-police/

"Picture this: You’re in a protest march to Parliament House. As you approach, you see a line of police stretched across the lower steps, waiting for you. They are there, fully armed, to protect and serve the State.

In its service, they go everywhere to defend the rights of property and profit — breaking up union pickets and raiding offices; occupying a public highrise that houses refugees; storming an LGBTIQ bookshop and savagely assaulting an occupant; disproportionately incarcerating Aboriginal people and killing them; charging anti-fascist protesters while high fiving the fash; pepper spraying climate activists. And on it goes.

This is why a call has gone out to Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) to disaffiliate the Victorian Police Association. Unionists in the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women decided now is the time and proposed action to the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), who agreed. ISJA unionists wrote an open letter to the VTHC executive. The Aboriginal and refugee movements embraced the demand, as did other unionists. And it’s gaining steam.

Cops do not belong in the union movement, because they’re not workers. They are armed agents of capital, acting as bosses’ henchmen and maintainers of the white, straight, male supremacist status quo. This is made evermore clear with each increase in their budget, powers and military arsenal — all for use against the exploited and oppressed. No amount of community-friendly camouflage, such as Australian Federal Police roaming our neighbourhoods in the guise of health protection, can hide this. "

I don't know why Aiden continues to rabbit on about Geoinformatics as it has as much relation to Economic geography as astrology does to astronomy.

Morrison got an advanced degree in economics and ran several high jobs that required business acumen. Dutton got a business degree and ran his own business making a fortune of $300m.

Albozo was a bank teller, then did a basic Economics degree before working as a low-level Labor gopher never using his degree.

The contrast is dramatic.

This is also interesting.

Just to clarify a few points made by Canem Malum:

The Parliament of Australia gives us the
stats of the trends in union membership telling us that
the number of union members in Australia has been
falling steadily over the past four decades.

The stats
were taken as of 15 Oct 2018 and it is interesting to
note that the biggest increases over the last
decade and a half were recorded by the Police Federation of
Australia ( PFA) up 92%. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery
Federation (ANMF) up 84% and the Independent Education
Union of Australia - EUP - up 35%.

shadowminister,

Scott Morrison explained that the results of this
last election were because Australians simply wanted
a change. That - they simply wanted to change the curtains.

Well, as Niki Savva stated. They did more than just change
the curtains. They bulldozed the house - taking Scott
Morrison and his "qualifications" with them.