the loser and his lithium

The West Editorial, 30 Aug. is very clear: 

iron ore prices are in for a long-tern decline. lithium prices are in freefall. the nickel market has collapsed. mines have been closed, new projects are stopped.

So what does the Editoral want? It calls for the Federal government to remove environmental restrictions on mines. So that, presumably, the government can sponsor mega-rich companies as they enter into dead and dying markets.

That's right. Feel free to dig up and destroy the environment and when you fail tax-payers' dollars will cover your losses.

The Editorial is a clear demand by someone who is owned by a company which is so profitable that it pays zero in taxes.

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Then there's poor Chris Ellison. His mining company can hardly make a billion a day from lithium.

So why is he mining lithium at all?

His business sense is so really bad that he chose to invest in a losing industry.

Now he's forced to cut costs to the bone. Though you can bet that his personal profits from the company are still booming.

He will sack everone except himself. Then he will grant himself a huge bonus for his cost savings.

And having destroyed his company by his own bad decisions -- he will demand government support to make profits from an unwanted industry.

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It's a fine line between canny  business investment and sophisticated scam..

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be happy, follow Calvin

Each day I read the paper and get upset.

So many reports of liars, fools, egotists, and not just politicians.

So many reports of cover-ups, greed, destruction, and not just business leaders.

So many offers of solutions with no detail just a demand for more money.

Until, today, I reach Calvin and Hobbes, with their variation on Don't worry, be happy: If you don't care, you're never upset.

Not a great philosophy but, as Calvin says, So what?

I feel better already.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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choose to lose job prospects

New laws allow workers to stop working when they leave work. It sounds like the abolition of slavery. In practice the *choice*  to disconnect will be a CLM, a career Limiting Move.

Proving or disproving this will, as "nervous bosses" claim be a lawyers' picnic.

To be workable the disconnect law should clearly state that an employee will *not* do any work outside agreed working hours. Or mandate a 24-hour working day, with wages to match.

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rule of Law

Blog to my3rs

A woman asked police to provide 72 hours of police protection against her ex-husband.

The police informed her that they cannot just issue orders simply because someone wants one.

That is absolutely correct. The police are not *allowed* to act until a crime is being or has been committed.

Or what? Police to provide protection to a mother because her son was given the wrong lunch order?

Police are not allowed to act on suspicion, nor on unproven accusations. Investigate, yes but act, no.

The alternative is commonly known as a "police state".

Yes, there is a problem. The problem is with the law -- not with the police.

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a sense of entitlement

the government will force airlines to deal differently with disabled passengers.

No limiting  the number of people requiring assistance on a flight. Soooo twice the staff required.

Meanwhile, every other passenger accepts that airlines offer maximum efficiency with no room for comfort. If you want to fly -- then you pay for what is offered. But that is just ordinary people.

There will be compensation for lost or damaged wheelchairs. Sooo You can travel to the Olympics with your hugely expensive racing bike.It can be lost or crushed, oh dear. Call it a wheelchair though and the full force of the law is on your side.

Remember the idiot who refused to be pushed in a standard airline wheelchair? Oh no, he absolutely had to use his own chair.

It's all very nice to offer sympathy and assistance to disabled passengers. But now they may be getting service which is superior -- for the same price.

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pre-school testing

Students are the raw material for schools. The better the raw material, the better the end product.

A school in an affluent suburb is expected to turn out superior graduates -- because the rich kids are expected to start with better parent-supplied skills and resources.

A school with poor raw materials, as is assumed for a poor suburb, deserves extra kudos if they are able to produce superior graduates -- despite starting with "disadvantaged" raw materials.

But affluent vs poor is a weak measure of the raw material, the incoming students will still vary.

It makes a lot of sense to measure literacy and numeracy of the kids as they are starting school. Then heap praise on the schools which add most value between raw material and finished product.

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sauce for the goose

Tsvetnenko is back in town, a free (and probably still rich) man. We should celebrate. Bring out the red carpet. Call on the press to praise his actions and politicians to shake his hand.

Isn't that what we do with all criminals returning from a stint in an overseas jail?

Or does the warm welcome only apply to Assange.

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not good news

In Sydney, Channel 7 News named the Sydney Shopping Centre stabber.

Of course they named the wrong man. Ch7 was promptly forced to pay compensation.

We only know about this because it was reported, correctly, by the ABC. Not a word about it in the Ch7-owned paper.

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The Sydney news editor, Dore, was promptly exiled to The West to be editor.

The ABC reported on toxic management culture within Channel 7. Again, not a word about it in the Ch7- owned The West.

... until... An Editorial attacking the ABC for its management. Pot calling the kettle black, eh?

And today, The West announces two new "major moves", Two women being shifted. What did they do wrong? Perhaps they identified themselves as victims of toxic management?

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fashioned to fail

An online fashion business has failed.

The owner is a blogger with more than a million followers. Does her blogging push her sales?

She is also an author. Do her books describe her fashions?

Writing and blogging do not appear to have given her the skills to manage a fashion business. Which has now failed.  What a surprise, Not.

If she thought that an online fashion business was a good idea then she has my sympathy.

If she thought to take advantage of her role as an influencer then,no sympathy at all -- except for any customers who may have lost down-payments.

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self-destruct

Did Senator Reynolds once have a reputation as a human being?

She is doing her best to destroy it with her series of punitive lawsuits.

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olympic thoughts

This is some of my thoughts from the Olympics. It's not going to be a rant... I hope.

Using Paris as the stadium was brilliant.

The athletes were brilliant.

I didn't watch much swimming. It seems to be the same people in different events, fighting for an extra fraction of a second. All the action is under water where I can't see it.

I like track and field where I can see and understand the challenge.

I watched a few minutes of a women's rugby game. A player ran up the field and it was beautiful. Somewhere between poetry in motion and the magnificence of the human machine in action. Apart from those few memorable moments I have no idea what the game was about.

I watched some of the women's marathon. The Vision was mostly of women's backsides. Nothing wrong with that but it lacked the beauty of that one rugby runner.

The marathon commentator was intelligent.

He had all the names, facts, history etc that seems to be essential. He also had thoughts on running shoes. Designed to be so light that they wear out before they wear in. And the emphasis on heel technology is useful only for the heel-strike runner.

This bike rider who has just quit Australia to ride for GB: So who has the right to complain? Just before the Sydney Olympics Australia was rushing citizenship formalities so that foreign athletes could become "Australian" on time to play for Australia.

break dancing: if they want it to be seen as a serious sport, they first have to rationalise, or explain, the scoring system.

Boxing -- and other sports Decide as soon as possible, what is a man? what is a woman? Or define new categories for competition.

And the Commonwealth Games: I fully support them and hope that they continue. As a gathering of countries for competition that does not involve killing people.

For those who say that Comm games are low quality... let the "better" countries help the others to improve. Bring up every country's standards -- and win friends without paying for their wars.

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not scene from a balcony

the paper has an opinion piece on the new list of literature that may be studied in year 12.

Dylan Caporn writes that "the response was predictable". What he means is, "I'm right and a lot of other people put up opposing views."

He is particularly down on Romeo and Juliet. His key objection is that Shakespeare wrote the play when he was a married man in his thirties. Hmm?

Caporn wants to give students the chance at learning "something truly new" but he fails to make suggestions. Perhaps in four hundred years we will still be reading the new timeless classic The Road, with its themes of sick violence and despair. Or will we still be enjoying the hugely successful new classic, Fifty Shades of Grey.

He ends his piece with a hammer blow of irony: "That's something to shout from a balcony about." His own recommended reading list will leave students wondering, Why is this idiot now talking about a balcony?

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real sport

The recent Olympics has raised questions about the validity of activities which have been named as "sports". Worse yet, tertiary education treats those activities as worthy of study.

The so-called "artistic" gymnastics for example: skinny people prancing round the floor while tossing hoops or balls or even streamers. Or muscle-bound oafs hanging off rings like little kids in a playground. No real "sport".

And as for university study, well, my own doctoral thesis on Adaptive Structuration Theory is at least food for thought for the TV-watching critics.

It's time to return the Olympics to the thrill of naked men displaying their fastest, strongest, highest skills in the sports which are truly essential to our life of hunting and fighting.

... Dr (don't you forget it) Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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political BS

Liberal candidate Zempilas is battling the Labor government on several issues. These include  the site and building of a new inner-city school and location of a women's refuge. Each side attacks the other with claims that could be libellous outside politics.

The only obvious conclusion is that both sides are arguing for political points, with no interest in the public benefit.

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one-eyed truth

What is this "truth" that must be told?

Garlett (13 Aug)seems to believe that only Blak people can tell truth.

When she writes that young people must keep writing their truth, she is lauding a First Nations writing prize.

Yes, Blak people are integral to Australia's story. So are Whyt people. Young and old. Male and female and other. All Australian people.

Attempts to reconcile the various sub-cultures of Australia are being held back by the blatant racism of people like Garlett.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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breaking views

Rachael , Raygun, Gunn worked hard to get to the Olympics.

I read a bit about the thought she put into her performance.

Good on her, I say.

If there's any finger-pointing to be done, it is at the "sport" of break-dancing.

Not as a sport. It's as challenging and as ridiculous as artistic gymnastics. What sort of sport is it to run round waving a long ribbon?

Where breaking fails is in the scoring.

A gymnast can turn up, do some twirls, fall flat on their face -- and still get a few points. Yet breaking allows six routines for a score of zero out of 54. Absolutely meaningless.

Provide a meaningful scoring system and breaking could develop into a real sport.

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end of privacy

forgot your ID? scan the QR code. That's the headline -- but it makes no sense.

What QR code do you scan of you *forgot your ID.?! *

Does the article writer imagine yhat we will have a QR code tattooed on our forehead?

A claimed benefit is that you can stay at a hotel but the hotel will not hold your personal details.

Oh goody. Only the govt, as card issuer, will hold all of ypur perspnall details.

Actually, the writer may be correct. Read the rest of the article and it seems that the government wants to try again with the infamous "Australia Card". everyone carrying the compulsory card. Allowing the govt to track our every movement.

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one-way loyalty

Gary Martin (12 Aug.) writes that employee loyalty is not a virtue in the "modern" job market.  Does he really  see modern as different?

Has Martin missed the mass sackings, outsourcing, right- and down-sizings (remember "Chainsaw"Dunlap)of the last century? 

Employee loyalty must always be to themselves. Because business loyalty will always be towards profit for owners.

I have been asked, Should I be looking for a new job? My answer is, Yes, always.

If and when your current job becomes unbearable, or disappears, at least you know what alternatives are available. It's possible that you may even find that your current job is as good as it gets. You will only know if you are always looking.

Do the work that you are paid for and be loyal to yourself. The business cannot afford to be loyal to you.

...Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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hungry for attention

The Editor is a moron, all the staff are illiterate halfwits, Albo will do anything for a vote. Now send me a free butter chicken because my loudmouth mother is too lazy to make a sandwich.

oh, sorry... not. ha ha ha

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not significant

The 2021 Trump insurrection was not significant because no-one was killed. Trump must mean that although people were killed, none were Trump.

The same could be said for the alleged attempt to shoot Trump: it was not significant, because Trump was not killed.

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setting still on policy

Does the federal government have any idea of what it wants from the economy?

Does it want high inlation? low? High unemployment or low? These are serious policy issues which affect every one of us. Yet the treasurer seems to think it is good to leave these policies to the "independent" RBA (Jim's thorny problem 9th Aug)

Major policy directions are set by a Board of unelected but highly paid economists. Why do we bother voting for politicians? The government should set policy, then leave the RBA to do what it can to implement that policy.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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child care cost

Childcare workers are to get a pay rise. The question is being asked, Who should pay the extra wages? The answer is obvious: The employer -- the childcare centre -- pays the now-mandated wages. It's basic free-market economic theory.

The business, childcare, pays for the necessary resources, including childcare staff. Some of the cost is negotiable but not the legal minimum wage.

Business owners and managers ensure that the business uses its resources to provide services.

Services are then sold to clients -- parents. Any parents who do not want or cannot afford to pay for the services -- do not purchase the services. They find alternatives. They may even, shock horror, care for their own children.

It's a free market economy, with childcare providers free to provide services and to make a profit. With parents free to choose to use, or not use, those services.

An  alternative is for the government to take control. To provide the services. Perhaps as a subset of education. With government curricula, taxpayer-funded resources and no profit motive. In effect, the government, taxpayer, pays to cover and standardise one of the major costs of indiscriminate breeding.

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egg haters

I'm sure I recently read that the current "requirement" is for personalised consumer services. I think it was travel -- trips tailored to suit each traveller's preferences.

Also, I guess, restaurants expected to cater for varying dietary requirements and fads. Websites, social media and computerised marketing are extreme examples, with content and advertisements filtered and tailored to appeal to each individual.

Then we have pop concerts. With 50,000 fans packed into one stadium to watch and listen to the exact same pop entertainment as 49,999 other fans.

Do we really want personalised? Or do we want mass hysteria?

Actually, we want and enjoy both. And we are provided with both. Because the entainment providers will do whatever makes money.

I have no strong opinion on this. I would love to join and enjoy the mass hysteria of a major event. But I would not, only because I am not fond of crowds.

This post is in response to some unfortunate news: a Taylor Swift concert cancelled due to credible threats by a violent nutter. That's a downside of mass events. They provide a single target for individual hatreds.

The old saying is, Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

But Mark Twain said, Put all your eggs in one basket -- then watch that basket. 

A single target is a single basket of fans needing to be protected. In this case, the protection worked.

Hey, in a post about threats of violence, I do not like the flippant (sorry)  subject line. So I'm sorry, again. But it fits.

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lunch-time lessons

A woman hurls emailed abuse at the staff of a school canteen. The canteen responds by refusing to provide meals for the woman's son. The woman provides a half-heated sorry, followed by a largely defensive "apology". The canteen does not back down. Good on them.

It provides valuable lessons to the woman: If you have a complaint, complain politely.

If you apologise, do it sincerely. Remember that you are *not* the most important person in the world.

It's also an unfortunate lesson to her son: Your mother is a fallible human being, you should set your own standards higher.

The next step: For a year, the woman can make lunch for her own son. Perhaps the home-made sandwiches will result in her son being the envy of all of his class-mates.

Perhaps the mother could also spend the year working as a volunteer in the canteen. If they would have her.

Oh, and the headline names this as a "spat". That trivialises a vicious verbal attack on staff and volunteers who are working to provide a necessary service to the school.

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skill-set for leadership?

What an excellent opportunity: the senior vice president of Boeing will give a "leadership" talk in Perth. I hope that he will provide facts and details on the failure of the Boeing space capsule. You know, the capsule with failed thrusters. The capsule which has left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for months rather than one week.

Or will Nelson deny any problem and waffle on about it all being under control.

He is an ex-physician, ex-politician and ex-ambassador. Who has wanked and waffled his way into a major PR role. I doubt if he has taken the time to understand the realities of flight to the edge of space.

The talk by Nelson would be more interesting if he were booked to fly in the next Boeing capsule.

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no standards

There have been Letters and articles suggesting causes for violence in our society. I've not written a book, but try this: As a society we have no standards. 

Any act: violent, criminal or immoral, is acceptable, as long as we have a good lawyer or a disadvantaged background. Or a large profit.

Now we can argue over what is immoral.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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boss begs the question

Various mining companies are finding that lithium is not as golden as they hoped. Now Tony the Liontown boss says that the government could pay for his mistake. (Aug 7th)

With the benefit of hindsight and my MBA, I offer this advice to Tony: Before your next foray into a high risk investment, do a risk analysis.

Should I send my Consulting invoice to you or to the government?

...Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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what divides us

To paraphrase R. Correia, The West Letters 7 Aug: Look out, pathetic rich people: When the revolution comes, you will all be first up against the wall.

Good grief.

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anti-what protests

The Bangladeshi PM fled from his country as rioting protesters destroyed his official residence. Something similar happened a few months ago in Sri Lanka.

The mob has spoken. Now we just wait to see how much better off those countries are under the mob rule of "the people" with the loudest voices (and biggest weapons). Good luck.

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make room!, make room!

Sensible Australians have realised that the decision to have a child must be driven by more than the availability of government payments.

Now, writes Daniel Smith (Opinion 5/8), Australia needs strong migration, because we need population growth to meet the skills needs of industry. 

What next? Forced breeding of adults from a selected gene pool of miners and builders?

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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games for fun

Parents do not hesitate to speak up if they see their child getting rough treatment. (The West Editorial 5th Aug)

That's fine, to protect your child. There are always "correct channels" for factual information on abuse.

The line must be drawn against adults who shout, violently, only because their child is not winning.

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another missed target

Governments are constantly being trapped by over-ambitious targets.

If I can't earn a fortune then I won't bother working for a living wage.

Remember? no child shall live in poverty. Now it's the demand to "end" rough sleeping. With the number of rough sleepers trebling since the target was set. (5th Aug)

Setting an impossible target prevents us from attempting to "reach the low hanging fruit" of simpler, achievable yet still worthwhile goals.

Not everyone wants a 4br 3-bath d-bt mcMansion.

In India, entire families live in sewer pipes that are waiting to be laid. The pipes provide shelter and security and a place to call home.

Forget the home for everyone mantra. Begin with shelter and security that is quick and cheap. And that is better than illegal camping on streets and in parks.

Begin to pick the low hanging fruit. At least it will help some people.

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mutual obligations

An Afghan refugee never went to school, speaks no English, had her first child, after a forced marriage, at age 13. 

Now living in Australia, she forces one of her five children into marriage to a stranger, who then murders his bride.

The mother is punished for a crime which she does not understand.

If australia feels obliged to accept such migrants, the least we can do is to help her to speak our language and to understand the basics of the culture and laws of her adoptive country.

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wasted holidays

Gary Martin discusses the reasons why a couple, with different interests, may fight while on holiday. (5th Aug)

Perhaps  couples who cannot enjoy a holiday together should not spend money on a holiday. Keep it to pay for a divorce lawyer.

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just cause she can

05aug24: Greg Ross responded to my letter, with:

Senator's just cause 

"NL's view of Senator Linda Reynolds' legal actions deserves challenging. The senator is trying to clear her name of several very public accusations made by a person who profited from those accusations to the tune of $2 million-plus, funded by taxpayers.

I replied (as at 05aug not printed in the paper)

Greg Ross (Letters 5th Aug) must get his news from social media. All that I know from the more litigation-aware traditional media, is that a Senator, whose name I am reluctant to mention, has been offended by unstated social media posts.

If her reputation has suffered with me, it is due to her response.

Perhaps, as with the Lehrmann trial, the court case will allow more details to be published.

When Ross is raped at work and finds that his career and life go to shit in the resulting publicity. When his workplace pays compensation for trauma caused by another employee. I hope that he will pay tax on his "profit". And I hope that I will be more compassionate than either Ross or the Senator.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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speed control (2)

re my earlier plan to spray-paint speeding motorcyclists. Okay, I can see some problems with spraying pink paint on speeding vehicles.

So ...

Here's an even better way to prevent speeding. To prevent *any* vehicle from speeding:

Measure a length of road from A to B. Calculate the time it takes to travel -- at the speed limit -- from A to B. call this time-T

When a vehicle passes point A, tyre-shredding spikes are raised at point B.

The spikes are lowered after time-T...

If a vehicle arrives too soon at B, they are speeding and their tyres are shredded.

Simple, effective, brilliant :-)

 

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speed hoons

problem:

hoons on motorbikes ignoring speed limits. Not helped by lack of visible licence plates, so identification of the rider is difficult.

solution:

add a spray gun to speed cameras. 

A speed reading over the limit triggers a spray of indelible paint on the bike and rider.

Police then identify the speeder as the person wearing bright pink leathers and riding a bright pink bike.

easy.

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ASD killers

The 17 year old in England who stabbed and killed small children is aid to have "autism spectrum disorder", ASD. 

ASD often seems to be put forward as an excuse for vicious violence.

To put it another way -- ASD is seen as an indicator of a potential killer.

In which case anyone with ASD must be treated as a potential killer.

Drug them or lock them up -- before their ASD leads them to violence.

Though it's already too late to save those small dead children in England.

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winners take all

03aug24: printed in The West as,"Only the lawyers smiling"

A Senator continues her legal attack on a rape victim.

The headline in The West says it all: Legal eagles enjoy.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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child non care

According to Monique Dirksz (The West 2 Aug)

Teachers are too scared to punish violent students.

Just like a volunteer football coach. Attempt to break up a brawl amongst junior players and you risk being banned from coaching for life.

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leave Lebanon

The government is advising all Australians to immediately leave Lebanon. Good idea, with war an imminent threat.

Plus, a thirty-year civil war is still on.

But who would be there anyway? fifteen thousand "Australians", apparently.

Many "first generation" Australians are there to visit or support their aged parents, left behind when younger people migrated.

If I were an aged parent -- stuck in a war zone -- the last thing I would want would be a visit by my children.

I would far rather know that they are staying safe in Australia.

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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sportspersonship

L Urquhart (Letters 1st Aug) appreciates the goodwill of players congratulating each other after the Eagles Dockers game.

Perhaps the players were simply standing round, adjusting their makeup and complimenting Harley on his choice of hair band.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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thought hesitant

there's a letter(1st Aug) from "Name and address supplied" requesting proof that vaccines do *not* cause autism.

To match the words in that letter:

I simply want a five year placebo controlled, clinical trial by persons who are not earning a living by product placement nor chasing valuable hits by inventing conspiracies, evidence that Name and Address Supplied is not a gullible fool who prefers advice from a fashion and fad influencer over the demonstrated, challenged and confirmed evidence of medical specialists with actual, recognised scientific training and knowledge.

It would not really matter if Name and Address risked only their own life.

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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activity or sport

Amber Lilley asks (The West 1st Aug), When is an activity (an Olympic) sport?

She cites break dancing. Then, why not competitive Pilates?

Similarly, When is a pastime a competition?

For both, the divide is based on purpose.

If your pirpose is to enjoy yourself then it is an activity.

If you want to do it better -- it is a pastime.

When you want to do it better than someone else, it becomes a competition.

When your purpose is to show other people that you can do it better than they can... then it has become a sport.

When your entire country wants the reflected glory of your ability... then your country wants your activity to become an Olympic sport.

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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Happiness is wanting what you already have