Issue 2019 August 10
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POETRY
Sonnet on Shrimps A week submerged in summer, and the boat is a green mass of river-weed. Within the hull shrimps flicker and fish glide, threading the full curtains and branches, laces and frills that coat the timbers. A sudden riot of flowering fronds of life on old white-painted boards bobbing in summer sun. A strange Lilliputian world of garden, castle, turret,…
HUMOUR Japan G20: Donny meets Jenny
Recently World leaders gathered in Japan, for something called the G20? Your Theobogan didn’t know what the G stands for? Golf? Grog-on? Giggle-house? Turns out the G is for Government, the G20 are the top 20 Governments on earth, measured by GDP. Australia, hardly a world economic superpower, scrapes in at, you guessed it, Number 20! If Australia’s GDP drops, though, look out!…
EDITORIAL When will Morrison stamp his authority on his mandate?
Scott Morrison’s win forced the Queensland Government to take the brakes off coalmining developments in the Galilee Basin and forced federal Labor to allow Parliament to pass his tax cuts. This win makes his planned industrial relations reforms more likely to pass. Morrison has also been adept at rallying general party support with his attacks on the campaign run by GetUp to unseat…
BOOK REVIEW Public enemy No. 1 and his twin, No. 2
DOUBLE TROUBLE: The Amazing True Story of the After Dark Bandit by Geoff Wilkinson and Ross Brundrett Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 288 pages Price: AUD$29.99 Reviewed by Jeffry Babb Long ago I had a friend named Dave Norgaard. He was “pictorial editor” for the Daily News in Perth. Dave had worked on The Sun News Pictorial in Melbourne. He had…
BOOK REVIEW In the market with the Angelic Doctor
ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND ST THOMAS AQUINAS: On Justice in the Distribution and Exchange of Wealth by Donald Boland En Route Books and Media, St Louis Paperback: 214 pages Price: AUD$34.95 Reviewed by Paul Collits Don Boland is a modern day peeping Thomist (apologies to the late Ralph McInerney), a keeper of the faith and a champion of the natural law-driven…
