Moral contradiction and the world of administrators

The following is an excerpt from the transcript: ‘Behind the scenes: animal experimentation ethics committees’ All In the Mind (Australia: Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National, 19 January 2008).

Natasha Mitchell: Carole Webb, can I come to you, you are a vet and you're an animal welfarist as well, and you've been on numerous committees at the national and also the local levels, animal ethics committees. What motivated you

On the purposes of governance

Institutions which deliver and reproduce entitlements can fail under certain conditions. Such a state of affairs is often described as a “failed state”

Science has permanently supplanted religious sources of intellectual authority in the realm of public discourse, and there’s no going back.

I’ve had a look at both

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/6237/ and http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/431
The (young earth creationist) article by Jonathan Sarfati is well-nigh unreadable. It’s full of discourteous and belligerent acrimony. I found myself unable to cope with an attempt to unravel the actual arguments, because it frothed like the mouth of a rabid animal, dangerously and unpredictably.

When a child dies

Jared Diamond, in Guns, Germs and Steel tells us that the Australian continent is like no other. Damn right. These recent awfulnesses, the deaths by bushfire, suggest that we haven't yet learned from Burke and Wills. They died, as you and I would too, in country where indigenous people thrived.

On Entitlement

I am looking for a publisher for my new book,

On Governance

In the first two chapters I re-theorize governance and the history of capitalism, particularly as it effects indigenous peoples.

Here is a brief excerpt from the introduction:

“The purpose of government is to stop us killing one another.”[1]

Pastor Danny Nalliah, of 'Catch the Fire' ministries is quoted as saying that the Victorian bushfires are a punishment from 'God.'

It’s just another piece of evidence that the Christianity Industry is dead.