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  COVID : South Australia closes the border to Greater Melbourne as additional cases confirmed from the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn which has now been evacuated. Victorian travels to South Australia from regional Victoria are subject to testing and initial self-isolation requirements.[abc news] Queensland reinstating border declaration passes for Victorians with the exclusion of those who have been at an exposure site [The Age]. NSW health is requesting people who have been in Melbourne to monitor the ever-changing list of exposure sites. The ACT government is replacing stamp duty with land tax , something the NSW government is also considering in an opt-in model. This is part of the #socialist agenda to undermine private property ownership. Although it may sound good in theory, land tax is generally something that is paid as part of the initial purchase. There after you can live in your home. With land tax you have to pay land tax, which will increase over time, every year ...

 The Trump impeachment show trial continues as the Democrats usual material that is unlikely to be relevant and is instead highly prejudicial to try and persuade the US public to respond emotionally to the events of January 6. It seems this trial is more about demonising Trump to the US public than anything to do with the actual impeachment trial, which it seems the Democrats are unlikely to win. The Conversation, points out that the only rules of trial in a Senate trial are the Senate procedural rules which can be changed by a majority (which the Democrats have) at any point. This trial clearly has no procedural fairness and is a sham.  Biden signs an executive order demanding schools allow students to compete in school support in their chosen gender identity. I assume that means whether they choose to compete in boys or girls races and not that schools will now have to have individual races for every different gender identity of which there are many according to those ...

 The Trump impeachment trial begins. Despite the constitutional requirement for the impeachment trial to be presided over by the Chief Justice, a Democrat is instead presiding over the trial, further casting into doubt its constitutionality. Myanmar General says that there will be fresh elections after claiming that the previous elections were fraudulent. Unsurprisingly, WHO investigators have decided that a lab in Wuhan was not the source of the virus after all and that maybe it did not even originate in China. Facebook and Instagram decide to enhance banning of what they designate as conspiracy theories. Interestingly, for instance, hydroxychloroquine was deemed a conspiracy theory, until the WHO changed their mind. The British Medical Journal has recently accused the UK government of cherry picking the science and politicising science in their pursuit of a single narrative. Hunter Biden's laptop, the Democratrs screeched, was a conspiracy theory until after the election when the...

America is momentarily distracted by the SuperBowl where thousands of people who could not turn up to polling stations to vote suddenly decide that crowds are not a problem after all. The Trump impeachment trial begins today with Trump reportedly not planning to testify at the trial. The British Medical Journal has accused politicians of cherry-picking and suppressing science in their drive for a single COVID narrative (BMJ Editorial 13 November 2020) saying that 'When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die'. China has arrested an Australian journalist (dual citizen) for leaking state secrets and warned Australia not to interfere in its sovereign judicial process. Protests continue in Russia (detention of opposition leader) and Myanmar (Military Coup).

Yesterday afternoon saw a flurry of news conferences which ended Eddie McGuire's role as President of the Collingwood football club, a damning report into the proposed Sydney Crown Casino at Barangaro and more hotel quarantine COVID cases in Melbourne. Carlton Football Club President Resigns Opinion is divided this morning as to whether McGuire was 'past his used-by date' or whether he was a victim of cancel culture based on a report that found systemic racism existed at the club. The challenge, of course, with systemic racism claims is that generally it is almost impossible to verify the claim and even more difficult to understand what any actual issues are, how to resolve them, and whether any individual is actually responsible. If you belive the BLM advocates every single organisation in Australia is systemically racist. To Include or Not To Include, Agriculture is the Question Meanwhile, debate rages within the LNP concerning net zero targets (#ClimateChange) and whethe...

The Day in Politics In Australia COVID still dominates the news cycle, although other issues are slowly again gaining the attention of the media. COVID-19 COVID issues include ongoing border restrictions, vaccine availability and vaccine certificates. Border restrictions remain in a number of Australian States and Territories. Hotel quarantine continues to be a thorn in the side of all governments attempting to suppress COVID in Australia. The official position of the Federal Government is that the COVID vaccine will be voluntary. However, in practice that seems far from the case. The Federal Government is working on an electronic COVID vaccine certificate. It has also passed legislation making notification of vaccines to the Federal register mandatory. This is a very concerning development. Having a certificate which effectively gives the holder additional rights to an ordinary citizen without the certificate is only one step removed from China's social credit score. Once implemen...

 Myanmar military forces have detained government leaders declaring a state of emergency. Myanmar was previously ruled by the military but has transitioned to democratic government. World leaders have expressed outrage and threatened sanctions. Trump's entire impeachment legal team has resigned for reasons that are not entirely clear. The Democrats are now reportedly applying pressure to the university that issued the law degrees of the two new lawyers demanding the university withdraw their law degrees, they are also reportedly pressuring the bar to revoke their licences. This is an extremely dangerous direction which the Democrats also allegedly pursued against lawyers that supported Trump during the election fraud cases. At the very foundation of the legal system is the premise that EVERY person deserves a defence no matter how heinous their alleged crime. The Democrats, many of whom would be lawyers themselves, are deliberately trying to subvert the legal system into a Democrat...