Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 11:12 pm
Standing for election by graduates to UQ Senate.
This week’s news story that one-fifth of scientific researchers are said to be thinking of leaving their jobs because of poor terms of employment is a familiar message
Saturday, October 9, 2021, 11:12 pm
Dodging the world disease in Australia almost proved too much for sports industries trying to keep up elite entertainment for thousands of spectators and save their multi-million dollar balance sheets.
The major codes – AFL, NRL and international Rugby Union – resorted to moving their players in sealed-off ‘bubbles’, holding them in camps away from home and locating them in at least nominally safe stadiums at short notice.
Saturday, October 9, 2021, 10:44 pm
The deaths of 360 people in News South Wales during the 2021 Winter lock-down should have put an end to over-optimistic ideas about handling COVID-19.
Before that the State’s eighteen-months death-toll had been 54, with much cocky assurance it had found a way to put the economy first and get away with that fairly painlessly. Then Winter saw Australia’s heaviest impacts of the COVID epidemic shift to NSW, during the period between the start of lock-down in mid-June and the beginning of October.
On 5 October the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian having fallen on her sword, her successor, Dominic Perrottet, an awkward, defensive and ideologically-driven young man from the right wing, signalled basically little change in priorities: COVID might be bad, but easing up on business activity would be worse.
Saturday, October 9, 2021, 10:30 pm
The New South Wales Premier’s farewell on 1st October has added to a bad look for her party on the after-hours behaviour front.
A sad aspect of Gladys Berejiklian’s political fall is that it had to be over a “head-on-the-pillow” scandal – feeding into the undeniable phenomenon that women politicians get rougher treatment over sexual matters than the men.
Monday, September 20, 2021, 1:13 pm
Candidate Lee Duffield:
Put balance onto the UQ Senate and some ‘about-time’ moderation.
Rash policies have proved a disaster in the present crisis.
Thursday, January 7, 2021, 8:44 am
Lee Duffield closely watching the elections in the United States, had no illusions about how Donald Trump would react to getting beaten. But watching rioters break into the Capitol Building in Washington, not too surprised, he decided to place some blame and penned this message to the man behind it all.
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 10:25 pm
One feature of the October Queensland elections was the show of civility put on for the cameras as the outcome became known – washing away some of the dirt thrown earlier.
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 9:36 pm
Labor’s win in the Queensland State election on Saturday confirmed its “safety-first” policy managing the pandemic and set it up for another four years of government with an increased majority.
Not long after 10 pm on election night the Premier, Anastacia Palasczcuk, was able to claim victory with at least 47 seats in the 93 member parliament – and six seats in doubt.
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 5:50 pm
Just in case anybody in the world thought they were down and declining, the Melbourne mob have had a cracker of a weekend.
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The UQ Senate elections have been stopped, to be started over again at a date in November to be announced.
Sunday, October 17, 2021, 4:24 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
The UQ Senate elections have been stopped, to be started over again at a date in November to be announced.
I was told this in a message last Friday at 3:30 pm from the Returning Officer, Anthony Zgrajewski, who said it was because “a small number of recipients from across the UQ community have reported anomalies with the online voting platform.” He said, “Our IT services team is working with the election platform provider to resolve these matters.” Nothing further on what this is about.