When consciousness prevails

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“As the son of a Liberal premier, I could be in the mix, I could be running a Liberal MP’s campaign. But I can’t. I’m sorry, I don’t want to be rich, nor powerful, at the expense of others. That’s not my business. I don’t claim to be a good person. But I’m trying to be, and that’s more than I can say for many modern Liberal Party MPs.

Their lack of substantive leadership has caused the Liberal Party to lose its way. The commitment to small-l liberal values has collapsed under the weight of party greed and infighting.”

One cannot but admire a young man’s consciousness when he chooses to go the hard way, instead of the easy one. There is more to life than money. Much more.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/my-father-was-liberal-premier-but-i-can-t-support-his-party-20220422-p5afh3.html

It is very likely that this article in The Age newspaper will be withdrawn upon external pressure. If this happens and you really want to read it, please contact me.

Woodheater glass cleaning

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The glass of woodheater was very very dirty. I cleaned it using wet pieces of paper dipped in the wood ash I had taken out of the woodheater. How does this work so well? Wood ash is alkaline so it acts like soap on the glass with just enough abrasion to get into the thicker layers on the glass. After about 15 minutes that glass looked like new. Zero dollars spent.

A bad leader gets worse

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For the past weeks, the NSW (still) premier Berejiklian has made big announcements about the vaccination rate in NSW. She tried to sell this to the public as her achievement, while the daily cases went from hundreds to well over 1000. It was Berejiklian who imposed a lockdown way too late and thereby the NSW crisis started. She even ridiculed others who quickly and timely decided for lockdowns as a means to stop virus spread.

The sudden and dramatic increase in vaccination rate in NSW is to a large extent a result of fear among the public in view of the large number of new infections per day. It is certainly not a success for Berejiklian.

The late NSW lockdown is nothing but a consequence of involving the business lobby directly or indirectly in the government decision making process. And we all know how close the liberal government is to business. Lockdown is bad for business and no-lockdown is bad for the health of the population and ultimately bad for the nation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/nsw-records-1220-covid19-cases-eight-deaths/100439846