MAiD is the creation of a health system that cannot or will not provide “basic, standard” service. Covid devastated the medical profession’s reputation. The shreds that remain will not survive MAiD. Nor should they.
Personally, I’d ignore all the conventional wisdom from the political advisers who got the coalition into this mess and firstly apologise for past sins. Then I’d announce a host of clear, unwavering policies – while side-lining any coalition MP who votes against them.
International law does not create states: it presupposes their existence. If powerful states conclude that the rules offer them no viable path to protect themselves, they will eventually abandon them.
The enduring challenge is ensuring that those actions are part of a coherent strategy that accounts for what follows.
We take this as the price of the relative peace and prosperity we have come to expect. And yet it somehow doesn’t keep delivering peace and prosperity. Instead, we now have endless war and the privations and hardships that war necessarily entails.
How can a government ministry blatantly fund political and ‘furious’ activism, yet there be so little media scrutiny? And why the fuel crisis should have been anticipated.
X briefly lights up a darkening world with a trans-Pacific mutual love-in.
Africans enslaved each other for centuries, then took our aid money for decades.
To long for a peaceful world without violence is fitting for humans, but barbarians do not crave peace like we do. They can only be defeated with overwhelming violence.
