Population growth is still below trend.
Is population growth driving the housing crisis? Here’s the reality - The Australia Institute share.google/VfKUbdweWevp...
Of course, we should be discussing that trend, but that's another issue.
First of the ten plagues Dog is sending to free the Gazans, the Lebanese and the Iranians?
How does preferential voting work? Here's a data visualisation using recent Fadden elections that demonstrates the process. See also Moncrieff and McPherson, the other two Gold Coast electorates. voices-of-fadden.org/voting/preferential-voti...
Sun 12Apr2026 Sydney Morning Herald: "The people in Gaza are generally terrorists. They don't deserve to live there." With international attention focused on Iran, the "pioneers" of Israel's religious Zionist movement have their sights set on Gaza.
Sun 12Apr2026 Sydney Morning Herald headline describes Palestinians in Gaza as "generally terrorists" and the Zionist Israelis seeking to take the occupied territory as "pioneers". This is obscene Israeli Zionist propaganda. 😠 #ThisIsNotJournalism #IsraeliTerrorism
On Scott Morrison's way to the party-room spill which saw him roll Turnbull for PM, Stuart Robert and Morrison prayed together, "... that righteousness would exalt the nation". [Niki Savva, in Plots and Prayers.]
Robert resigned in disgrace, Morrison faces court over #Robodebt
What are our aims at Voices of Fadden? See https://voices-of-fadden.org/
"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." [Flannery O'Connor]
"It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them." [Cesare Beccaria]
"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman." [Marian Anderson]
"There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote." [David Foster Wallace]
"Just by listening and being kind to somebody, you have the ability to make a difference in their lives." [Jan Rader]
Upcoming Voices of Fadden events: https://voices-of-fadden.org/events/
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it." [John Ruskin]
"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." [Robert Service]
"The power to command frequently causes failure to think." [Barbara Tuchman]
"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it." [Nikki Giovanni]
"The difference between a weed and a flower is a judgement." [Wayne Dyer]
Who did Fadden vote for in recent elections, and the Voice referendum? See this data viz. voices-of-fadden.org/voting/how-fadden-voted.... See also Moncrieff and McPherson, the other two Gold Coast electorates.
"Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." [Steve Jobs]
"In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice." [Jerry Coyne, biology professor]
Every day on YouTube people watch over a billion hours of video: www.thinkwithgoogle.com/advertising-channels/vid... (2018 data)
"One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me." [Louis Pasteur]
"In fully fledged capitalism, money — and its seemingly magical substance, exchange value — is supreme, akin to a god." [Anitra Nelson, in Beyond Money A Post Capitalist Strategy]
At Kitchen Table Conversations we talk about issues like housing, cost of living and transport in a friendly setting. We have one coming up soon on the North Gold Coast. Go to https://voices-of-fadden.org/ktc/ to see details.
"Growth is capitalism's critical weakness; if we are to preserve a place for ourselves as a species on this planet, then capitalism has no future." [Anitra Nelson, in Beyond Money A Post Capitalist Strategy]
"To question the legitimacy of money [...] and monetary logic is akin to questioning the meaning of a religious god and the wholesomeness of a capitalist society." [Anitra Nelson, in Beyond Money A Post Capitalist Strategy]
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
[Epictetus, Greek philosopher, 50 CE - 135 CE]
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
[Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish philosopher, 1729-1797]
"The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived." [Ann Patchett]
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