Why are so many people intimidated by poetry, but love song lyrics?
Songwriters are lionised as geniuses, but hardly anyone buys or reads poetry. I don’t get it!
Asked by:If the NDIS funds 450k people with a disability, and the ABS lists 750k with severe or profound disability, who’s funding the remaining 300,000 people?
The NDIS is one enormous quango (QUasi-Autonomous National Government Organisation). My gut feeling is that three or four fold the amount of money given to people with a disability through their NDIS funding package has gone on the salaries and infrastructure of those setting up the system and those administering it. In my opinion, just one of the many downfalls of the system introduced.
How do we limit our misuse of new technologies?
Asked by:Can – and should – men be called feminists … or should feminist-sympathising men be named separately?
Abdul Abdullah: do you think the Australian government has worked out why young Muslims are pissed off?
Does society need to face up to its diversity rather than fear losing its privacy?
Asked by:Why is there more public and private violence in Australia than other wealthy countries (Canada, European nations?)
Will there always be a European Union and a UN, or have these kind of collective endeavours lost their way under 21st century individualism?
Asked by:Would you take a drug that induced happiness with one side effect; the following day, you remember being happy but not what had happened?
Knowing ourselves seems to be the foundation for everything. It is important to question, and be critical of the thoughts, actions and beliefs that resonate with us. Such contemplation is crucial to continual self-development and sanity. Thus, madness can be partly seen as obliviousness, or in history it was highlighted as forgetting. If we forgot what had made us happy, are we mad?
Why do we rabbit on and on about pollution but say and do nothing about ‘noise pollution’. If we can send people into space and bring them back again, how come we can’t manage to have silent lawn mowers and leaf blowers and electric drills and so on and so on ?
Is there a country in the world that considers its women more highly than its men, and if not, why not?
It matters to me because I am 70 years old and have spent my entire life struggling to make Australia and the world a better place for women. We have made some gains but it still seems a long way to go.
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