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Ian Powell discusses the Government’s unexpected decision to rush through Parliament legislation gutting gender pay equity claims.
The day itself denigrates the mother in false respect and guilts the family for ignorance to that fact. It sanctifies a family relation for reasons of commercial worth.
The election of any Pope tends to be retro-fitted in ways that make the choice seem inevitable.
For a state of insight to ignite, there has to be a kind of agnosia -- a temporary loss of the ability to recognize the familiar as familiar. That allows a full opening of the mind and heart, which is what the brain truly evolved for.
Ian Powell discusses the relevance of a timely editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal advocating the reconstruction of a healthcare social contract.
This hereditary figure of aristocracy cannot help his instincts on entitlement. He was “born” into the role, and for that birthright, he demands a degree of security protection exceptional, whatever his personal decisions and choices about career, location and Royal duties.
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