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Henry Thornton - Contributors: A discussion of economic, social and political issues Tiresias
In Greek mythology, the original Tiresias was the blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years.

The new Tiresias was born in Sydney in 1967. Educated at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, he worked as a casual tutor in politics before joining the Australian Public Service in Canberra.

A former teenage neo-liberal and Thatcherite, he has also been a workplace delegate in the Community and Public Sector Union, where has he has done a little bit of good assisting individual members dealing with bullying and harassment. In his opinion the central task facing Australia is how to have the best of all possible worlds: a market economy embedded within a stable, bourgeois society, which offers its members the widest possible variety of meaningful and worthwhile life-choices and that maintains a Western culture under the protection of a government resistant to social engineers within and the UN, NGOs etc without.

Tiresias studies classical Greek in his spare time and is about to publish a PhD thesis on an early Enlightenment political philosopher.

 
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The national election 2010: th...
Regardless of whichever party can form a government, an election within 12 to 18 months (mo »
Date: 23/08/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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The coming currency crisis...
We need to tie the AUS$ to the price of a bundle or package of metals, the most important of »
Date: 19/08/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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Why the coalition will win....
I predict a Coalition win by a minimum of ten seats, though, thanks to Workchoices, they wil »
Date: 18/08/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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Defence of the realm...
All Australians now know that we have immense and unknown amounts of wealth in this country. »
Date: 14/08/2010
Author: Sir Wellington Boote; comment by Tiresias of Canberra
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Higher education in Oz ......
... the lazy, dreamy, drift toward the future continues. »
Date: 11/08/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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The future of the counter-jiha...
.... why we should not despair over the war. »
Date: 11/08/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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Men to match our mountains … a...
As St Therese of Lisieux noted, more tears have been shed for answered prayers than for unan »
Date: 04/08/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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Don`t mention the War...
The War in Afghanistan is being ignored by our politicians. Why won't they speak up and supp »
Date: 28/07/2010
Author: Tireas of Canberra
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Avoiding Beijing’s Deadly Embr...
... the rise of China and what to do about it. »
Date: 20/07/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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Ship of Fools...
That Australia has put itself into a position where the only thing saving itself from a ruin »
Date: 28/05/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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The Cheonan and the death of A...
Australia’s long vacation from reality proceeds on borrowed time. »
Date: 24/05/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
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If you wish for peace, prepare...
The Australian people need to hear from our military, police and emergency services leaders »
Date: 21/05/2010
Author: Tiresis of Canberra
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