He’d been experimenting in the family darkroom for several years at the suggestion of his parents, and early home movies (1) reveal the seeds of their encouragement. Nonetheless one can picture the confidence and strength of the young artist when, at 16 years old, he managed to sell an unsolicited picture to the highly influential publication, Look. It may not be entirely correct to call Kubrick a child prodigy. Welcome to the latest vassal state of America, I hope you enjoy your stay in Woomera. Otherwise Howard will win the next election, maybe the one after that as well. What we need is to take public debating away from nuclear energy, Howard has no intention of building power plants any time soon, and join the politicians in discussing the issue of Workplace Relations Reforms. Howard is playing primarily against a group, the unions, that have always formed Labor's main constituency, weakening Labor's postition and at the same time strengthening his own. With everyone busy discussing the pros and cons of becoming North Korea, no one has any time to think, let alone talk, about IR. In true dictatorial style, Howard has put the discussion of nuclear energy into the public arena. Is it necessary to tarnish our governments domestic reputation when its international reputation is already battered thanks to its belligerence in Iraq, Afghanistan and soon, North Korea? By all rights these laws should end the Howard Government at the next election.
Indeed, they almost seem like the sort of legislation that would be passed in countries such as China, North Korea, America, and the Israeli occupied settlements.
The IR laws (a.k.a workplace relations laws) were crude, stifling and have no place in a democratic country.
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