Land Tax Issues, Uranium, Gaming, Evil Awards

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Green Left Weekly published my letter on the land tax cuts for the rich. Meanwhile housing affordability hits a new low. Compare land and house prices and housing affordability (links via erudito). An international phenomenon Slums Growing Around The World.

I will be presenting on all these issues on Wednesday June 28th at 6.30pm at the Hume Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Rd at a forum entitled "Please Explain Mr. Brumby"; please come along.

Martin Ferguson spoke at the Unitarians last Sunday on the global energy debate; possibly presented the best arguments for expansion in uranium exports I have heard - and was steadfast in his opposition to it in Australia. This follows a presentation by Jim Green (who has a rather different opinion) on the same issue.

Ended up continuing to play GURPS Australian Noir, rather than the Retro AD&D game which I set up to balance the numbers. Meanwhile droog64's Arthurian HeroQuest game just gets better and more devious. Next Sunday is my Paranoia/Cyberpunk crossover alongside Middle-Earth Role Playing. Have noticed that Mongoose are getting seriously canned on the various RuneQuest mailing lists. On topic, scored big time at the local opportunity shop last weekend; someone had donated their roleplaying collection. Several Kult supplements, three copies of Empire of the Petal Throne (a roleplaying game designed by a Muslim convert and professor of linguistics), Atlantis, and some D&D supplements.

Two awards of evil this week. One to korgmeister who believes that Australia's indigenous people lost to the British and they should just put up with it, stop whining and appealing to pity. Number two to Japan for leading the charge to declare the IWC moratorium on whaling invalid.

Comments

[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

Pity? Hmm. I thought it was about appealing to a sense of common decency.

But of course, appealing to common decency would be inexcusably naive and presumably anyone doing that would deserve what they got. (/sarcasm)

[blot.livejournal.com]

grim.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

One to korgmeister who believes that Australia's indigenous people lost to the British and they should just put up with it

According to PM last night there are those who believe porn is the problem: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1666734.htm

Thought you might be interested.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Ooh, EPT! Quite a find. Been interested in taking a good long look at EPT for years.

What are people bagging Mongoose for specifically?
At least its nice to see Glorantha product flowing again - last year was a very empty one, at least now we have Mongoose and the excellent Moon Design both promising quite a bit of product.

[zey.livejournal.com]

There was actually a rather nice article in a local paper I was reading (Perth Voice). Looks like there's a lot of support for the selling of vacant public land with similar restrictions to that NSW country town who sold land cheap a few years back: residential homebuyers only, building start within 12 months, no sale of the land for 5 years. Intent being to fuck off the speculators and investors and try to keep it first home-buyers only. Seems like a nice idea, if it gets through. What they're desperately trying to avoid is the East Perth area especially becoming a "slum lord" zone.

[taavi.livejournal.com]

I get so jealous reading your roleplaying stories. My chance of doing any RPGing in Laos is about 0.00% unless I got into world of warcrack - and if i did that my partner would probably leave me, and then I'd die of starvation.

[cardinal-sodom.livejournal.com]

You play MERP willingly?