Posted by: donallan on: 28 March 2012
The Chronicle Canberra. A great Comumnity newspaper published online every Wednesday. One would think citizens of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia’s national and political capital with its allegedly ‘independent’ parliament, the ACT Legislative Assembly, would be knowledgeable about politics. I say allegedly because the Assembly is really only independent when allowed by the Federal Government. [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 8 December 2011
This is the full text of the article, abreviated for lack of space,published in The Chronicle, Tuesday, 6 December, 2011 Why do I, a non – scientist, believe in cold fusion? It’s not because I suffer from the martyr syndrome having been laughed at for my belief and been described as deluded and a cent [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 6 December 2011
This is not a Chronicle article but the follow up to an article “An agnostics view of same sex marriage” published in Online Opinion some weeks ago. Regardless of what pop star philosopher Sir Elton John, some politicians in a few parliaments around the world and some members of Australia’s Labor Party think, marriage has [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 15 September 2011
An edited version of the colum published in The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday, 13th September, 2011 Socrates, born Athens – 469 BC and Jesus, born 470 years later in Bethlehem, a West Bank Palestinian City approximately 8 kilometres from Jerusalem, are two of the world’s most quoted philosophers. Perhaps they are the most quoted because they [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 14 December 2010
First published The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday14 December 2010 I understand the new world wide Church of Planet Earth (COPE) will soon make an application to build its new international headquarters and first Climate Change Temple in Canberra. However, before ACT developers start salivating, I understand that, in keeping with COPE’s environmental principles, architects and planner [...]
