The assumptions are suspect, the relationships are far more complex than the models assume, and the scary forecasts are worthless.
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For thousands of years, a diagnosis of leprosy meant a life sentence of social isolation. People afflicted with the condition now known as Hansen’s disease were typically taken from their families, treated with prejudice and cruelly exiled into a life time of quarantine.
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September 11th 2001 is one of those days one never forgets. It was a strange night down under - I couldn't sleep. Here I was, thousands of miles away from New York City and tossing and turning in bed and feeling unsettled. I finally got up and put the kettle on and made a cup of tea. I turned on the television and saw a science fiction movie was playing. It showed a scene of New York and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre were on fire and people were screaming. I wondered what kind of sick mind could make a movie about something so dreadful. Then I realised I was on the news channel and it was real.
Gold is known as a noble metal in that it will never rust, and is not affected by most acids and chemicals. It can however be dissolved by a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acid known as aqua regia(Latin royal water), or by sodium cyanide, or by acetic acid mixed with certain oxidants.
From time immemorial gold has been the desire of those aspiring to riches, or to make sacred or venerable objects. Examples are the Israelites in the Bible worshipping a golden calf when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, and Jason and his Argonauts searching for the Golden Fleece.
From a very early age I learned that the two inventions that Australia was most famous for were the combine harvester and the stump jump plough. Here is the story of the combine harvester now used around the world in their thousands and the origins long forgotten.
Hugh Victor McKay (1865-1926) was born at Raywood in Victoria, the fifth of 12 children of Nathaniel McKay and his wife Mary. They had emigrated to Australia from County Monaghan in 1852, drawn like thousands of others to the Victorian goldfields.
Nathaniel abandoned gold mining to become a stonemason and then became a farmer. The children had limited schooling, but all eight sons became successful in a variety of fields. Hugh Victor left school when he was 13 to help on the family farm and it was in agriculture that he was to make a great impact.
As an adult he became aware of a Victorian government prize available to a person who succeeded in building a machine that was capable of combining the four activities required in harvesting cereal crops: stripping, threshing, winnowing and bagging. In 1885, with his father and brother John, he assembled a stripper-harvester from pieces of equipment on the farm. This was a prototype and Hugh Victor went on to build harvesters under contract as the McKay Harvesting Machinery Company. The company traded successfully until the Australian banking crash of 1892-93 caused its closure.
RELIC FROM THE PAST: Allen Webb, Neil Hateley, Colin Webb, Euan Hateley and Andrew Hateley admire the historic H.V. McKay harvester before moving it to Natimuk on Friday. The machine is more than a century old. Picture: KATE HEALY
McKay was not deterred and with the backing of rural businessmen he established The Harvester Company and produced an improved machine he called “the Sunshine”. Orders trickled in at first, but as more farmers bought Sunshine harvesters, production increased. Fifty were sold in 1896 and sales rose to 500 in 1901. An export trade developed with machines being sent to South Africa and Argentina.
By 1905 the Sunshine Harvester works in Ballarat were employing 500 people. A succession of improvements to the manufacturing process improved efficiency and output continued to grow - some 1,916 machines were sold in 1905-6. McKay seized the opportunity to purchase The Braybrook Implement Company on the outskirts of Melbourne in order to expand Sunshine Harvesters.
He sought tariff protection from foreign competitors that he asserted were copying Sunshine harvesters and this led him into campaigns and legal disputes. They culminated in the Harvester Judgement of 1907 in which the judge dictated minimum wage rates for an eight-hour day.
The Harvester Judgement was the first decision handed down by Mr Justice Higgins, the new President of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court created in 1904. In his judgement Higgins J defined a “worker” as :- ‘a… human being in a civilized community entitled to marry and raise a family.’
He went on to say that “The wages paid had to reflect the reality of a worker providing the basic needs for a family of five and to define this Higgins took the radical approach of interviewing not only male workers but also their wives.”
In his judgement, Higgins calculated that a fair and reasonable wage for manual workers was seven shillings per day or 42 shillings per week.
McKay did not accept the judgement and appealed to the High Court which, in 1908, overturned it as unconstitutional, invalid and void. It ruled that the Constitution permitted the Commonwealth to levy Customs and Excise Duties but not to determine wages and working conditions. Higgins J was also a judge on the High Court bench.
In 1910 the Agricultural Implement Makers’ Union called a strike to which the company replied with a lock-out that lasted 13 weeks and left the union bankrupt. The impacts on industrial relations in Australia lasted for decades and the concept of a minimum wage was to endure.
McKay decided to invest in industrial peace by creating a company town at Braybrook, which was, and still is, now known as Sunshine. Modelled on examples such as Port Sunlight (Lever Brothers) and Bourneville (Cadbury’s) it provided housing and sporting and cultural facilities. Several McKay families lived at Sunshine including Hugh Victor’s until he moved to a grand mansion, “Rupertswood”, near Sunbury.
The Sunshine Harvester Works was the largest manufacturing company in Australia by the 1920s with buildings extending over 12 hectares. By this stage it was making a wide range of agricultural machines and continued to innovate and invest. Henry Victor ruled the organisation as a director with absolute control which continued until his death from lung cancer at the age of 60 on May 21st 1926. The business continued, eventually merging with that of Massey Harris.
Hugh Victor McKay paid at least one visit to Ireland. In the collection cared for by Museums Victoria is a photograph of him with a group enjoying a ride in a horse-drawn carriage somewhere in Ireland and another shows him and Mrs McKay at the Giants Causeway, County Antrim. Several photos feature HV MacKay and friends in Ireland riding in a white Lanchester touring car. It is likely that the Irish visit took place after a visit to the Western Front in 1914. Another image in the Museums Victoria collection is of him looking at the shattered remains of the medieval Wool Hall in the Belgian town of Ypres.
Hugh Victor McKay and his companions sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in Ireland circa 1912. Photograph: Museum Victoria
The HV McKay Charitable Trust, created at the time of his death, carries his name on. It offers support to community ventures in rural Australia. One of his last acts was to lay the foundation stone of the Presbyterian Church at Sunshine a few days before his death. It is situated in the HV McKay Memorial Gardens that continue to provide a pleasant amenity for the people of Sunshine.
In 1953 The Sunshine Harvester Co merged with the Canadian implement manufacturer Massey- Harris for which it had been the exclusive Australian distributor since 1930. The name changed to H. V. McKay Massey Harris Limited then in 1958 Massey Harris merged with the British tractor manufacturer Ferguson. In 1958 the name was changed again to Massey Ferguson Limited. The Ferguson tractor is embedded in Australia’s agricultural history as one of the enduring mainstays of countless farms across the country. There are plenty of little Grey Fergies and Red Fergies still in use today. When our family had the farm at Kerang I had four Red Fergies. They would be nearly 70 years old now and one that I kept was in regular use at my brother’s vineyard until three years ago when I gave it to my niece who bought a small property at Swan Hill. It is still going strong and never misses a beat.
Unfortunately the march of overseas manufacturing caught up with Massey Ferguson like it did with many other iconic Aussie manufacturers. Production at Sunshine ceased in 1986 and the whole complex was demolished in 1992 save and except some key features which are listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and still stand today.
In producing the foregoing I am indebted to Dr. Patrick Greene, CEO and Director of EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin. The EPIC Museum tells the stories of Irishmen who have emigrated and found success in foreign lands and influenced the World.
As has been reported on Gateway Pundit, The results from canvassing efforts in Arizona are now out…this is a separate exercise from the Maricopa County audit the Arizona Senate is sponsoring.
However, for all of those who knew this election was stolen, those who were ridiculed or labeled conspiracy theorists – You have been vindicated. Perhaps this is an opportunity to revisit a landmark decision handed down by the United States Supreme Court in the case of The United States versus Throckmorton.
“Gold is the primary store of value for those who mistrust the government, but silver remains the refuge of choice for most people because it is cheaper and more accessible.”
The aptly-named New York University professor William Silber wanted to title his book “Silber on Silver” – but his publisher instead had him settle for The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World. The wittiness of that remark in the acknowledgements shows the many instances of snark, irony, or amusing tales that are scattered throughout this excellent contribution to the history of monetary commodities. Always playing second fiddle to gold, silver’s status as asset and as money is as riveting as the more widely known history of gold.
It is a strange world that we live in, isn't it? There is so much that cannot be explained by " science " yet we drag out the " science " word with such ease and dismiss God with equal ease.
Marie Stopes Australia has closed four of its Queensland clinics. The clinics, located in Townsville, Rockhampton, Southport, and Newcastle employed over 40 staff and performed around 5,000 abortions annually.
Managing director Jamal Hakim described the closures as “a really difficult decision“.
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