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		<title>It&#8217;s good to see Judith Sloan moving into comedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s good to see Judith Sloan (Productivity Commission and Australian Fair Pay Commission Commissioner, Director of the Westfield Group and Board member of the Lowy Institute) moving into comedy: In the Weekend Australian (Nov. 26-7), she writes, &#8230;in a perfect world, the ideal arrangement is for employers and employees to reach agreement about wages and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/11/its-good-to-see-judith-sloan-has-moved-into-comedy/</link>
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		<title>VECCI and Bolt on Baiada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of strike action against Baiada Poultry Pty Ltd, from Wednesday 9 November Baiada workers and their supporters set up a picket line to block access to Baiada&#8217;s Pipe Rd processing plant in Laverton. On Thursday 17 November the Supreme Court of Victoria issued an interim injunction against the ‘National Union of Workers [NUW] [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/11/vecci-and-bolt-on-baiada/</link>
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		<title>A public healthcare system could eliminate the US deficit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky has recently claimed, repeatedly, that the US moving to a publicly funded healthcare system would provide sufficient savings to eradicate the current US deficit. In what follows I show why his claim is plausible.]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/11/a-public-healthcare-system-could-eliminate-the-us-deficit/</link>
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		<title>Why we don&#8217;t need God (in ethics)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following was delivered at the May 2011 Paideia Australia Philosophy Caf&#233;. Introduction and disclaimer 0.1 I&#8217;ll focus on ethics Tonight, as the title of my talk indicates, I will argue that we don&#8217;t need God. And I will specifically discuss why we don&#8217;t need God in ethics. Ethics deals with the question of how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/11/why-we-dont-need-god-in-ethics/</link>
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		<title>What do Occupy Melbourne want?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do Occupy Melbourne want? Better political representation]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/10/what-do-occupy-melbourne-want/</link>
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		<title>Advance Australia Fair (Skinned)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little revision of the national anthem&#8217;s first verse is inspired by Australian politics and is dedicated to the Queen&#8217;s visit&#8212;a suitable occasion for discussing Australia&#8217;s identity &#8230; moving forward. Advance Australia Fair (Skinned) Australia is a barren land, Where bogans can be free; With iron ore and coal from soil; We&#8217;ll all drive HSVs; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/10/advance-australia-fair-skinned/</link>
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		<title>Are political obligations always moral? A Hobbesian rumination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard K Dagger opens his very good Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on political obligation with the following claim: To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws of one&#8217;s country or state. On that point there is almost complete agreement among political philosophers. There are two problems with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/10/are-political-obligations-always-moral/</link>
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		<title>Political obligation: of subjects and men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In forming his theory of political obligation, Thomas Hobbes deliberately distinguishes between men and subjects. For example, Hobbes argues that a man can resist any attempt by the sovereign to kill him and any command issued by the sovereign that he kill or injure himself (Leviathan, ch. XXI). This seems to contradict the point Hobbes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/09/political-obligation-of-subjects-and-men/</link>
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		<title>VC proposes changes to parking at Deakin University in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief look at the proposed changes to parking at Deakin University in 2012]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/08/vc-proposes-changes-to-parking-at-deakin-university-in-2012/</link>
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		<title>An ode to sociopaths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mighty figure must trample many an innocent flower underfoot, and destroy much that lies in its path.]]></description>
		<link>http://thelydianmode.com/2011/07/an-ode-to-sociopaths/</link>
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