"What keeps us up at night is climate change." [J. Eric Smith, CEO of Swiss Re Americas. Swiss Re is the world's largest reinsurer, which insures insurers.]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." [Upton Sinclair, US writer and activist, 1878-1968]

"The stock market is an exceptionally efficient mechanism for the transfer of wealth from the impatient to the patient." [Warren Buffett]

Voices of Fadden is a community group on the North Gold Coast which aims to strengthen democracy by listening to the people https://voices-of-fadden.org/about/

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." [Jane Goodall]

"Reason is immortal, all else is mortal." [Pythagoras]

Louise Adler is an Australian of whom we can all feel proud. #auspol #FreePalestine

Truth.

"All religions united with government are inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty." [Henry Clay, US attorney and statesman, represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House, 1777-1852]

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"What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest." [Richard Nixon]

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children." [Native American Proverb]

Important to hold Morrison to account on this, but Albanese was elected nearly four full years ago now and will v soon have been PM longer than Morrison (and is the actual PM now) $173 billion of imported fuel since Albanese was elected. Fuel efficiency standards have been wildly insufficient.

Follow Voices of Fadden on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VoicesOfFadden

"Who you become is not about the traits you have. It's what you decide to do with them." [Adam Grant, US psychologist and author, b. 1981]

"Evidence is the only good reason to believe anything." [Richard Dawkins]

"There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words." [Earnest Calkins]

"When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship." [Will Durant]

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." [Jean Paul Richter]

How does preferential voting work? Here's a data visualisation using recent Fadden elections that demonstrates the process. See also Moncrieff and McPherson, the other two Gold Coast electorates. https://voices-of-fadden.org/voting/preferential-voting.php

"The greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." [Henry Miller]

"The best way to live is to be like water For water benefits all things and goes against none of them." [Lao Tzu]

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." [Albert Schweitzer]

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me." [Simone de Beauvoir]

"We’re short on wisdom; we’re high on technology. Where’s it going to lead? " [Paul MacCready]

What are our aims at Voices of Fadden? See https://voices-of-fadden.org/

"Genius always finds itself a century too early." [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

"Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." [Henry Ford]

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80." [Henry Ford]

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma." [Eartha Kitt]

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." [Harry S. Truman]

What are our aims at Voices of Fadden? See https://voices-of-fadden.org/

Tomorrow is Pi Day: Mar 14th (pi = 3.14...) #PiDay

Today is Friday the 13th. Fear of such days is called paraskavedekatriaphobia. The fear is a recent phenomenon.

"Life is a learning experience, only if you learn." [Yogi Berra]

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." [Abraham Lincoln]

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets." [Leonardo Da Vinci]

Upcoming Voices of Fadden events: https://voices-of-fadden.org/events/

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." [Alfred Mercier]

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." [BB King]

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." [James Thurber]

"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned." [Heinrich Heine]

"Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways." [Edwin Abbott Abbott]

Who did Fadden vote for in recent elections, and the Voice referendum? See this data viz. https://voices-of-fadden.org/voting/how-fadden-voted.php See also Moncrieff and McPherson, the other two Gold Coast electorates.

Observation: Right wing governments are generally poor at governance. Think Boris (COVID, Brexit, corruption), Bolsanaro (Amazon, corruption, COVID), Morrison (climate, corruption, refugees), Trump (everything).

Data visualization of regions and life expectancies: https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory (Google Public Data)

Great resource for population studies: https://www.prb.org/collections/data-sheets/

University of the People - online courses, zero tuition fee: https://www.uopeople.edu/

Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can: https://morningconsult.com/2020/01/08/can-you-locate-iran-few-voters-can/

At Kitchen Table Conversations we talk about issues like housing, cost of living and transport in a friendly setting. We have one coming up soon on the North Gold Coast. Go to https://voices-of-fadden.org/ktc/ to see details.