Lying
I don’t usually quote Rodney Adler. He’s not really my type of role model.
But he said something during the HIH Royal Commission which has stuck with me. I can’t remember the exact context but he was being cross-examined and asked about why he covered up certain financial issues or didn’t report others. His response was: he had to keep the lie alive.
That would have been about 10 years ago now and suddenly “keep the lie alive” is running through my head, particularly now I have a small child and it’s Christmas.
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PRINCETON University Professor Harry Frankfurt in 1986 wrote the highly praised thesis On Bulls—t.
It’s long, pompous - a fine example of what it’s trying to define, but I’ve taken to re-reading it during this election campaign.
The origins of the word are unclear. Some say it came from the mocking of 15th-century papal edicts called ``bulls’‘. Others believe it’s a reference to Obadiah Bull, a famously waffly Irish lawyer in the time of Henry VII.
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We have to ask ourselves which of the two courses gave the most democratic result. A double dissolution with Kevin Rudd at the head of the Labor Party or the removal of KR and taking it to the polls as Labor chose to do? I suggest the first was the… Read more »
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