Donald Weatherburn
@DonWeatherburn
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Professor. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. University of New South Wales. You think research is expensive? Try fashioning policy without it.
Sydney
Joined December 2020
And this little boy sold for $9000 at the Alice Springs show!.
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They make the roosters big and beautiful in Alice Springs
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RT @DocAtCDI: ICE officers stopped by our farm yesterday. “We need to inspect your property for illegal aliens,” one of them said. I repl….
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Most of the econometric work I’ve seen or participated in indicates that risk of apprehension is far more important as a deterrent than risk of imprisonment. I reviewed the studies here.
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RT @fraveris: “When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”. Paulo Coelho
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Here is a very interesting model of the effect of police on crime.
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Musk can’t be that smart cozying up to Trump. Perhaps he understands machines better than he understands people. Like a lot of men.
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Warning! There’s a book on Amazon with the title ‘The Deficit Myth’ the author of which appears to Stephanie Kelton. In fact the book is written by two other authors about ‘Frequently asked Questions’. A scam if ever I saw one, and I fell for it.
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I suppose Otzi, the iceman must have thought the world was an unforgiving place, but I can’t help but think our world is far less forgiving than his.
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I’m no accountant or economist but surely at some point there will be a reckoning with the spiralling US debt.
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It’s inclusive to have a welcome to country at the start of a conference. It’s irritating and meaningless when every white speaker at a conference stands up and feels the need to offer a welcome to country.
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The Trump administration resembles the Catholic church in the Middle Ages in its attempt to suppress science and rational enquiry.
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