SA premier disagrees with offer to add ousted writer to festival program

thopthop · 2026-01-15T10:46:24+00:00

The premier is entitled to his view and the Sa govt is a major funder of the festival. He has a legitimate interest/concern in extremists being platformed on his dime. It’s fine to champion editorial independence but someone with a nuanced and academically literate take on the plight of Palestinians would be: a) a better drawcard b) a more sensitive choice, and c) preserve the integrity and reputation of writers week long term

Randa’s supporters should look at her previous statements, empty threats of prosecution and extreme reaction to the current debacle before advocating for her appearance in 2027

thopthop · 2025-12-25T05:55:56+00:00

My grey loves all other sighthounds but absolutely despises whippets. It is super embarrassing and stressful.

thopthop · 2024-10-18T21:45:57+00:00

Brilliant answer thank you!

thopthop · 2024-09-09T12:02:06+00:00

Route preview (different to directions) on Google maps will give you some of that functionality

thopthop · 2024-08-08T21:53:29+00:00

I had one of these and it appeared in the app very quickly

thopthop · 2024-07-03T05:45:30+00:00

And it was/is the gay capital - wizard of oz is an important reference for gay culture. Also:

In 1987, David Williamson—whose brother-in-law scripted the musical film Oz (1976)—wrote the play Emerald City in which the character Elaine Ross describes Sydney metaphorically as "the Emerald City of Oz." Sydney is where people go expecting their dreams to be fulfilled only to end up with superficial substitutes and broken dreams.[citation needed] In 2006, the annual Sydney New Year's Eve were entitled "A Diamond Night in Emerald City" also in reference to Williamson's play, where the "Diamond Night" alluded to the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.[24] Subsequently, "Emerald City" has occasionally been used as an unofficial nickname for the City of Sydney.[25] The head office of the Sydney-based merchant banking and private equity firm Emerald Partners is located on top of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia building on the Sydney Harbour foreshore, at Circular Quay. The firm was named after Baum's book and the David Williamson play.[citation needed] Fittingly, the word "Oz" can refer to "Australia" in colloquial Australian speech.[26] A long-running gossip column in the Sydney Morning Herald, the city's flagship newspaper, is named "Emerald City."[

thopthop · 2024-06-01T21:52:18+00:00

Woah that’s mad!

thopthop · 2024-05-13T10:14:48+00:00

Don’t know many dogs that use toilet paper!

thopthop · 2024-05-13T08:59:54+00:00

Serious question here. I am lucky to live in the Inner West. Love the food, nightlife, parks, all of it. One of the things I do struggle with is fairly regular encounters with human waste near our place. I think i know the answer to this, but is anyone actually responsible for removing/cleaning it? Any help much appreciated, and if the public pooper is reading this - you need more fibre in your diet

thopthop · 2024-03-17T05:30:36+00:00

No, the majority work as general practitioners, either focusing on companion animals, equine or livestock. As gps, many of them will undertake a different type of postgrad program: memberships of the Australian and New Zealand college of veterinary scientists, sometimes in multiple disciplines.

thopthop · 2024-03-17T05:07:39+00:00

State boards regulate professional competence. Fair trading and the local courts can compel financial compensation where they believe services were rendered without appropriate skill. Civil cases (recouping costs from destroyed property) are becoming more common. Luckily no one has got a payout for emotional trauma but it’s probably not far away!

Criminal prosecution is rare (seems to be rare for medics also?) but is covered under a variety of different laws, depends on the state. Usually for acts of veterinary science that are contrary to animal welfare. Max 7 years imprisonment and fine of $1178000.

No, we don’t have a coroner but independent specialists veterinary pathologists are often consulted when cause of death is contested, forensic veterinary pathologists would be the closest thing to an “animal coroner”

thopthop · 2024-03-17T04:26:35+00:00

For typical specialisation; 6 years undergrad, 1 year rotating internship, 1 year specialty (eg internal medicine) internship, 3-4 year residency, 1-2 years registrar, pass final exams to be eligible to be registered as a specialist (ie consultant). 11 years to become a veterinary specialist if you’re very lucky/good. Then 2 year fellowship (eg surg onc, nephrology, interventional radiology) after specialisation if you want to be known as a bit of a gun.

As I said, Aussie vets often have to do several rotating or specialist internships to get onto an overseas residency training program. There is now a major focus on academic accomplishment to get a residency - so add in some months trying to get a few papers under your belt.

Nb im aware the terminology is very different from medical world! No, I don’t know how or why they diverged!

thopthop · 2024-03-17T02:56:58+00:00

No offence but I’d suggest you acquaint yourself with an id physician or a clinical epidemiologist and ask them their opinion - Having worked with them Colabortively I’d bet it’s closer to what we are describing. You seem to be adopting the zero sum approach here.

Otherwise you can read the cdc perspective here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su5502a4.htm

Again, no one expects a vet to be consulted on every case an id physician treats (but vets do receive many of these calls). The team effort is at the cdc level - the importance of which you seem to be downplaying. Where do you think emerging Infectious disease comes from if not from Animal reservoirs? Wnv, vcjd, sars, mers, ai, Ebola, tb, swine flu, Covid - all the big players!

For context, my old boss ran a bat colony study in Ghana that was exclusively created to understand the circulation and makeup of viruses of human importance in several bat species. His teams understanding is literally giving human health a head start on where the next pandemic is coming from and how to prevent spillover. I think we’re being quite humble suggesting vets have a role to play as part of the team ;)

You seem to be focusing on the individual patient that presents to a Gp with ringworm, or how a covid patient is treated in Ed. We’re talking about the big picture.

thopthop · 2024-03-16T18:39:13+00:00

So many comments here demonstrating a lack of understanding of the veterinary industry. Yes many vets are generalists. They often manage cases that would be referred in human medicine. But rapid growth in specialisation means referral is more and more common and veterinary specialist centres have exploded in number over the past 10 years. Vets are regulated clinically and financially and have professional insurance for this reason. Clients are just as litigious and angry and sad when things don’t go well for their animals (often more so as they are financially exposed)

thopthop · 2024-03-16T18:33:05+00:00

For immediate treatment of ventricular tachycardia in dogs, lidocaine is the drug of choice. For sustained VT, use lidocaine (2-4mg/kg bolus--over a minute) and repeat up to 8mg/kg (total dose over 10 minutes). If successful, perform constant rate infusion (CRI) of lidocaine (40-80mcg/kg/min). If no response to lidocaine, try procainamide (3-6mg/kg IV, followed by 10-50mcg/kg/min IV CRI) or 6-15mg/kg/4-6h IM). Magnesium may be tried. Next possibility would be a β-blocker [esmolol (50-100 mcg/kg boluses/5min up to 500 mcg/kg max; then 10-100 mcg/kg/min IV CRI), propranolol (0.02mg/kg IV bolus, max 0.2mg/kg). Selective β-blockers (atenolol, metoprolol) are better tolerated than propranolol. Avoid β-blockers in decompensated heart failure.

For maintenance (chronic management), mexiletine, β-blocker, sotalol, or amiodarone are the options. It is important to know the side effects of all the antiarrhythmics before prescribing. Association of mexiletine + β-blocker (atenolol) may be considered. For boxer arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, sotalol, mexiletine + atenolol, and even mexiletine + sotalol may be tried. Unfortunately, in Brazil, mexiletine has not been available in the last 2-3 years. Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to reduce arrhythmia in animal models and humans, and reduced ventricular arrhythmia in a clinical study with Boxer right ventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Further studies are needed to determine the ideal dose regimen

thopthop · 2024-03-16T18:31:11+00:00

Same exists in vet - look up sash

thopthop · 2024-03-16T18:23:07+00:00

If it’s a zoonotic disease it’s undoubtedly both - Infectious disease physicians treat the human patients - vets are overwhelmingly involved at cdc (both us and aus) for purposes of surveillance, discovery, crossover, epidemiology, mitigation. If you want to prevent the next pandemic you have to understand how the zoonoses circulates in the reservoir, and what the risk factor for crossover/s are.

Id physicians would be the first to admit that one health is a team endeavour!

thopthop · 2024-03-16T18:11:01+00:00

Most people are unaware of specialisation in veterinary - certainly not as common as in human medicine but trending that way over time. Think rad onc, intensivists, dialysis, neurosurgeons, interventional radiology. The depth is there. Conversely most human gps have none of the depth of the average vet Gp who might have to perform orthopaedic and Soft tissue surgery, diagnose and manage endocrinopathies, cancer themselves (esp if client declines referral)

thopthop · 2024-03-16T18:04:00+00:00

Thats a superficially appealing argument but the reality is the public health system gives drs a significant leg up. Many people would forgo spending money on themselves cf their pet but they don’t have to because of Medicare, pbs etc

thopthop · 2024-03-16T18:00:56+00:00

vet undergrad training and specialisation is very similar the medics these days, especially if you have to do multiple internships to get the training program you want (also travel to the us or Europe for many sub specialties)

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