Remember the humble Choko?
When I was a kid many Australian people had the humble Choko growing on their fence. You could use it as an added vegetable when […]
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Despots and Disease: Gossiping over Kim Jong-Un
Illness can often fall into the category of the obsessive, becoming a sport for mugs, sufferers and observers alike. The following often feature: the hypochondriac, […]
Treacherous Accommodations: Australian Universities, Coronavirus and the NTEU
They have been struggling to keep their membership numbers healthy, but the latest antics of the executive that make up Australia’s National Tertiary Education Union […]
An Odd Little Commemoration: ANZAC Mythology during Coronavirus
War commemorations nurse a dirty secret, though it is one displayed with a peacock flourish. The victors bring out the celebratory paraphernalia and talk about […]
Climbing the Revenue Mountain: Google, Facebook and the Publishers’ Right
They are rather good at raking in the cash; rather poor at sharing it. Google and Facebook have radiated, strafed and shrivelled hundreds of news […]
Settling Scores: Malcolm Turnbull’s Smaller Picture
Memoirs can be unreliable artefacts. They feature fiercely subjective views, reflections tempered, or hardened, by the passage of time. They tend to be of lives […]
The Zoom Interviews
With Parliament suspended and many MPs in isolation (no, not the protection wing at Long Bay. Yet) there’s not been any coverage of how most […]
Cutting the Funding: The WHO, Trump and Coronavirus Wars
The US president is in a warring mood. Having declared himself a president at war, a meaningless gesture given that the US is always, somewhere […]
The real threat from future pandemics
By Dr John Töns The approval by the World Health Organization to re-open the so-called Chinese ‘wet markets’ has managed to thoroughly baffle many Australians. […]
The Fire Fauci Brigade
The intemperate volcano that is the US President has done much to burn its way through prominent appointments. As the title of former GOP strategist […]
Hell is Other People: Pandemic Lifestyles and Domestic Violence
In No Exit, the translated title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, Huis Clos, three deceased characters find themselves in a room, ostensibly in Hell, in what […]
Worshiping and Defiling Britain’s NHS
Tories worshipping Britain’s National Health System are akin to fanatical carnivores who suddenly extol the virtues of vegans. Has the grave response to COVID-19 signalled […]
Julian Assange: One Year in Belmarsh
It should not be a matter of distinction, but Julian Assange is a figure who is becoming the apotheosis of political imprisonment. This seems laughable […]
The Coronavirus State: New Zealand and Authoritarian Rumblings
It’s all about the lever of balance. Laws made for public protection, within which public health features prominently, provide grounds for derogation authorities can exploit. […]
A Victory for the Fogeys: Bernie Sanders Drops Out
Champagne corks will be popping in the Trump Empire, for good reason. Whatever happens come November, the exit of Senator Bernie Sanders from the US […]