Donation transparency
By Dr Martha Knox-Haly and John Haly. The Australian government’s increasing corruption is both measurable and comparable with other sovereign states. Trends in fluctuating Transparency […]
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New research puts Australia at forefront of blue carbon economy
Edith Cowan University Media Release In world-first research, Edith Cowan University researchers and an international team of collaborators have accurately quantified the amount of greenhouse […]
Sunny Days Ahead in China Beyond the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC?
By Denis Bright Most of China basks in perfectly warm weather for the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC. It would be remiss […]
They’re only children
Malala Yousafzai was barely 11 years old when she began championing girls’ education, speaking out in TV interviews. The Taliban had overrun her home town […]
When Convenience Counts: Leaking, Whistleblowing and the Democrats
The entire Trump presidency has been a sequence of “watch this space” moments. Dismissals and political executions; attacks and distractions; gestures of deal making and […]
Your input is valuable
By 2353NM Since 2015, Australian telecommunications providers have been required to keep the metadata relating to your and my electronic conversations, internet searches, text messages, […]
Per capita or not per capita – what is the question?
Nothing exemplifies the government’s dishonest spin more starkly than their switching to per capita measurements and back again, depending, not on which is the most […]
And I thought Tony Abbott could lie!
A. In my view Tony Abbott still wears the crown of the greatest liar ever to have soiled the plush red carpets of the House […]
Scott Morrison’s China Thesis
China has rattled Western observers for centuries, and the idea that it might be approaching a level of formidable heft is troubling to those who, […]
Scott Morrison is giving me climate anxiety
As the government tries to convince children that they are unnecessarily anxious about climate change, and Pacific leaders that we are ‘stepping up’ by being […]
Railroaded by the Judges: Boris Johnson fails in the UK Supreme Court
It delighted Labour supporters and party apparatchiks who had been falling over each other in murderous ceremony at the party conference in Brighton: Prime Minister […]
Domestic Politics Abroad in the Name of Official State Visits: Updating Australian Values on the Run at Partisan Events in the Trump Era
By Denis Bright Endorsement of the moral purpose and manifest destiny of the Trump Administration throughout the Prime Minister’s tour of the USA is not […]
Scott Morrison: Prime Minister of Australia and other bullshit
With conservative governments one only needs to leave one’s fingers off the keyboards for a day or two and the gloom of their governance seems […]
Tempered Emergency: The Climate Change Summit in New York
It had a good deal of desperate scolding. Sweden’s Greta Thunberg assumed the role of punishing advocate, a Joan of Arc of fury. The main […]
The hazard of heedless politicians
By Ad astra No, ‘heedless’ is not a misprint; nor should it have been ‘headless’, although some might prefer that descriptor with poultry overtones! ‘Heedless’ […]