Border Protection Hypocrisy
Come by boat and you will be denied entry to Australia for ever, but if you come by plane, it’s okay. This is the bizarre […]
Politics
Morrison’s Bluff
Back in September 2014 a young man died in a Brisbane hospital after he had contracted a leg infection on Manus Island where he had […]
Our politics is not reality TV
“Politics is not a reality television show,” scowls ScoMo, in a cameo piece to camera, Thursday, in the “most hysterical presser in our nation’s political […]
The people have spoken
By Stephen Fitzgerald The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer! With record corporate profits as wages stagnate and living standards for workers plummet […]
The people are getting uppity and Scott doesn’t like it
When the crossbench moved to end the shameful practice of holding innocent people hostage in the pretence that this is a valid way to keep […]
The Security Derangement Complex: Technology Companies and Australia’s Anti-Encryption Law
Australia is being seen as a test case. How does a liberal democracy affirm the destruction of private, encrypted communications? In 2015, China demonstrated what […]
Comparative corruption and transparency
By John Haly The media and public’s desire for a Federal anti-corruption body and the search for revealing transparency has met with a lagging response by the […]
To Hope or not to Hope
For a wedding gift, Zeus gave Pandora (Allgifts, in english) an urn which contained all the ills that face humanity. Sickness and death and pain […]
Five shades of faded blue
By Ad astra How well the ancient Biblical words apply to the Coalition: ”How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle…thou wast slain […]
The Bomb that Did Not Detonate: Julian Assange, Manafort and The Guardian
“This is going to be one of the most infamous news disasters since Stern published the ‘Hitler Diaries.’” (WikiLeaks, Twitter, Nov 27, 2018). Those at […]
In Contempt of Parliament: The Legal Advice of Brexit
It is attrition, suffocation and contortion. While Theresa May’s Brexit program, weak, compromising and cobbled as it is, endures that bit longer, her opponents from […]
The Culture Wars
By 2353NM The Liberal Party cultural wars are having a detrimental effect on the rest of us. Here are two examples. Without rehashing old news, […]
Enough, enough, enough
By Andrew Elder Our Prime Minister knows the big challenges facing the country in our time are beyond him. The vital early period of his […]
Extraordinary and Reprehensible Circumstances.
In 1975, the then Whitlam Labor government, which had been in power for just three years after 23 years in opposition, was being hounded ruthlessly […]
G20 Summit in Buenos Aires: And the Winner is Common Sense
By Denis Bright Welcome to one of the negotiating triumphs of the century. This Win-Win Outcome fulfils the highest expectations of most G20 countries including […]