Politics

If you were to believe the spin coming from the department of Home Affairs [a division of Dutton’s Ministry for Deception] you would have to […]

One lesson we should all take from the Royal Commission into Insititutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse is the horrific ongoing damage caused by the […]

Everyone in the building industry will tell you the maxim to ‘measure twice and cut once’. Given the events of August 2018 in the Liberal […]

By Ad Astra The Liberal Party has a disastrous affliction. It affects many of its male members. It seems to be incurable. Those that suffer it […]

By Ad Astra There is no doubt about who was behind last week’s move to displace Malcolm Turnbull. It was the ever-vengeful and habitually destructive Tony […]

Pretending he is leading a united team, Scott Morrison handed out flag badges to remind his colleagues whose side they are on. It didn’t work. […]

Stunned silence blankets Canberra, this week, on the set of Kill Mal, the Turnbull government’s orgy of self-destruction. Even seasoned backstabbers and plotters in our […]

At times, the fight to make this world a better place can seem overwhelming. One of the most dispiriting aspects is that the struggle is […]

If anyone still held out any hope that our current government could lead this country in the right direction, that has been well and truly […]

Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much […]

By Kyran O’Dwyer The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document that should be studied and taught at every school, until its sentiment is second […]

It seems obvious to say that, if you ignore, or worse still, reward bad behaviour, you set yourself up for future problems.  Parents know that.  […]

By Kyran O’Dwyer No. Seriously. WTF just happened? In a week when metaphors have been stretched and tortured to make analogies, which have been further […]

By Ad astra During my childhood, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows was my favourite book. A. A. Milne turned it into a play: Toad of Toad […]

Who would have thought? An illegal vessel has made it to the Australian mainland. After all the boasting, the chest beating and bragging by the […]