Madness on Horseback: The Charge at Beersheba
“The tradition of man and horse is part of us. It is part of Australia.” (Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, Oct 31, 2017). Exaggerated truths […]
Politics
The serial misuse and abuse of state power
We could fix many of this country’s problems, or at least go a long way towards it, if it was not for the serial misuse […]
Australia’s dual citizen “threat”
It is mid 2015. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is under fire for not only wanting to strip Australian citizenship from dual citizens, but sole nationals […]
Chaos on Manus Island
There are standoffs, threats and continuing tensions over the imminent closure of the Manus Island Detention Centre. (The politically palatable term here is “processing centre”). […]
Turnbull government caught between crisis and catastrophe.
I don’t know what I’m doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm. Woody Allen The nation is spellbound this week as a […]
Strafing Parliament: Australia’s High Court Citizenship Ruling
And they fell like ninepins. Weeks of predictions, optimistic readings, and hopeful signs were dashed as the members of the highest court of Australia laid […]
In an astonishing display of cognitive dissonance, Matt Canavan accuses environmental activists and traditional owners of “abusing our judicial system to further a political agenda”
Matt Canavan, aka the Minister for Adani, has hit the ground running after the courts decided his Mum’s application for him to have Italian citizenship […]
Speaking truth to power
This week we have learned a lot about the way that the political media operates. That’s not to say any of us were surprised to […]
The Fatal Ambush in Niger: Challenging Military and Corporate First Solutions to Global Underdevelopment
Denis Bright invites discussion the recent fatal ambush of four members of a US special forces unit in remote Niger. Is the US Africa Command […]
Environmental Protest: Bob Brown wins in Australia
Environment activists and watchers will be detaching themselves briefly from their various points of resistance to observe the implications of a High Court decision in […]
Why can’t the nation own the NBN?
The NBN rollout has now been exposed for the debacle that it is. The ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday night saw to that. It […]
GetUp! vs the IPA
By Kyran O’Dwyer There is a ‘to-do’ over GetUp! and a pending stoush with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as to whether they are an […]
Politicians, sex, and the Press Gallery
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear to me, the Daily Telegraph decided on Saturday to publish a piece (paywalled) inferring that Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce […]
When Conspiracies Meet: Donald Trump and the JFK Files
It seems the perfect recipe, a union of minds and fates. A case, long disputed, deliberated over, conspired over, meets a modern US president who […]
Fake news – or lousy reporting
By 2353NM A few weeks ago, there was another mass murder in the USA. This time the shooter, a 64-year-old male, holed himself up on […]