Multicultural Australia: yet … still fearful of ‘others’
By ‘Outsider’ Part One … Multicultural Australia: Malcolm Turnbull’s camouflage Part Two … Multicultural Australia: but still we debate “We know that the detention centres […]
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The Westminster Bridge attack: Socio-political Perspectives of the West, and Terrorism
By Dr Strobe Driver Introduction In my last article—War in a public place: The Bastille Day attack, the strategy and tactics of Insurgencies—I stipulated ‘civilians […]
Multicultural Australia: but still we debate
By ‘Outsider’ Continued from Part 1. Multicultural Australia: Malcolm Turnbull’s camouflage In the Prime Minister’s self-comforting view, Australians “are defined not by race, religion or […]
Our digital footprints shouldn’t be used against us
Can our digital footprints and data be used to manipulate our political opinions? Yes, but it was never the intention of scientists. The irony, in […]
Multicultural Australia: Malcolm Turnbull’s camouflage
By ‘Outsider’ On 20 March 2017 the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Senator the Hon Zed Seselja released the […]
Transparency, accountability and integrity are nice words
Addressing the National Press Club two months ago about proposed reforms to the reporting of politicians’ expenses (which have not happened yet), Malcolm Turnbull said […]
How will those displaced by technology survive?
By Ad astra Twenty Twenty-Four – our Orwellian destiny? drew parallels between the disturbing prophesies in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the disquieting situation we are now […]
Fifteen reasons not to give multinational companies a tax cut
Fifteen reasons not to give multinational companies a tax cut The underlying cash balance for the 2016-17 financial year to 31 January 2017 was a […]
Australian Drug Policy: ‘hypocrisy’ is not a strong enough word
The 3.6-million-dollar study testing the sewage in our capital cities for illegal drugs is simply more disinformation and bullshit. Let’s revisit the results from this […]
Barnaby Joyce’s edible donkey skin trade beats Turnbull’s 18C freedom of speech lies.
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance […]
“Peace, love, and ice cream”
I feel sorry for George Christensen. Having so many people to hate can be really wearing. He really hates environmentalists who he describes as “gutless […]
Instead of moving mountains, just build us a real NBN
I am having trouble understanding this energy debate. For starters, we own the resources and we make the rules. Remembering that would be a good […]
Liberal senator admits 18C changes are designed to win back PHON voters
In case you did not suspect that Malcolm Turnbull’s explosion of piss and wind on Section 18C yesterday was entirely self-serving, this morning on Radio […]
‘Free Speech’ corrupted by religious politics
Brian Morris takes on the political correctness of the Left and Right in an attempt to reopen debate on Free Speech, religion vs science, and […]
Jay Weatherill speaks truth to power; Turnbull comes up with NBN 2.0
Our parents toiled to make a home hard grubbing t’was and clearing They wasn’t troubled much by lords when they was pioneering But now that we have […]