How serious are we about protecting children?
In Liberal MP Stuart Robert’s maiden speech he said “Children are 100 per cent of the future of every nation. We have a responsibility to […]
Politics
Malcolm Roberts: defining his nonsense
By Dr Meredith Doig New One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has been known to sign legal documents as ‘Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul’, representing a […]
Get used to it, Malcolm – Murdoch is losing his grip
Last Friday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull took time out of his busy(?) schedule to launch a book written by Chris Mitchell, former chief editor of […]
Do politicians make you sick?
By Ad astra I expect most of you would answer with a resounding YES. They make us sick when they lie, break promises, assail us […]
Psychiatry as Bullshit
By Niall McLaren Is it possible for a modern medical specialty to be little more than what people in the street call bullshit? As scary […]
The insidious influence of the church on the state
Considering only 9% of the population attend church regularly, they seem very over-represented in our Parliament. David Marr offers some reasons for this. “We’re a very […]
The Agony of West Papua for Australian Foreign Policy
In the preoccupation of Australia’s LNP leaders with far-off diplomatic challenges, local regional issues of human rights problems in West Papua are well off the […]
Federal Parliament moving backwards in promoting better representation of Asian Australians
By Erin Chew, Convener for the Asian Australian Alliance. Monday the 8th February 2016, was meant to be a momentous occasion for The Hon. Phillip […]
Politics Driven Fear and the Pain it Brings
A need fed by fear driven politics is causing a loss of focus and it is causing a lot of pain.
The so-called Senator
Earlier this week, in response to a request by One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts, innovation and science minister Greg Hunt set up a meeting between the […]
Neo-liberal Groupthink Triumphs Again
New Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe appeared before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics last week and delivered the RBA Annual Report 2015 […]
The Shit Media Storm
What I’ve witnessed in the last 28 hours, as South Australian has been experiencing the most severe weather event the Bureau of Meteorology says we […]
Review Signals the Beginning of the End for Bible Classes
By Hugh Harris The recent Queensland government review of the “Connect” Religious Instruction (RI) materials bring to light several reasons why, ultimately, faith-based classes will […]
All they want is a chance
To the politicians of Australia, Let’s simplify the debate here. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed people just want a chance to work. Children just want […]
Are governments ready for the coming economic and social changes?
By Ken Wolff In 1930 John Maynard Keynes predicted widespread technological unemployment ‘due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning […]