Seeking the Post-COVID Sunshine: Marching4Justice
By Denis Bright The mobilization by Australia’s womenfolk on Monday 15 March was a real turning point in Australian social history. SBS and other news […]
Politics
Living with our ‘transactional’ prime minister
By Ad astra Writing in The New Daily, it was Dennis Atkins who drew our attention to the notion that we had a ‘transactional’ Prime Minister. […]
Matters of Communication: Handelsblatting the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine
The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is fast becoming a subject of notoriety. First, will States obtain it? Second, will they use it? The first answer has […]
Seeking the Post-COVID Sunshine: Crossing Old Divides Through Critical Journalism
By Denis Bright As it is my 75h birthday on 13 March 2021 – today – I will take this opportunity to remind readers of […]
The trouble with being privileged is that you cannot fathom what it is like for those who are not
When Linda Reynolds and Christian Porter shed public tears, it was not for a young employee who had allegedly been raped in your workplace by […]
The damage Morrison has done to survivors is incalculable
Warning: discusses rape, child sexual abuse, and sexual assault. It is damnably difficult to single out any aspect of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to […]
What Morrison’s “exoneration” of Porter tells women
Prime Minister Scott Morrison today declared that he considers alleged rapist and federal Attorney General Christian Porter to be “an innocent man under our law.” […]
It takes a spark
By 2353NM Former Prime Minister and Donald Trump wannabe Tony Abbott bobbed up again in the media recently. Apparently our world class response to COVID-19, […]
Dob in a bludger
By John Haly Morrison announcement of “permanently increasing the rate of working-age payments by $50 a fortnight from 1 April 2021” received a lacklustre response. The Australian reporting about the lead-up to […]
Both must go, or Morrison will pay the price for eight years of scandals
It is true that in law Christian Porter has no case to answer. To be brutally honest, it is now non-existent. The criminal case against Porter […]
We’re not advocating violence or revolution … yet
When Martyn Iles, the head of the Australian Christian Lobby, recently suggested at a Church and State Conference in Brisbane that society would not be […]
The Irony of Political and Religious Power
By Brian Morris Politics and religion have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship since Christianity became the Church of Rome in the 4th century. The legacy continues […]
“I’m the Prime Minister.” Really, Mr Morrison?
*CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape “I’m the Prime Minister…” Scott Morrison Despite its multi-gabled slate roof and ornate, white bargeboards, “rustic gothic” harbourside mansion, […]
Can the Libs come up with someone even worse than Morrison? History says they will
When discourse between fair-minded people turns to speculation as to who has been Australia’s most appalling Prime Minister there are four names that are consistently […]
Brawling over Vaccines: Export Bans and the EU’s Bungled Rollout
The European Union has been keeping up appearances in encouraging the equitable distribution of vaccines to combat SARS-CoV-2 and its disease, COVID-19. Numerous statements speak […]