If you were starting from scratch wanting to build an ideal society,…
Forget any notions of juicy carrots; the stick approach of savage punishment…
The longer the Coalition remain in power, the greater their arrogance and…
By TBS Newsbot Gladys Berejiklian managing to resign in disgrace, face the ICAC…
Over the last few days, there has been a full court press…
A few days ago, I was tempted to write a scathing piece about Adam Bandt's response to Labor's 43% target. You know the sort of thing, point out that complaining that Labor wasn't going hard enough and how well that's worked as a strategy over the past few years. Like…
University of South Australia Media Release Flashback to the summer of 2019/20 when horrendous bushfires burnt 18.6 million hectares in Australia, killing 34 people, one billion animals, and damaging thousands of properties. Two years down the track, could we potentially be facing another disastrous fire season in the months ahead? Perhaps. But what…
Refugee crises are often manufactured by governments. They can be done at the source: war, famine, rapacious institutions. They can also be manufactured by the refusal of governments to accept those seeking asylum, sanctuary and refuge. The latter is very much in evidence in Europe: governments of the European Union are…
A few days ago, I was tempted to write a scathing piece about Adam Bandt's response to Labor's 43% target.…
If you were starting from scratch wanting to build an ideal society, what would you include? My thinking on these…
The longer the Coalition remain in power, the greater their arrogance and disregard for our institutions grows. I don’t expect any…
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By Ad astra It’s becoming alarming. Every day our Prime Minister becomes more verbose, more shouty, more insistent. The old-fashioned word…
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By TBS Newsbot Gladys Berejiklian managing to resign in disgrace, face the ICAC and bag a better job is emblematic of…
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Over the last few days, there has been a full court press by senior Liberals to get Gladys Berejiklian to…
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Scott Morrison’s reaction to the Kate Jenkins’ review was to make it very clear that it wasn’t just his side…
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By John Haly Predictably the crises of climate change and the pandemic highlighted deficits in health services, markets, welfare and education.…
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Words can provide sharp traps, fettering language and caging definitions. They can also speak to freedom of action and permissiveness.…
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By Andrew Wicks While Malcolm Turnbull routinely advocates for climate change, we should not forget what he did and failed to…
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By Darrell Egan Continental Europe and China share a single landmass and the effort for both parties on a strategy to…
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Nazdana Sultanfar lives in Afghanistan. Below is a letter she wrote to our Prime Minister asking that her country and…
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Law Council of Australia Media Release While the Law Council of Australia strongly supports the intent of the Family Law Amendment…
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This has been a fantasy of Danish governments for some time. There have been gazes of admiration towards countries like…
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If you were starting from scratch wanting to build an ideal society, what would you include? My thinking on these…
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Forget any notions of juicy carrots; the stick approach of savage punishment is in vogue with the Greek government in…
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Stick to the script: owe that duty of care to your population, so the legal experts in government tell you.…
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The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the…
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Another fault line has opened in the mining wars. In Serbia, resistance is gathering steam against various deals made between…
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Get the Marines ready. Store the supplies. Marshal the allies. The United States is getting ready for war (the preferable…
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While it may be fair for us, the hoi polloi, to address insults to our politicians because they are unequal…
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By Jim McIntosh Of course, we always knew that Morrison is a liar. A congenital liar who even lies when it's…
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Back when Gough Whitlam won the election a few of us guys from the local football club went along to…
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