It’s fitting that the same society that produced George Orwell with his…
On 15 March 2018, the head of the Australian Border Force, Commissioner…
Every year, Australia sends two federal politicians for a three-month secondment to…
Scott Morrison is Australia’s first Pentecostal prime minister. He is a member…
By John HalyHow is it that recent parliamentary bloodletting over tax breaks and…
More Dams for the Northern Food-bowls: Achievable Policies or Pre-Election Hype? Preamble to the…
Many of us were disenchanted with Malcolm Turnbull, but Scott Morrison is completely…
By Brian MorrisAustralia has already been described as a ‘soft theocracy’. The question…
On 15 March 2018, the head of the Australian Border Force, Commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg was sacked. It was a curious case. Quaedvlieg had allegedly changed internal recruitment policy to help his girlfriend get a casual, low level administrative job at Sydney Airport and failed to disclose the relationship. Yet for…
Recently there has been a lot of commentary about the Big Dry. From news.com.au to the 7:30 report to your nearest Facebook page and a dozen appeals for corporations and individuals to contribute to "drought relief" efforts, the winter of 2018 is full of stories of struggling farmers and dying animals.…
'Enough is Enough'….All consumers and psychologists in Australia deserve equal access to Medicare!The following is reproduced with permission from the Australian Psychologists' communityrun petition which calls for all consumers and psychologists in Australia to have equal access to Medicare.Please read the below and sign the petition here."Access to mental health…
Every now and then The Australian Financial Review has an article that gives me a good laugh.Ok, it's behind a…
It’s fitting that the same society that produced George Orwell with his warnings of a totalitarian dystopia stacked with all-prying…
Every year, Australia sends two federal politicians for a three-month secondment to observe and work with the established Australian Mission…
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Scott Morrison is Australia’s first Pentecostal prime minister. He is a member of the Horizon Church in Sutherland, which is…
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Many of us were disenchanted with Malcolm Turnbull, but Scott Morrison is completely wrong about why.The majority of the population agreed…
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By Brian MorrisAustralia has already been described as a ‘soft theocracy’. The question is, despite the public showing less religiosity, will…
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Every now and then The Australian Financial Review has an article that gives me a good laugh.Ok, it's behind a…
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Breaking news....well kind of.Company linked to alleged foreign bribery conspiracy in Nauru received $2.5m Australian government contractShock horror. Our AFP…
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By Stephen FitzAll the debate, all the policy, all the smoke screens and diversion, all the pain and all the…
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Humans are a funny species. They create settlements along fault lines that, on moving, can create catastrophe, killing thousands. They…
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By Keith AntonysenPreviously, whenever climate scientists have talked about the ills created by climate change they have spoken about the end…
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The Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) submission to the Commonwealth Government’s Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) review is an astonishing attempt to…
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Media ReleaseThe protests in the week ending 22/7/18 (involving over 90 groups) rolled across regional Australia and mostly focused on…
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By Christian MarxAustralia is rapidly going down the toilet. Stagnating wages, chronic unemployment and increasingly tenuous work has resulted in…
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It’s fitting that the same society that produced George Orwell with his warnings of a totalitarian dystopia stacked with all-prying…
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By John HalyHow is it that recent parliamentary bloodletting over tax breaks and electricity pricing continues to detract from steady planetary…
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More Dams for the Northern Food-bowls: Achievable Policies or Pre-Election Hype? Preamble to the Discussion of Australia’s Northern DevelopmentThe 2013 federal election…
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By George TheodoridisIt is a case -as it bloody nearly always is- of relevance deprivation and diminution, thanks mainly to the…
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By Stephen FitzIn L.A., I dropped in on friends of friends and the first greeting was “Oh, you’re from the…
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By Stephen FitzI’m as deaf as a post but I hear the call “We want justice”. Here’s another little problem…
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