When all else fails – dogwhistle
By 2353NM Religious organisations have been getting a bad rap in Australia recently, thanks to the Royal Commission that investigated serial abuse of children and […]
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Australian Politics after the Spill: Far Less Than Generational Change
By Denis Bright In the populist traditions of the federal LNP, the political ascendancy of Scott Morrison is being steered along by most of the […]
Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivers immediate drought relief, delivering rain in NSW & Queensland
A satirical post by Alan Nicholas Hitting the ground running, the 30th Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison delivers on his “immediate priority” to fix the […]
Population: It’s the environment, stupid
By William Bourke Australia has a rich history of migration, with around 7 million permanent migrants calling Australia home in the 20th century alone. That’s 70,000 […]
NEG – guarantees nothing
By Stephen Fitz All the debate, all the policy, all the smoke screens and diversion, all the pain and all the suffering inflicted on energy […]
Don’t feed the trolls
By 2353NM Ever since Internet blogs allowed comments, there has been a particularly nasty, vile group of people that visit the comments sections of blogs, […]
Human qualities v animal behaviour
By Stephen Fitz Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men? It was in comic books and Marvel movies and there was mention […]
An open letter to Andrew Bolt
By Christian Marx Once again, the shrill cries from Andrew Bolt can be seen in his latest crusade for “free” speech. According to his warped […]
Emma Husar – Yet another institutional failure
By John Tons By now most Australians will have moved on from the Emma Husar episode. For those who managed to miss it – here […]
Beware of rabid zealots
By Ad astra Let’s remind ourselves of the meaning of ‘zealot’. Historically, it denoted a member of a fanatical sect in Judea during the first […]
Sorry, IPA
By 2353NM Australia is still having the discussion on the benefits of waste reduction and until recently it was considered economically rational to send semi-trailers […]
Britain’s Novichok Poisoning Incidents: Opportunities to Revive Glasnost?
By Denis Bright In the absence of new leads in the bizarre poisoning cases involving the Novichok nerve agent in Britain, the intensity of reporting […]
Has Australia become a nation of crooks?
By Ad astra I’ve been an Australian for a long while now. I always thought that Aussies were a decent bunch, wedded to the notion […]
A business as usual approach to climate change
By Keith Antonysen Previously, whenever climate scientists have talked about the ills created by climate change they have spoken about the end of the century as […]
The need for a fairer voting reform
By Callen Sorensen Karklis Recently it occurred to me that I needed to update my enrolment details to vote, as I’ve just recently moved for study […]