Politicians, piety, and popular public policy
By Brian Morris Why politicised religion is at odds with the public mood on contemporary social policy. There are national implications for the persistent influence […]
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Bush, Blair and Howard – Three reckless adventurers in Iraq (Part 2)
The Iraq Inquiry Report (2009-2016) documents how Tony Blair committed Great Britain to war early in 2002, lying to the United Nations, to Parliament, and […]
Bush, Blair and Howard – Three reckless adventurers in Iraq (Part 1)
The Iraq Inquiry Report (2009-2016) documents how Tony Blair committed Great Britain to war early in 2002, lying to the United Nations, to Parliament, and […]
Aaand it’s sold
By 2353NM Housing affordability is perceived to be an issue in Australia. In some areas of Australia, the median price of a house is in […]
Why voting is an exercise in futility
By Sean Hurley “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Emma Goldman Voting has not always been a pointless exercise, there was certainly a […]
Taking it back from Trump
By Richard O’Brien There are a lot of ideas bouncing around about how Donald Trump won the election. Many centre on the somewhat patronising theory […]
Who invents this cruelty?
By 2353NM In the past fortnight, the Turnbull Coalition government announced proposed legislation to ensure that each person on Manus Island or Nauru sentenced to […]
What the Trump Victory means about ‘Political Correctness’, ‘Anti-Political Correctness’ and the American Working Class
‘Political Correctness’ is a common bogey deployed by the Right in order to wedge the Left ; But here ‘Anti-Political-Correctness’ is the much bigger problem […]
Abbott and a “conservative centre-right”
By Niall McLaren Before the toreador moves in for the highly-staged kill in a bullfight, picadors and clowns taunt and humiliate the trapped animal, injuring it […]
Depopulate … or perish
By Harquebus The overpopulation problem is one that never seems to be discussed by our misleaders politicians and misinformers journalists. It is time for these shirkers […]
Trump win a loss for our cities
By Cassie Cohen As the world comes to terms with Donald Trump’s shock presidential victory, Australians are piecing together what the next four years will […]
The problem with a Trump reborn
By Anthony Element For the past twenty four hours we’ve seen right wing politicians around the world, including the Turnbull government and One Nation, rushing […]
Well, Trump me dead!
By Bob Rafto A Trump win was predicted by Professor Allan Lichtman who also predicted every presidential winner since 1984. With Professor Lichtman prediction, I thought it […]
You just elected Trump. Now what?
By Sean Hurley Here we are November 9th 2016, Trump is the big man on campus in the United States, the President Elect. Can you […]
Trump’s one potentially great idea
By Anthony Element Setting aside for a moment, the socially and morally reprehensible ideas Trump has come out with, the infrastructure comment in his acceptance […]