Hordes of illiterates
By Ad astra If you had to pick a minister to deliver a nasty message, you would not go past Peter Dutton, master of cruel […]
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Sydney’s Lock-out Laws: The Death of Nightlife and Tourism
By Oliver Clarke Australia’s a flawed land; a place of construction and destruction, sometimes in the same day. Sometimes in the same place. Sydney is […]
Dead cats and reset buttons
Let’s not give further oxygen to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s nonsensical, bigoted and racist comment the other day regarding refugees coming to this country, taking […]
Top hats versus hard hats
By Ad astra Now that the official election campaign has entered its second week, it’s time to assess how each of the major political parties […]
The barbie bigot is back: on Turnbull
By Ken Wolff I previously took Brandis’s advice that we have a right to be a bigot an’ had a go at our last PM, […]
Medical ice age: big freeze continues
By Ken Wolff In a previous piece I asked why the freeze on Medicare rebates, that has been in effect since November 2012, was not […]
Oh, Malcolm, you are true to form
By Mark Clifford Does the name Godwin Grech ring a bell with anyone? Of late I have been saying and writing such profound words like […]
The Income Divide in Australia: The Return of Class-Based Politics?
By Denis Bright For the first time in generations, issues about social class are intruding into the 2016 election agenda. Barnaby Joyce made an unintended […]
Agile and Innovative – the New Reality
By Steve Laing I suspect that if any commentator were to pick an example of the new agile and innovative economy, they’d probably suggest Uber […]
The campaign bus
By 2353NM So who’s enjoying the current federal election campaign? The television stations certainly are as they are boosting their revenue by the second through […]
The reality of Manus Island
By Behrouz Boochani This is my answer to Peter Michael whose article (now behind a paywall) in The Herald Sun quoted Immigration Minister Peter Dutton: […]
Slavery in Modern Australia
By Jennifer Ellem The LNP and its leader are now officially worse than the despotic Roman Emperor Caligula when it comes to social welfare for the populace and […]
‘Big Bedroom’ Events Challenged
Written by Hayley Solich for Kath Mazzella OAM I am standing at the MCG … surrounded by a football field of women who are living […]
Changesnothing.org
By Sir Scotchmistery I just got another of those constant refrains from Change.Org asking me to support Mrs Whoever about the whatever thing of the […]
Rest in Peace
Rest in Peace, another few hundred thousand Australian workers and their families. Labor Senator Kim Carr today fails to deliver for the Australian automotive industry, […]