Australia, Vietnam and white male supremacy
I don’t know who came up with the macabre notion of recreating the concert at which Little Pattie was performing when the Battle of Lon […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
There’s never been a better time for white men and Section 18C
Oh, that David Leyonhjelm! What a scamp he is! As you probably know, he’s making a complaint to the Human Rights Commission under Section 18C of […]
No we are not “better than this”. We are worse.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton seems to be of the opinion that because people fleeing their home countries pay “people smugglers” for passage to Australia, it […]
So they want to change 18c
Returned Senator David Leyonhjelm and new One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts both want rid of section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act. Section 18c makes […]
Pell: Nothing to see here, look over there
Cardinal George Pell has, in the face of fresh allegations of sexual abuse of children aired by ABC TV’s 7.30 Report this week, demanded a […]
The Perils of Pauline
Pauline Hanson has re-emerged as mouthpiece for the nation’s racism, going where the dog whistlers dare not venture, vocalising “what ordinary people are really thinking […]
LNP: “It’s not us, it’s them”
Caretaker Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday blamed an alleged “scare campaign” by Labor concerning LNP threats to Medicare, for the swing against the government in […]
The Marriage Act: what is it good for?
In 2004, the Howard LNP government amended the Marriage Act of 1961 to read as follows: Marriage means the union of a man and a […]
On Turnbull and stability
Turnbull relying on Australians seeking stability during a time on [sic] unrest in Europe is the headline of Malcolm Farr’s précis of the LNP election campaign launch, […]
The word that Turnbull dares not speak
I’m at a complete loss as to understand why that rasping husk of compromised humanity we’ve had inflicted on us as Prime Minister decided to […]
Politics. What is it good for?
I don’t know if there are people out there as fed up as I am with this interminable election campaign, with its interminable commentators making […]
Let them eat toast
By now, you’ve probably all heard the tale of Duncan Storrar, the man on $20,000 a year who asked assistant treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer on QandA why […]
How politicians force us to make a choice we should never have to make.
The phrase, Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite, frequently attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville but in fact coined by French counterrevolutionary Joseph de Maistre, is translated […]
Are you rational or self-interested, PM?
“We mustn’t let empathy cloud our judgement.” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged the Australian people not to get all “misty-eyed” about the fate of refugees […]
Senior DIBP official overrules medical experts yet again
The case of an African asylum seeker detained on Nauru and known as S99 is currently before the federal court, in an effort to have her […]