Let us not forget
As we are dragged kicking and screaming into interminable weeks of sickening electioneering that will, yet again, have asylum seekers and refugees as one of […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
Death by bureaucrat: this is not a metaphor
On ABC’s Four Corners last night we heard a Department of Immigration and Border Protection employee make the chilling decision to override a doctor’s request […]
Not the full quid
Barnaby Joyce is always saying something remarkable for its inanity, and the last couple of days he’s done nothing to cause me to reassess my […]
Barcelona tonight
Guest post by Paul Walter, a longtime friend of my blog ‘No Place for Sheep’ and ‘The AIMN’. Fans of Media Watch will recall from […]
Trump de l’oeil
(Trompe de l’oeil is an art technique that creates the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Literally “trick the eye”). That Republican Presidential […]
Being in government isn’t a license to impose your privileged ideology
You may already be across this but for various reasons I’ve only just caught up. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull actually proposed that the states take […]
Abbott can’t take rejection. Hide your onions.
In what can only be inspirational news for the ALP, failed Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced his intention to embark on a DIY election […]
Let’s talk about s*x
… how is it that in a society like ours, sexuality is not simply a means of reproducing the species, the family and the individual? […]
Why Abbott’s sex life is my business
There’s only one circumstance in which I consider the sexual lives of politicians to be my business, and that’s when they legislate about what goes […]
She fed him tenderly, as if he were a baby bird
In Nikki Savva’s EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK the author describes a dinner at which then Prime Minister Tony Abbott was observed being fed food from a […]
In which Pell crosses to the other side of the road
Over the last few days of his questioning at the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, Cardinal George Pell demonstrated the opposite of what his […]
Pell at the RC: I don’t remember if I remembered…
I just spent the morning watching Cardinal George Pell give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, from Rome, via video link. […]
Turnbull sells out young people to the deranged, to save himself
One of the (many) problems I see with religious ideology is that it offers people whose intelligence and experiential curiosity is limited by cowardice and fear, […]
March of the Wankpuffins
Safe Schools Coalition Australia is a national coalition of schools dedicated to creating safe and inclusive learning environments for same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse […]
Well, well, Cardinal Pell
It was reported yesterday that Cardinal George Pell is the subject of a twelve month investigation by Victoria Police over allegations of child sexual abuse, […]