My Story from the Great Plague Isles
By Msunderstood As far as COVID is concerned, Australia is one of the safest places in the world to be. Msunderstood is an Australian vet […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
When your government thinks banning Trump from Twitter is the real injustice
The response of the Australian government to US President Donald Trump’s incitement of the January 6 attack on the US Congress was, shall we say, […]
Religious profit: Expanding the cashless welfare card ties in with Morrison’s beliefs
The philosophy of the cashless welfare card is the perfect marriage of neoliberal ideology and evangelical Christianity, both of which pathologise, criminalise and individualise poverty […]
The “open secret”: when men do nothing
In an independent investigation by a former inspector general of intelligence and security, former High Court judge Dyson Heydon has been found to have sexually […]
Lies, lies and more lies
On May 25 2020, the Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, (PM&C) Phil Gaetjens, the most senior public servant in government administration, made a written […]
How the PM’s refusal to isolate puts everyone at risk
Yesterday, Friday March 13th, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton announced that he’d tested positive for the COVID-19 virus earlier in the day, and was in hospital in Brisbane. […]
In Cobargo people are still homeless after the fires, so where is the $2 billion going?
This morning I received the following email from my sister, Sarah, who lost her home in the Cobargo fires. I’m speaking to ABC radio tomorrow about […]
“Let them watch fireworks”: Gladys Antoinette, Sydney 2019
The sickening irony of letting off millions of exploding flames into a city sky already thickened with the smoke of bushfires that have surrounded Sydney for weeks, and […]
You have a #Right to Know, but only when the media says so. Media and the Morrison holiday.
For the last few days there has been unrelenting speculation on social media concerning Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s whereabouts. Yesterday evening journalist Samantha Maiden published this piece in The […]
Where is Scott Morrison and why is it a secret?
We awoke this morning to another day in which Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s whereabouts are unknown to the public, with his staff declining to enlighten […]
Trouble in Home Affairs
Trouble in Home Affairs: Coleman wants the family to stay, Dutton wants them refouled In May 2019, newly-elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison removed responsibility for […]
Dealing with Pell
Yesterday, Cardinal George Pell lost his appeal against his conviction of child sexual abuse. Children, when allowed to develop without debilitating trauma, often have an […]
The attack on women by Australian politicians, and Alan Jones
Things have been just dandy for women in the last forty eight hours, with broadcaster Alan Jones declaring that Prime Minister Scott Morrison should give New […]
Neeson, Racism, and Rape
Liam Neeson is not an actor in whom I have the slightest interest. So spending the last couple of days discussing his actions has felt a […]
Russian whistle-blower denied asylum in Australia
In 2006, British contractor Nick Stride was hired to work on the refurbishment of a palace under construction for Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov, […]