Are you a Real Australian? Not if you’re a woman.
As I read this piece by Sean Kelly at The Monthly yesterday, titled Real Australians: The way we talk about our country needs to change, I […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
Turnbull must urgently clarify whether or not he is entitled to Israeli citizenship
The S44 citizenship saga has thrown up possible queries concerning the citizenship status of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The first is this interview with the Times of Israel […]
In which the gas chambers are invoked to distract from dual citizenship. Yes. Really.
I planned on beginning this piece with: “The latest MP to fall foul of S44 in the current citizenship saga is Minister for Energy, Josh […]
Media women name and shame sexual predators … unless they are politicians
Further allegations have been made against Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, including multiple sexual harassment and molestation claims dating back to 2012. One of the […]
Politicians, sex, and the Press Gallery
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear to me, the Daily Telegraph decided on Saturday to publish a piece (paywalled) inferring that Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce […]
Bernardi and Abbott: a shared pyschosis
And the week finished on a spectacularly self-mutilating note for the No side, with Cory Bernardi and Tony Abbott inadvertently exposing the dark spite at […]
Turnbull’s postal opinion poll: a vicious, bullying farce
It’s rather difficult to empathise with the marriage equality No crowd’s insistence that they are being “bullied” by the Yes side, given that the postal […]
Let him eat cake: Abbott and marriage equality.
In the first paragraph of his opinion piece in The Age today, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott encapsulates the condescension and toleration typical of many […]
Tolerate my intolerance or I will destroy you
It takes some arrogance to declare that your support for others is contingent upon their actions and speech being acceptable to you. In other words, […]
The fluidity of tradition
Tradition is a word we’ve heard a lot these last few weeks, as the anti marriage equality crowd cast about, in increasing desperation, for […]
From the heartland of privilege: the week in politics
Statues of Lachlan Macquarie and Captain James Cook were graffitied by protesters last week, in an action the most cowardly prime minister in Australian history […]
On religious freedom
Yes, I know, this might at first blush seem an odd choice of topic given our current circumstances but really, what can one usefully say […]
Voting Yes
Friends of this blog know I’m not particularly enamoured of marriage as we know it. It’s an institution, as one wit noted, and who wants […]
Turnbull and Trump: Masters of depravity
For those of you who haven’t read the full transcript of the phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, here’s […]
Presumption of innocence, or attacking victims and the legal system?
I’m somewhat baffled by the insistence of George Pell’s more vocal and public supporters that he is being unfairly treated. He has, they assert, been […]