On politicians and the age of cruelty
Last night for bedtime reading I was flicking through the philosopher Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. Seneca was born in Roman Spain about the same […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
Turnbull jumps the shark
Millionaire Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was asked, as he and his Kaminski-millinered wife Lucy served a few Xmas lunches to people doing it tough, about […]
Politicians shame children for caring about others
You may have noticed yesterday’s minor furore over primary school children sending a petition to various politicians protesting the vileness, criminality and inhumanity of off-shore […]
Tits up Turnbull
Ever deft, the happiest Prime Minister continues to nimble his way through the minefields and wastelands of unimagined incompetencies, singular and collective, performed for an […]
‘My tiny hands are bleeding’: Vanstone on protest
In yet another piece of bellicose dross on the thoughtlessness of protesters, former Howard immigration minister turned ABC broadcaster and Fairfax columnist (via ambassador to […]
How to “dissolve the fog of lies”. Try truth?
There’s a piece by ABC journalist Julia Baird in The Age yesterday lamenting the demise of “objective facts” in public discourse. While politicians, lobbyists and […]
Dear politicians, Parliament is not your safe place
The reaction of the political class and some journalists to the protest in parliament house on Tuesday is an example of the kind of arrogance […]
Elites, the ABC, and hyena vomit
It was with some disbelief that I watched ABC TV coverage of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s quick trip to the Great Barrier Reef last […]
You want it darker? We kill the flame.
Stephen Bannon, chairman of the fascist platform Breitbart News, has been appointed chief strategist in President-Elect Donald Trump’s new administration. In apparent response to fears that […]
March of the white men children
“We are proud that there’s absolutely no balance whatsoever. No gender balance. We’re all white. We don’t believe in things like gender balance.” Thus spake […]
Losing privilege is now a crime against humanity
It’s becoming rather tiring, listening to privileged people with large platforms complain that their freedom of speech is being denied, and we have to get […]
Don’t give Trump a chance
There are situations that arise from time to time in which to act with civility may cost you your life, metaphorically or literally. If you […]
On Hanson’s claims that women lie about sexual assault
My default attitude to Pauline Hanson is that my life is too short to spend much time contemplating her, however, an interview on Sunrise (no, […]
Women in a Trumpian world
World markets took a frightful tumble when the US President-Elect turned out to be Donald Trump, something I found temporarily mystifying as you’d think they’d […]
Living with Trump
The single most important asset Australia must have to adjust to the new world order we face from next January is a government capable of dealing […]