Never has there been a greater need for Aboriginal fire-stick farming
As the bush fires rage so too does the debate on how land should be managed, specifically to prevent the repeat of these catastrophic fires. […]
Articles by Michael Taylor
What a competent government would have done …
Who said there’s no difference between Labor and the LNP? I thank Henry Johnston for pointing me to this media release by Bill Shorten (on […]
Some simple questions for Scott Morrison that nobody has thought to ask
What else but Scott Morrison’s belief in the words of Donald Trump would have been the inspiration behind his decision to expose Australian troops to […]
It’s just one of those days I feel ashamed to be Australian
What more can I say? Children are already dying under the Trump Administration’s watch. Children are being separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border. […]
January 1: Exclusion and the White Australia Policy
Is there a day on the calendar that draws as much debate as January 26? While a large proportion of Australians celebrate this as Australia […]
The true guardians of Australia
History, so goes the old saying, tends to repeat itself. But the tragedy unfolding in the Murray-Darling basin is unprecedented. This is new. You won’t […]
This is why I vote Labor
The first time that I published this post was in 2012 on the old Cafe Whispers blog, and republished it on The AIMN prior to […]
Christmas comes but a hundred times a year
For my school holidays in 1965 I was staying with my newly-wed brother and his wife’s family in country NSW. On Christmas Eve my brother […]
Nobody works hard like Donald Trump. Nobody.
Just too funny. Too funny not to share. Poor Donald Trump. The President of the United States has too much work to do and, alas, […]
“We need to change the rules in this country”: Doug Cameron
Doug Cameron knows how to command an audience. The ingredients are all there: hugely popular (and undoubtedly Labor’s most likeable senator), that fabulous Scottish accent, […]
“This country belongs to whoever shows up”
Imagine what sort of government we would get if only older people voted. Well that’s practically what happened in the USA, where only 46.1 per […]
“The one big soul that belongs to everybody”
The response to our appeal in Wanted: three hundred good people to help with meeting our server costs was humbling to say the least, and because of your […]
It’s New Year’s Day! Didn’t we just have one?
New Years are sneaky little things: you just don’t see them coming. I tend to think that the Aboriginal concept of “time” might be on […]
Your card is in the mail … email!
“We haven’t received many Christmas cards this year,” said a somewhat bemused Carol. Christmas, as we all know, is a time for giving and caring, […]
Sally McManus: Speaking words of hope
Of the thousands of words in the hundreds of articles written about Sally McManus none describe her more passionately – or more succinctly – than […]