Trump Played the Cookie-Cutter Media Like a Violin
The election of Trump has exposed a media so incompetent, so unqualified in their important job, so blatantly ill-equipped to report news usefully to the […]
Articles by Dr Victoria Fielding
Trying to Understand
Even before Trump won I did a lot of reading to try to understand why he would even get one vote, let alone millions. There […]
Bob Day’s Tangled Web
There’s a lot in the media this week about ex-Senator Bob Day. You may think this whole sorry saga is about Day’s dodgy dealings over […]
Give Clinton (and Gillard!) a break!
Next time I hear someone say ‘Clinton and Trump are both terrible candidates’, or some variation on this theme, I will scream. Part of the […]
Santa Is Not Coming
There seems to be a residual myth in the Australian political establishment that the real Malcolm Turnbull stills exists. You see this myth cropping up […]
The Shit Media Storm
What I’ve witnessed in the last 28 hours, as South Australian has been experiencing the most severe weather event the Bureau of Meteorology says we […]
An Open Letter to Peter Costello
Dear Peter Costello, I am writing in response to your allegation that the mining industry has been ‘treated shabbily’ by Australia. Apparently you don’t think […]
The wrong diagnoses, the wrong treatment
If your doctor misdiagnoses your disease, you’re probably not going to get any better. The same problem will arise for people in the UK who […]
Between a rock and a judgemental place
Today is Equal Pay Day. This event was celebrated yesterday by former Liberal PM John Howard’s observation that women won’t ever achieve equal representation in […]
Enough with the judging, Clementine
My favourite feminist, Clementine Ford, wrote this week about her experiences giving birth to her first child. I’m sorry to have to admit I was […]
An Open Letter to Malcolm Turnbull about Misuse of the Word ‘Free’
Dear Malcolm Turnbull On the day you took the job of Prime Minister of Australia, you laid your flag in the ideological-dirt by proclaiming your […]
Census Fail: Failure of Liberal Ideology
We don’t yet know what caused the online census to crash. Either the site was attacked by hackers, or it couldn’t cope with the level […]
Trump: the re-establishment of white male privilege
The left is never going to stop the rise of President Trump, the worst imaginable outcome, without acknowledging reality: the US election is not a […]
We need to talk about Steve
After watching Steve Price block Van Badham’s attempts to speak about the cultural problem of disrespect to women, in what could have been a training […]
Missing in action: a tale of two narratives
It is hard to understand why the media are surprised at another undecided election result where we are once again headed towards minority government, since […]