George Pell ‘Devil Incarnate’ is dead
In what she shamelessly and deliberately calls her ‘Obitchuary’ of Cardinal George Pell, guest columnist Tess Lawrence, longtime advocate for sex abuse victims who has […]
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ExxonMobil, Suppressing Science and Climate Change
Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort […]
Living With Our Expensive AUKUS Nuclear Submarines
By Denis Bright Will we all continue to live with those dark AUKUS nuclear submarines? The Christmas edition of The Australian (24-25 December 2022) released […]
Joining the War Club: Australia’s HIMARS Purchase
Another needless, fatuous endeavour; another irresponsible drain on the public purse; another expression that the military-industrial complex Down Under is thriving in all its insidious […]
‘No Say Day’: the Last Day Youth Voices are Represented in Parliaments Around the World
Business Wire Media Release 50% of the world’s population is under 30, compared to just 2.6% of parliamentarians globally*. If this ratio were reflected in […]
Sportswashed: Ronaldo heads to Saudi Arabia
It just keeps getting darker and darker. For the professionally ignorant, things are only getting better. With one of history’s great events of sportswashing concluded […]
Listening to Keith Davis – #2 of the Friends Conversing on a Verandah Series
(Setting the scene: Two friends. Keith Davis, Loz Lawrey. A verandah. A conversation. This is a transcript of an audio recording, ums and ahs included. […]
Listening to Loz Lawrey – #1 of the Friends Conversing on a Verandah Series
(Setting the scene – recently two friends, Loz Lawrey and Keith Davis, sat on Keith’s verandah and recorded their conversation. They wanted to capture the […]
Vivienne Westwood: Activism and the Godmother of Punk
There was the punk scene, Malcolm McLaren, their racy clothes shop at 430 King’s Road that started out as Let it Rock, the creation of […]
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt !
The jury of eight women and four men have retired to consider their verdict in the Lehrmann trial : there had been sixteen jurors empanelled […]
Suing Meta in Kenya
Africa has been a continent exploited since the European scramble carved it out in lines of a draughtsman’s crude design. Its resources have been pilfered; […]
Go outside and smell the roses
Most of us don’t like going to the dentist, asking the electrician to repair something at home or taking the car to the mechanic. There […]
The Year of the Botched Execution
There was never anything going for it, except political mileage and the desire for crude retribution. The putting to death of another human being by […]
Labor to fix the broken carbon credit scheme and re–introduce true Emission(s) Trading
By Callen Sorensen Karklis During the 2007 federal election, both the ALP and Coalition led by Rudd and Howard fought a key election on industrial […]
Corrupting the European Parliament: Qatar’s Sports Diplomacy
How utterly fitting that it should happen at this time. The Qatar FIFA World Cup is coming to a close, a tournament nakedly bought by […]