The biggest loser
Despite the headlines on Sunday morning, it seems that the vast majority of the attendees at Mardi Gras last weekend were in fact ‘feeling the […]
Politics
The Borderlord: Chapter Two
By James Moore Anyone who knows the Texas and Mexico border in any manner even approaching familiarity, would have laughed in D. Trump’s face during […]
Dunkley sends all of us a message
“If you live in Frankston, and you’ve got a problem with Victorian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor. “If you do not […]
New Zealand is under siege by the Atlas Network
Just as the Atlas Network-connected Advance body intervened in the Voice referendum in Australia and, in recent weeks, a by-election, similar organisations spawned from the […]
Is Australian democracy at risk from an authoritarian leader?
Continued from Authoritarianism is taking over the world. Will it snare Australia? To recap, in Part 1 I wrote that: In recent years, we have witnessed […]
Conscious and Unconscionable: The Starving of Gaza
The starvation regime continues unabated as Israel continues its campaign in the Gaza Strip. One of the six provisional measures ordered by the International Court […]
Here’s ya hat, what’s ya hurry?
Skiddy leaves his mark Full of shit and full of himself, Scooter has left the building. His greatest contribution to Australian governance is his departure […]
Trussonomics at CPAC
The silly will make print and leave bursts of digital traces; the idiots will make history, if only in small print. One such figure is […]
Destabilizing Australia: Will the LNP’s Culture Wars Be Victorious?
By Denis Bright The hopeful possibilities of reaching out to build a better future for Australians and for our peaceful regional neighbours are under challenge […]
Dutton’s scattergun
It’s widely acknowledged that Tony Abbott came to be Prime Minister because he continually listed some ‘critical’ failures of the then Rudd and Gillard Governments […]
A Copper’s Skewed Logic: Politicising Palestinian Visas
If only we could say that Peter Dutton, Australia’s federal opposition leader and curator of bigoted leanings, was unusual in assuming that granting humanitarian visas […]
Authoritarianism is taking over the world. Will it snare Australia?
It would seem that many countries around the world have decided that democracy has run its race. Russia, India, Hungary, Turkey, Poland, China, Slovakia, Afghanistan, […]
Imperial Venality Defends Itself: Day Two of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal
On February 21, the Royal Courts of Justice hosted a second day of carnivalesque mockery regarding the appeal by lawyers representing an ill Julian Assange, […]
Identifying Imperial Venality: Day One of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal
On February 20, it was clear that things were not going to be made easy for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who infuriated the US […]
The Hero Haunted World
By James Moore I do not understand. Perhaps, I never will. Does anyone? As Russia kills innocents in Ukraine and dissidents within its own borders, […]