A Lesson in Displacement at the Bureau of Worldly Advice
Refugees are people. Let’s treat them as such. Loz Lawrey shares a recent experience with some refugees and despairs at the treatment this country affords […]
Social Justice
Hockey’s lazy, lying helpers
It disturbs me that this email is hitting the in-box. Disturbing in that there appear to be a high number of Australians who are satisfied […]
Taking us back 50 years?
How far does Tony Abbott want to take us back? Ten years? Twenty years? Some people say 50 years. Warwick O’Neill suggests it might be […]
No ‘love’ in the Abbott Government’s ‘tough’
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey have taken to describing their budgetary cruelty as an act of “tough love” for which we may […]
My kids are ok, yours can go beg.
When I hear Joe Hockey say, with trembling lip, that he refuses to saddle his children with the nation’s debt, my hypocrisy radar maxes out. […]
Some of my best friends are corrupt
There appears no question that Craig Thomson misused union funds, though his sentence of 12 months gaol (3 months to be served) is being appealed. […]
The house wins
While everyone reels from the worst budget ever, a lot of other very insidious work is flying under the radar. One of the most blatant […]
A letter to Coalition MPs
To Coalition MPs, I am writing to express my grave concern with the direction this government is taking and my […]
‘Self-harm’/State-inflicted-harm
Self-harm or State-inflicted-harm. What role does language play in the displacement of one and the other? Who gains from this? In this revealing article, poet […]
I refuse to live in fear!
The tactic of a bully is to keep their victims living in fear of what could happen so they are grateful when they don’t get […]
I believe in men
“In terms of feminism, I’ve never been someone who really associates with that movement. That movement was a set of ideologies from many, many decades […]
Abbott uses society’s vulnerable as means to an ideological end
It seems to me that it’s a core conservative tradition to use the most vulnerable people in society as a means to an ideological end. There […]
It is not them or us, they are us.
Australians have the highest median wealth per adult in the world ($233,504). We have the second highest average wealth ($428,250). We are a mere 0.36% […]
The time has come, the walrus said…
We are told we have an aging population that we cannot afford to support so we must all get off welfare and work longer. We […]