‘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 […]
Social Justice
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 […]
The power of congregations
It has long been my view that the potential and resources of the church are largely wasted on worship. There are few institutions with the […]
In the Clash of Ideologies, Language Wins the War
Jim Morrison famously and prophetically said, “Whoever controls the media, controls the minds”. This is certainly the case in Australia. In this guest post Loz […]
To be rich is indeed glorious…
And there we have it – a snapshot of our Prime Minister from his own lips: “TONY Abbott has described his visit to China as […]
Protesting for protesting sake?
Tracie Aylmer attended the Villawood protest yesterday. Tracie is a migration agent and solicitor who comes into regular contact with asylum seekers. In this guest […]
Tony Abbott’s only claim to fame: persecuting the utterly helpless
As far as I can tell, the Abbott government’s proudest achievement in its first one hundred days has been its ongoing persecution of asylum seekers […]
Bigotry, mockery and humiliation
After telling us in the Senate that people have a right to be bigots, in a press conference today Senator Brandis said we must also […]
Let’s fix this mess
In 2012–13 a total of 50 444 people lodged applications for asylum under the offshore component of the Humanitarian Programme. The Labor government increased the […]
Let no child who arrives in Australia ever suffer detention again
Ten years ago, the Australian Human Rights Commission released a previous report into children in immigration detention, when there were around 700 children in detention. […]