From Little Acorns: The Unemployed Hit Back!
By Edward Eastwood Sauro -“call me, Sam”, is standing in the front row of a line of protesters outside the Melbourne headquarters of Maxx Employment […]
Your Say
OLD PEOPLE: We walk straight past them. We ignore them.
They sit on park benches catching a few rays, and we walk straight past them. They lounge on benches in our shopping malls, and we […]
Keeping your head about you
AIMN reader Colin Price has a say: Here is an angle to the Zaky Mallah/ABC circus that may not have been picked up on: By […]
Bill, surely you don’t think Tony’s going to read your petition
‘Support our TAFEs’ said the email from Bill Shorten. Bill went on to say: Information Technologies, Engineering Technologies, Graphic Design & Cloud Technologies… We know […]
Talkin’ shit on the tee-vee
By Ross Sharp “The ABC is out of control and must be reformed!”, howls Andrew Bolt, the Herald-Sun’s resident expert on taste and restraint, and […]
Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Women, Sex, Why?
By Jennifer Wilson So, if I came away with anything after last night’s final episode of ABC TV’s The Killing Fields, oops, sorry, The Killing Season, […]
If only we could
It’s been a fairly heated week and perhaps it’s time for a bit of fun. So . . . Let’s imagine . . . One […]
Who leaks?
Welcome to another Your Say. Can we talk about leaks? They certainly have been big news this week: Senior Minister Ian Macfarlane has described as […]
Nudge to humans from planet Earth: How many warnings do you lot need?
“Hi Humans. Lately you may have noticed that I have accelerated the melt rate of my Antarctic Glaciers. Lately you may have noticed that I […]
A Massive Over-Reaction
What is Anzac Day to Australians and New Zealanders? As an Australian, I was taught to see it as a day of honouring the fallen, […]
What We All Forget About Is Asia
Sir ScotchMistery has been taking a long hard look at Australia-China relations and puts forth his opinion. Disclaimer. The following viewpoints are those of the author […]
There’s always something to talk about
There’s always something to talk about. Certainly far more than we can write about. “What we need then” said our wise heads, “is a forum […]
I won’t be carrying a gun, and I don’t want you to either
“What happened in that cafe would be most unlikely to have occurred in Florida, Texas, or Vermont, or Alaska in America, or perhaps even Switzerland […]
Everything is politics
In this piece on The Drum today titled “Labor misreads the politics of Ebola,” Paula Matthewson argues that the Opposition has misjudged its stance on the […]
Alan Jones, Heather Pascoe, I am with you
As the silent tentacles of Eddie Obeid were, piece by ugly piece, exposed to public view, we listened in horror. The party that allowed this […]