Homelessness: what are the solutions?
By Christine Kent In August 2017, after years of denial, I finally acknowledged my own homelessness. I came out of the closet in the most […]
poverty
Scott’s new targets
In October, Labor voted to pass nearly $3 billion in budget savings with revised welfare legislation which will see Family payments cut and young people […]
An Open Letter to the corporations and people of the 1%
Dear Winners, Congratulations on all your achievements. You have all played the game of capitalism like absolute champions, and you are, without doubt, superlative operatives […]
Take your coal and shove it
Whilst Abbott, Hunt, Palmer and Newman regale us with their humanitarian effort to lift India out of poverty by selling them coal, the Indians recognise […]
Upside down downunder
We sure do things upside down downunder. Tony Abbott’s chief business adviser first tells us we are unprepared for global cooling, followed by lashing out […]
Cherchez des revenus
When my husband lost his job not long after the birth of our first child, my immediate reaction was to ring my old boss and […]
Why do people riot?
As we look at the turmoil around the world, it only reinforces how lucky we are to live in Australia. While it is far from […]
How many children’s lives will Tony’s jets cost?
Despite the tragedy of gun crime and the seemingly never-ending massacres in the USA, most Americans are against any changes to their gun laws. Even […]
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 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 […]
Capitalism isn’t democracy
Capitalism is an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained […]