The Fair Work Commission decided in March 2017 to decrease Sunday penalty rates in the hospitality, fast food, retail and pharmacy industries to be the same as those for Saturday1….
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Young comedian Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered by a 19-year-old male in a Carlton North park as she was walking home from a gig in Melbourne on June 13th….
I’m not critical of our democratic system; I’m critical of the people who are the incumbents, and their failure to manifest any sense of responsibility towards this society. It is they who don’t believe in democracy, it is they who are not assuming their responsibility as leaders. It is they who are not finding ways of either addressing our problems, or looking at the problems that are coming….and they are coming very rapidly at us.
In a previous post, I related the fact that the New South Wales government is considering a proposal to permit corporations to sue individuals. As I stated, this would have…
When the ludicrously inept Barnaby Joyce demanded that the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) move to Armidale in his federal electorate of New England, he was told by…
Whistleblower protection Some months ago, I wrote a piece about the monstrous punishment meted out to Fiona Wilson for her blowing the whistle on the fudging of a gas leak…
Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future. We who come later have on advantage over them: we have their example before us.
I was going to write a piece about the travesty that is the Liberals’ corporate tax cuts, only to find that the Australia Institute had done just that and much…
Quite often, I have been so incensed about some government policy, hypocrisy, lying or criminal behaviour, that I feel I must write something, only to find that someone has done…