Tony Abbott was lying through his teeth, as is his wont, when he claimed, prior to the 2013 election, that Australia was suffering under a ‘debt and deficit disaster’. The…
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Some time ago, Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton, indicated that white South African farmers could be given preferred refugee status if they so desired because they needed “help from a…
The usual backbench suspects have now formed the Monash Forum as a ginger group apparently with the aim of protecting the coal industry. Liberal Craig Kelly stated that the group’s…
Nothing can remedy the theft of the future from all fourteen children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida for they were murdered by a deranged gunman, in perhaps…
Often you will hear the religious moan about how they are being silenced. Indeed, often you will hear this reported in mainstream media (radio, television, print), or on religious websites….
Francois ‘Faf’ du Plessis, the current South African cricket team captain, is a fine right-handed batsman whose test batting average is just over 42, an average which would get him…
The great tragedy of the shamelessly regressive politics of Pauline Hanson is not so much that it is rooted in ignorance, prejudice and fear, though it is; not so much that it projects the ugly face of racism, though it does; not so much that it is dangerously divisive and deeply hurtful to many of her fellow Australians, though it is; not even that will cripple our efforts to enmesh ourselves in a region wherein lie the jobs and prosperity of future generations of young Australians, though it will – the great tragedy is that it perpetrates a myth, a fantasy, a lie. The myth of monoculture. The lie that we can retreat to it.
As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s 29th negative Newspoll1 has just come out and it is likely that his 30th will happen in less than a fortnight, Amanda Vanstone has written…
I have voted for the Greens for several years in Federal and State elections because they seemed like an economically and socially progressive party largely in tune with my views…