In the Catholic Church, the seal of the confessional is the absolute duty to priests not to disclose anything that they learn from ‘penitents’ during the confession. According to canon…
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After the Council of the City of Yarra (in NE Melbourne) decided to drop all references to Australia Day and cancelled its annual citizenship ceremony, conservatives around the country spat…
Trump’s wink and a nod to the neo-Nazis and other white supremacists after the Charlottesville death, was quickly stamped on by some at the White House, notably John Kelly, Trump’s…
The paradox of tolerance was first described by Karl Popper in 1945 in his book ‘the Open Society and its Enemies’1. It states that if a society is tolerant without…
In the early 1990s, I had the opportunity to travel to Russia, which was only the third time I had been overseas and the first time I had been outside…
Senator Pauline Hanson rolled up to question time in the Senate today in a burqa. This stunt was supposedly in aid of a ban proposed by One Nation on burqas…
Tony Abbott has written an opinion piece in the Australian which, like most of his utterances is replete with lies, half-lies and obfuscation. I address most of his points below….
It is difficult not to crumple with mirth at the debacle that is Barnaby Joyce. When senators Waters and Ludlam resigned from parliament because of their dual citizenship, Barnaby Joyce…
One of the numerous disturbing things about the Trump White House is the apparent lack of concern about the rise of white supremacists. This was brought home recently by the…
The Abbott Government’s former Small Business Minister, Bruce Billson, has been caught accepting a retainer of $75,000 from the Franchise Council of Australia over the last four months of his…