The annual Southern Baptist Convention just took place in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this week. Now, despite the Southern Baptist denomination being founded explicitly to support slavery1, it seems to have…
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Now I have heard everything! The National Party has now stated that the poor performance by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) will be fixed by moving it…
If you happen to live in the Australian Capital Territory1, you live in a relatively small enclave excised from New South Wales. It is a subcrescentic area of land with…
With the dramatic Four Corners program aired on June 5 on the ABC, it is clear that Chinese billionaires with close links to those in power in China have been…
You know that Duncan Lewis, Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), is doing something right if he upsets the One Nation Party and some of the far right…
I am getting sick of this. It seems that recently, every time Switzer writes something for Fairfax it is getting more moronic. In his first piece, I thought he was…
Privatisation is the alpha and omega of the neoliberal bible: Government is bad, Business is good. According to the tenets of neoliberalism, markets, when freed from state interference, are the…