New York Times columnist and Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has written an opinion piece entitled Conservatism’s Monstrous Endgame, in which he relates how republican apparatchiks are corroding the foundations…
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Australia was one of the first nation states to give (white) women the vote (in 1902), nearly a decade after New Zealand did so, in 18931, and we often pride…
Well, the election is over and the result has been a disaster for most people in Australia. The wealthy will do quite nicely out of it with their franking credit…
When the industry you work in cuts penalty rates within the next twelve months, remember yesterday.
When the entire workforce has been casualised, remember yesterday.
When your kids are slaves to labour hire companies and never find secure work, remember yesterday.
When your local public hospitals and schools are defunded to the point of collapse, remember yesterday.
When your taxes increase while the wealthy gain tax cuts totalling in the billions, remember yesterday.
When the banks get waved through to proceed with their predatory business model without consequences for the crimes exposed by the banking royal commission, remember yesterday.
When people who defended a debauched, convicted paedophile priest take their seats in our national parliament, remember yesterday.
Congratulations, Australia. This dystopian nightmare is what you’ve signed up to.
The combover, Maurice Newman, climate change denier and intimate of Tony Abbott, seems to be suspicious of Four Corners’ efforts to understand the Zali Steggall campaign to unseat Tony Abbott,…
The International Journalists’ Network published an article by David Brewer entitled ‘Impartiality in journalism’. It begins with: “being impartial means not being prejudiced towards or against any particular side, and…