The recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national accounts for the March Quarter have shown that real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by a pathetic 0.3% during that quarter and…
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You will often hear some members of parliament state that the science of global warming is not settled, or there is some doubt as to whether it is happening at…
Malcolm Turnbull has called on new citizens “to join us as Australian patriots” and that they should be “committed to the values that define us, committed to the values that…
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…
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…
Some of the Liberal and National parties’ amateur climate scientists have been emboldened by Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Accord, in which almost all of…