There is a very interesting piece in this month’s Monthly, by Don Watson. It is entitled ‘A Pack of Bankers’ and in part relates many of the depredations against average…
As I related some months ago, Barnaby Joyce’s horizontal peccadillo was not the problem, it was the continuous rorting of the system1. At the time, he demanded that people respect…
The voters of Ireland have just voted to overturn the 8th amendment to the Constitution of Ireland1. This amendment was approved by a referendum in late 1983 and it recognised the…
Stanford University professor Walter Scheidel has written a book, ‘The Great Leveler’1, in which he argues that income inequality is an inevitable byproduct of civilisation, and that when this becomes…
Adelaide’s Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson has been convicted of covering up the sexual abuse of children1 perpetrated by priest James Fletcher in Newcastle and the Hunter region in New South Wales2….
Over the last few days, I have had a few, um, discussions with creationists, as much as that is possible with such dogmatic people. They keep trying to tell me…
As expected, another school massacre has happened in the US. This time it was in the gun-fetish capital of the US, the state of Texas. The perpetrator was a 17-year-old…
I cannot begin to imagine what the first people who saw Uluru thought about it, nor can I remember reading what the first Europeans to see it thought. I have…