Often you will hear the religious moan about how they are being silenced. Indeed, often you will hear this reported in mainstream media (radio, television, print), or on religious websites….
Francois ‘Faf’ du Plessis, the current South African cricket team captain, is a fine right-handed batsman whose test batting average is just over 42, an average which would get him…
The great tragedy of the shamelessly regressive politics of Pauline Hanson is not so much that it is rooted in ignorance, prejudice and fear, though it is; not so much that it projects the ugly face of racism, though it does; not so much that it is dangerously divisive and deeply hurtful to many of her fellow Australians, though it is; not even that will cripple our efforts to enmesh ourselves in a region wherein lie the jobs and prosperity of future generations of young Australians, though it will – the great tragedy is that it perpetrates a myth, a fantasy, a lie. The myth of monoculture. The lie that we can retreat to it.
I have voted for the Greens for several years in Federal and State elections because they seemed like an economically and socially progressive party largely in tune with my views…
The lobbying organisation, the Business Council of Australia, in a desperate move to try to convince some cross-bench members of the senate to pass the government’s cut to the corporate…
There are several definitions of homelessness, but they tend to include ‘rooflessness’ (primary homelessness) where people are sleeping on the streets or in improvised dwellings, and ‘houselessness’, where people are…
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.
The organisation known as Transparency International is a non-profit international organisation founded in 1993 and based in Berlin. Its aim is to combat global corruption and to prevent criminal activities…