Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.
Isaac Asimov
August 6, 2018
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
Kofi Annan
July 20, 2018
Complain about wage theft, cuts in penalty rates, and low wages, and the government will feign concern. However, this is what they want; to create an unemployed, underemployed and poorly paid underclass to serve their corporate donors. The want to turn Australia into a copy of the United States where the rich get very rich and the poor can get stuffed.
John Laurie
July 16, 2018
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.
William L. Shirer
July 1, 2018
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
June 27, 2018
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
June 27, 2018
Economic rationalism and neoliberalism are dead in Australia. In an unexpected twist, the idea that markets are good and governments are bad was killed by the right wing of Australian politics, who simply couldn’t resist the desire to shovel public money onto their friends and tie their opponents up in red tape.
Richard Denniss
June 19, 2018
One day, many years from now, another Prime Minister will stand up and apologise for the damage done to refugees in detention. We will be told that we didn’t know then what we know now. But we did know. We always knew. We just chose not to hear and to silence those who tried to remind us of the truth.
Richard Flanagan
May 20, 2018
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.
George Orwell
March 23, 2018
Once you realise that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are – a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
