Not all right-wing extremist hate speech ends in violence. But all right-wing extremist violence starts with hate speech.
Bill Shorten
August 4, 2019
There’s a wages crisis,
Morrison attacks unions;
There is a poverty crisis,
Morrison attacks the unemployed;
There’s an environmental crisis,
Morrison attacks environmentalists;
There’s a crisis of corruption in our democracy,
Morrison attacks journalists.
See the pattern?
Ben Davison
August 4, 2019
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
Sam Harris
August 3, 2019
I think the Australian government must be one of the most ignorant governments I’ve ever seen, in the sense, right across the board, on immigration or about anything else, they’re totally unwilling to listen to science or logic.
Lord Deben
July 12, 2019
I understand that the solution is out there, that scientists are screaming it out, but it is being blocked by people who are making too much money off the way we run things now. We must change our path or face mass extinction and the time to act was yesterday. [The Monthly, July, 2019, p. 23]
'Violet'
July 8, 2019
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
June 23, 2019
Globalisation and trade liberalisation were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of ‘one dollar, one vote’ as opposed to ‘one person, one vote’.
Joseph Stiglitz
June 18, 2019
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
June 17, 2019
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
Noam Chomsky
June 11, 2019
Modern macroeconomists “solve” the problem [of market imbalance] by assuming it away: the standard models assume that somehow the economy is in equilibrium, with demand for labour and goods somehow just equalling supply. That we achieve this beautiful equilibrium is, like the belief in market efficiency itself, a matter of deep religious conviction, and the path we take to get there a matter of mystical revelation. If a problem crops up in this all-encompassing theory – if there is unemployment, for example – the response is simple: blame the victim, meaning workers, for demanding too-high wages, or migrants, for flooding the job market. If only wages were sufficiently flexible, the theory goes, or borders sufficiently forbidding, the economy would always be at full employment.
