The same people who screamed bloody murder over the medical evacuation bill having the ‘potential’ to allow people of bad character into the country (where they will remain in detention) are now defending a convicted paedophile [Pell] based on ‘evidence’ they were not in court to hear.
Amy Remeikis
February 28, 2019
The paedophile conviction of Pell is really testing the RWNJ trolls who find themselves refuting the verdict of an Australian court after having spent their days and nights screeching about how some immigrants refuse to accept Australian laws and Australian cultural standards.
Milly Majich
February 27, 2019
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca
February 27, 2019
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.
Howard Zinn
February 24, 2019
For much of January 2019, parts of Australia have been the hottest on the planet, with temperature records being broken in many places. To use an appropriate metaphor, is Australia the canary in the coal mine of climate change?
Original quote
January 30, 2019
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice, and our failure to imagine these things being done to us.
Paul Keating
January 25, 2019
If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales, you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.
Paul Keating
January 25, 2019
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighbourhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
Wendell Berry
January 18, 2019
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.
Philip Pullman
January 17, 2019
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
