Sometimes it is difficult to know if some of what appears to be right wing nutjobbery is what it seems to be. Every now and again, I have a fleeting…
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Isn’t it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we’d been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshipping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshipping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about? Through childhood indoctrination.
Denise Shrivell1 has been the subject of four articles in the Murdoch owned The Australian, in which they state, repeatedly that she is one of the key figures is an ‘anonymous’…
Former Prime Minister, John Howard, who George Brandis called a ‘lying rodent’1, launched his new book on Friday. At the launch he said that he did not believe in quotas…
As I have related previously, creationists often ask the stupid question: “if we evolved from apes, how come there are still apes around?”. As I stated then, it demonstrates a…
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people and leads to corruption within the religion itself. Erecting the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state, therefore is absolutely essential in a free society.
It is ironic that Chris Kenny from Murdoch’s The Australian, in casting aspersions upon the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), begins what he laughably calls ‘analysis’ by referring to “post-truth journalism,…
Chairman of the UK Press Holdings Group, Andrew Neil1 has been in Australia. Press Holdings Group has as two of its titles The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph, both of which…
In a mind-bogglingly bizarre press conference, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that he doesn’t accept that he, as treasurer, cut $1.2 billion from the aged care budget. This was…