A few days ago, in response to Alexander Downer’s laughable assertion that his family are a family of “nation builders”, I used some of the views of Sir Alick Downer…
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Conservatism in Australia is indeed in crisis. The reputation of its two constitutive institutions - the churches and the banks - have been greatly tarnished by royal commissions, just as another royal commission has failed to discredit the trade union movement. Climate science and the population's growing environmental awareness have also pulled the rug from under yet another pillar of conservatism: extractive industries, especially coal mining, on which the country's wealth depends.
Some time ago, I wrote a piece about how the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) was being ‘dumbed down’, as part of a process which will end with the organisation being…
Angela Williamson used to work for Cricket Australia (CA) as the manager of public policy and government relations, but she was sacked for tweeting in support of abortion reform in…
Given the Turnbull government’s attitude to energy generation, the name of the department that hosts the energy.gov.au website is oxymoronic in that it is the Department of the Environment and Energy….
Since the five by-elections held last weekend, the Murdoch ‘ruperters’ seem to have lost their minds completely. They seemingly cannot believe their numerous ‘Kill Bill’ stories had little or no…
After Georgina Downer’s defeat in the Mayo by-election last Saturday, Alexander Downer, Gerorgina’s father, spat the dummy and said that Ms Sharkie’s supporters had brought “horrible hate to our district”…
[This was put together almost a decade ago, initially as a half hour public presentation for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, so could not be…