In a previous post, I related the fact that the New South Wales government is considering a proposal to permit corporations to sue individuals. As I stated, this would have…
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When the ludicrously inept Barnaby Joyce demanded that the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) move to Armidale in his federal electorate of New England, he was told by…
Whistleblower protection Some months ago, I wrote a piece about the monstrous punishment meted out to Fiona Wilson for her blowing the whistle on the fudging of a gas leak…
Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future. We who come later have on advantage over them: we have their example before us.
I was going to write a piece about the travesty that is the Liberals’ corporate tax cuts, only to find that the Australia Institute had done just that and much…
Quite often, I have been so incensed about some government policy, hypocrisy, lying or criminal behaviour, that I feel I must write something, only to find that someone has done…
Poor little Malcolm Turnbull! How nasty of Bill Shorten to criticise him for being wealthy and benefiting personally from the tax cuts for big business. These appear in an attack…