I have my first AstraZeneca vaccination today, and I face it with some trepidation because of the clotting problem which has been associated with it. Even though the chances are…
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Singapore achieved self-government in 1959 and the People’s Action Party (PAP) has been in power ever since. Lee Kuan Yew was Prime Minister from 1959 until 1990. He was followed…
After lying to Australians, in November 2020, that we would be at the head of the queue for vaccination1, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as if to excuse himself, has said…
Most people seem to think that the Coalition parties are so enthusiastic about the continuation of the fossil fuel industry solely because, firstly, that industry gives them bucketloads of money…
Relevance deficit disorder, or relevance deprivation syndrome, as it was originally called by former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans1, is a very strange phenomenon. Evans lamented the sudden feeling of social impotence…
Just about everyone knows who Anne Frank was, because of the post-war publication of her diary by the surviving members of her family. Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank was born to…
Nadesalingam (Nades) and Priya are two Tamils who arrived in Australia separately in 2012 and 2013 by boat after fleeing what amounted to a 26-year long civil war in Sri…
I knew that some halfwit climate change denier would come out and say ‘it’s cold, therefore climate change is not happening’. The last time I can remember this happening, it…