I get sick of people using the epithet ‘lucky country’ in referring to Australia in a laudatory way, without realising the phrase’s original intent. Donald Horne used it as the…
The extremely limited Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has tweeted the following: “I’m deeply concerned about the reports of children as young as 5 being attacked in schools because of their Jewishness….
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has recently become the first jurisdiction in Australia to legalise cannabis for personal use. This allows a person over 18 years of age to possess…
There are many people in parliament and elsewhere who deny various aspects of science: creationists deny evolution; flat-earthers deny most of physics; antivaxxers deny biochemistry and immunology; and AIDS deniers…
I have had a go at the vacuous nature of Amanda Vanstone’s Sydney Morning Herald diatribes before1,2,3, and now she has come out with another, in which she has a…