Just over two months ago, I wrote a piece on where the Religious Discrimination bill was likely to go, given the content of the recommendations from the Ruddock review into…
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Tuvalu is a small South Pacific island nation just a few degrees south of the equator, just on the western side of the International Date Line, and about half way…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organisation and international tribunal that sits in The Hague, in the Netherlands. The ICC has jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international…
Serial recidivist in the Murdoch stable of liars and obfuscators, ‘ruperter’ Geoff Chambers1,2 has now come out with more drivel topped by a ludicrously misleading headline3. He states in Murdoch’s…
I was overseas for five weeks and when I got back the nature of the political debate had got worse. Almost everything the government is doing in terms of policy discussion and formulation of legislation is designed to wedge the opposition; it’s not there to introduce good public policy. It’s rushed and the media has signed up to that because what I noticed when I got back was there was so much attention on how the Labor Party is responding to government policy rather than a discussion about the policy.
While I rarely, if ever, miss an opportunity to stick the boot into creationists, it is reporting of science in the mainstream media which also needs the occasional kicking to…
Priya and her husband Nadesalingam (known as Nades) came to Australia separately by boat in 2012 and 2013, and their friends and support groups say they fled Sri Lanka because…