Murdoch ‘ruperter’ Greg Brown has been a subject of essays in this series a couple of times1,2. In this one3, he is helped by the unlucky Olivia Caisley while he…
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Ginger Gorman is an award-winning journalist based in the Australian Capital Territory and, in 2013, was the target of vicious online trolling (many women are), which included a death threat….
This is part of a speech I saw which was given on November 7th in parliament. It is worth reading: “I’m really proud to stand in this House today for…
Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece about the slow slide to fascism in Australia, which mentioned some legislative ‘innovations’ by the current Coalition government. These included legislation…
All sorts of concerned citizens constantly point out to the government the failings of the current system under which we operate, where many tens of thousands are homeless, where people…
The survival of any democracy is completely dependent on the survival of a ‘free media’ that are not constrained to publish only what the government wants. Over the past decade,…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been asked numerous times whether he tried to get his ‘mentor’, Hillsong church ‘pastor’ Brian Houston an invitation to the Rose Garden soiree at the…
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…
