I went to university with Eric Abetz and upon the mention of his name, most people at the University of Tasmania would simply roll their eyes. Everyone knew he was…
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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…
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.
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…
Julian Porteous, the Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, has written an article in Murdoch’s The Australian (where else?) entitled ‘Protect our religious freedom, for goodness sake’1. He begins with an exposition…