Section 116 of the Australian Constitution states: “The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise…
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There has been much (purposeful) misinformation regarding the jobs to be provided by the Adani coal mine. Initially, gullible politicians were promised 10,000 jobs, and those in the Coalition thought…
Someone showed me an e-mail they received from the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA). This organisation is the trade union for those involved in journalism, acting, theatre and amusements….
Modern macroeconomists “solve” the problem [of market imbalance] by assuming it away: the standard models assume that somehow the economy is in equilibrium, with demand for labour and goods somehow just equalling supply. That we achieve this beautiful equilibrium is, like the belief in market efficiency itself, a matter of deep religious conviction, and the path we take to get there a matter of mystical revelation. If a problem crops up in this all-encompassing theory – if there is unemployment, for example – the response is simple: blame the victim, meaning workers, for demanding too-high wages, or migrants, for flooding the job market. If only wages were sufficiently flexible, the theory goes, or borders sufficiently forbidding, the economy would always be at full employment.
It seems to be mostly the far-right fruitcakes who are scared of the imposition of Sharia Law in Australia. People like One Notion’s Pauline Hanson ramble on about it seemingly…
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has blamed the Labor Party’s border protection policy for emboldening people smugglers after the Australian Border Force confirmed a boat carrying 20 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers…
New York Times columnist and Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has written an opinion piece entitled Conservatism’s Monstrous Endgame, in which he relates how republican apparatchiks are corroding the foundations…
Australia was one of the first nation states to give (white) women the vote (in 1902), nearly a decade after New Zealand did so, in 18931, and we often pride…
Well, the election is over and the result has been a disaster for most people in Australia. The wealthy will do quite nicely out of it with their franking credit…