Today, I saw an interview with Rukmini Callimachi1, a Romanian-American journalist for the New York Times. She has been a reporter for 20 years and has produced a stunning 10…
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In Murdoch’s Melbourne tabloid, the Herald-Sun (aka ‘the Hun’), an article appeared, supposedly written by the apparently unnamed Federal political editor of the Murdoch rag from Brisbane, the Courier-Mail. And…
In Bourke Street, Melbourne, 30-year-old, Somali-born Hassan Khalif Shire Ali crashed his vehicle loaded with gas bottles and apparently set it alight, and then stabbed three people one of whom…
In political theory, the ‘elite’ are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege and political power or skill in a society1. I first…
This is a transcript of part of an interview with the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, at Kunda, in Queensland, on Tuesday, the 6thof November. It has to be read to…
When Simon Birmingham was education minister he overrode the peer-review system of the Australian Research Council (ARC) to deny $4.2 million in funding for projects which had been recommended for…
In addition to the almost half a billion dollars for an upgrade to the Australian War Memorial1; this week the federal government announced a discount card for returned service men…
I have been to the Australian War Memorial numerous times over the years and I always walk through the cloisters, past the name of one of my relatives who was…
