The punch-up over political interference at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) still has some distance to go, despite the resignation of Justin Milne over assorted e-mails to Michelle Guthrie, apparently…
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When they have got over the delirium of the television, when they realise that their new homes that they have been put into are mortgaged to the hilt, when they realise that the moneylender has been elevated to the highest position in the land, when they realise that [this] is a vulgar society of which no decent person could be proud and that this society is unable to exploit the resources of their scientists because they are prevented by the greed of their capitalism from doing so, they will find that the challenge of modern society can only be met by socialism – that, in fact, we represent the future.
The central aim of the Paris Agreement is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise this century well below 2…
Again Tom Switzer, the executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies, a right wing ‘think tank’, spouts drivel. He starts off reasonably enough, with an excerpt from a report…
Byron Shire Council has changed their celebration of next year’s Australia Day to the 25th of January. The mayor said the council is trying to create a day in which all…
Sometimes it is difficult to know if some of what appears to be right wing nutjobbery is what it seems to be. Every now and again, I have a fleeting…
Denise Shrivell1 has been the subject of four articles in the Murdoch owned The Australian, in which they state, repeatedly that she is one of the key figures is an ‘anonymous’…
Former Prime Minister, John Howard, who George Brandis called a ‘lying rodent’1, launched his new book on Friday. At the launch he said that he did not believe in quotas…
It is ironic that Chris Kenny from Murdoch’s The Australian, in casting aspersions upon the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), begins what he laughably calls ‘analysis’ by referring to “post-truth journalism,…
Chairman of the UK Press Holdings Group, Andrew Neil1 has been in Australia. Press Holdings Group has as two of its titles The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph, both of which…