You can tell there is an election coming up, probably in September, as the Murdoch yellow press and other outlets have dramatically lifted their ‘Kill Bill’ stories to try to…
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Just about everybody knows the ‘beetrooter’ story of Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion now that it has been plastered over the newspapers for months1 and has been on television, including with…
Another instance of the operation of Murdoch’s ruperters1 has cropped up recently, and it is an instance of how they will use any subterfuge to try to push their far-right agenda2….
It is quite possible to look on Senator Michaelia Cash as one of the main contenders for Craig Kelly’s crown as the stupidest parliamentarian. Her idiotic behaviour in a Senate…
As I related some months ago, Barnaby Joyce’s horizontal peccadillo was not the problem, it was the continuous rorting of the system1. At the time, he demanded that people respect…
The voters of Ireland have just voted to overturn the 8th amendment to the Constitution of Ireland1. This amendment was approved by a referendum in late 1983 and it recognised the…
Stanford University professor Walter Scheidel has written a book, ‘The Great Leveler’1, in which he argues that income inequality is an inevitable byproduct of civilisation, and that when this becomes…