Now the government has removed income support of about $200 per fortnight for about several hundred asylum seekers including children and babies. These people were transferred to Australia from offshore…
Read More
The nasty anti-ssm advertisements have begun on commercial television with the first from the Coalition for Marriage. It shows several women appearing and whining about some of the red herrings…
Australia’s most senior catholic, Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart has pointedly warned the church’s 180,000 employees, which comprise teachers, nurses and administrators among others, they were expected to uphold its…
This is becoming a habit. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made a fool of himself again, in stating that the defacing of statues of James Cook, Queen Victoria and Lachlan…
Sometimes Mathias Cormann, in his unmistakeable drone can seem like the cartoon villain, but in a speech to the business-funded Sydney Institute1, he seems to have gone from cartoon villain…
In the Catholic Church, the seal of the confessional is the absolute duty to priests not to disclose anything that they learn from ‘penitents’ during the confession. According to canon…
After the Council of the City of Yarra (in NE Melbourne) decided to drop all references to Australia Day and cancelled its annual citizenship ceremony, conservatives around the country spat…
Senator Pauline Hanson rolled up to question time in the Senate today in a burqa. This stunt was supposedly in aid of a ban proposed by One Nation on burqas…
Tony Abbott has written an opinion piece in the Australian which, like most of his utterances is replete with lies, half-lies and obfuscation. I address most of his points below….
It is difficult not to crumple with mirth at the debacle that is Barnaby Joyce. When senators Waters and Ludlam resigned from parliament because of their dual citizenship, Barnaby Joyce…
