Republican Trumpette, Mike Johnson, has been elected speaker of the US House of Representatives as the fourth candidate since Kevin McCarthy was ejected by a group of far-right representatives in his own party…
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The Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS for short) is a right wing nationalist populist party which has been in national government in Poland since 2015. It has…
We have just been down to vote in the referendum about altering the Australian Constitution to insert the following lines: “Chapter IX Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples…
A 2017 item came up in my online feed yesterday morning, and because I initially failed to notice the date I chased it up because I have an abiding interest…
I have written about this sort of thing before, most notably in the context of the ludicrous ‘Keith Murdoch Oration’ given by the chief executive of News Corp, Robert Thomson1 some…
Women’s Forum Australia (WFA) is a group who has been leading the push to have the book Welcome to Sex at least withdrawn from bookshops in Australia, if not banned…
Dr Melissa Kang, Yumi Stynes and Jenny Latham (illustrator) have published a book entitled ‘Welcome to Sex!’ which is subtitled ‘Your no-silly-questions guide to pleasure, sexuality & figuring it out’1….
Liberal Member of the Victorian Parliament, Ryan Smith announced his resignation from politics and will leave on July 7, triggering a by-election in his electorate of Warrandyte, north-east of Melbourne….
