The Banking Royal Commission has uncovered some almost inconceivably disgusting practices by the big four banks (NAB, ANZ, CommBank, Westpac) and AMP. If some of these had not been uncovered…
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A proposal that the Victorian Liberal Party’s state council was asked to debate a motion calling for the law to be changed to ensure doctors “can offer counselling out of…
After all, we have had routine forays into populist extremism from the mid 1990s with the likes of Hansonism without it ever threatening our democracy. Our politics may be dreadful, a black comedy pregnant with collapse, its actors exhausted, without imagination or courage or principle, solely obsessed with pillaging the tawdry jewels of office and fleeing into distant sinecures as ambassadors or high commissioners, or with paid up Chinese board posts, while outside the city burns.
The leader of the Greens, Richard Di Natale has stated that cannabis (marijuana) should be legalised for personal use (it is currently legal for medical use only). It will be…
Nothing can remedy the theft of the future from all fourteen children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida for they were murdered by a deranged gunman, in perhaps…
Often you will hear the religious moan about how they are being silenced. Indeed, often you will hear this reported in mainstream media (radio, television, print), or on religious websites….
Francois ‘Faf’ du Plessis, the current South African cricket team captain, is a fine right-handed batsman whose test batting average is just over 42, an average which would get him…
The great tragedy of the shamelessly regressive politics of Pauline Hanson is not so much that it is rooted in ignorance, prejudice and fear, though it is; not so much that it projects the ugly face of racism, though it does; not so much that it is dangerously divisive and deeply hurtful to many of her fellow Australians, though it is; not even that will cripple our efforts to enmesh ourselves in a region wherein lie the jobs and prosperity of future generations of young Australians, though it will – the great tragedy is that it perpetrates a myth, a fantasy, a lie. The myth of monoculture. The lie that we can retreat to it.
I have voted for the Greens for several years in Federal and State elections because they seemed like an economically and socially progressive party largely in tune with my views…