A suggestion by the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Philip Lowe, that workers should demand higher wages, was something that was unheard of in the days of trickle-down economics. In…
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I was bullied at high school by three older boys, whose surnames were Hardman, Smith and Childs. It was fairly mild and never, that I can recall, went beyond verbal…
The hunt to find Australia’s best pharmacy is now on, with applications for ‘Pharmacy of the Year 2018’ now open, with the winner being named by the Pharmacy Guild of…
Tony Abbott, in an audio recording of a speech he gave at assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar’s local Liberal Party branch meeting, bemoaned the “second-best, taxing and spending” budget that the…
Barack Obama was intelligent, highly educated, literate, erudite, personable, witty and seemed to have a happy family. The fact that he was also black led some to believe that, with…
I and some others bumped into a moon-landing denier today, and I was impressed with a Facebook reply by Chris Ward. This is taken and slightly modified from that post….
The Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane was trolled by people, when the bookshop shared a Facebook post from Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford announcing she had been contracted to write…
Conservatives and libertarians often moan about the ‘nanny state’ when it impinges on something they would like to do; smoke indoors, drink to excess, ride bikes without a helmet, driving…
The annual Southern Baptist Convention just took place in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this week. Now, despite the Southern Baptist denomination being founded explicitly to support slavery1, it seems to have…
