June 27, 2018 0 They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
June 19, 2018 0 Economic rationalism and neoliberalism are dead in Australia. In an unexpected twist, the idea that markets are good and governments are bad was killed by the right wing of Australian politics, who simply couldn’t resist the desire to shovel public money onto their friends and tie their opponents up in red tape. Richard Denniss
May 20, 2018 0 One day, many years from now, another Prime Minister will stand up and apologise for the damage done to refugees in detention. We will be told that we didn’t know then what we know now. But we did know. We always knew. We just chose not to hear and to silence those who tried to remind us of the truth. Richard Flanagan
March 23, 2018 0 A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices. George Orwell
March 17, 2018 0 Once you realise that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are – a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told. Ha-joon Chang
October 22, 2017 0 There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of a comfortable past, which in fact, never existed. Robert F. Kennedy
October 22, 2017 0 The day after marriage equality happens, no one will be less married and no one will be more gay. Clover Moore
October 4, 2017 0 If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H.L. Mencken
September 27, 2017 0 Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resort pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. Arthur Schopenhauer
September 22, 2017 0 When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom', we make a mockery of human rights. DaShanne Stokes
