Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has celebrated his success over the weekend in overtaking Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the polls by heading to his local pet store and strangling a basket of puppies. ”It’s important that we don’t just dwell... Read More ›
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Zhao Ying is a China commentator and the host of CGTN Radio’s “World Today” program. Zhao Ying interviews Professor Chen Hong, President of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies and Director of the Australian Studies Center at East China Normal University on Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia and the promising signs of recovery Continue reading »
The statement released by the Prime Minister’s office concerning the visit of Chinese Premier Li Qiang notes that there will be a ‘community event to recognise the significant contributions of the over one million members of the Chinese-Australian community to our nation’s multicultural success story’. But what Chinese-Australians truly desire is to be treated as Continue reading »
Last week activists in Brisbane CBD took their voices and violin to the doorstop of giant American weapons and aircraft company Boeing. To denounce Boeing, along with other US, Australian and UK based ammunition and weapons manufacturers for prolonging the wars in Gaza and the Ukraine in order to make huge profits from civilian suffering Continue reading »
No doubt like many other people around the world, we have been surprised and increasingly concerned that Noam Chomsky has not commented publicly on current events for around one year; in particular, on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. The most recent major interview we could find was this from 5 June 2023 with Piers Morgan. Continue reading »
This year, as the world celebrated the holiday season, my Palestinian Christian community in Sydney, and elsewhere, experienced profound bereavement and fear, a sentiment shared by our Muslim and Jewish siblings. This year, I wondered for the first time, if my people’s culture, that of the Palestinian Christians, continuous since Jesus of Nazareth walked our Continue reading »
Dutton re-ignites the climate war and weaponises immigration policy, the economy shows early signs of recovery from decades of the Coalition’s low-wage-low-productivity policy, the struggle between authoritarian populism and democracy heats up. Read on for the weekly roundup of links to articles, podcasts, reports and other media on current economic and political issues. Politics Dutton’s Continue reading »
I dug a hole in the garden I don’t why just felt like digging Just broke up with my girlfriend I needed something … something to do Soon I’d dug so deep The sky was just a window above me But I didn’t care … mmm Looking for something deeper Jackson Jackson (2006) The parallels Continue reading »
“Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.” – Albert Einstein, 1949. I’ve been ignoring Continue reading »