How a word like "equality" has become a bit of a minefield.
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The Opposition’s Shadow Minister for Home Affairs Barnaby Joyce has put out a press release offering a leg over, err up, for any young ladies to celebrate International Women’s Day. ”You will not find anyone else in Parliament who has... Read More ›
After years of corruption scandals and concessions to the auto industry, the UAW finds itself on the precipice of radical new leadership.
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Discuss: "The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness. Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough."
The US seems obsessed with China, yet effectively admits it is behind and unlikely to catch up. And it too quickly dismisses Russia.
Wars are started by political forces. They are promoted by propagandists, fought by soldiers and it is always the ordinary people that suffer. Wars are almost never about principle and almost always about profit in one form or another. The war in Ukraine, like all other wars has been sold to us as a struggle Continue reading »
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues that have largely remained aspirational. It was timed to coincide with G20 talks in New Delhi, which has seen a flurry of contentious meetings traversing security, economics and education, all taking Continue reading »
Last week 4.8 million people contracted Covid-19 and 39,000 died as a result. The pandemic rages on around the world with, globally, cumulative cases of 675,565,574 and 6,873,798 deaths documented. In the USA right wing politicians desperately want wicked China to have created the virus and/or deliberately or carelessly let it loose from a laboratory Continue reading »
Major General Kathryn Campbell, currently sitting in a fairly empty office in the Department of Defence on a miserly $900,000 plus a year, seems set to become, by acclamation as much as by the weight of the evidence so far available the chief bureaucratic victim of the Robodebt affair. Indeed, apart from the several hundred Continue reading »
In a recent article, the Hon. P.J. Keating berated the wretched Greg Sheridan for manifold errors in a typical The Australian Newsrag opinion piece. Only a fool provokes PJK on spurious grounds. Though enjoyable to witness the public dissection of a noxious Murdoch apparatchik, there is much more to note in Keating’s article. A phrase Continue reading »