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Australian Human Rights Commission Media Release The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling on the Australian Government to halt the passage of its controversial National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Amendment Bill until significant human rights […]

Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of supposedly […]

Every so often – very often – someone declares that Aborigines “did nothing for 65,000 years.” Usually it is presented as an indisputable fact, as though it settles the argument. It doesn’t. It merely exposes […]

By Chen Ziqi   “Made in China” has long been a familiar label around the world. For decades, it was often found on clothing, household furniture and consumer electronics, products that became part of everyday […]

We live in dangerous times Back in 2020 I wrote about the ‘3 amigos’, consisting of Trump in the US, Johnson in the UK, and Morrison in Australia. The three of them were destroying their […]

Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US President Donald J. Trump is again on the stage pulling on the strings of history. This time, […]

The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of its presence. In a world of mass supply, changing of hands, and bewilderingly complex […]

Wolf Hall is a work of historical fiction. It is meticulously researched, but Hilary Mantel has allowed herself ample space, in which she has thoroughly personalised the figure of Thomas Cromwell. Thomas Cromwell, not to […]

By Walt Zlotow  President Trump is flailing around like every world leader in history who launched a criminal war of choice he can’t win but can’t quit. Like every losing criminal war predecessor, he’s becoming more […]

THE PREDATORS’ PARADISE Neoliberalism, Colonial Ideology, and the Weaponisation of Zionism Dedicated to: The Truth Abstract This essay examines the coordinated campaign that has reshaped Australia’s political and cultural landscape through the weaponisation of the […]

Where in hell can you go Far from the things that you know Far from the sprawl of concrete That keeps drawing its way About a thousand miles a day? Take on last look behind […]