Gender Inequality Still Rampant in Workplaces: Report
The Australian Federal Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency has reported today that new data reveals that workplace gender inequality is still rampant, with men earning $27,000 a year more than women.
Many would be familiar...
Sharia Law and Violence Against Women
Yesterday in Australia was White Ribbon Day. It is a day marked every year to campaign against violence towards women and girls.
Despite the movement around White Ribbon day which has gathered pace over the...
Blue Origin paves way for Millennium Falcon
It has been an exciting week in the world of aerospace. A couple of days ago, two Turkish F-16's shot down a Russian SU-24, tempting us nerds to dust off our old flight simulators,...
Turnbull wrong on Islam
On Monday, November 23, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addressed the Federal Parliament expressing his condolences to and solidarity with the French people, and his determination to destroy the Islamic State. Importantly, the French...
Labor’s Plan to Tax the Poor
Labor, the party of the worker, and the party that fights for the rights of the poor, wants to tax them further with a hike in cigarette prices which would see a packet costing...
Mind Your Manners
As a result of a mundane series of events (I went out to get a hair cut) I found myself this week inside a Nandos in the CBD of my city, eating friend chicken...
BREAKING NEWS: Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet
BREAKING NEWS
After a tense few days between the nations, a Turkish warplane has just shot down a Russia fighter which was said to have violated Turkish airspace near Syria.
There is an old Chinese curse:...
The Devil Loves Microagressions
If there is one thing we can take from the scourge of "microaggressions", (a word that does not appear in most spell-checkers,) which is currently sweeping universities across the Western world, it is this:
The...
Gladys Berejiklian Goes Blank on Disruptive Tech
Introducing XYZ's newest contributor, Dean Hamstead
As a teenager, I envied others with large music collections. A friend of mine had a CD carousel holding more albums than I owned, which no doubt cost many...
The Disappearance of Childhood
I have recently finished reading a very engaging, and prophetic book – 'the Disappearance of Childhood' by cultural critic and media theorist, Neil Postman.
First published in 1982, Postman observes the disappearance of the modern...
