Parramatta Mosque leader attempts to kick cameraman
In the wake of Friday's killing of Curtis Cheng, Parramatta mosque leader Neil El-Kadomi responds to the media by trying to kick a cameraman. From the video, we can see quite clearly how El-Kadomi...
Global extreme poverty to fall below 10 percent in 2015
The World Bank has announced that the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to under 10 percent of the global population in 2015, according to World...
XYZ Quote of the Day: Because we can
Yesterday, on the XYZ Quote of the Day, with the poetry of Kipling, we brought you gravity. Today, we bring you levity.
Because we can:
An open letter to the Prime Minister of Australia – in percentile terms, what...
I’m so very pleased the Australian Prime Minister is emphasising, at considerable length and with some insistence, that the latest shooting rampage by a black robed Islamic fanatic shouting “Allah, Allah” is representative of...
InSupportOfExtremists
Bill Shorten gets it. The ABC gets it. The Greens get it. Why do you not get it?
When a kid is raised within the paradigm of a value system in an insular community, then...
What are our political leaders thinking?
It seems our political leaders can do everything but focus on the victim of Friday's killing, Curtis Cheng, and the others caught up in the NSW Police headquarters shooting, and the issue of radical...
Vatican: We have no responsibility for ‘tiny minority’ of pedophile priests
In the wake of the sex abuse scandals which have rocked the Catholic Church in recent years, the Vatican has today released a statement reassuring members of the community that only a "tiny minority"...
Seven unanswered questions concerning the western world’s intake of Syrian refugees
The United Nations and the European Union have spent a lot of time lecturing mainly western nations, together with those member states in central Europe, on the need to accept more and more Syrian...
Quote of the Day: Triumph, Disaster, and being a Man.
XYZ Quote of the Day goes to Rudyard Kipling. We think we'll let him speak for himself:
If, by Rudyard Kipling.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and...
Omar hasn’t got a clue (or a passport)
Poor Omar had his passport cancelled at the point of exit out of Australia and didn't get to the Hajj as planned - something he should actually be grateful for, as it may well...
