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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I missed the Grand Final today but guess what – I didn’t kill anybody
Today was one of the worst days of my life. Well, at least since September 25, 1999. That was the last time I missed...
