Meet the Greens
Its 2022, and after years of struggle, the Greens have finally come to power in Australia.
Mines are heavily taxed or shut down. Welfare flows to the needy. The rich are taxed an appopriate but...
Give me back my shoe Jew!
Twitter can be so cruel. From behind anonymous handles and malicious hashtags, the Twittersphere cruelled well meaning British activist Ashgar Bukhari. The story, in its sordid fullness, is here.
I don’t know Mr Bukhari, but...
Well frankly, I find that offensive
If you happen to express an opinion which reflects the current state of Australian law, you run the risk of having your view dismissed and branded as “extremely hurtful.”
The Victorian Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie...
Weekend In-Depth: The Poor Old ABC’s blindness on Martin Place.
Today on Weekend In-Depth we look back at the events surrounding the Martin Place siege in December 2014, and the ABC's inability to call it for what it was:
The poor old ABC. Its multiple...
De-construct me
I was born in to a very middle class, very ordinary, family, in Australia, forty something years ago. Both of my parents are of white Anglo-Saxon heritage, and descended from families that inhabited some...
Weekend Arts: Bass, the forgotten instrument in rock
I'm an avid 80's music fan and as I've been listening over the last couple of months, it has occurred to me that the bass is the forgotten instrument in Rock.
The bass player doesn't...
Would Isaac Newton be employable in 2015?
A storm over gender politics has been whipped up in the wake of Professor Tim Hunt's remarks about women in the lab. The Nobel laureate's off-hand comments have been roundly condemned by commentators and...
Science fiction and the battle of futurology
Futurism in science fiction is what makes the genre both exciting and relevant, as it provides parables for how life could be organised here on Earth, and inspiration for where we could aim to...
Falling out of love with Professor Tim Hunt
Is there something wrong with this world when one of our most gifted scientists is forced to resign from his work – work that could significantly benefit humanity – because he said something stupid...
Borrowing From OUR Future (a follow-up to “Are we luring migrants to their deaths?”)
Recently, my fellow contributor David Hiscox wrote about the link between the expansion of social services and increasing national debt.
As I read over his article linking paying for social services with deficit spending, and...
