It’s Abbott Hour, when I settle down to the ironing and think about how much more it would cost to get it done commercially because something something carbon tax. Australia’s Minister for Women would, I’m […]
Australia’s March in March attracted plenty of interest on social media and somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 – depending on who you read – people in the streets. Not for the first time our professional […]
Australia’s ‘asylum seeker issue’ has been pushed off our front pages lately. The Abbott government’s early Christmas presents to school children, car workers, aged care workers, child care workers and low-paid workers of all stripes […]
When official sources fail, good journalists shine. One of the best was the BBC’s Anthony Lawrence, who died in Hong Kong in September 2013 at the venerable age of 101. One of his greatest stories is an example […]
My record on picking election winners is poor at best so I’m happy to leave that effort to others. All I have to do is decide who to vote for. It’s an opportunity I haven’t […]
We Australians might like to think our policies on asylum seekers are based on humanitarian concerns, but to the rest of the world, I think we may appear to be a bit racist.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s speech in which she denounced the opposition leader Tony Abbott’s sexism and misogyny made headlines around the world. But it followed an extraordinary period when the spotlight never shifted far […]
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