Two female NSW Ministers for Women oppose women’s health, safety and well-being
It says a great deal about our society and nothing much good, that women attending clinics and hospitals providing abortions are subject to harassment and intimidation by so-called “pro lifers,” to the...
View ArticleTurnbull, the self-made man. Seriously?
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them … I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political...
View ArticleDear Turnbull and Shorten: Don’t wear the White Ribbon next time around
In December 2017, following sexual harassment scandals in Hollywood and Westminster, a report into the sexual harassment complaints process in the Australian Federal Parliament concluded that...
View ArticleSchooling Senator Hinch
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, January 17 2019, the body of 21-year-old Palestinian student Aiia Maasarwe was found next to a Bundoora shopping centre in Melbourne. Police described her...
View ArticleRussian whistle-blower denied asylum in Australia
In 2006, British contractor Nick Stride was hired to work on the refurbishment of a palace under construction for Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov, on his estate outside Moscow. The...
View ArticleNeeson, Racism, and Rape
Liam Neeson is not an actor in whom I have the slightest interest. So spending the last couple of days discussing his actions has felt a little odd. Out and about promoting his new film, a revenge...
View ArticleThe attack on women by Australian politicians, and Alan Jones
Things have been just dandy for women in the last forty eight hours, with broadcaster Alan Jones declaring that Prime Minister Scott Morrison should give New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern a few...
View ArticleDealing with Pell
Yesterday, Cardinal George Pell lost his appeal against his conviction of child sexual abuse. Children, when allowed to develop without debilitating trauma, often have an innate sense of fairness,...
View ArticleTrouble in Home Affairs
Trouble in Home Affairs: Coleman wants the family to stay, Dutton wants them refouled In May 2019, newly-elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison removed responsibility for the Immigration portfolio from...
View ArticleWhere is Scott Morrison and why is it a secret?
We awoke this morning to another day in which Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s whereabouts are unknown to the public, with his staff declining to enlighten us. Australian PM Scott Morrison, currently...
View ArticleYou have a #Right to Know, but only when the media says so. Media and the...
For the last few days there has been unrelenting speculation on social media concerning Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s whereabouts. Yesterday evening journalist Samantha Maiden published this piece in...
View Article“Let them watch fireworks:” Gladys Antoinette, Sydney 2019
The sickening irony of letting off millions of exploding flames into a city sky already thickened with the smoke of bushfires that have surrounded Sydney for weeks, and then calling it “welcoming in...
View ArticleIn Cobargo people are still homeless after the fires, so where is the $2...
This morning I received the following email from my sister, Sarah, who lost her home in the Cobargo fires. I’m speaking to ABC radio tomorrow about how bad the situation is down here. I haven’t looked...
View ArticleHow the PM’s refusal to isolate puts everyone at risk
Yesterday, Friday March 13th, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton announced that he’d tested positive for the COVID-19 virus earlier in the day, and was in hospital in Brisbane. Dutton returned from a...
View ArticleLies, lies and more lies
On May 25 2020, the Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, (PM&C) Phil Gaetjens, the most senior public servant in government administration, made a written submission to the Senate Finance and...
View ArticleThe “open secret”: when men do nothing
In an independent investigation by a former inspector general of intelligence and security, former High Court judge Dyson Heydon has been found to have sexually harassed six junior court staff during...
View ArticleReligious profit: Expanding the cashless welfare card ties in with Morrison’s...
The philosophy of the cashless welfare card is the perfect marriage of neoliberal ideology and evangelical Christianity, both of which pathologise, criminalise and individualise poverty as a lifestyle...
View ArticleMorrison: Opportunity Lost to Attack Racism or Political Expediency?
By Dr Stewart Hase Good leaders know that what they say influences people. This is particularly true for political leaders because they have followers that share the same biases. We saw this in...
View ArticleWhat Australian media doesn’t report and …
This article was written by the founder of #ThisIsNotJournalism, a social media account that looks at the reporting of mainstream Australian media, particularly on stories relating to politics at both...
View ArticleBeing Indifferent to Difference
By Dr Stewart Hase Humans are not particularly adept at accepting difference. I suspect that we are hard wired to at least be wary of others who are not the same as us. In fact, research studies have...
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