The world is at a crossroads. The battle for our attention and support is between two opposed camps: global action on climate change or global war on terror. Or put more explicitly, it is a choice between: a) Saving life on earth by changing the way we live and moving to renewable energy such as…
It is now obvious to everyone except Blind Freddy that the Martin Place siege gunman Man Haron Monis was an ASIO agent from the time he arrived in Australia in 1996. Final proof came this week when the NSW government-ordered inquest was recalled without notice and then banned the press and public from hearing ASIO’s…
In the thick of Australia’s greatest era of social and cultural reform, a vice-regal coup succeeded in overthrowing the elected government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. It was November 1975 and the capitals of the Western world were swirling with hyper-inflation, OPEC’s “oil shock”, massive government debt and rising unemployment. A year earlier President Richard…
Watching Malcolm Turnbull edge the Liberal Party from the frontiers of right-wing madness to the middle ground of middle Australia has become an absorbing pastime. Every week of his short time in the prime ministership, Turnbull has signalled a significant shift in policy to the centre ground. This week he declared that knights and dames…
