Australia
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The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humaneSeptember 16, 2024
13 mins
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As Michael Easson notes in his new Chris Watson biography, Labor's first PM sought to civilise capitalism, not bring it downSeptember 15, 2024
9 mins
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Remarkably, the Voice went down despite big business, big tech, big sport, and big philanthropySeptember 14, 2024
14 mins
The latest
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Nasser Mashni, president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), has been impossible to avoid since the October 7 massacresSeptember 11, 2024
11 mins
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Aborigines believed spirits were specific to locations, not universally representative of all nature. This misconception became significant in cases such as the Hindmarsh burlesqueSeptember 9, 2024
12 mins
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The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.September 9, 2024
18 mins
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If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.September 6, 2024
6 mins
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The Justice’s legal analysis is superficially plausible but, nevertheless, the judgment is woefully woke. This is because the law, even if it were argued that the Court correctly applied the law, is incompatible with the biological fact that there are two sexes.September 1, 2024
16 mins
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Fortunately, Opera Australia’s 'diversity and inclusion' statement 'celebrate[s] different perspectives' and will therefore accept my musings in the spirit intendedSeptember 1, 2024
21 mins
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You can imagine my surprise when I recently became aware, courtesy of my cousin Paul, of the letter below, addressed to Mr J.A, Farquar, Commissioner of the South Australian Railways.August 31, 2024
4 mins
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Apparently, what respectable Australian researchers do is assume that there is a link between suspensions and incarceration because American researchers claim to have found one.August 29, 2024
16 mins
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Put shortly, a progressive, left-leaning Sydney-based artist visits her archaeologist brother in Bolivia. She is told that Che Guevara fought his last campaign in the wilds of Bolivia and that one of his lieutenants came from the utopian colony nearby founded by William Lane and other Australian radicals. Inspired by what she has heard, and well aware of Che Guevara’s popularity on university campuses in the United States and Australia, the progressive artist decides to enter a portrait prize for an image to be installed over the entrance to the New South Wales Gallery. Her image, linked to Che’s supposedly heroic campaign, will symbolise the victory of progressive thought down under.August 29, 2024
25 mins
