Why did so many countries watch the epidemic unfold for weeks as though it was none of their concern? (more…)
According to his lawyers, Mr Assange was handcuffed 11 times; stripped naked twice and searched; his case files confiscated after the first day of the hearing; and had his request to sit with his lawyers during the trial, rather than in a dock surrounded by bulletproof glass, denied. (more…)
In mid-February the number of cases of COVID-19 in South Korea suddenly increased and there are now over 5,000 confirmed cases. As a result South Korea has instituted containment strategies, designated clinics for mass screening and established over 200 public relief hospitals. How does Australia’s response compare?
They’re the best of our boys. One is a “musician from a good high school,” another a “boy scout” who majored in theater.” They’re the snipers who have shot thousands of unarmed protesters along the Gaza border fence. (more…)
Beijing is using the outbreak to boost its reputation for global cooperation while Washington plays the blame-Beijing game. (more…)
At a dinner party in mid-February, an architect told me that he was having a problem finishing his building projects. It was the carpets. (more…)
A third of northern NSW’s ancient and irreplaceable rainforests burnt last year. Buffers need to be established, and weed control undertaken, to increase their resilience. (more…)
For 40 years, Republicans have been insisting that “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” (more…)
The Liberals claim they are better economic and money managers. But there is scant evidence to support that claim. (more…)
For nearly a month, as the coronavirus has threatened the health and economy of Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been almost invisible. (more…)
No wonder we have lost confidence in institutions when Justices of the High Court act improperly
The practice of moving detainees around Australia’s immigration detention network is doubly unjustifiable on economic and humanitarian grounds. (more…)
I was caught unawares by being exposed to COVID-19, despite thorough knowledge of the online medical research. I am now in home isolation. If I can be caught unawares, you can too. (more…)
Contributors to a site called, ‘CCC Guys’, most of whom are former seminarians, have had much to say about the Pell trials and the looming High Court decision. (more…)
There is an abundance of evidence about what we need to do to prepare ourselves for bushfires but there is very little about the best way to encourage post disaster community recovery. (more…)
China conducts deepwater surveys near secretive base US and Australian subs and ships use in South China Sea. (more…)
For the sake of humanity and our planet, we cannot allow personally, communally, nationally or globally, to return to situation normal, writes Patty Fawkner.
As claims the Federal Government is honestly serving and representing the people look increasingly hollow, Independent MP Helen Haines has presented a historic scheme to hold them to account in “the Beechworth Principles”. (more…)
A strategic China would have seduced Japan as a way of undermining US power in Asia. Their failure to do so in all likelihood means that the US is in East Asia to stay, no matter what. (more…)
Despite the jaded history of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Australia, the Government has announced it will fund it rather than Renewables. (more…)
The period from the Tet offensive of early 1968 to the Moratorium demonstration of May 1970 was the turning point in the most important battlefield of the Vietnam War—the battle for American public opinion. (more…)
They know they are winning. Why would they concede anything? (more…)
Western reports on COVID-19 have overwhelmingly been produced under a simple banner of ‘China’. It’s a homogeneous label that ignores the human face of Chinese people everywhere. (more…)
Now that US Senator Bernie Sanders has emerged as a leading contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, his brand of democratic socialism warrants closer scrutiny. (more…)
I have a rotten cold. My eyes are watering, my head is pounding and I can’t stop sneezing. Normally I would get plenty of rest and fluids and just wait it out. (more…)
Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu (2018) has given a recent jolt to the declining History Wars and has invigorated some conservative commentators and writers to disagree with his conclusions (Marks 2020; Morton 2019). (more…)
Hundreds of years of racism have merged in the Australian governments response to the Corona virus. (more…)
Estimates suggest 300,000 Australian women aged between 45 and 65 are at risk of homelessness when they retire. (more…)