Current Affairs

What connects Adani, Facebook and the Australian election? Money. Vast sums of money that Adani will lose if the huge coal mine in the Carmichael Basin in central Queensland does not go ahead (which would scuttle other, smaller tho still huge, coal...

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#metoo expanding its reach? In mid February 2018 there was yet another school shooting, this time in Florida and there were 17 deaths. While previous responses to mass shootings were ignored by Trump, this has been turbo charged by the #metoo...

Anxious about the lack of support shown him by the Australian Government in direct opposition to what is widely seen as widespread popular support, this is a very clever move which will enable a virtual referendum to take place whereby the public...

It is Anzac Day again, and as usual there is so much written in defence of it as well as questions raised about the point of celebrating a slaughter on a battlefield Australians had no business being on. There is something legitimate about Anzac...

Everyone has heard of the latest documents published by Wikileaks which have embarrassed pretty much every government in the world, especially leaving significant quantities of egg on the face of the US. Just now I saw a TV news bulletin talking...

I just read the report of the ruling by the ACCC in Australia on the Power Balance Bands that have taken the sports world by storm over the past year. (see link at bottom of page) The ACCC has ordered that Power Balance Australia refund all monies...

Not content with the demolition job they did on Pan Pharmaceuticals (see Power Balance bands sham for a description of the TGA's role on Pan's collapse) Australian media continue to undermine, through innuendo and biased reporting, the alternative...

There is a lot of attention right now on the COW governments lying to We the People, probably with intention to mislead. In some circles there is also dismay (and cynicism) at the ability (and sometimes apparent eagerness) of We the People to be...