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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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Trump is teaching the world about the lack of compassion, dignity, responsibility, kindness, empathy, intelligence, about the fear of strangers and those needing help, about might is right (which by definition every US President demonstrates) and we...

In this 2008 article written by Waleed Ali, The Burkha: Women as a battlefield, Waleed challenges a lot of assumptions than Westerners are again making in 2016 about the relative freedom of Muslim women who wear burkhinis....

An article by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies published in the New York Post in August 2016 discusses screen addiction as electronic cocaine and digital heroin and talks about kids...

I was driving around recently and was disturbed to see bars crowded with under 35s watching a UFC match. I instantly saw UFC as a sign of our times and a manifestation of all that is wrong in our increasingly disconnected and violent...

Dr Anna Rolfes M.B.B.S., M.D., Ph.D., is the founder of the Institute for Vibrational Medicine (IVM). She was educated in Germany graduating in medicine in 1975. She holds a MD in Social Medicine and a PHD in Health Science. She practised medicine...

Formerly known as Sue Pollock from Ballina Naturopthics, Sue wrote a monthly naturopathic columm for the now defunct Here & Now which was widely apprecated in the Byron Bay area. In these columms she explained to the layman/woman the ins and outs of...

Fluctuating between musings on the sexuality of wildlife, the despair of the environmentalist who understands the ecological imperative of change that is not happening fast enough, the diarist detailing her first coherent steps as a writer plus lots...