Politics, World Affairs

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...

One of the things that is patently obvious in modern Australian elections is that neither of the main political parties has either the will or the interest in making any substantial inroads into our carbon...

The Greens wishlist is pretty much the wish list of every person in Australia who wants to build a happy life for themselves. From education, hospitals, public transport, renewable energy, sustainable cities to saving our old growth forests so our...

I want to raise the question: are labour and Greens natural enemies? for those Australian Greenies who find themselves frustrated by Labour’s seeming inability to grasp environmental...

Do you remember those days prior to the start of the Iraq war, when hundreds of thousand of Australians marched in the streets, demanding and pleading with the Howard Goverrnment to not commit our country to a bogus war in...

“Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel World Bank, US government, and other foreign ‘aid’ funds into the coffers of international businesses and the pockets...

Everything I need to know about life I can learn from Michael Leunig. I met the man on his recent visit to Byron Bay and his teapot philosophy made more sense than ever before. With confidence I can throw away those dusty self-help books propping up...

Over the course of the 2008 US presidential campaign and the democratic primaries beforehand, I often found myself in tears as I watched Obama’s speeches on the internet or on...

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...