The legacy news media appears determined to nail down its own coffin-lid, as its former viewers and readers are forced to seek out netizen journalists, niche internet opinion...
The days of women merely fighting for equal opportunity have long since ceased. According to Christina Hoff Summers, the goal of at least some leading feminists now...
We really are in a post-truth era of politics; and for a change, Western Australia is leading the pack instead of trailing 30 years behind. As you probably know, we are a...
Pop. That is the sound of the pin of reality piercing the inflated balloon of Australian economic wishful thinking. Fresh this afternoon: Victoria and NSW have...
The September quarter national accounts released last Wednesday have been interpreted by some commentators as heralding the end of the recession. If only that were true....
Today, Monday 7 December, will be a day filled with trepidation for Victorians and all Australians. Today is the day that the Victorian government restarts the...
Social stigma is a damaging phenomenon. It occurs when people are associated with negatively viewed events, beliefs, and social phenomena that lead the community to infer...
In 1869, a “well-meaning” Victorian government passed the Aborigines Protection Act under which Aboriginal children could be taken from their families for the first time. In...
According to Tim Flannery’s Climate Council, Aborigines ate the megafauna, so highly flammable scrub grew up and they had to develop hazard reduction burning. Then the Industrial...
The first images I saw of the Great Barrier Reef were in 1980s television news reports warning that the crown-of-thorns starfish was destroying it. Divers were...