Peanuts and Monkeys
‘If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.’ It is the default position of every craven…More
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Drudgery and Grace
All of us have our prejudices, and a recent overseas trip has reminded me of…More
Alan Jones and Groceries
Last week, new legislation was introduced in Federal Parliament to strengthen the powers of the…More
Down to Earth Star Guide for Skeptics and Cynics
CancerThe impact of Mercury’s retrograde continues this week. Your choices are about as crowd-pleasing as,…More
Violent exchanges
Fifteen minutes before John Howard all but declared martial law in remote Aboriginal communities in…More
Howard Ignores Children, When It Suits Him
Last week, John Howard discovered the plight of some vulnerable children. This, after instituting a…More
Covering Howard's End
The sentencing last Friday of former Customs intelligence analyst, Allan Kessing, showed the price a…More
Censure or Censorship?
Upon its release last September, Al Gore’s docu-lecture An Inconvenient Truth was roundly hailed as…More
Tariq Ali, Pervez Musharraf and the next Big Crisis
Rumours thrive in Pakistan. The country has staggered from dictatorship to war to corrupt democracy,…More
The Uncensored Hansard (18 June 2007)
In an ongoing series of reports from the frontline of Federal Parliamentary Question Time, Norm…More