The Adani conglomerate should be best described as a bloated gangster, promising the earth even as it mines it. Like other corporate thugs of such disposition, it will do things within, and if necessary outside, the regulatory framework it encounters. Where necessary, it will libel detractors and bribe critics, speak of a fictional number of…
By Keith Thomas Davis We may have a right to it, but in reality there is no such thing as free speech. The words we utter or write are never free from a follow-on consequence. Words have the power to uplift, to soar us away on the wings of imagination, they have the ability to…
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I’ve been copping some criticism for my decision to publicly disagree with the Parliamentary Labor Party’s decision to waive through the Conservative Government’s tax cuts package – which includes some benefits for middle-income earners, but nothing for the working poor, and a massive windfall for the rich. ‘Phase 3’ – which focuses mainly on tax…
It is no accident that, despite declining religiosity in Australia, our parliament is going in the opposite direction. It’s no coincidence that we are hearing calls for religious freedom and seeing high profile court cases. It’s all part of a long-term plan. In November 2003, the National Alliance of Christian Leaders (NACL) held a summit to “develop…
Continued from Part 2. It was the Sunday night a couple of weeks after I had given Moira the locket. It was a foul night of the big storm that took down the telephone wires all around the district … so the exchange was out of action. Mrs Glastonbury came in and told me to…
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“Art doesn’t imitate life, it imitates bad television”, quips Woody Allen. ScoMo & Co’s reality TV Prime Ministership show, local franchise of the global schlock-horror melodrama of The House of Trump, sponsored by Multinational Oil Inc, exceeds our worst expectations this week. Our deep misgivings about its good faith are confirmed. Frydenberg shills Philip Lowe…
Former leader of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) Lyle Shelton has come forth with yet more of the persecution narrative. This time, the issue is the ‘suffering’ that christians have faced following the passage of marriage equality. Ah yes, the great and crushing suffering that takes place as a result of having your privilege removed.…
By Maria Millers At the opening session of the Hillsong Conference, our Prime Minister told the 21,000-strong congregation that Australia needed more prayers and love. So where is the love for those who come to us seeking refuge? How is it that on Friday night yet another young life was lost when a 23-year-old man…
By the Tjimpuna Anangu Mayatja Council of Elders To the shock of Anangu* at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park on Tuesday, an 8 year-old child was left abandoned at the base of Uluru while both his parents left him to go climb. He was found by a Park Ranger with no food, water or parental supervision…
Continued from Part 1. “It all started with my going outside for a ciggy and a break from the post office. It was a very clear night, with the only intrusion being the usual raucous from the pub over the road. The harvest was going full tilt. Then from somewhere inside the hotel, a piano…
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