By James Moore “Home folks think I’m big in Detroit City. From the letters that I write they think I’m fine. But by day I make the cars, by night I make the bars, if only they could read between the lines. I wanna go home.” – Bobby Bare, “Detroit City” There are images that…
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By Denis Hay Description Explore claims about Australia’s domestic violence statistics. Is it a genuine crisis or political misinformation? Analysis backed by AIC data. The discourse on violence against women in Australia has intensified, especially with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s recent declaration of domestic violence as a national crisis. This critique examines the validity of…
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Media Release Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) has spoken out in response to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s statements in The Australian today that the Federal Liberal Party would dump Australia’s interim emissions reduction targets. The organisation, founded and led by bushfire survivors, has labelled the move reckless and devastating.…
In news this week Peter Costello was accused of knocking a journalist to the ground. Some disputed this account, arguing that Liam Mendes works for “The Australian” and therefore can’t be considered a journalist. People in the Liberal Party asserted that they knew Peter very well and, in all their experience of him, he would…
National climate group Solutions for Climate Australia expressed extreme disappointment and concern at the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton proposing further decades of delay in tackling climate change, despite increasing climate disasters. This follows a statement by Peter Dutton today, in an interview with The Australian, that the Federal Liberal Party wants to reject current targets…
By Bert Hetebry “You’re not worth going to jail for.” Let’s call him John. I met John walking on the beach several months ago. He is an angry 60 something guy, divorced and about as anti-woman as any one I have met. He divorced a long time ago, he told me he wanted to kill…
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Climate Council Media Release Responding to reports today that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton would rip up Australia’s 2030 climate targets if elected, Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said: “Dutton’s climate policy is a disaster, and the consequence for Australians would be more extreme heat, fires and floods. Instead of ripping up Australia’s 2030 climate targets,…
Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of earning their crust. Yet again, the election results from a country have confounded the chatterers and psephologists. India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, was meant to romp home and steal the…
CFMEU Media Release Claims Australia is suffering a major shortage of tradespeople have been shot down in a major blow for bosses’ lobbyists trying to exploit and undercut workers. A CFMEU analysis of Jobs & Skills Australia occupation and internet job advertisements data busts the myth peddled by employer groups that there is a worker…
Few have exerted as much influence on the tone, and outcome of elections, as Nigel Farage. Fewer have done so while failing to win office. In seven attempts at standing for a seat in the UK House of Commons between 1994 and 2015, the votes to get him across the line have failed to materialise.…