Remember that feeling inside when the Matilda’s inspired the nation? Many of us didn’t even know the rules, everyone did by the end of it though. Excited conversations were had about whether we should call it soccer or football, as we recalled the nail-biting moments of that penalty shootout. Didn’t it feel good to feel connected to…
Refugee Action Coalition Media Release Where’s the money gone? PNG secret deal leaves refugees without food vouchers or allowances. Transport cut, medical treatment under threat. Following on from cuts to electricity and threats of eviction, PNG refugees, this week, have been left without food vouchers and allowances. Phone calls to the service provider, Namora, who…
Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Media Release Complaints from phone and internet consumers decreased 16.5 per cent in the last financial year ending 30 June 2023. In this period, consumers and small business made 66,388 complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, highlighted in the Annual Report 2022-23 published today. Complaints about mobile phone services remained steady against…
The 21st century international Right which has hijacked the old conservative parties is post-democratic. The use that the Coalition parties are making of the Voice debate shows the Australian inflection of this trend. In the USA, the MAGA wing has taken over the already radicalising Republican Party. The conservatives of old tried to ride the…
Media Release After a decade of temporary immigration visas and uncertainty, a 34 year old Tamil asylum seeker, Thienushan Chandrasekaram, (aka Thienushan Chand) is pedalling to Canberra to raise awareness of the plight of his cohort with the federal government. This group or legacy caseload is around 12,000 strong. Averaging 90km per day, Thienushan is…
Media Release Living on the Edge project launches at the National Museum of Australia with a vibrant community day Experience a stimulating array of art, performance, story-telling and conversations exploring Australia’s remarkable river and wetland communities at the River Country Community Day on Sunday 15 October at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The…
It has been a few days of slaughter-filled accounts. Starting on October 7 on the Jewish day of Simchat Torah, the State of Israel has faced assaults from hundreds of Hamas militants. Directed from southwards in the country, the mayhem has rattled the security and intelligence establishment smugly convinced in their reading of Palestinian motivations…
Shock and horror. But to and for whom? At 6.30 am on October 7, the State of Israel was certainly in shock. From the south, its citizens faced attacks by, as news reports put it, air, sea and land executed by the Islamic militant group Hamas. Within a matter of hours, the death toll of…
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, Senator Price and others are telling us to vote ‘no’ at the Referendum because we don’t know what will happen and it is divisive. Let’s take that advice and consider it further. Most Australians have had a loan for some reason at some point in their lives. Essentially what you do…
In April 2021, the Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt had a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club. According to an ABC News report, “Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, to which an excited Trump – ‘leaning’ towards Pratt as if to be discreet – then…