National Secular Lobby Media Brief The National Secular Lobby is a co-sponsor and co-organiser of the Secularism Australia Conference, to be held in Sydney on Saturday 2nd December 2023. Reclaiming the “Middle Ground” – Landmark National Secular Conference Headline speakers include Michael Kirby, Jane Caro, Fiona Patten, Leslie Cannold, Van Badham, Chris Schacht, and many…
They can be a serious lot in New Zealand. They got upset at – forgive this author such reference – the use of a rule in cricket back in February 1981 which led to expressions of misty anger from the Prime Minister of the day, Robert Muldoon. While permissible within the laws of cricket, sides…
By James Moore The 60th Anniversary of the Slaying of John Fitzgerald Kennedy “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams I remember that the day was typical for a Michigan November. A hard wind was blowing…
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Fifteen Tamil and Iranian refugee women walked 300 kms from Sydney to Canberra to raise awareness of the plight of 10,000+ refugees held in limbo for over 10 years. We are a group of refugees who were processed through the flawed Fast Track process introduced by the previous government. We were very happy to hear…
The unpardonable, outrageous trial of Australian whistleblower David McBride was a brief affair. On November 13, it did not take long for the brutal power of the Commonwealth to become evident. McBride, having disclosed material that formed the Australian public about alleged war crimes by special forces in Afghanistan, was going to be made an…
Its very convenient for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton that a lot of us are not overly interested in politics and can’t remember what we had for lunch last Tuesday. It gives him the chance to suggest that white is white today and suggest black is white in a month’s time. According to Dutton and the…
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They tell us very little, but we are still fascinated by them. Me included. At this time in the election cycle, polls suggest zero about who will win the next election, but people believe they do. They only tell us what people may be thinking at the time of their collation. Opinion polls, especially so…
La Trobe University Media Release In an innovative application of sustainable finance, La Trobe University has committed to reinvesting savings earned by achieving targets set in the University’s inaugural $195m Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) into its Indigenous Accommodation Scholarship Fund and other Indigenous welfare matters. La Trobe has become one of the first universities in Australia…
The other day in Parliament Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton moved a motion which linked Prime Minister Albanese’s overseas trips to the rise in anti-semitism and the High Court’s decision that holding people in detention forever wasn’t consistent with the Constitution. In moving this motion, he made a speech and I’ve been searching for it on…
The High Court of Australia is not known for its zealotry in protecting human rights, and certainly not when considering the persuasive pull of international law and conventions. The Australian Parliament is usually given a generous hand in making policies that tend to outrage such conventions, a freedom made that much easier by an absence…