Showing posts with label Crikey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crikey. Show all posts
Saturday, August 17, 2019

MEDIA: ‘Someone who gets into people’s faces’: Spotlight journalist Walter Robinson speaks in Sydney

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On June 4 2018, at an event hosted by the US Studies Centre at Sydney University, Robinson shared his insights on the Spotlight expose...
Friday, March 08, 2019

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Tony Abbott isn't going anywhere

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The former PM is back on the talking points, painting himself and Dutton as "reluctant challengers" and orating about "t...
Monday, March 04, 2019

BOOKS: A Sunday afternoon trying to make the Liberal Party great again

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A new book proposes a plan to fix the Liberal parties leadership woes. Sunday afternoon at a pub in North Sydney and Sky News ...
Friday, March 01, 2019

BOOKS: The new book by an IPA fellow that is head-scratchingly nuanced

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Matthew Lesh's heavily researched theory on socio-economic divides would give Andrew Bolt a heart attack. It’s always a su...

ENVIRONMENT: When the river runs dry, we will return to the scene of the crime

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Residents at the trashed end of the Darling River are angry, jobless and unable to drink their own town water. UP TO 1 MILLION FI...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

CULTURE WARS: Is small-minded bigotry how we honour the Diggers? Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s tsunami in a teacup

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This concocted mass debate, like those before it and those to come, shows that we, as a nation, have no bloody idea about our values. ...

SECURITY: The real danger at Punchbowl High School is the ideological deradicalisation program

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The debate about theoretically unsound and ideologically charged deradicalisation programs, like the one at Punchbowl High School, does...

CULTURE WARS: Has political correctness failed?

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Chris Kenny thinks that political correctness has failed "the mainstream"-- but what on earth does this actually mean? ...
Friday, May 25, 2018

CULTURE WARS: Sorry, Malcolm, but multicultural Australia is not ‘united, strong, successful’

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And guess whose fault that is? And so, on Harmony Day, our erstwhile PM launched a document entitled Multicultural Australia: Unit...
Saturday, May 05, 2018

CULTURE WARS: The Australian declares war on Yassmin Abdel-Magied, misses the point again

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For some reason, Caroline Overington, in her attacks on Yassmin Abdel-Magied in  The Australian , cannot seem to understand this whole ide...

OBITUARY: Iranian revolutionary leaves a complicated legacy

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The guy was the wiliest of wily politicians who co-authored the constitution that created the revolutionary government. Former Iran...
Friday, May 04, 2018

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Guess who’s coming to $150-a-head anti-Islam dinner?

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Who on Earth would turn up to Kirralie Smith's "Defending Freedom of Speech Halal Choices" fundraiser? Spoiler: it's Be...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

WAR: Three things you don’t understand about the Syrian war

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For a start, the rebels are not one big happy family all fighting for a common notion of justice. My goodness. There has been so mu...