Democracy
Australia's imminent TPP disaster: Crowning corporations

The controvsial top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership is due to be signed very soon and is likely ...  
Labor MP asks PM Abbott to prove he's not a British dual citizen

Kevin Rudd's replacement in the seat of Griffith, Terri Butler, writes to Tony Abbott asking him ...  
Time to Wake Up: The Climate Denial Beast

A 16-minute video of U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's speech to Congress is the most sobering ...  
Democracy for sale on penalty rates?

Who really controls Canberra’s levers of power when it comes to scrapping weekend and holiday ...  
Newman's snap election causes widespread voter confusion: Facts here

Campbell Newman's sneaky ruse of calling an election over the summer holidays has caused widesp ...  
Corporate greed, environmental decay and the police state

Would you be like to live in a police state where untrammelled greed has knowingly destroyed its ...  
Neutralising terror: Soft power and the Islamic State

Islam is not the problem and people who follow Islam are not the problem — Islam is, in fact ...  
Politics vs democracy: The Elephant in the Room

Our society endlessly focusses on every minute detail of the political game, while almost compl ...  
Children protesting against Abbott

Should we be taking our kids to anti-Abbott protests and inculcating them in our progressive ...  
The death of a visionary and the decline of Australian democracy

The political malaise currently gripping Australia is made all the more poignant when an iconic ...  
Gough Whitlam and the CIA’s forgotten coup

The political demise of Gough Whitlam man is one of America's dirtiest secrets — but don’t ...  
China's dirty war against Hong Kong democracy

China appears to be flexing its muscles and using all the tools at its disposal in an effort to ...  
Five reasons terror laws wreck media freedom and democracy

The Abbott Government’s new security and counter-terrorism laws represent the most concerted ...  
An independent Scotland?

By the end of this week, one of the oldest and most successful political and economic unions in ...  
Note to Scotland from Australian republicans: Don’t be scared away from saying ‘Yes!’

In 1999, Australia voted No to independence following a toxic campaign of fear and misinformation. ...  
Boycott Murdoch Week: 7 to 14 September 2014

Next week, why not boycott all Murdoch holdings to send the arch puppeteer a clear message that ...  
March Australia: A successful weekend for people power

The March Australia movement has declared the latest round of ongoing protest rallies against the ...  
March Australia nationwide protest 30-31 August: The people united for a better Government

Progressive movement March Australia is holding rallies all around Australia this weekend to ...  
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