Politics
Weatherill trumps up Citizens' Jury Report in push for SA nuke waste dump

Noel Wauchope, who has been covering the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission for IA, calls SA ...  
Turnbull needs to tackle multinational tax avoidance to boost revenue

The new Turnbull Government needs to address revenue shortfall by stopping multinationals shif ...  
Australia's nuclear-powered PR in meltdown

With nuclear energy take-up shrinking post Fukushima, Australia continues to ignore the UN's call ...  
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Parties of carpetbaggers and racketeers: A pox on both their houses

The notion that only one of two parties can ever govern us is facile, writes contributing edito ...  
Greyhound racing ban: Worthy of bipartisan support

Peter Wicks discusses the unethical greyhound racing industry, its indefensible cruelty and the ...  
Why a downgrade in Australia’s credit rating isn’t that important

Australia's lauded Triple-A credit rating teeters on the edge with Standard & Poor's outlook cha ...  
Turnbull’s divided Coalition hanging by a thread

Alan Austin examines the deep-rooted factional grievances within the Coalition that threaten the ...  
Life after Chilcot

Pressure over the Chilcot Report is mounting for Tony Blair but with the ICC's powers increas ...  
Racism: Pauline Hanson is the symptom, not the problem

It's easy to vilify Pauline Hanson because she is a parochial wind bag but it should not be in ...  
Sexist Michael Kroger's put down of Cathy McGowan and Independents

In a repugnant and patronising radio interview Liberal boss Michael Kroger showed why his Party ...  
Five uneasy pieces on the mainstream media and the election

Dr David Stephens examines the role of the mainstream media in the federal election, noting the ...  
Turnbull: The ballad of the small government and the big nothing

Jed Hutchinson discusses whether Malcolm Turnbull was the man to reverse the Liberal party’s ...  
The Coalition, Hanson's resurrection and the rise of racism

Hanson's resurgence combined with a Coalition Government and a renewed racialised right in the ...  
A weakened Coalition with Hanson's politics on the table

The resurgence of Pauline Hanson reflects disillusionment with mainstream politics and this may ...  
Chilcot Report shows Blair and Howard were simply Bush's lapdogs

Hot on the heels of Brexit comes the Chilcot report on the serious moral failures of UK governm ...  
Chilcot: Howard's continued lies about Iraq remind us of his deep dishonesty and poor judgement

John Howard's continued lies about the reasons for invading Iraq in the face of the scathing ...  
Labor may be 'back' but it was not a win for progressive politics

Despite the claim from Bill Shorten that "Labor is back", former ALP Federal MP Craig Thomson ...  
Cheerleaders of the press like Murdoch don't win elections like they used to

The relentless bias of the Murdoch media is now just turgid sermonising to the right. The Univ ...  
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