You can lead a nation to slaughter, but you can’t make it think
POLITICS is all about the timing, so this column might initially seem a little out of place. But stick with me. I am grateful to those who fought for the […]
Paris Attacks Highlight Western Vulnerability, And Our Selective Grief And Outrage
This story was first published on newmatilda.com – it’s being reprinted (with updates) here to try and ease some of the load on the NM server. As Frances enters yet another period […]
From New Matilda: Curriculum Reviewer Barry Spurr Mocks ‘Abos, Mussies, Women, Chinky-Poos’
A University of Sydney Professor – employed by the federal government as a specialist consultant to review the national English curriculum – has described the Prime Minister as an “Abo […]
Utopia: An inside story
IN JANUARY 2014, the nation’s most famous ex-pat journalist John Pilger will launch his latest film in Australia. Two years in the making, Utopia is a feature length documentary that […]
Freestyling Tony goes a pledge too far
WHEN Tony Abbott, a month out from the 2013 election, decided to ‘riff it freestyle’ during a speech at the annual Garma Festival, it’s reasonable to assume that the hearts […]
VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE: How black Australia rejected Tony Abbott
TONY Abbott is the new ‘Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs’. One problem: no-one bothered to ask Aboriginal people if they even wanted him. It turns out they didn’t, if the […]
Election 2013: The daze of our lives
Memory is always selective, particularly when it comes to politics. I’ll demonstrate. I can only recall five decent things John Howard did during his time as Prime Minister. 1. The […]
Mumma mia… here we go again
COMEDY is a personal thing, and I like mine political, particularly when white people come in for a pasting. Why? Because my career pretty much revolves around explaining to white […]
All quiet on the Western Front
OF ALL the world’s trouble spots, it turns out the tiny NSW town of Bourke is the worst of them. No kidding. At least that’s the claim of the Sydney […]
All roads lead to Byron, and blackfellas
MUSIC, at least for me, is an intensely personal thing. I was fortunate to be raised by parents who have a great love of music, so they made sure that […]