Trump v Judiciary
Reading Time: 2 minutes That the President should disagree with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by insisting that American judges are not independent and either support or oppose the President, ought to come as a great...
Monthly Archive: November 2018
Public Interest, Media reporting and Renae Lawrence
Reading Time: < 1 minute News headlines over the last two days highlight the need to distinguish ‘public interest’ from ‘what may interest the public’. The saturation coverage of Renae Lawrence’s release from prison and her arrival in...
Khashoggi brings out the worst in Trump
Reading Time: < 1 minute The latest installment of the investigation into the death/murder of Jamal Khashoggi demonstrates why we shouldn’t simply dismiss Donald Trump as a comical fool. In declaring support for the Saudi government and choosing to...
Is the prohibition of discrimination dictated by religious belief a loss of religious freedom? If so, is a restraint of religious freedom necessarily undesirable?
Reading Time: < 1 minute A commentary is disguised as front page news in the current The Weekend Australian. The issue itself is outlined in the attached news item. My brief comment is motivated by those who immediately jump...
‘The Little Death’
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘The Little Death’ is a 2014 Australian film now freely available from SBS on demand. It is a very funny adult comedy about sex, and mostly about sexual fantasies not known or attractive to...