Category: CURRENT ISSUES

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNews 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...

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 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...

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe availability of inexpensive and readily accessible travel for leisure and tourism appear to be endangering cultures, sights, artefacts, fauna and the flora that motivate such travel.Mass tourism may also be accused of accelerating...

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have an idea for dealing with with the problematic issue of how to depoliticized the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court. For some time the Supreme Court has been seen nine individual...

Reading Time: 7 minutesWatching the live coverage of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr Christine Blasey Ford’s testimonies, and their examination by the Senate Judicial Committee, revealed just how partisan and political has become the process of appointing...

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have held Father Frank Brennan in high regard. He has not towed the party line when certain Catholic leaders needed to be criticised or for example when the church needed to consider recognising...

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn today’s ‘Guardian Australia’, Australian Medical Association president, Dr Michael Gannon, is reported commenting on Dr Goodall’s death in Switzerland, saying that he was concerned that the “suicide of someone who’s aged 100” was...

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a directions hearing this morning, Victorian County Court Judge Sue Pullen and the parties agreed that the charges on which Cardinal Pell was committed to stand trial be split and addressed in two...

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, Victorian Magistrate Belinda Wallington committed Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on a number of child sex offence charges, while also ruling that there was insufficient evidence for him to stand trial on...