Category: CURRENT ISSUES

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe last few days have demonstrated how in fulfilling their role of disseminating information of public interest, sectors of the media could not resist the temptation to provide information that may be of interest...

Reading Time: 2 minutesAustralia’s treatment of refugees is currently presented as being dominated foremost by concerns for our security and for the safety of those who may undertake perilous journeys in order to seek refuge in Australia. ...

Reading Time: 4 minutesJanet Albrechtsen’s column in the current Weekend Australian warrants reading, if only to test the efficacy of your blood pressure medication. The target of her opinion piece is the #MeToo movement and associated implications...

Reading Time: 2 minutesThat 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...

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...