Category: CURRENT ISSUES

In the Public Interest?

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...

Refugees, Compassion and Security

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. ...

Trump v Judiciary

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...

Khashoggi brings out the worst in Trump

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...

MASS TOURISM – WHERE TO NOW?

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...