March 30, 2016
Cold Chisel’s classic Australian anthem ‘Standing on the Outside’ always made me think about how outsiders – or those seen as the other – perceive Australia’s good life. The anti-West polemic which is attracting countless people […]
March 30, 2016
During the twentieth century Australia removed tens of thousands of Indigenous children from their parents, families and communities. In 1997 a 600-page report titled “Bringing Them Home” was tabled in […]
March 29, 2016
A headline in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald boldly states Demagogues are sucking the air out of genuine public debate. Which leads nicely into something I have been drafting over the […]
March 24, 2016
After cutting funding to community legal centres (CLCs) in 2014 the Australian Attorney-General, George Brandis, then claimed that with the limited resources available, funding for legal assistance through CLCs must […]