Australian TV is shamefully lacking in non-white faces. Multicultural Australia is barely recognised. Britain has its own issues: Lesbian and gay people appear realistically and positively in just 0.6 per cent of most watched shows, according to new research by Stonewall. The study found that gay people are almost invisible on the 20 TV programme…
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When will Australia become mature enough to not demonise refugees?
Australian Tamils discuss the failure of the Labor government to address their legitimate concerns over the massacres in Sri Lanka and fairly treat asylum seekers fleeing to Australia.
Interview with New York’s Indypendent on Palestine, peace, BDS and the MSM
Here’s my interview published today by a leading New York publication, The Indypendent. It was conducted by wonderful young journalist Alex Kane: With “peace talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel seeming more and more like a dead end, many people around the world, including dissident Jewish voices, are turning to grassroots activism to pressure…
Australia is being led by a values-free person
Guy Rundle on the rise of Julia Gillard to the Prime Ministership in Australia: Gillard-mania was nostalgia for a politics that has long since vanished from Labor. There’s still a faction called the Left in Labor, and it’s still in business. But North Korea calls itself a democratic republic, and McDonald’s calls itself a restaurant,…
Comparing Murdoch to the tobacco business
Murdoch’s News Limited is a multinational, bullying monster that routinely escapes serious scrutiny. Its size convinces too many to remain silent. But there are brave exceptions: The [Australian Rugby team] Storm’s former chairman, Rob Moodie, has launched a withering attack on the club’s owners, News Ltd, comparing their ”intimidating” tactics to those of multinational tobacco…
Wash Post study on outsourcing terror (aka intelligence services)
One of the biggest stories in North America at the moment is today’s Washington Post investigation on the explosion of intelligence services since 9/11. The sheer scale and cost involved is massive. Creating fear has never been more profitable. The outsourcing of government services is taking place across the world, including Australia and yet most…
Australian Labor Party loathes Arabs and nothing has really changed
Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke is currently being lionised in the Australian media for a recently released biography (by his adoring wife). A friend sends along a story from Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on October 10, 1984 that proves the Labor Party’s loyalty to Israel goes way back and current leader Julia Gillard is cut…
Hicks demands justice and transparency for being abused in our care
A welcome development to erase the stain of the ongoing “war on terror”. I look forward to hearing those in Australia who backed David Hicks’ incarceration and torture saying sorry for this terrible injustice: David Hicks has enlisted legal experts in the hope of having his terrorism conviction quashed. In the three years since his…
Our Afghan “team” doesn’t like us very much
When Australians on the ground believe their Afghan “partner” can’t be trusted – hard to imagine why an occupying army isn’t more popular – can we now have a serious and mature debate about why Australia is still in the country? An Afghan soldier working alongside Australian troops was suspected of spying for the Taliban…
Britain’s hands are blooded with torture
The British investigation into the previous Blair regime’s complicity in torture and terrorism is becoming clearer by the day. Such studies, while inevitably flawed due to a generally bi-partisan belief in keeping the worst details private, are a far cry from anything undertaken by America or Australia: The true extent of the Labour government’s involvement…