Mr John Garnaut - son of high-profile international economist, Dr Ross Garnaut - is a very influential figure in China-watching circles, both in Australia an...

This buff rendered cartoon depicts five young women, representing the self-governing Australian colonies, straining at a lever labelled 'FEDERATION'. They ar...

Today I was alerted to the following tweet made by ABC/Fairfax journalist, Nick McKenzie, on his federal court of appeal loss in the defamation action taken ...

I actually wanted to call this piece “The Curious Journalism of Bill Birtles and Stephen McDonell”, but then people would miss “The Curious Case of Benjamin ...

For over a hundred years, people have lamented the plight of the Aborigines. Those of full-decent seem to have been trapped in a state of perpetual poverty a...

This blog is a copy of WPS Developmental Note #61 taken from the book titled, WORK, NOT WELFARE, Critical Rural Social Work Practice and the history of the W...

A few months ago, I exposed the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) deceptive editing and misrepresentations of an interview they conducted with a Ch...

For a Chinese translation, click 翻译. 2017 was not a great year for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in terms of journalistic integrity. First th...

When I was still in my idealistic 20s, I took up a fight that turned out – most would say inevitably so – to be a losing battle. That battle was essentially ...

The Girl Effect includes the claim that when women earn an income, they reinvest an average 90 percent of it into their families, compared to 30 to 40 percen...

This paper raises concerns about certain Australian authorities submitting to the demands of a small group of misguided religious extremists to slaughter liv...