It’s a scary time to be Muslim in Australia. On 18 September, anti-terrorism raids in connection with IS were conducted in Sydney and Brisbane. Australia’s terror alert has also been raised from...
Australians woke up this morning in bewilderment, anger, and, for many, without the secure future they’d been promised in the supposed Lucky Country. Federal Liberal Party Treasurer Joe Hockey...
Last night, as the Australian summer sun finally dipped over the horizon, 15000 Australians gathered by candelight in 750 locations around the country, in a night dubbed Light the Dark by activist...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the country’s major public broadcaster, was on Wednesday accused by Prime Minister Tony Abbott of taking ‘everyone’s side but Australia’s’ due...
Prior to Australia’s recent federal election, Global Comment feature writer Chally Kacelnik wrote about the rise of far right parties in Australia explaining that both options in our two party...
Australia faces a federal election on 7 September, and the rise of the right wing is troubling I don’t mean to predict a win by the right wing Liberal Party over the centre-left Labor Party, which...
It might have escaped your notice, but apparently a Mediterranean climate and robust olive oil are not the only things Australia has in common with Greece. This week, prominent Australian banker...
So after seventeen days of chaos into which Australia degenerated into a Mad Max style apocalyptic hell-world, finally we have a government. Sadly, unfortunately, it is a Communist “rainbow...
Last week in Australia, Julia Gillard became the first female Prime Minister in the country's history. Three or four months out from an election, Gillard went to (now former) Prime Minister Kevin...
The American satiric comedian Stephen Colbert famously introduced the word “truthiness” into the contemporary English lexicon. Dictionary Merriam Webster named it their Word of Year in 2006,...