Democratic Reform in Burma?
Burma, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, is in a whole jar of pickles right about now. The brand new civilian government is trying to set up a semblance of democratic reform, but human...
Author: Chally Kacelnik
How the Murdoch press uses misogyny to attack Julia Gillard
A year ago, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard had won her first election, silencing grumbles from some corners that she hadn’t properly won the leadership of the Australian Labor Party from...
Housework and horror: Charlaine Harris’s Dead Reckoning
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (Gollancz, 2011). Dead Reckoning is the latest novel in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse, or Southern Vampire Mysteries, series. At book number eleven, it...
Election Promises in New South Wales: Forgetting Disabled Inmates
The Australian state of New South Wales is facing an election on 26 March. The result, as anyone in NSW will tell you, is a foregone conclusion, with even Australian Labor Party state secretary Sam...
Floods in Australia… but what about the others?
Floods are rampant worldwide just at the present. There has been one disaster after another between the flooding in the northern Australian state of Queensland, South Africa, Brazil and the...