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David Suzuki: Bean leaves, bedbugs and biomimicry

Before the manufacture of dangerous pesticides, Dr David Suzuki reminds us, our forebears relied on Mother Nature to solve problems like bed bugs.

20 May, 2013 12:01 am / 3 comments

Study finds 97% scientific consensus on global warming

A new survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers has found a 97% consensus that humans are responsible for global warming.

19 May, 2013 11:31 am / 13 comments

Tony Abbott’s 12 biggest budget reply porkie pies

Tony Abbott’s budget reply featured at least 20 lies — all of them overlooked by Australia’s corporate media. Alan Austin covers a dozen of Thursday’s most glaring falsehoods.

19 May, 2013 8:39 am / 51 comments

Would Abbott bring back WorkChoices?

Tony Abbott says WorkChoices is “dead, buried and cremated”, but his new IR policy leaves the door open for radical workplace relations changes, writes Luke Williams.

18 May, 2013 5:01 pm / 34 comments

Jacksonville 49: Time inside

Peter Wicks issues a wedding related correction and reports on the latest news about Craig Thomson and Kathy Jackson.

17 May, 2013 4:34 pm / 12 comments

Rod Quantock: global warming’s just not funny

Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you’ll be “scared shitless” as he takes you with him through the gates of hell into the catastrophic world of runaway global warming.

17 May, 2013 1:36 pm / 34 comments

The budgie reply

Gee summarises Tony Abbott’s budget reply for the great many people who cannot abide listening to Tony Abbott speak.

17 May, 2013 11:49 am / 19 comments

Tweet Tony Abbott’s budget reply featured at least 20 lies — all of them overlooked by Australia’s corporate media. Alan Austin covers a dozen of Thursday’s most glaring falsehoods. Australia’s corporate media: wilfully...

19 May, 2013 8:39 am / 51 comments

Would Abbott bring back WorkChoices?

Tweet Tony Abbott says WorkChoices is “dead, buried and cremated”, but his new IR policy leaves the door open for radical workplace relations changes, writes Luke Williams. JUST BEFORE the 2007 Federal election, I was sitting in...

18 May, 2013 5:01 pm / 34 comments

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Would Abbott bring back WorkChoices?

Tony Abbott says WorkChoices is “dead, buried and cremated”, but his new IR policy leaves the door open for radical workplace relations changes, writes Luke Williams. JUST BEFORE the 2007 Federal election, I was sitting in a hairdressing...

18 May, 2013 5:01 pm / 34 comments

The opinion makers

Peter Wicks discusses the importance of the mainstream media, its ethics, bias and its exclusion of Independent Australia from the Canberra Press Gallery. I DON’T THINK that the importance of being a member of the mainstream media can...

16 May, 2013 10:55 am / 36 comments