100,000 fans watched the AFL finalists parade through the streets of Melbourne today. How different will it be for the Queen next month, wonders Barry Everingham.Mathematically – AFL fans to trump royals
Posted On Friday, 30 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Republic, Sport Tags: AFL, Australiam republic, Barry Everingham, British national anthem, God Save the Queen, Governor General not head of state, monarchist lies, Monarchists, Royal Albert Hall, the proms, The Queen
100,000 fans watched the AFL finalists parade through the streets of Melbourne today. How different will it be for the Queen next month, wonders Barry Everingham.Mainstream media ignoring Occupy Wall Street demonstration, police brutality
Posted On Friday, 30 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Finance, Human rights, Media Tags: crowd control, demonstrations, Hullabaloo, mace, Manhattan, media silence, New York, New York Times, NYPD, NYPD brutality, Occupy Wall Street, police brutality, social media silence, Stephen King, Tea Party, Wall Street, William Rivers Pitt
The mainstream media are ignoring the Occupy Wall Street demonstration that has been blockading New York's financial district for over a week, has seen over 80 arrests as well as documented examples of police brutality, says William Rivers Pitt.Monarchists buying Facebook likes?
Posted On Friday, 30 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: Australian republic, buying Likes, Facebook, Gerry Adams, Lewis Holden, Malcolm Turnbull, monarchist attacks, monarchist lies, Monarchist slurs, monarchist statistics, social media
The royalists have become suspiciously defensive after Lewis Holden pointed out their dodgy numbers. Lewis Holden responds.Financial uncertainty and the risky Opposition
Posted On Thursday, 29 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Finance, Politics Tags: Australian politics, Federal Opposition, financial uncertainty, GFC, global financial uncertainty, Julia Gillard, Rudd Government, Shaun Newman, Wayne Swan, Wayne Swan finance minister of year
Changing Federal Government in the current turbulent global economic climate would be a severe risk, says Shaun Newman.The impossible ideology of free trade
Posted On Thursday, 29 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Economics Tags: absolute advantage, comparative advantage, David Donovan, Doha, economic assumptions, economics, Free trade, mobile resources, rational markets, WTO
Unless we can create a perfect world, says David Donovan, truly free trade is an unattainable dream and a dangerous ideology that is usually applied to satisfy the goals of the rich and powerful.Andrew Bolt is – officially – a racist
Posted On Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Discrimination, Human rights, Media Tags: Andrew Bolt, Andrew Bolt racism, Andrew Bolt racismt, discrimination, Federal Court, freedom of speech, Julia Gillard, Mordecai Bromberg, racism, Tony Abbott
Andrew Bolt is a racist — now officially certified. Senior correspondent Barry Everingham looks at today's events in the Australian Federal Court.Scandalous NSW Government gets soft ride by media
Posted On Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Media, NSW, Politics Tags: Australian media, Barry O'Farrell, George Souris, Kristina Keneally, Liberals, media giving Liberal easy ride, NSW Arts minister, NSW Government, NSW Government Minister in sex scandal, Peter Wicks
Peter Wicks says the new NSW Government has had more scandals than Kristina Keneally had in her entire term — so why are the media giving Premier Barry O’Farrell an easy ride?Transnational vampires suck life’s blood from Greece
Posted On Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Business, Finance Tags: austerity measures, European Central Bank, European Commission, global financial crisis, global investing, Greece, Greek debt crisis, Greek default, IMF, Peter Prontzos
As Greece moves closer to default, Peter G Prontzos says the crisis was caused by global investors looking for a greater share of the wealth — a situation far from unique to Greece.UN must wrest control of Palestine issue from USA
Posted On Tuesday, 27 Sep 2011 By admin. Under International, War Tags: Isreal, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine Authroity, Palestine bit for statehood from UN, Palestine statehood, Robert Naiman, UN, USA
Robert Naiman says the Palestinian "no excuses" policy of removing any reason for blocking Palestinian national aspirations has failed to bear fruit from the US and Israel, but may produce results from the international community. Unfolding republican futures
Posted On Tuesday, 27 Sep 2011 By admin. Under Literature, Republic Tags: Australian fiction, Australian republic, fiction prizes, Glenn Davies, republican futures, science fiction, short story competitions, speculative fiction, writing
Australia’s emerging republican speculative fiction genre includes a number of examples where the story unfolds in an Australian republican future. In an effort to encourage this style of fiction the National Republican Short Story Competition was established in 2009. The competition continues again this year. The Third National Republican Short Story Competition opened on 1 July 2011 and will close on 6 November 2011. The theme this year is ‘Citizen or Subject’, writes Glenn Davies.
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