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The FREE Party offers an ethical, fact and reason based alternative to Australia’s party political duopoly, says Roger Brisbane.
by Roger Brisbane
WITH A Federal election looming, is democracy is alive and well, or has it been subverted...
9 May, 2013 7:59 am / 44 comments
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Never before have we had a press so controlled, says Bob Ellis, with all the anti-Abbott or anti-Coalition news being deliberately minimised.
(Image courtesy Tony Yegles / Australians for Honest Politics.)
CLIVE PALMER started a new party...
4 May, 2013 1:29 pm / 67 comments
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Tess Lawrence says she is barracking for Clive Palmer – and Julian Assange and Bob Katter – in the next Federal election.
by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence
I AM BARRACKING for Clive of IndieA in the Federal election.
Every...
27 April, 2013 11:21 am / 201 comments
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In a call to arms, Geezlouise advocates the establishment of a trust, administered by IA, to raise money, investigate and prosecute any wrongdoers in the Ashbygate affair.
Click here for IA’s full Ashbygate investigation.
‘I...
3 April, 2013 7:37 pm / 40 comments
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Journalists with their unnamed sources are far from a cornerstone of democracy, says David Horton — and, in fact, may be something of a threat.
JOURNALISTS WITH secret sources a cornerstone of our democracy, ‘eh?
Well, I’m...
30 March, 2013 11:09 am / 28 comments
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Is our adversarial justice and political system unfair, undemocratic and barbaric? Managing editor David Donovan says: “most definitely”.
MY FATHER, who was a true visionary, said something to me when I was still quite young...
30 March, 2013 12:00 am / 31 comments
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The mainstream media are doing their best to skew the debate and misrepresent in the lead up to the 2013 Federal election, says Matthew N. Donovan.
The worst example of Murdoch’s blatant disregard for balanced journalism.
LIKE MANY...
16 March, 2013 12:02 am / 40 comments
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Although the City of Melbourne has rejected an inquiry into last year’s brutal eviction of Occupy Melbourne, the truth is slowly emerging anyway, says Carl Scrase.
WE ARE STARTING to piece together who was responsible for ordering...
13 March, 2013 11:05 pm / 20 comments
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People in different political parties can seem more alike and be more comfortable with each other, than with members of their own parties, writes David Horton.
IT IS OFTEN REMARKED that people in different political parties can seem more...
26 February, 2013 11:52 am / 12 comments
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In this final part of his three part series, Dr Geoff Davies surveys the current political scene, including the disarray of the Labor Party, from a longer perspective.
THE RISE AND FAILURE OF THE RADICAL RIGHT
[Read Part One: A dramatic...
23 February, 2013 10:48 am / 44 comments