The Maldives is a fledgling democracy that is struggling to get off the ground. Jed Lea Henry reports. A false start for Maldivian democracy
Posted On Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Democracy, International, Politics Tags: Abdul Gayoom, Arab democracy, Democracy, Islam, Jed Lea Henry, Male, Mohammed Nasheed, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, The Maldives
The Maldives is a fledgling democracy that is struggling to get off the ground. Jed Lea Henry reports. Rudd should fade into obscurity
Posted On Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: ALP leadership, Gillard Government, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, PM, Rudd team player, Simon Crean, Wayne Swan, Wil Wallace
Historian and ALP member Wil Wallace says the honourable thing for Kevin Rudd to do following his resignation is to fade into obscurity. The young and the Ruddless
Posted On Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: ALPleadership, Australian PM, Benjamin Thomas Jones, Corangamite, Darren Cheeseman, Julia Gillard, Kevin, Simon Crean, Tony Abbott, Wayne Swan
Provided he receives a “fair shake of the sauce bottle in caucus”, Kevin Rudd could win back the leadership of the ALP and the country, says Benjamin Thomas Jones.The return of Rudd to stop Abbott
Posted On Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: Barry Everingham, Daniel Mannix, George Pell, Hugh Morgan, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, PM, politics, Tony Abbott
Senior correspondent Barry Everingham says Rudd will lose the vote next week, but win the one following.Order of Demerit
Posted On Monday, 20 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Politics Tags: Barry Everingham, George W Bush, Howard lies, Iraq War, John Howard, Order fo Merit, QE2, Stanley Martin, The Queen, Tony Blair, WBD
Awarding John Howard with an Order of Merit has diminished a once prestigious honour, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham.Anti windfarm astroturfers exposed in Parliament
Posted On Friday, 17 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Energy, Environment, Independent Australia journal, Politics Tags: AEF, ANSTO, anti-windfarm activists, astroturf organisations, astroturfers, Australian Environment Foundation, Australian Landscape Guardians, Booroowa Landscape Guardians, Boorowa Landscape Guardians, Cavan, climate change, climate change sceptics, Climate Spectator, coal seam gas, Cormack Foundation, Country Guardians, CSG, Emily Wood, Esso Australia, Geoff Leventhall, Greens, Hepburn Wind, IPA, John Murphy, Jonathan Upson, Julia Gillard, Kate Redwood, Kathy Russell, Landscape Guardians, Lavoisier Group, Liberal party, Lock the Gate, Lowell Pty Ltd, Malcolm Turnbull, Michael Wooldridge, Moonie Oil Company, Moorabool council, Nina Pierpoint, North Flinders Mines Ltd, NSW Farmers Federation, NSW Government anti-windfarm policies, Paringa Mining & Exploration plc, Paul Miskelly, Peter Mitchell, Peter Seligman, renewable energy, Rupert Murdoch, Sandi Keane, Sarah Laurie, Senate Inquiry into Wind Farms, Simon Chapman, Steve Fielding, Taralga Guardians, Tea Party, Ted Baillieu, Ted Baillieu anti-windfarm, Tony Hodgson, Victorian Landscape Guardians, Waubra Foundation, Western Plains Landscape Guardians, Wind Turbine Syndrome, Yass
Independent Australia has made it to Federal Parliament, with Sandi Keane’s investigation into anti-windfarm astroturfers the Landscape Guardians and the Waubra Foundation being used as the basis of an exposé by John Murphy MP in the House of Representatives earlier this week. The terminal Julia Gillard
Posted On Tuesday, 14 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: 2007 election campaign, ALP, Barry Everingham, Four Corners, George Pell, Gillard and Rudd, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Labor leadership, Prime Ministership, Tony Abbott
After last night's ABC Four Corners' revelations, Julia Gillard should resign without delay, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham.The artificial Australian asylum seeker crisis
Posted On Friday, 10 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Media, New Australians, Politics Tags: asylum seeker, Australian budget, boat arrivals, Canada, Germany, immigration, immigration facts, money spent on asylum seekers, number of asylum seekers Australia receives, OECD, Pacific Highway, Pakistan, Peter Thomas, Syria, UNHCR
Australia’s so-called asylum seeker ‘crisis’ was the inescapable political issue of 2011 — so with the Federal Parliament open for business in 2012, what are the real facts behind the issue? Peter Thomas investigates.The rise of Chinese fascism
Posted On Monday, 06 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Democracy, International, Politics Tags: 1984. George Orwell, callisthenics, China, Chinese communism, Chinese efficiency, Chinese fascism, Chinese imperialism, Chinese racism, Han Chinese, J. Michael Cole, Robert Paxton, Roland Farris, Umberto Eco
"China is the most powerful, mature and internationally accepted fascist state in global history," says Roland Farris from Truthout, "and its status as such should cause us all a great deal of concern."Assange case shows Australia is little more than a US colony
Posted On Saturday, 04 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, International, Media, Politics Tags: ALP, Bill Keller, Bradley Manning, freedom of speech, Gareth Peirce, Google, John Pilger, Julia Giilard, Julian Assange, New York Times, Reuters, Twitter, US, WikiLeaks, Yahoo
“The treatment handed out to Assange is well documented, though not the duplicitous and cowardly behaviour of his own government,” says John Pilger. “Australia remains a colony in all but name.”
This week's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in Western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were ...
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