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Tweet ABC Q&A is a weekly case study of corporate and political bias packaged in a spurious guise of balance and journalistic integrity, says Adam Hughes Henry. Graham Richardson makes his 10th appearance on ABC Q&A tonight, while fellow...
Tweet THE HAPPY LAND: Part 5 Was John Howard’s Australia the place admirers like Tony Abbott promote? ‘The Happy Land’ is Graham Jackson‘s satirical alternative reality. This challenging work, illustrated by Gee, consists...
Tweet When it comes to the asylum seeker issue, making incremental improvements in unsatisfactory circumstances may be the best we can hope for, says Victoria Rollison. IN MY last post, I promised to explain my distrust of the way the media...
Tweet Despite another asylum seeker boat tragedy off Christmas Island today, Tony Abbott continues to offer Nauru as the solution and reject other options. John Menadue from the Centre for Policy Development, however, says re-opening Nauru is...
Tweet “Despite the strong political profile of refugee issues in developed countries such as Australia, four-fifths of the world’s total 15 million refugees are hosted by developing countries,” says Professor Helen Ware. Refugees...
TweetAustralia’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. Looking for...
Tweetby Barry Everingham The Federal Government has agreed to work with the Governments of Nauru and Papua New Guinea to set up offshore processing centres. Senior correspondent Barry Everingham comments. The Opposition will claim it’s won...
TweetJust how will Tony Abbott seek to capitalise on the latest refugee boat tragedy, wonders senior correspondent Barry Everingham. The latest tragedy involving hapless asylum seekers invokes memories of the disgraceful “children overboard”...
Tweet Before a single boat arrival is sent to Malaysia, says Barry Everingham, the Australian Government must set some very stringent conditions. Ah Malaysia – beautiful one day, perfect the next – that’s if you are a Bumiputra, a “native”...
Tweet The disaster-prone Kevin Andrews snaring a front-bench seat on Tony Abbott’s team is something that leaves Barry Everingham downright bewildered. Kevin Andrews JOHN HOWARD was a past-master at picking troglodytes to supervise his...
