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Share Tony Abbott’s Friday comparison of asylum seekers with drug runners should be treated with utter disdain, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham. Tony Abbott’s arrogance is getting out of control and his hairy-chested...
Share The ABC’s approach to reporting on climate change is motivated more by politics than science, says environment editor Sandi Keane — who compares its coverage to that of the BBC. In recent years, the gulf between Coalition...
Share The world’s biggest cigarette companies made their case in the High Court today, battling the Federal Government’s attempts to impose plain packaging on their product, fearful it may set a worldwide precedent. Already, the...
Share Australians should be very, very, afraid about what might happen if Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce get a licence to run Australia, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham. One of the scariest...
ShareThe final instalment of a bundle of letters written by mega-mining heiress Iona Mineshaft and found, in mysterious circumstances, by Graham Jackson. (Read Part One and Part 2.) IONA MINESHAFT’S GREATEST LETTERS VOL.3 (The Unauthorised...
ShareTony Backhouse looks back at the last 18 months of Australian politics with 20-20 hindsight. Julia Gillard has said much of how reforms the Rudd Government “languished”. Has everyone forgotten that every piece of legislation had to...
Share “Marriage is not for everyone,” says contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence. “But to exclude people from participating in this legal custom, on the sole basis of their adult sexual preferences, is facile and...
ShareGraham Jackson has a collection of letters written the larger than life mining heiress Iona Mineshaft to variety of public figures, living and dead, of which we published the first instalment last week. In part 2. Here she explores, amongst...
ShareIn mysterious circumstances, writer Graham Jackson has received a collection of missives written recently by the inestimable Iona Mineshaft to various prominent people in Australia and overseas. Independent Australia is proud to publish...
ShareLiberal MP Rowan Ramsay is yet another Coalition MP keen to promote fossil fuels over renewables — especially wind. Environmentalist Dave Clarke responds to a speech Ramsay made recently attacking wind power projects in South Australia. Federal...
