Money is perverting the democratic project into an authoritarian one. Every time a fascist-flirting regime is defeated in an election, more column inches and podcast minutes are devoted to the sense ...

There is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it so. Shakespeare’s profound idea applies to that recent legal case, about the Murdoch Family Trust, in the Probate Court in Nevada. The ...

Screenshot from the Tip of the Iceberg report from the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Twice in a fortnight, the president of the Heritage Foundation has declared that ...

While there will be an innumerable number of those delighted at the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the end of the Arab socialist Baathist regime provides much rich food for thought. Already, the whitewash ...

Israel’s representative gruffly rejected the premise of the resolution, which received 160 votes in its favour, citing the usual argument that it has been unfairly targeted. Other current adversaries ...

Yep, apparently it’s all bad news for Labor with their leader, Anthony Albanese only leading the preferred PM stakes by a mere 45 to 37… Now, I know some of you will remember that I’ve always ...

The Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) submission to the Commonwealth Government’s Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) review is an astonishing attempt to restrict access to psychology services for ...

Image from the Australia Institute The warning signs of the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission’s ineffectiveness were there from the start. The enacting legislation that brought it into ...

Image from foreignpolicy.com (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Instead of resisting belligerent chatter, the authors suggest that the US threaten Iran through announcing “yearly joint exercises with ...

Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images) The push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological ...

Israel bound (Photo by AP: US Air Force/Cory Payne) The dangers should be plastered on every wall in every office occupied by a military and political advisor. Israel’s attempt to reshape the Middle ...

Unless Erwin Schrödinger and Dr Anne Twomey have secretly colluded, I’m not a constitutional lawyer. Nor am I even a conveyancing clerk. The nearest I come to law offices is to sign compulsory ...