Monthly Archives: December 2022

Pursuing Assange is an act of petty revenge

Consider these two events. The first happened in April 2019. Six suited men flanked by several uniformed police – one of whom tried to block someone holding up a mobile phone – carried a shackled Julian Assange out of a … Continue reading

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It takes effort to win peace and goodwill

Never has the current shortage of civility, or as we say at Christmas, peace and goodwill, been more dramatically on show than in the Queensland shootings last week, driven by hate-filled conspiracy theories on the internet. The internet is a … Continue reading

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A vote for our nation’s greatest bridge

Soon, probably late next year, you and I and every other adult Australian will be asked to vote in a referendum “on the question of whether the nation should build its greatest bridge”. The quote is from Cape York Aboriginal … Continue reading

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