Burkini Ban

Nicely alliterative headline, but news from La Belle France is disturbing. French Mayors with local beaches have decided to ban … More

Asylum Seeker Big Business

The sorry saga of Australia’s offshore asylum seeker gulag is not just about bringing suffering and hopelessness to those in … More

The Indonesian government is implementing a ban on the export of some raw mineral ores, particularly nickel and bauxite, to … More

Pope Francis has released a ‘papal exhortation’ of 223 pages of critique on modern life and capitalism. What a contrast … More

Australia’s military is finally pulling up stumps, so to speak, in this blighted land. Our longest war (12 years) has … More

Sorry but the alliteration is irresistible, and the subject is truly shocking. It may be out of our minds at … More

The name Snowden rang a bell for a literary character and the penny finally dropped, to mix metaphors again: Catch … More

Gosh, time flies when you’re entertained by political giants Julia and Tony doing their ‘I’m gunna rip your throat out’ routine and other … More

The President of Uruguay is a daggy 77 year old, full of beans and common sense. To say that Jose … More

In the multicultural Wide Brown Land we are of course accustomed to all sorts of New Orstralians refreshing our narrow gene … More