For the most part, the debate on whether Australia should become a republic or not seems to have largely died. In the lead up to recent election, Julia Gillard stated it wasn’t something she wasn’t prepared to bring up until the current Queen died and Tony Abbott has declared himself a staunch Monarchist. Regardless of [...]
Internet scams have been around for as long the internet has existed itself. It must have been roughly what, a few seconds after email was invented that people realised that was a lot of money to be made by sending out phishing emails. These emails usually contain some rubbish story and then ask for money. [...]
Despite the hysteria of political correctness and health and safety in the workplace, it remains a constant that employers are simply unable to control what their employees say. Employees are human and if history has taught us anything it’s that humans can be unpredictable. This isn’t some kind of modern breakthrough in the social sciences [...]
Come election time there’s always going to be opportunists coming out of the woodwork. Their aim is to use the election itself as leverage to push a particular agenda, be it personal or for a communal cause. Most of the time they’re ignored and simply brushed aside as irritating however these people aren’t always a [...]
Something didn’t sit right with me when Kevin Rudd was ousted from the Labor Party back in June. Despite copping a bit of flak over the proposed mining resources tax, the hanging over of Australia’s top job to Julia Gillard felt rushed and a little too well staged. Then there was Rudd’s reaction, well if [...]
I make no secret of my distaste of the burqa or niqab, the garment that is used to cover women from head to toe. As a country with pretty strong religious freedoms, currently wearing a burqa is legal in Australia. My personal non religious objections to the burqa aside however, as we strive to be [...]
The Australian public also rightly demands transparent government. That’s why the Rudd Government promised at the election to “restore trust and integrity in the use of Commonwealth Government information, promoting a pro-disclosure culture and protecting the public interest through genuine reform”. We’re working hard to fulfil these commitments. -Joe Ludwig, Cabinet Secretary and Special Minister [...]
It was hard to keep sight of Conroy’s temporary internet filter backflip yesterday amidst all the other backflips Labor has been pulling lately. From Asylum seeker policy (which is several backflips in itself), to resource taxes to now the internet filter, it’s getting hard to keep track of what exactly Labor’s policies are. As far [...]
Over in England the establishment of a sharia court system to deal with civil cases involving the local muslim population occurred in late 2008. This in itself is a tribute to the success of Islamic groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir. Hizb ut-Tahrir are a global Islamic organisation full of hardline religious nutters hell bent on [...]
Senator Kate Lundy wrote a blog post earlier this month in which she outlined her plans to present an opt-in and opt-out model of Stephen Conroy’s proposed internet filter. Opt-in requiring Australian internet users to put their hands up to have their internet censored and opt-out giving users the option to literally opt-out of a [...]
