After the recent spate of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne, the Australian governments solution was to fly twenty five Indian journalists to Australia.
Presumably the idea was that we’d show them firsthand just how Indian friendly Australia supposedly is. After looking at the itinerary of the journalists and the costs involved I’m now certain of [...]
The issue of Aboriginal child welfare is always going to be a difficult one.
On one side of the fence you have the traditionalists. People who place Aboriginal heritage above all else, including the welfare of the child in question.
On the other are people like me who, and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist [...]
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions of Australia, where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle.
Deep within this dank and uninviting place, lives Michael Atkinson “Ello!” – overworked servant of the Thing Upstairs.
“Atkinson! Feed me!”
…But that’s nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the Trap Door… for there is always something down there, in [...]
News broke last week of a dispute between Aboriginal flag creator Harold Thomas and Google.
After holding a competition across Australian schools to design the Australia day ‘doodle’ (a design to replace the Google logo on the Google website), a design was chosen which featured the Aboriginal flag.
What should have been a proud day for Aboriginals [...]
I’ve been out of the country a while now and while I left for a number of reasons time abroad has given me time to reflect.
Sure Australia has it’s problems but there are somethings that no matter how long I’m away for I’m always going to miss.
I’d love to say things like mateship, great food [...]
With a reported 338 million internet users, China undoubtedly has a massive online presence to be reckoned with. Like everything else of value in China though the internet population is treated as a commodity and the government does everything it can to control it.
Google made headlines earlier this week when they announced they’d had enough [...]
As much as we want to pretend Australia is the hub of racial harmony and rainbows, the fact of the matter is not everyone shares this ideology.
I’m not saying that as you get off a plane from Delhi there’s mobs of Australians ready to bash the living daylights out of you, far from it.
Instead of [...]
After the disappointing (but not entirely surprising) knock back of a senate enquiry into Scientology by the Rudd government, the storm surrounding the church in Australia appears to have died down.
Xenophon has promised to take the enquiry request to a vote in February but meanwhile questions surrounding the death of Edward McBride remain largely unanswered.
About [...]
I can’t decide if News Corporation have a love or hate affair with Redhotpie.com.au.
They certainly don’t sponsor them or have any ownership to the company so I kind of have a hard time explaining a seemingly blatant advertising plug.
The premise for the recently announced space reality tv series Starwalker is nothing short of impressive. Allow entry for anyone on the planet over the age of 18 and offer up a grand prize trip into orbit.
It certainly sounds better then marrying some stupid farmer, winning a couple of hundred thousand dollars or a one [...]
