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The ABC needs to be more accountable
Also published in the Adelaide Review, May 1999 If it's our ABC, can we vote to sack the management? And, if we can't, in what sense is it ours?...
Healthy Concern a Smokescreen for Pushing a Political Point
Disease has always been used as a political weapon. In many traditional societies, people who suffer misfortune tend to blame their enemies, using...
How the American State Has Screwed up American Blacks
Crime in the US is vastly disproportionately a problem of American blacks. Despite Afro-Americans being only 12% of America's population, they...
Shocking Approaches to Privatisation
In the NSW election, electricity privatisation is one of the few areas which divide a somewhat damp and untried Coalition from a pragmatic and...
Labor's Proud Reform Record
Recent attempts to rewrite history to blame the ALP's loss of office on 'economic rationalism' are understandable. They are just not very...
Moral Dilemma Not Merely A Question of Black and White
Last week, some newspapers published a draft document setting out ten principles of reconciliation, prepared by the Council for Aboriginal...
Yes Men Up Against Precedents
A recent Newspoll indicates only 33 per cent of voters support the option of an Australian republic with an indirectly elected President. In the...
Experience Sheds Light on Chika's Share Give-aways
Mrs Chikarovsky's plans to privatise the NSW electricity industry tread a well-worn path. The triumph of the Victorian privatisation is no longer...
Constitutional Preamble
It could be a bad year for humanist republicans like myself. The Prime Minister has determined that he will draft a preamble to the Constitution to...
As Hanson's Shouts Subside, Questions Remain
Anyone who writes an epitaph for the One Nation Party cannot forget the commentators who predicted its demise before, only to find egg on their...