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  • Is Australia becoming a police state?

    The Sydney Cafe siege on December 15, 2014 which saw the deaths of two hostages further heightened fears for national security in Australia as the country seeks to clamp down on home-grown militancy. Saeed Khan/AFP Photo  Is Australia becoming a police state? Antoun Issa Foreign Correspondent MELBOURNE    “They’re coming after us,” Australia’s prime minister Tony… →

  • The secret history of fascism in Australia

    New Guard leader Eric Campbell at a meeting in Sydney 1932 The secret history of fascism in Australia by Mick Armstrong New Guard leader Eric Campbell at a meeting in Sydney 1932   There is a myth that Australia, with its supposed democratic, egalitarian traditions, has been immune from mass fascist movements. This is far… →

  • ANZAC Day Not for Faggots and Towelheads

    ANZAC Day Not for Faggots and Towelheads by Geoff Lemon [This piece is a few years old, but age has not wearied its sentiment.] At least, not according to the Australian Christian Lobby. Sure, their main man Jim Wallace used slightly more careful language, but that was the sentiment of what he said. “Just hope… →

  • Mad Catholic Monk Tony Abbott & Co; Destroying the “democratic life of this nation”

    Speak boldly Written by: Kaye Lee The editorial in the Age today suggests that “the Abbott government is cynically moving to de-legitimise certain institutions that perform vital roles in the democratic life of this nation.” This latest reprehensible attempt to silence the Human Rights Commission is, as Penny Wong points out, part of a wider… →

  • ‘This is just insanity’: four Nobel laureates let fly over Australian science funding

    ‘This is just insanity’: four Nobel laureates let fly over Australian science funding Four of the nation’s most-renowned scientists have spoken to The Australian Financial Review about their concerns for Australian science and our ability to compete as an innovation economy. What Nobel prize winners Elizabeth Blackburn, Brian Schmidt, Peter Doherty and Barry Marshall had… →

  • Fanatical Australian Politicians Pushing Catholic Propaganda Into Government Schools

    Brian Toohey: Australian schools about to get biblical Australia’s federal government is set to adopt a review of the school curriculum that will severely cut back content about Asia and explicitly celebrate what it calls the nation’s “Judeo-Christian heritage, values and beliefs.” Following recommendations of a review panel, the government has said it will “properly… →

  • Why Australian law demands all vaginas be digitally altered (NSFW)

    Why Australian law demands all vaginas be digitally altered (NSFW) Mia Freedman It’s the Year of the Bunny and I have no idea what that really means except that a bunch of Playboy memorabilia is being auctioned by Christies. Among the items for sale are some original prints of Playboy bunny centrefolds complete with their original mark-up… →

  • Brief Review; New Australian PM signifies further right-wing shift

    New Australian PM signifies further right-wing shift By Mike Head Today’s swearing-in of Tony Abbott as prime minister of a Liberal-National Coalition government marks another rightward turn in official Australian politics and underscores the yawning gulf that separates the entire political establishment from the broad mass of working people. Only six years ago, following the… →

  • An Open Letter to Laurie Oakes

    An Open Letter to Laurie Oakes By Victoria Rollison Dear Laurie Oakes I am writing seeking clarification. I can’t help but notice that you seem to be a little confused about your appraisal of the performance of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. I’m wondering if you perhaps want to rethink your description of Abbott, the Prime Minister,… →

  • Crap, Hogwash, Wikipedia and Other Strong Evidence

    Crap, Hogwash, Wikipedia and Other Strong Evidence. By rossleighbrisbane “I mean in the end this whole thing is a question of fact, not faith, or it should be a question of fact not faith and we can discover whether the planet is warming or not by measurement. And it seems that notwithstanding the dramatic increases in… →

  • Eat Your Heart Out Americans: 10 Remarkable Facts You Didn’t Know About Australia

    Eat Your Heart Out Americans: 10 Remarkable Facts You Didn’t Know About Australia The land Down Under has a lot more to offer than just picturesque scenery and Crocodile Dundee. When Americans think of Australia they generally imagine a vast and arid desert, inhabited by killer wildlife and famous for Crocodile Hunter, Sydney Opera House and… →

  • Australian Court Tells Brainwashed Teen He Can’t Kill Himself for Religious Reasons

    New South Wales Supreme Court Tells Brainwashed Teenager He Can’t Kill Himself for Religious Reasons… Yet By Hemant Mehta We’ve heard stories of Jehovah’s Witness parents willing to let their children die rather than accept a life-saving blood transfusion. Thankfully, the law almost always sides against the parents. If they want to refuse the blood… →

  • The 2013 Climate Change Wake-up Call

    The 2013 climate change wake-up call Is an extreme heatwave enough for people to start taking the science of climate change seriously in Australia? Dr Paul Willis hopes so. By Paul Willis Bureau map for January 8 shows area of deep purple over Australia. Shades of deep purple and magenta have been added to the… →

  • Come to Australia!

    Come to Australia! The Wonderful Wildlife & Fabulous Fauna of the Land Down Under! →

  • Strict Gun Laws Have Saved Thousands Of Australian Lives!

    Our Strict Gun Laws Have Saved Thousands Of Australian Lives [By correlation, how many tens, if not hundreds of thousands of lives, could be saved in America?!]      The two graphs below show how the rates of firearm homicide and firearm suicide have varied in Australia over the period 1915 to 2006. More recent figures… →

  • Are Factory Farming’s Days Numbered?

    Good News For Animal Lovers: Factory Farming’s Days May Be Numbered Two major grocery chains are ditching factory farmed meat — will the changes cause a ripple effect?   Photo Credit: © koko-tewan/ Shutterstock.com This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org. In one of history’s most stunning victories for humane farming, Australia’s largest supermarket chain,… →

  • Australia’s Disneyfied Israel

    Australia’s Disneyfied Israel by Liam Getreu  For two weeks this month, Hagai El-Ad, executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), visited Australia as a guest of the New Israel Fund Australia Foundation. Only 18 months old, NIF Australia has already achieved a significant aim of its creation: to begin anew a conversation about Israel… →

  • Numbers Reveal Catholic Predators Worst Sexual Abusers of All

    Shocking figures reveal that Catholic clergy are the worst sexual predators By Barry Duke PATRICK Parkinson, a Sydney University law professor testifying at a state inquiry into sexual abuse, said today that Catholic clergy commit SIX TIMES as much abuse as those in the rest of the churches combined. The Australian child protection expert added:… →

  • Recent Science News

    Explore more News in Science New material boost for carbon capture Monday, 24 September 2012 Researchers have created a new material that could solve some of the problems currently plaguing carbon capture and storage. Psychopaths have poor sense of smell Friday, 21 September 2012 Psychopaths have a remarkably poor sense of smell, according to an… →

  • Ever-Increasing Number of Catholic Sex Abuse Cases | Catholic Empire of Pedophiles and Sexual Abusers

    Catholic Church in Australia reveals 620 sex abuse cases By Agence France-Presse The Catholic Church in one Australian state has revealed that at least 620 children have been abused by its clergy since the 1930s, sparking a fresh call Saturday for an independent inquiry. The Catholic Church in Victoria revealed the number in a submission… →

  • Gay Hating Rabbi Uses Intolerant, Hitlerian Rhetoric To Demonise LGBT People

    A petition has been created calling on Monash University to sever its ties to controversial Melbourne-based rabbi, Dr Shimon Cowen, following a recent speech where he called for anti-bullying and diversity program, Safe Schools Coalition Victoria (SSCV), to be disbanded while also linking homosexuality to incest and bestiality. Cowen’s comments have angered LGBT activists as… →

  • The Fireplace Delusion

    The Fireplace Delusion It seems to me that many nonbelievers have forgotten—or never knew—what it is like to suffer an unhappy collision with scientific rationality. We are open to good evidence and sound argument as a matter of principle, and are generally willing to follow wherever they may lead. Certain of us have made careers… →

  • Cash for Babies | Catholic Nuns Drug 150,000 Unwed Mothers, Steal and Sell Their Babies

    Church says sorry over forced adoptions Giselle Wakatama Updated          July 25, 2011 13:12:27 Photo:       The Catholic Church will issue a national apology for the adoption scandal (Mario Alberto Magallanes Trejo, file photo: www.sxc.hu) Audio:          Forced adoption ‘totalitarian’: Catholic church apologises to mothers(AM) Map: Newcastle 2300 The Catholic Church in Australia has issued a national apology… →

  • Threat of fascist attacks revealed

    Threat of  fascist attacks revealed Dylan Welch October 12, 2011   Anders Behring Breivik. Photo: Reuters FASCIST and  nationalist extremist groups are active in and pose a threat to  Australia, with the country’s security agency saying there are legitimate  concerns they may spawn a terrorist in the style of Norway’s Anders Breivik. The assessment, in… →

  • Christians Feeling ‘Date Raped’

    Date ‘rape’ is an insult to Christians THE Austrialian government and the BBC have been identified as “enemies of Christianity” following their decisions to replace the terms BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) with “politically correct” BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era). The Australian move, according to this report, relates to changes… →