Dr Liz Allen, a demographer, told the Senate Education and Employment Education Committee that she had been bullied to the point of being “near suicide.” Allen said that it was only after Bishop ...

‘Think tanks.’ Why have we got them? What are they for? They’re supposed to be groups that work on research and ideas. Precious few serve any progressive purpose but, most exist to support the work of ...

Marxist literary criticism explains a literary work, a novel, through an analysis of the human-social relationships which reflect the economic base of the story, rather than the social institutions ...

On Cuba is a great introduction to modern Cuba and the problems it currently faces. Having taught Cuban history at university level, I recommend it highly for those new to Cuba, and for those who keep ...

Justin McPhee’s Spinning the Secrets of State was inspired by the intelligence debacle following the dubious intelligence used by the Howard government to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. McPhee, ...

In 2023, then-Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek nominated the petroglyphs (rock art) on the Burrup Peninsula to be added to the World Heritage List. The Murujuga Cultural Landscape is around 50,000 ...

The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, by Vincent Bevins In the 1960s the CIA set up a world-wide network to eradicate Communism from ...

Dr Hannah Middleton served as President of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) 1993-2009, and in 2009, after the death of the long-time General Secretary, Peter Symon, was elected as the Party’s ...

The moving picture industry was based originally in New York and then moved to California in 1903, where labour costs were cheaper. By 1913 the first full feature 14-reel “silent movies” were being ...

The federal Labor government might have abolished the union-bashing Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) but its dirty work has been taken up by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). The ...

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua provisional government interim president Benny Wenda warns that since Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto took office last October his coming marks the ...

Buettner and Craig, two New York Times investigative journalists, reveal how the 45th and 47th US president, Donald Trump, was given over US$400 million, lost it and gained the illusion that he was a ...