April 14, 2009 – 12:46 pm
The Torres News – newspaper for the Torres Strait and the Northern Peninsula Areas of Cape York – has a piece on their website (and the front page of their dead tree version) about the recent arrival of fifty Tamil asylum seekers in the region.
They raise the curious question of “why the vessel and its occupants [...]
Kevin Rudd has said that Fiji is now “virtually a military dictatorship”. I’m not sure what else needs to happen before the word “virtually” gets dropped, but whatever term you want to use, it sure isn’t democracy – especially with the latest censorship crackdown. The dictatorship’s Secretary for Information, Major Neumi Leweni, is kindly providing ‘information officers’ [...]
However much Australians may like to portray the USA as being far more conservative and religious than us, the growing number of states in the USA which are legalising same-sex marriage suggests the reality may be somewhat different.
The state of Vermont has become the first state to pass legislation to explicitly make same-sex marriages legal. [...]
The federal government’s announcement that they will fund the building a National Broadband Network at an estimated cost of $43 billion is the sort of story guaranteed to get internet sites and net nerds buzzing with comment.
A lot of the comments from bloggers and twitterers that I have seen thus far seem to be quite [...]
The last unresolved seats from the Queensland election have finally been declared, nearly two weeks after polling day.
Spare a thought for John English, the former Labor member for Redlands, who after two weeks of nail biting, ended up losing his seat by a miserly 34 votes. To make it even worse for him, according to this [...]
April 2 is Close the Gap Day – an annual reminder of the commitment to eliminate the massive difference in average life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
A sign of the initial success of this campaign is the growing number of governments and political leaders who have signed on to it, making a public pledge [...]
Rational, long-time political and policy blogger Andrew Norton has developed an internet survey in an effort to identify how people define and describe their political identity. It looks to me like a decent effort, and the more people have a go at it the more useful his results will be (or the clearer it will [...]
