Keysar Trad has campaigned for legal recognition of polygamous marriage on Crikey. And I didn’t exactly hold back in expressing my disagreement. But despite this history, my motivation for revisiting the issue now is concern for Keysar’s wellbeing, after reading a Sisters In Islam report on opendemocracy on polygamy in Malaysia. Sisters in Islam found that polygamous marriages [...]

That Tony Abbott certainly is a curious chap. I usually have some respect for people who are generally willing to say what they think, even when I disagree with them.  Yesterday, he was reported calling for the age pension age to be lifted to 70, rather than the government’s current plan to lift it just to [...]