Australia’s intelligence agencies reviewed
If you can find anything substantive – anything at all – in the unclassified summary report of the Independent Review of Australia’s intelligence community, perhaps you should apply for a job at one of the agencies reviewed.
Invasion Day/Australia Day: Unity/Disunity
I think everyone of a certain age can remember a certain mantra from John Howard. Symbols, he intoned, are not important. “Symbolic Reconciliation” is not important, he couldn’t say Sorry. The Republic was just a symbol, of interest to “elites”. [...]
What now for Libya?
“For Libya’s interim government, the National Transitional Council (NTC), the aftermath of the bloody nine-month conflict may prove as difficult and treacherous as the conflict itself.”
#GoBackSBS asylum-seeker doco aftermath
The #GoBackSBS hashtag on Twitter over the last few days has been running hot and garnered worldwide attention – “ordinary Australians” on a reverse-journey – from Australia back to where some of the immigrant refugees they meet at the start came from.
What happened to our annual Eurovision post?
I have absolutely no idea what Bahnisch thinks is more important right now – please, share your thoughts on what’s happening in Düsseldorf tonight. UPDATE 11:30pm: the Eurovision Song Contest winner for 2011 is Azerbaijan!
Anzac Day roundtable – what have we forgotten?
As part of her visit to Korea, Julia Gillard helped to unveil a memorial to the Battle of Kapyong, described as “the forgotten battle in the forgotten war”. But it’s hardly the only aspect of Australia’s wartime experience that has [...]
Quick link: Engage in the struggle against anti-Jewish racism
Engage is a website originally formed by left-wing activists in Britain’s University and College Union opposed to proposals for an academic boycott of Israel. Engage’s current focus is as follows: Engage is a single issue campaign. It focuses on one [...]
God save your Queen?
In honour of Australia Day, the 2011 NSW Australian of the Year, Larissa Behrendt, has had an opinion column full of heart-warming bonhomie about “national values” published in the Sydney Morning Herald. It’s quite difficult to disagree with Behrendt’s sentiment [...]
Roundtable: Korean crisis
There’s a lot of breaths being held on this one, waiting for the other shoe to drop and hoping like hell that it doesn’t. Here’s a thread to discuss what’s happening and not happening on the Korean peninsula right now.
2010 Melbourne Cup roundtable
It’s the day before The First Tuesday In November, so it’s time once again for an open thread where people can share with us their Cup tips, tipping systems, amusing anecdotes, withering critiques, fashion fascism, hangover remedies and anything else [...]
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