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Banning synthetic cannabinoids – a “kronic” overraction?
During Questions Without Notice in the Australian Senate on June 22nd [Page 50], Senator Steve Fielding challenged federal Attorney-General Representative, Senator Joe Ludwig over his government’s...
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Chaplains in schools: how Australians were misled with false statistics
Following revelations on ABC Lateline of a creepy sex focused chaplain, lurking on the internet, who wanted to “spank” a student’s mate one may wonder just how this intellectual absurdity has gotten as...
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Lest We Forget (Julian Burnside)
So here we are: Australia in 2011. For convenience we have forgotten our origins, our good fortune, our blindness and our selfishness. In place of memory we have constructed a national myth of a...
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Howard’s bigoted legacy is still with us
Yesterday was National Marriage Day, a celebration of homophobia, bigotry and fundamentalist clap trap held at Parliament House and organised by my old agents provocateur Warwick and Alison Marsh of...
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Catholic sex offenders and parliamentary privilege: The Drum panel discuss
The Drum panel discuss Nick Xenophon’s controversial use of Parliamentary privilege to name an Adelaide Catholic priest for alleged sexual abuse [Sept. 15th]. Later the panel discuss wider implications...
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