A despicable right-wing Australian politician talked of one South Australian Member of the Legislative Council who is in her party and is descended from European Jewish immigrants and said that she supported immigration that would assimilate into Australia. She expressed admiration for a former, now deceased Australian Labor politician who…

A particularly despicable Australian politician who is an opponent of multiculturalism held Bosnia up as an example of the failure of multiculturalism. Bosnia is an extreme example, and only someone who could be described as an anti-intellectual cherry picker would highlight it. And let’s not forget that Bosnia was a…

I remember when Japanese whaling was discussed, one person wrote a letter to the paper saying that their next car, camera or whatever else would not be from Japan. I am anything but anti-Japanese and I say that what this person needs to remember is, there’s Greenpeace in Japan, and…

Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists need a reality check, here. Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who resisted Alabama’s racist code that required a Black person to give up their seat and move to the rear of the bus or stand so that a white man could take her seat. If…

As most of my readers know, I do not believe the tripe that men and women cannot be platonic friends and that it can ruin relationships or prevent them from being formed if they do. I remember a woman with whom I was friends, who didn’t want a relationship, but…

I remember an episode of The Bill where DS Max Carter arrested a man who was posing as a teenage girl in a chatroom. The man, when confronted, claimed it was a “mistake”, to which Max Carter replied, “Hitting the wrong key on a computer, that’s a mistake; posing as…

Much is made by some organizations about looking out for people who may be on their own over Christmas, but is it really that bad? I remember reading Bert Facey’s “A Fortunate Life” where he described spending Christmas by himself at a property at Yearling, Western Australia, and said that…

Now that the January 6 Committee has recommended charges be laid against Trump, it is time for people to wrap their heads around a few facts. The right-wingers will accuse us of hypocrisy, but they fail to understand the deeper issues at play. The only US President to serve two…

I heard the key enter the lock and the glass cubicle door open and a woman’s fingers came towards me. I could feel another set of fingers coming towards me and heard the voice of the owner of those fingers say that they wanted me as an all-rounder. I had…