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By Daily Review
Today is World Refugee Day, and apparently a ‘record’ that has been broken. A new United Nations report overnight calculates that, in 2017, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes around the globe came in at a record rate of 44,400 per day. There are no World Cups or gold medals in this
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By Helen Razer
“Journalism is not a crime”. Really? I’d say this slogan is hardly unassailable. I’d say this slogan, which began to appear in hashtag and t-shirt form when the Australian journalist Peter Greste was detained for his journalism practice, needs a second, a third, a seventeenth unflinching look. Surely, Sarah Ferguson’s fantasy Putin trilogy, which concluded
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Right, you blue and white striped clowns. The game’s over. It’s time to straighten up the pair of you and all your mates, too: Barrie Cassidy, Fran Kelly, Ian Henderson, and Jon Faine, to name a few. Living off the Crown’s coin, while honest Australians toil away the hours maintaining life and liberty. You’re all
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I’m not sure what world we’re in anymore. The leader of the free world meets a tyrant, one who oppresses his countrymen and women. They emerge after talks as friends. All that had occurred before when, as enemies, they would huff and puff and threaten to blow the other’s house down, gone as surely as
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By Helen Razer
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of ladies struggling to Lean In. This narrow principle informs the ABC’s newest “factual” blockbuster, Back In Time For Dinner, just as it has come to inform all entertainment aimed at the female viewer white and/or wealthy enough not to have noticed that the West
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By Bo Svoronos
Sydney’s Chinatown is a familiar place to me. I know most of the turns, food courts and spruiker scripts like a good friend thinks they know another’s sensibilities. It’s a place I’m accustomed to since I began truanting high school as a 14 year old in the mid-eighties. After dropping out of school I scored a
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Who’s the most dangerous man in America? Tough competition for sure, so let’s narrow it down to who’s doing the most damage to America and the rest of the world? Trump? Nope—there’s a higher power screwing us, and he lives in Wichita, Kansas. His name is Charles Koch (pronounced “coke”) and last Friday he announced
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“I have the absolute right to pardon myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?’’ Indeed. Thus spoke American President Donald Trump. Thus did Trump don the moral and political garb of kings through the ages, from the Sun King, Louis XIV, of France, who ruled beyond the grasp of
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By Daily Review
We inhabit a world where nearly 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute as a consequence of conflict or persecution, according to the United Nations. But you needn’t feel powerless. You can make a difference in your own backyard. A good place to start? Make a tax deductible donation to The Social Studio, a remarkable
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With friends like the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who needs enemies? The proposed Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra has died in the trench warfare between the post-modern left and the new right. According to The Australian this week, the ANU’s incoming history department head, Professor Frank
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