Building boom
Spending millions whilst airbrushing the past
The return of the racism versus rape debate
Is the West really prepared for an influx of angry young male Afghan refugees?
Hey Joe, I warned you what would happen…!
The fall of Kabul was predicted. By me.
Black Parents Matter
The ABC of Aboriginal child delinquency
The next Vietnam
Gentlemen, start your helicopter engines...
Voice, treaty, truth?
We are lying to ourselves about the reasons behind Aboriginal disadvantage
Aussie life
In a recent edition of The Drum on the ABC, host Ellen Fanning addressed the issue of Aboriginal deaths in…
Sacred sites – a warning to us all
We are being misled about indigenous history
Australian notes
Rudd fancies himself as Metternich The latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the American foreign policy journal, contains yet another article…
Pearls of wisdom
Can the reintroduction of indigenous languages save dysfunctional communities?
They are spitting in our face
China has no problem with flouting international rules and laws
Welcome to Boola Bardip
Buddy, can you spare me a lazy twenty million?
Auty, Albrechtsen and the fate of the West
Question: why do so many academics favour Marx?
Gum stuck to the bottom of China’s shoe
Time to shift our attention to India
Q&A hits a new low
When I was at university four decades ago, debate raged about the evils of racism, capitalism, colonialism, orientalism and of…
Doomed revolutions
Some revolutions such as the American War of Independence, succeed and result in the birth of great nations. Some, such…
Doing the Makarrata
So here we go again. What I will call ‘Atsic mark II’ is currently getting pollies, journos and lawyers in…
Immigration and the demographic brioche
The Conversation is an online journal publishing commentary from Australian academics about current issues. It claims to present articles with…
The Thuringian flagellants and the green gluers
Those young men and women who have taken to gluing themselves to walls and roads in order to save the…
The immigration iceberg
In the Middle Ages the periodic return of plague from the Middle East to communities throughout Europe killed off possibly…
Whither withering democracy?
In June 1995 the New Yorker magazine published a long article by the distinguished American journalist Michael Kelly examining dissatisfaction…
Identity notes
Colourful opinions In the last edition of the Saturday Paper for 2018 there is an article by a self-styled ‘Person…
Reggae, Ramsay and Beethoven
The recent news that the form of music known as Reggae is to be added to the Unesco world heritage…
Should we bomb Iran?
Clearly, when I say ‘we’, I don’t mean you and me. As a responsible Speccie reader I’m sure you know…
Clash of teaching civilisations
In 1942 Dr Joseph Needham was sent by the British government to China to study China’s universities and see what…
