Petrol desal ‘racist’ - National - www.theage.com.au: “A NSW Aboriginal group today condemned as racist a federal government proposal to give remote indigenous communities petrol bowsers if they improved their hygiene.”
It just keeps getting worse. The attitude seems to be that if you are the most disadvantaged demographic in Australia and one of the [...]

Parliament builds bomber barrier - National - www.theage.com.au
It is a sad day when you have to build a concrete wall around parliament house. The very architecture of the building was designed to be open to the people - accountable.
Not anymore. Everyone’s a terrorist.

Tony Abbott’s speech to the Canberra parliamentary press gallery dinner at the weekend is an interesting contribution to the debate around media bias. He also seems to become a little less reserved about his personal beliefs with regards to issues that are generally considered ‘private’ - ie religion.
That aside his argument is that the [...]

PM vows to aid Aboriginal cause - National - www.theage.com.au: “Prime Minister John Howard yesterday said he was prepared to go more than halfway to meet indigenous leaders to fix Aboriginal problems.
This follows the offer by Aboriginal leaders Pat Dodson and Noel Pearson to work with Mr Howard on the Government’s agenda of ‘mutual obligation’ [...]

A great bit of activism
I got this email today:
December 3, 2004FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“DOW” STATEMENT A HOAX“Historic aid package for Bhopal victims” a lie
Contact: Marina Ashanin, Corp. Media Relations, +41-1-728-2347 Related information: http://dowethics.com/bhopal/
Today on BBC World Television, a fake Dow spokesperson announced fakeplans to take full responsibility for the very [...]

The plot against America - Opinion - www.smh.com.au: “at least a part of the Western left - or rather the Western far left - is now so anti-American, or so anti-Bush, that it actually prefers authoritarian or totalitarian leaders to any government that would be friendly to the US….I certainly don’t believe, as President Bush [...]

I feel like I haven’t written enough on this blog about the plight of our indigenous peoples. Michael Long has just done the long walk and Palm Island is burning and only showing signs of the heat being turned up after one of the sickening displays of racial violence we’ve heard of recently.
Why use [...]

Drug tests for drivers a world first - National - www.theage.com.au: “ By Andrea PetrieDecember 1, 2004“
As of 13th December Police will be conducting random roadside drug testing.
Admittedly half of me is saying ‘fuck it, they finally caught up!’ But the more rational side of me says that if you are under the influence [...]