Howard to the rescue as Europe bashes Bush: “Prime Minister John Howard faced down a wave of anti-American attacks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, leaping in to defend absent ally George Bush from European critics.”
Firstly, I’m really quite embarrassed that Howard has just become a spokes person for the Bush administration as Australia [...]

In a move that would have been unheard of in 2001, and was a major issue at that World Social Forum, Debt Relief is finally on the agenda of the World Economic Forum. I can do little more that applaud this initiative but I remain skeptical about the implementation of this.
What is dumbfounding however [...]

I was just reading about the ineptitude of the National Indigenous Council, which is hardly the fault of those on it but the complete removal of any power from the indigenous population by the Howard Government. I was thinking that the Indigenous communities should put together their own Aboriginal rival advice council when I [...]

An interesting comment byJohn Quiggin: on the Australian Blog Awards: “The left wing of Ozplogistan swept the awards, which is partly a reflection of who bothered to vote, but partly a reflection of the extent to which the left now dominates the virtual sphere in Australian politics, however poorly we may be doing In Real [...]

ALP Leadership
Gillard’s call for Kim Beazley to stand aside from his factional allegiance to the Right is about the most sensible thing that has been said in the whole post-Latham leadership challenge. While I still think Gillard is the ALP’s best hope, she’s not while the right is still dominant in the ALP.
That said [...]

A deeper analysis of the SpongeBob SquarePants incident

This strikes me as an exciting initiative: International Commons – Australia
Just really good to see some Australians getting involved – and active.

Britain’s Dossier proclaiming that it would not intervene in Iran is a positive step and reads, in laypersons terms as: “Actually, the whole Iraq thing seems to have turned out to be a bad idea – for both our reelection prospects, and for Iraq. We sure won’t be doing that again.”
While any increase in [...]

Please join Ezequiel Adamovsky, Vittorio Agnoletto, Michael Albert, Tariq Ali, Patrick Bond, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Eduardo Galeano, Susan George, Marta Harnecker, Boris Kagarlitsky, Subcomandante Marcos, George Monbiot, Suren Moodlar, Hector Mondragon, Tanya Reinhart, Carola Reintjes, Arundhati Roy, Lydia Sargent, Howard Zinn, and many more in signing the We Stand for Peace & [...]

‘Mummy, I love SpongeBob. Does that mean I’m Gay?’
‘No my child, but I am concerned about the pictures the Telly Tubbies on your brother’s wall.’
I think it’s best we laugh at this sort of thing. After all, it is a joke.