Brave victory against media bitchiness
Wreck Bay is on the southern peninsula of Jervis Bay, south of
Sydney. Aborigines have been living there for at least 10,000
years. On election day, 74 members of the local community cast
their votes. Nobody had voted for the Howard government, writes
Alan Ramsey.
- Alan Ramsey: Majesty missing, and so was the media's focus
Judas as hero is a false path to unity
Amid much publicity last year, the National Geographic Society announced that a lost third-century religious text had been found, the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. The shocker: Judas didn't betray Jesus. Instead, Jesus asked Judas, his most trusted and beloved disciple, to hand him over to be killed. writes April D. DeConick.
After two centuries, dare we whisper that word?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why there is so much angst
over saying sorry to indigenous Australians. The only civilised
position, is to be sorry that these things happened and to say so,
writes Mike Carlton.
For the Libs, losing isn't everything, it's the lonely thing
The former British conservative prime minister John Major, after he was tipped out of office by Tony Blair in 1997, used to tell a great dinner party story about his dealings with the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, writes Annabel Crabb.
Well-aimed words to cut through mire of mitigation
They told me Rod Howie was a fine judge. But nothing prepared me
for the sterling performance I witnessed in the Supreme Court at
Newcastle on Wednesday, when His Honour lashed into some of the
pieties of the therapeutic state, writes Michael Duffy.
Koori time is catching on fast
We are experiencing the immense popularity of the Slow movement. Slow with a capital S. In this world of video phones, online shopping, pre-cooked gourmet meals and methamphetamine epidemics, it has become a growing form of activism simply to slow down, writes Joel Gibson.
Suffer little children unless more agencies get involved
Every time a child dies through abuse or neglect the Department of
Community Services takes a beating. If it is not the Opposition
putting the boot in, it is hysterical members of the press baying
for blood, writes Adele Horin.
An Amish state of mind
Is there anybody in the world who actually understands how computers work? I doubt it. My guess is this: the device you have sitting on your desk is the result of a million experiments involving trial and error, writes Richard Glover.
