En Passant

A host of conservative politicians, including PM Turnbull, have opportunistically used the South Australian power outage to cast doubt on renewable energy, writes John Passant in Independent Australia.

My latest academic article has just been published and is available through this link to download.

Tax and the Forgotten Classes: from the Magna Carta to the English Revolution

Signed copies of my first book of poetry, Songs for the Band Unformed, are available now. To find out about purchase details personal message me on Facebook so the whole world doesn’t see our details.

While Malcolm Turnbull was telling the UN how wonderful our offshore gulags are, 49% of Australians wanted to ban Muslim immigration. In Independent Australia I look at Australia’s structural racism.

In Independent Australia (IA) I discuss the political and economic conditions underlying the rise of “Hansonism”.

Imagine if Labor mobilised hundreds of thousands to take to the streets to win equal love. That is a real plan B, Labor. Lead a mass civil rights campaign for equal marriage. Do it now. Call us out on to the streets to stop business as usual until we win equal love.

  The problem is not who is selling us the sh*t sandwich; the problem is the sh*t sandwich.

Why?   It is not the dark that threatens But the light It is midnight morning time That gathers reason beyond imagination That rides the train to backwardness We must all fear   And in that journey we cannot see The place is past and the world runs round Where other people walk their lives […]

The gender pay gap is alive and well in Australia and the phenomenal success of the recent women’s AFL exhibition match is a text book case in point, writes John Passant in Independent Australia. To read the article click here. Women’s AFL and the gender pay gap.