Current affairs Articles

Anti alternative-health propaganda alive and well

Not content with the demolition job they did on Pan Pharmaceuticals (see Power Balance bands sham for a description of the TGA's role on Pan's collapse) Australian media continue to undermine, throu read more...

Anzac Day

It is Anzac Day again, and as usual there is so much written in defence of it as well as questions raised about the point of celebrating a slaughter on a battlefield Australians had no business bein read more...

Apple succumbs to Wikileaks pressure

In an article published Dec 23, 2010, it is reported that Apple has joined dozens of other high profile companies including Visa, Pay Pal and Amazon in succumbing to pressure to black-list Wikileaks read more...

Bravo Anna Bligh

Times of tragedy are known to bring either the best or worst, or both, out in people, and the summer 10/11 Queensland floods are clearly bringing out the best. I feel suffused with pride when I wat read more...

Cancun and the case for a carbon tax

Stories are eminating from the 2010 Cancun talks that a carbon tax is being talked about seriously. For a change. One of the major flaws with Kyoto accord was that it pegged nations’ allowed gre read more...

Julian Assange raising the ante

Julian Assange recently announced that he will run for a seat for the Australian Senate in the next elections according to an article by Misha Schubert published in the Age, 18/3/2012. Anxious abou read more...

Lies and our relationship to truth

Written in 2003 in the early days of the Iraq War and the COW, this is particularly pertinent in these times of Wikileaks, with the international uproar over the fact of the leaks, Julian Assange, a read more...

Power balance bands sham

I just read the report of the ruling by the ACCC in Australia on the Power Balance Bands that have taken the sports world by storm over the past year. (see link at bottom of page) The ACCC has order read more...

The case for a Carbon tax

The media is full of terror about the potential impacts of a carbon tax, a tax that is being fought just as hard by the mining lobby as the mining tax was. 'It will put miners out of business', 'it read more...

The Julian Assange witchhunt

"How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information... than the rest of the world press combined? It's disgraceful." Julian Assange Everyone has read more...