John Howard is against a Bill of Rights and that’s enough for us. The little shit has always been so wrong that anything he is against is certain to be right

Peter Garrett’s political career – then: cardboard cutout; now: blancmange

From Onion News Network: New Shampoo For Masturbating Boyfriend In Shower, White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Advocacy Group Decries PETA’s Inhumane Treatment Of Women

What would it be like if Google moved into your house? The shock horror truth is…he already has!

Matt Taibbi, author of the now famous Rolling Stone article on Goldman Sachs (the “giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”) has followed up with a commentary on Goldman Sachs’ recently-announced $3.44 billion profit. Goldman has also followed up their bailout by earmarking $11.4 billion for employee bonuses.

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money

If you didn’t see it yet, suck in your breath and be strong and watch this week’s Four Corners on repeat or on iView. It is a Channel 4 Discovery program called “Saving Africa’s Witch Children”. It is hard to take. Christian pastors in Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria, of the ultra-loony Pentecostalist variety, are [...]

We certainly think that the “subservience to authority, the belief that ‘important people… blokes in an official capacity’ deserve a little bit of respect’ ” is more alive and more hearty than ever and that this is probably the most dangerous characteristic of middle Australian culture for a healthy democracy.

“What happens within China and the behaviour of China on a global scale will co-determine the fate of democracy.”
Clearly it is in all of our best interests to encourage China towards a form of democracy that coincides as best it can with what we understand to be the basic values of democracy.

why has it taken Rudd so very long to appoint Faulkner?

1. the suggestion was to use waterboarding; 2. it came from the Vice President’s office; 3. the purpose was to find a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

Keelty in our view was a bad man, morally weak, a disastrous Commissioner who willingly ran over the basics of human rights and legal traditions like habeas corpus in order to pursue a flawed and misguided agenda.