Ordinary Australians are terrified by a new test the Australian Government is planning to introduce.

Robert Burns statue in Writers Museum EdinburghWithin the first five seconds we were hooked   e were on the way to work, tuned in to Radio National’s Book Show, a replay of the opening address by Andrew O’Hagan from last year’s Sydney Writers’...

  This Still Very Young Child   bout 300 years ago, like a smouldering kapok pillow, a massive revolution began its slow burn. A scientific revolution. A social political revolution led by great minds. Newton, Spinoza, Locke, Voltaire,...

Tell the boss! Tell the world! Revolution!!!!   wo excellent talks that will give you good feelings and even hope! From the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce The truth about financial incentives: How our human super power can...

We’re just a bit confused    r Haneef has been charged with recklessly providing resources to a terrorist organisation (to wit, a sim card). The alleged recklessness occurred in the UK. It did not take place in Australia. There is no...

Choose Your Favourite War Criminal   hat extraordinary influence our Groveller General enjoys with US President Bush. Mr Howard said he will raise the Hicks issue when he meets the US President George W Bush on Tuesday…Mr Howard says he will...

An Unfinished Canvas hey had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them… Between rim and robe naught was there to see, save only a deadly gleam of eyes… And they became forever invisible and they entered...

Peter Costello reaching out to his future subjects Our loyal visitors,   anting to know how to react to Peter Costello’s decision to disappear up his own arse at long last, may have been waiting with bated breath to hear Sir Roger’s wisdom on...

Sorry Bastards   ant a long-range heads-up? The question we should be asking Abbott and Gillard and all of their various immigration spokespeople right now is this:   How do you feel about the inevitability that — possibly in your lifetime — a...

Dang Me If Its Not From Richard Perle!   alues Australia provides the following information to help Australians understand some of their Australian values, especially to understand where our values come from in relation to Middle East policy...

Godly Thoughts for Sunday nd now, today, we grieve for four young men [US Marines murdered in El Salvador] taken from us too soon. And we receive them in death as they were on the last night of their lives, together and...

Stop us if you’ve head this one…   arly in his term as Prime Minister, John Howard went to Washington for a meeting with Bill Clinton. After a private dinner, Bill says to Howard, “Well John, I don’t know what you think of the members of your...

The Ultimate Dreamcometrue  I n the heat of the 2006 Spring Offensive over Australian values Values Australia was born in response to the cynical and ignorant way real Australian values were being abused by politicians and the sycophantic, right-wing media echo...

“We came for peace,” said the commando, one of the first Israeli soldiers to board the Mavi Marmara. ”They came for war.” ow you can tell "we came for peace" is that we came in the dark of night in warships and armed rigid-hulled inflatable boats,...

  Vale Saint Joan    ir Roger wishes to make a special personal note of his sadness at the death, of La Stupenda, Dame Joan Sutherland; the loss of one of the truly greats. Her career properly began when “she won a two-year scholarship for...

"I'm a Leninist" *   Trump has branded democrats and protestors as terrorists and also as anarchists. And because he likes the wacko Q narrative  - or likes to use it to manipulate his stupid base -  he sees the dark agents of doom in every corner. But...

  The greater triumphs and achievements   oday in 3QuarksDaily Abbas Raza quotes Nehru:    We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an...

  or Sir Fopling Flutter – “God Almighty’s Fool”    Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown, They seem’d not of heaven’s making, but their own. Those nauseous harlequins in farce may pass, But there goes more to a substantial ass; Something of man...

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. In an...

Minister von Rock Opens Australian Refujesus Exhibition 15 October, 2006 The Australian Minister for Pacific Island Guano Getaways and Internment (PIGGI), Mistress von Rock, has opened a very tasteful photographic exhibition of pathetically grateful boat people to...