Even the pro-Bush US media, such as Fox News, is having difficulty disguising the reality that the Bush Presidency is in desperate political trouble.
The recent signs of economic improvement, including the hitherto depressing jobs outlook, have not lifted President Bush’s re-election prospects.
Perhaps even more significantly, nor has the “flip […] Continue Reading…

It was another bizarre performance by George W Bush when he gave one of his rare live speeches to explain what the hell was going on in Iraq and maybe even something about the 911 commission. Or that seemed to be the idea, anyway. What he actually did was […] Continue Reading…

I’ve been thinking about time for one of my coming books. Like so many genuinely important things, we pay very little attention to it in our modern society. There just isn’t enough time…
Before we invented the idea of continuous, linear time, human societies tended to think in terms of […] Continue Reading…

In promoting an event that objectifies women and mixes football culture with young men and alcohol, the Broncos fumbled rather than scored. As some boys look up to rugby league players, it behooves teams like the Broncos to make a greater effort towards encouraging real equality than chucking a few prizes at one woman.
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THE unprecedented publicity Passion of the Christ has given to the Easter story provides a unique opportunity for the Christian churches to use this Easter to begin the reversal of the worrying decline in attendances, and, with few exceptions, church membership.
But how many of our churches, and our church […] Continue Reading…

It wasn’t good reportage but it was probably accurate commentary, when the AM reporter said this morning that the latest Newspoll (reported in The Australian) shows that the Mark Latham’s satisfaction rating as Opposition Leader has “peaked”.
There’s been a 14 point fall in Latham’s satisfaction rating as well as […] Continue Reading…

The ABC carried a news report today that Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. He has been overtaken by Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea. Kamprad is worth $70 Billion Australian and Gates only $62.
Remember when Abba was the biggest […] Continue Reading…

Direct elect republicans and others ought to be watching Lord Mayor Campbell Newman very closely. He is likely to provide a model for what a popularly elected President could do at his most powerful, and he’s just met his worst nightmare.
Tall, blond, urbane, and a talented artist, Councillor […] Continue Reading…

This week’s brawling in national politics over Iraq has firmly focussed attention on the leadership issue. Labor has placed all its eggs in the Latham basket; the Coalition is increasingly edgy over whether Howard still has the goods, or whether they should switch to Costello.
I have been giving Latham […] Continue Reading…

Australia seems to have its very own Kelly/Gilligan affair with some differences. The person playing the role of Andrew Gilligan is Opposition Leader, Mark Latham. Defence Department Deputy Secretary, Ron Bonighton is Kelly. While David Kelly was not in a position to know the information that […] Continue Reading…