by Trina McLellan _____________________________________________ TRIGGER WARNING: Specific news and current affairs coverage of multiple-death crimes, including Australia’s 1996 massacre in Tasmania and Norway’s 2011 killing rampage in and around the […]
racism: (1) the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to […]
Many older Australians say they are deeply unhappy about issues and changes that impact their lives or the lives of their loved ones but about which they have had little […]
TO: Mr Omar Metwally Mohamed Tawfic Metwally, Egypt’s Ambassador to Australia FROM: Trina McLellan Journalist and educator, Queensland Australia RE: The wholly unfounded conviction of Australian journalist Peter Greste and […]
Australia’s recently elected federal Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison, has reportedly ordered his departmental staff to refer to asylum seekers coming by boat as “illegal” arrivals. Our nation is a signatory […]
It is no longer a matter of politics. Thankfully, that time has passed. But it is time to think seriously about why a full-speed National Broadband Network is essential to […]
There are times when you really wish that there was a truth in advertising law … and that it had some real bite. For nearly two years now, Coles supermarkets […]
Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. (Source: Flickr/DIAC Images) ———— As soon as Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his own version of a “stop the boats” plan, a number of […]
This opinion piece was first written in April, 2006 The fact Australia’s media, like its citizens, wish to remember the loss of life at Port Arthur 10 years ago is […]
(This opinion piece, originally written in 2003, has proved eerily prescient as the debate on media reforms rages here and abroad a decade later. It was written after the first […]
