What was the best news of 2012?
Just before Xmas, I asked the readers at Core and at Troppo what they though the best bits of news of 2012 were. Many, including...
Tim Soutphommasane’s “Don’t Go Back To Where You Came From” : Feminism, food, federation and laboured alliteration
Tim Soutphommasane has written a defence, or more accurately, a vigourous promotion of Australian Multiculturalism. I have opinions, which, with effort, are forced into the...
You can survive on Newstart but you can’t live on it
Troppo readers may have noticed a Christmas "silly season" debate about an ill-advised assertion by Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin...
Doing a Gorton or shifting the deckchairs?
Jacqueline Maley has an article in today's Fairfax media musing about who might succeed Julia Gillard as Labor leader after an election loss later this...