COMMENTHow many gay people are there in the AFL? I don’t know and I don’t care – but, of course, the ABC does. When I heard Four Corners was going to run an expose on one of the biggest scandals in the league, I tuned in hoping to see anContinue Reading
Kate Langbroek says new mothers are treated “cruelly” by hospitals while they give birth. The Project host made the comments following an item on complaints of clinical incompetence and human rights abuses allegations at a regional NSW hospital. Two woman appeared on the program to describe how they were leftContinue Reading
Tibet’s exiled political leader says his nation has become a prison under Chinese rule but he would not be pushing for independence from Beijing. In his first trip to Australia since being elected the head of the nation’s government-in-exile in 2021, Penpa Tsering called on the Albanese government to takeContinue Reading
The opposition is calling for the Vladimir Putin’s private army, the Wagner group, to be listed as a terrorist organisation in Australia. The mercenary group was at the centre of the nine-month battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and has been accused of war crimes, including executions and rape.Continue Reading
Anthony Albanese is unlikely to bring up human rights concerns or the lack of public condemnation of Russia when he holds a bilateral with his Indian counterpart on Wednesday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed to Australia like a rock star on Tuesday night at a packed event forContinue Reading
Australia must confront the “inconvenient truths” about China’s positive contributions to the world, while also countering Beijing’s “massive” military expansion threatening regional security, Richard Marles says. The Defence Minister condemned “shrill and fundamentalist” inflammatory commentary about China, while also acknowledging the country was a significant source of “anxiety” for ourContinue Reading
The Formula 1 world has gone wild after hearing the host country’s “hauntingly beautiful” national anthem ahead of Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Local singer Aisel led a gorgeous rendition of the former Soviet state’s national anthem before the start of the race. Her performance came complete with dynamic costume changesContinue Reading
Former prime minister Paul Keating served his signature cocktail at the National Press Club this week: intelligence, insight and an occasional droplet of wisdom, all overpowered by the bitter taste of malice. Australians do enjoy a bitter drink, of course, which is presumably why Mr Keating’s erudite vindictiveness so oftenContinue Reading
Dr Jordan Peterson has been roasted online for sharing a “male milking” BDSM fetish porn video falsely portrayed as being from a Chinese Communist Party “sperm bank”. “Such fun in unbelievable techno-nightmare CCP hell,” the Canadian psychologist wrote on Twitter on Saturday in the since-deleted post. The extremely graphic video,Continue Reading
To many online, Maureen A Huebel almost doesn’t seem like a real person. The vociferously anti-American Twitter account posts a constant stream of pro-China — and more recently, pro-Russia — messages to her 3000 followers, with an unusual focus on debunking claims of Uyghur repression in Xinjiang. In one viralContinue Reading