A series of newly resurfaced comments by Marcia Langton show the prominent Voice campaigner accusing “hard No” voters of “spewing racism”, labelling conservatives Jacinta Price and her mother as “coloured help”, and wishing a “slow, painful death” on Mark Latham. It comes after Professor Langton sparked controversy over the weekendContinue Reading
COMMENTAnimal activist Tash Peterson has been attacked by several prominent members of the Jewish community for referring to the slaughter of billions of animals each year (trillions, if we estimate the number of sea animals killed) as an “animal Holocaust”. She has been scolded for supposedly “comparing Jews to pigs”.Continue Reading
A health expert has warned of a potential “triple wave” of infections, as winter is set to increase rates of Covid infections that now number nearly 5000 new cases a day. University of Sydney infectious diseases specialist Robert Booy said reduced vaccination rates, plus waning vigilance, could lead to aContinue Reading
A health expert has warned of a potential “triple wave” of infections, as winter is set to increase rates of Covid infections that now number nearly 5000 new cases a day. University of Sydney infectious diseases specialist Robert Booy said reduced vaccination rates, plus waning vigilance, could lead to aContinue Reading
An epidemiologist has warned Australians not to become too complacent about Covid-19 as the country is about to enter its fifth wave, with infection rates more than doubling in the past three months. Compared to a rolling seven-day average of 2670 cases per day recorded on March 1, Australia’s CovidContinue Reading
Darwin. Broome. Port Hedland. These significant Australian economic centres risk being uninhabitable within 70 years, a new report warns. Government inaction and corporate disinformation have the world on track for an average temperature increase of 2.7C by 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in March. Now aContinue Reading
An international student living in Melbourne has slammed Australia’s university system in a scathing rant that exposes some of the biggest flaws in tertiary education. Jamie Wu may adore Australia however she doesn’t feel the love in return when it comes to being an international student in the country. InContinue Reading
University staff across Australia will protest for a week from Monday as academics, admin and support workers at “breaking point” gear up to fight job insecurity, unsafe workloads and poor pay. In Victoria, thousands of staff at Monash University, the University of Melbourne, and Deakin University will walk off theContinue Reading
Barry Humphries was, at the very least, one of Australia’s greatest ever entertainers. But there was always more to Humphries, who – like his greatest character – went from the suburbs of Melbourne to the highest stages in the world. On Saturday night, his family confirmed the 89-year-old died atContinue 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