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Alan Jones has done it again. In his very own Mitt Romney moment, the vitriolic shock jock was caught on tape telling a private function that Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s father “died of shame”. Twitter is abuzz with outrage at a story …

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas unites the most brilliant and daring minds across the globe for a weekend of talks at the Sydney Opera House. The likes of Germaine Greer and Jason Silva will debate topics as diverse as atheism, climate change, …

A small, but important, event was held in the area of Nörrebro in Copenhagen on September 23. It is an area with some social problems and is also home to Hells Angels and immigrant gangs. The reason for the event has its …

On Saturday October 27 Prince Alfred Park will play host to the annual Surry Hills Festival, a music, arts and cultural extravaganza expected to draw a crowd of over 90,000. The festival is a celebration of the diverse and creative local community, …

The votes are counted and The Greens are the biggest losers from the recent local council elections in Waverley. Independents have also missed out, resulting in an outright Liberal majority on the council. Prior to the September 8 election, the Liberals had …

The Green Isle, sitting pretty on the edge of Europe just a skip, hop and jump away from a market of half a billion people, is proving an attractive location for Australian businesses writes Anne Lillis. Similar in size to Tasmania with …

For many Americans belief in the right to bear arms still prevails amidst controversy in the wake of three recent fatal shootings, writes Todd Holbrook in Phoenix Arizona. Even in light of the Colorado Aurora movie theatre massacre in July and the …

  This is not your typical Facebook status: “Offer: Maria from Vaucluse has litres of frozen breastmilk. PM her if interested.” The proposition: “Lauren in Matiland has 600mls to donate,” is not a post which pops up on most Facebook news feeds …

Andres Mejia still remembers the day when he arrived in Sydney in 2005, with just AUS $1200 and a lot of uncertainly about his future. “Now those days seem like a dream,” he said. Although Andres did not have money to spend …

It is the stuff of legend. In the red dust and heat of Western Australia’s Pilbara region, on the other side of the continent to their homelands and seas, a gang of Torres Strait Islanders didn’t just break the record time for …