Opinion Archive

Africa is a continent, not a country. The 54 African countries are unfailingly either ignored in our media or the stories that we see are negative. Africa has positive stories to tell but editors in Australia choose not to let us hear …

Angry protesters rallied outside Parliament House in Sydney on Thursday June 14 carrying signs saying “Don’t Shoot”. The Australian Workers Union joined them, dressed as kangaroos and owls. Opposition leader John Robertson spoke to the 150-strong crowd saying: “Barry O’Farrell has broken his …

  As Agni-V soared in the blue expanse from Wheeler Island off the Odisha Coast at 8.07 am on April 17, 2012 India entered the International Ballistic Missile Club. In so doing, it joined the illustrious group of the US, the UK, …

The assassination of al Qa’ida’s second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, by a remote controlled CIA Reaper drone is the most recent in a history of killings by these machines in Pakistan’s North West province. In the past eight years CIA drones …

Amongst the dross on news websites of late, the one report that had me  jittery was not from the Canberra cabal carping collective, but from the other side of the world. ‘Twas about housing, and it rang true for Australia. It concerned …