Current Affairs

Firefighting review confirms TWWHA values protection bungle

*Pic: Sandy Lake replica hut and back burn A review of the firefighting efforts ( HERE ) into the unprecedented bushfires that...

PNG gives middle finger to selfish Australian overlords … and good on them

In Australia, we thought we had found a “solution” to asylum seekers with our own tropical concentration camp on Manus. Not so,...

Government chooses polluters over people with Adani

Even as Australia’s most eminent Reef scientists lament the worst ever outbreak of bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef – the Queensland...

NATION: PNG’s Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers on Manus illegal. Punitive, immoral…

*Pic: Killed on Manus … Reza Barati. Two men jailed over 2014 murder of asylum seeker at Manus Island detention centre, ABC...

Port Arthur memorial service to mark 20th anniversary of massacre

Hundreds of people are expected to attend a memorial service honouring victims of the Port Arthur massacre, 20 years to the day...

Norfolk Islanders Occupy Former Parliament Grounds …

BOUNTINEERS SIT-IN FOR JUSTICE A throng of Norfolk Islanders have occupied the island’s former Parliament grounds on the eve of the 227th...

Meanwhile, at Blue Derby …

Karl Stevens

A poem as lovely as a tree …

Tasmanian Media Awards 2016

Best News Image (stills) Sponsor: Media Super Finalists • Nikki Davis-Jones , The Mercury: Taking A Stand • Richard Jupe, The Mercury...

The recolonisation of Norfolk Island is a heavy-handed act of regression

Where in the world is “God Save the Queen” a revolutionary call to arms? In Norfolk Island, whose 2,200 citizens – half...