The fountain of the little snouts
The Boboli Gardens surround the Pitti Palace in Florence, built in 1458 for banker Luca Pitti. It later became the…
How times have changed for uranium exporters
The Whitlam government established the Fox Inquiry in 1975. Two reports were released in the following year. One recommended that…
Aussie life
St Arnaud is a tiny speck on the map of Australia. The western Victorian town is surrounded by farmland and…
Only a United Nations drip could make the Victorian Treaty a joke
It is frightening how little is taught in schools about the United Nations. Australians have virtually no idea what role…
A Soviet-style revolution in Victoria
A common feature of successful revolutions is chaos. Those who have sought change, and have succeeded, have very often not…
Utopia? Or ‘their’-topia?
New indigenous rights are shrouded in secrecy
What’s mined is yours
If you thought you understood the seemingly endless line of new Indigenous terminology, two more were recently coined by the…
A tree with a few branches will rarely flourish
The slow death of the Victorian Liberals
Victorian Parliament at its worst
Since the recent Referendum, many commentators have referred to the state of play in the Victorian negotiations between the state…
A Victorian odyssey with a long way to go
It is becoming clearer every day that the Andrews government in Victoria has a propensity to bite off a bit…
Did the Victorian elections ignore the Constitution and Human Rights Charter?
When the Bracks government in Victoria established an Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in 2006 it bragged that it…
Kerr and Whitlam’s unfilled advisory role to the Governor-General
In the autumn of 1975, the then Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, put a proposal to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam for…
