George Pell’s history with child sex abuse, an ongoing theme for over 20 years

by TRMQoeSeeI | April 20, 2020 | Articles by Ronni Salt & Jommy Tee, Australia's move to the Right, Media, Political issues, Religion

      George Pell’s troubled history was originally edged into the public domain by the Melbourne Herald Sun, via the sterling Lucie Morris Marr. Jeff Kennett spoke to Pell about the troubling attitude toward brushing child abuse claims under the...

George Pell appeal: Don’t accept sanitised history of clerical abuse – Peter Hoysted

by TRMQoeSeeI | April 10, 2020 | Australia's move to the Right, Police, Political issues, Religion

    Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was seen at an Australian gas station, just a day after his court acquittal and release from prison on sexual abuse allegations. I have written on numerous occasions that I despaired Pell’s trial would become...

QAnon Cult – by Karen Stewart

by TRMQoeSeeI | February 10, 2020 | Australia's move to the Right, Political issues, Religion, The PM and the QAnon conspiracy

  QAnon Cult   I’m sorry God, but I don’t believe you support the QAnon conspiracy theorists. I have spent significant time looking into this belief system and it is a contrived evangelical movement filled with political propaganda. It is an online...

MPs told to protect existing rights in religious freedom push

by TRMQoeSeeI | December 26, 2019 | Australia's move to the Right, Political issues, Religion

Labor has pledged to work with the Coalition to introduce new religious protections into the law, but equality advocates said the plan could erode existing rights and even trigger High Court challenges to state anti-discrimination laws. A day after Prime Minister...

Winner of the Department of Trains & Art: Poetry Prize 2050

by Mick Lawless | December 7, 2019 | Articles by Mick Lawless, Australia's move to the Right, Bushfires, Environment, Military, Political issues, Religion

    – The Train –   I drive the train I’m proud of thatA silver streak against the blackPast empty towns, some levelled flatLevelled flat   The train is long a metal snakeFilled with the water that we takeTo keep the coal mines...

PM defied his own expert panel during apology speech to child sex abuse survivors

by TRMQoeSeeI | November 18, 2019 | Australia's move to the Right, Religion, The PM and the QAnon conspiracy

Scott Morrison’s use of the term “ritual sex abuse” — a term associated with the extremist QAnon conspiracy movement — appears to run counter to advice given to him by survivors and government-appointed experts. David Hardaker Nov 18, 2019  ...

John Curtin Research Centre pushes Labor to the Right by David Donovan

by TRMQoeSeeI | October 31, 2019 | Australia's move to the Right, Corruption, Foreign policy, Media, Political issues, Religion

  Labor insiders express their disappointment about Labor’s so-called thinktank, the John Curtin Research Centre, pushing the Party towards Murdochian conservatism     Independent Australia is a popular, progressive, non-partisan publication....

With friends like these: the deepening links between climate denial and conservative politics | Jeff Sparrow

by TRMQoeSeeI | October 10, 2019 | Australia's move to the Right, Political issues, Religion, The PM and the QAnon conspiracy

Last week, the Guardian revealed the relationship between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and a key proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, an individual who tweets under the handle @BurnedSpy34. According to the report, Morrison and his wife Jenny maintain a...