Dutton: “We’re not listening to the Twitter crazies.” Dutton’s “spirit of preparation” The USA’s (well Trump’s) shambolic response to the Coronavirus, mirrored by the Australian and English portions of […]
Australia
Class, Connections and. . . Forrest went to Christ Church Grammar, “the school of choice for Western Australia’s wealthy. It is Perth’s equivalent of Melbourne Grammar or Sydney’s Cranbrook, churning out […]
“Twiggy’s” Minderoo Foundation named after the site of an Aboriginal massacre The Minderoo Foundation is named after Minderoo station, presently under occupation by Andrew Forrest. Minderoo is Aboriginal for “place of […]
Thread Twiggy’s $50M commitment to bushfire resilience is a part partnership with Conservation International (CI) …possibly upscaled to $500m with donations from elsewhere. CI has as its Vice Chair, […]
The “watergate” scandal around the purchase of water from a politically-connected tax exile isn’t atypical of Australian capitalism — it’s the model for much of Australian business. The “watergate” scandal, […]
At a time when Australian State Government’s are failing to take advantage of Indigenous local knowledge the African Government of Botswana turned to Australian Indigenous knowledge to assist them in […]
While riding the tram into the city on a recent Saturday night, I overheard a passionate conversation. It was between two middle-aged women, one of whom had been approached by […]
