Jeremy Gans has decided to bring a halt to his Charterblog, which for the past year has followed the progress of Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights.  Although this is a loss to the Australian blawgosphere and to anyone interested in human rights and charters of rights, it is hard to fault his lo...

John Clarke’s report on the Haneef affair is out and it says that there was no evidence to justify his arrest and treatment by the Australian Federal Police and the Federal Government. The best quote I’ve read is from the Hindustan Times, which write: The report said the Australian Secre...

Well there you have it. Kevin Rudd is as much as scumbag as John Howard. It didn’t take long for his true colours to show. A year after he was elected on a campaign which had a strong focus on climate change action, he has totally ignored Ross Garnaut’s recommendations of 5 per cent per ...

Delighted to see Aussie activists organizing against government censorship of the Internet. Little by little, a lot of governments (including our own in the US) are trying to chip away at the rights of adults to view adult content. As someone whose blog and websites are being increasingly blocked an...

I’m very excited to see that OpenAustralia, the local version of TheyWorkForYou is online and in beta testing. Congrats to everyone involved. It’s something I’ve been wanting to see happen in Australia for years. Reading through the site and its’ associated blog tonight, I di...

Australia's socialist federal Labor,ACTU(union financed) government appointed "2020 Prominent Australians" and United Nations groupies finally come out and remind the Australian PM Kevin "Lu Kewan" Rudd exactly who IS the boss.. after all HE did ask THEM how to run......

Gordon Ramsay is used to controversy so it perhaps not surprising that at times foul-mouthed chef has offended the sensibilities of some Australian politicians:             FEDERAL Parliament will be asked to investigate swearing on TV after the coarse language in Ramsa...

Richard, Ian and Garth joined me last night to discuss porn filters, Australian values, strip clubs and other rubbish. If you think you can sense heavy editing in this show… you are right. I won’t say why. Become part of the G’Day World conversation. I’ve created a couple of ...

Mike Van Niekerk does it again. Barely a month since James Farmer left Fairyfax as the guy running their blogs, blogger Jack Marx gets sacked for writing what everyone is thinking about Kevin Rudd. Well I guess we know the lay of the land now people. News Corp is voting Libs and FairyFax are voting ...

Victorian State Premier, Steve Bracks has just given a press conference announcing his resignation. He is resigning for personal reasons. He’s prattling on about how good a job he’s done at the moment, but I will update when he talks about actual reasons. UPDATE: He said that he has been...