Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Friday, February 10, 2023, 12:23 pm
Australia is moving towards defeating yet another referendum, this one on an Indigenous Voice to parliament, because lacking the full across-the-board support traditionally needed for “yes” to ever succeed. A defeat will be mortifying for most Indigenous Australians, and for Australia across the world, where it has always been called a racist country.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 5:23 pm
Debate that broke out in federal parliament on 10 November over a new industrial relations law had the independent politicians under pressure – and it showed. Lee Duffield says the so called “Teal” group hastened to add some 35 pages of amendments to the comprehensive Fair Work Amendment Bill, already 240 pages thick, which the […]
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 4:39 pm
The launch of a New Zealand project to produce more Pacific news and provide a “voice for the voiceless” on the islands, has highlighted the neglect of that field by Australia and New Zealand — and also problems in universities.
The new development is the non-government, non-university Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), a research base and publishing platform.
Its opening followed the cleaning-out of a centre within the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) – in an exercise exemplifying in-fighting that goes on in universities hardly glimpsed from outside.
Sunday, November 27, 2022, 6:36 pm
When there is manipulation by managers or “human mistakes” that turn the tables in a game or race, followers can’t help feeling distrustful – because of all the money at stake.
That is the main theme that Lee Duffield has taken out, in this small sampling from a welter of elite sport over the last few months.
Sunday, November 27, 2022, 12:32 am
ANALYSIS
The recent elections in Sweden and Italy, which went towards extremist parties campaigning against immigrants, and the Brazil election where they were narrowly knocked back, are a warning for democracy. Lee Duffield sets about finding psychological causes for what he calls the crop of “off-balance” players, “demagogues” on the right wing.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 10:24 pm
Lee Duffield looks at the media circus surrounding the royal death and succession in England, and asks what it might mean for freedom and good government.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 9:32 pm
Lee Duffield records impressions of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev the Russian statesman who changed history. As a news correspondent he tracked the man’s progress across Europe as he tried to get support and negotiate a peaceful ending to the Cold War.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 8:49 pm
A problem labelled “industrial scale cheating” is presenting a mortal threat to universities with students now routinely commissioning a proliferating range of online services to do their assignments. I see it as jeopardising learning and standards, the quality of research and ultimately knowledge itself.
Monday, May 9, 2022, 11:32 am
With the country talking about the shambles of a so-called ‘Great Debate’ on Nine, on Sunday night, Lee Duffield raises the case for getting a serious debate on the ABC.
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New moves on Australian universities
Saturday, July 29, 2023, 8:19 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
In this up-date on events in the University of Queensland and the universities sector, during another period of on-going change. points include: Federal government changes announced in July, Voice to Parliament, Artificial Intelligence, an appreciation of the late Peter Wertheim.