Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 10:49 pm
What difference does $600000 a day in political advertising make in deciding who wins the federal election?
Lee Duffield picks up this question in the first of his articles about campaigning in 2019 – and also he checks out the far right-wing in mainstream news.
Friday, March 29, 2019, 3:34 pm
The shooting outrage in New Zealand on Friday put a focus on anti-immigration, anti-Moslem ethno-nationalist movements in many Western countries – but it’s a question whether it will break their support.
Lee Duffield joins in the drive to find explanations for a surge of barbarism this century reaching even into the peaceful streets of Christchurch.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 11:37 am
Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced to six years gaol with a non-parole period of three years and eight months on his conviction for a paedophilic attack on two children.
Lee Duffield provides a wrap on the case and notes that in the fall-out there are fresh calls for reforms to try and end such abuses.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 11:53 pm
Most electors rejected Donald Trump, by 2.8 million votes, before losing to him through the electoral college system – and there’s now a push to mobilise that majority against him.
Lee Duffield says Trump’s surprise 2016 victory stirred up a new left-wing movement alongside or within the opposition Democratic Party, amongst other things thinking of the Presidential election next year.
He profiles the newly-arrived politician, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and takes a comparative look at a sometimes very similar, and also different American figure, Michelle Obama.
Thursday, February 14, 2019, 2:12 am
Things have come to a push-and-shove stage in talks between Europe and Australia over trade – with the EU’s head man in agriculture taking a tough position in Australia this week.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 1:48 pm
Lee Duffield wonders about the dumping of the Matildas’ team coach just ahead of their World Cup campaign.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 1:37 pm
The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called on Queenslanders to obey bushfire warnings — from the G20 conference in Argentina.
Lee Duffield looks at how government leaders managed on the communication front during Queensland’s week of flames.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 11:24 pm
It came to France, scene of the epic battles of the Great War (1914-18), to host the celebration of its centenary on 11 November. Lee Duffield says it also fell to the French President, Emmanuel Macron, to post a reminder about the ideal of civilisation which the savagery of that war had jeopardised. VICTORY, PEACE, […]
Friday, July 20, 2018, 3:28 pm
In this second of three articles from Noumea, Lee Duffield learns about multi-cultural New Caledonia and the events that led to their referendum on independence now just four months away.
What is the shape of decolonisation in the present time, now long after the rush to independence that went on in countries around the world from 1960 to 1980?
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ELECTION 2019: Sorting out balderdash
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 11:50 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
The lead-up to the federal poll on 18 May has many journalists worked-up but the outcome has to be decided by real people among the general public.
Lee Duffield reports from the reputed “mad-lands” of right-wing backwoods politics in North Queensland, asking if the vote really might turn on provincial passions and demands of the coal lobby.