Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 10:49 pm
The criminal investigation by New South Wales police, and previously announced State inquiry might unravel the Ruby Princess scandal, and might even expose other problems with these super-liners.
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 10:20 pm
The weekend of the clamp-down, with police patrolling Australian beaches to stop weekend crowds grabbing a spot of sunny weather, saw more deaths, but maybe less confusion over the pandemic.
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 9:50 pm
Right now the world is suffering the depredations of two germs, the corona virus COVIT-19, and linked to it, the dying but stubborn economic dogma called neo-liberalism.
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 9:16 pm
Drastic century-old measures against the coronavirus had not prevented 800 deaths by early February, the total then jumping to nearly 1000 in a day.
A look at the great epidemic of 1918-9, the mis-named “Spanish flu”, shows that modern medical science has not got any easy answers since that time.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019, 3:40 pm
Big swings where they happen speak loud and clear. For a grass-roots perspective Lee Duffield checked out the queues of voters in the Northern swing-seat of Herbert. He rounds up the national outcome and its reasons, says polls were not all that wrong, considers growing power of digital media, and sees some pointers to what happens next.
Friday, May 17, 2019, 3:16 pm
The din of the election season winding up with polls raising the possibility of a close result has been testing whether news media have a place in politics any more. Lee Duffield says old-style bias and shock revelations have created the most noise approaching decision-day – but many voters haven’t even waited for the day to arrive.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 3:01 pm
Both party leaders held rallies in Melbourne on Sunday to kick off the last week of their election campaigns. In this commentary Lee Duffield says they are turning up the language and emotion but also making the choices look very clear.The Liberals’ event appropriately took place on a Sunday.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 11:50 pm
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.
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.
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Red Alert for virus in the ‘Third World’: what conflicts ahead?
Friday, April 24, 2020, 12:22 am
Reported by Lee Duffield
A red alert has gone out about a new global catastrophe after the coronavirus pandemic, with its seat in countries already facing dearth and collapse through poverty and war.