Election to UQ Senate by Graduates
Monday, September 20, 2021, 1:13 pm
Candidate Lee Duffield:
Put balance onto the UQ Senate and some ‘about-time’ moderation.
Rash policies have proved a disaster in the present crisis.
Opinion
Humanities answer Tehan
Monday, June 22, 2020, 12:49 pm
A consortium from the university humanities sector has issued a public letter correcting the federal government on the assumptions behind its radical fees proposal announced last Friday.
Trouble in America: will the Bible save Donald Trump?
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 11:28 pm
The image of President Donald Trump brandishing a Bible amid the American rioting raises questions about what he might find inside that book, to comfort himself, or make him afraid.
Red Alert for virus in the ‘Third World’: what conflicts ahead?
Friday, April 24, 2020, 12:22 am
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.
Getting ready for COVID-19 to get worse
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.
Australia's Tough Year: Crook with the virus, economy getting crook
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.
BOOK REVIEW: Palembang to Pine Gap - the CIA, JFK and Whitlam
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 8:45 pm
Palembang to Pine Gap: A new historical novel dredges up Cold War stories with a warning for present times.
Lee Duffield
Israel Folau, contract law and discrimination
Wednesday, July 3, 2019, 12:24 am
No end is in sight for the debate about Israel Folau’s right to promote his fundamentalist Christian ideas, writes Lee Duffield.
Election 2019: How to ignore the noise so you can make a sensible vote
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.
AMERICA: What happens if Donald Trump gets beaten in November?
Monday, July 27, 2020, 11:53 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
The start of August means three months to the American election on Tuesday 3 November, a contest watched more closely than ever before following Donald Trump’s recent reversal of fortunes.