Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Monday, October 5, 2020, 11:03 pm
Two expectations marked the lead-up to the independence referendum in New Caledonia on Sunday (4.10.20): that it was likely to be another ‘no’, and bad feeling was set to follow.
In the event the ‘no’ vote against independence won with 53.26%, down on the result in 2018, when it was 56.7%.
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.
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, 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.
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
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.
Sunday, March 10, 2019, 9:52 pm
A standard bearer for multiculturalism and civilised values Dr Maximilian Brandle died from a heart condition at the end of February in Brisbane, Australia.
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.
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Trouble in America: will the Bible save Donald Trump?
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 11:28 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
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.