CSIRO chief Doug Hilton announced he’s sacking 350 scientists, but the $965K pa head of the science body now refuses to have his own ‘sacking science’ publicly reviewed. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. Back in April 2024, in the context of a newly announce ‘Made in Australia’ policy, MWM wrote
The spin cycle around devastating bushfires in Victoria this month is now a bureaucratic labyrinth of “lies and statistics”. Andrew Gardiner reports. With Victorian bushfires torching an area almost twice the size of the ACT this month, locals in badly-scorched Alexandra, north east of Melbourne, were after blood. And political
Dunghutti man Paul Silva is calling on supporters to join him in defying NSW’s new protest ban by going ahead with a pre-planned Deaths in Custody march tomorrow. Wendy Bacon reports. For ten years, the Dungay family have battled unsuccessfully to hold the NSW state government accountable for the killing
The NSW Government’s plan to criminalise the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ ignores obvious facts about how language works. Analysis from professional linguist Nick Riemer. In the wake of December’s antisemitic massacre on Bondi Beach, the orchestrated moral panic over the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ has itself been globalised. According to
Australia’s Former PM Scott Morrison will join far-right political figures as a keynote speaker at an Israel-sponsored antisemitism conference later this month. Stephanie Tran reports. Scott Morrison is billed as a keynote speaker at the Generation Truth antisemitism conference in Israel later this month, an event which has drawn criticism
The arrest of alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade, Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, is a win for law enforcement, but what does it mean for the trade? Criminologist James Martin asks. Declared by an Iraqi court to be “one of the most dangerous wanted men in the world”, Hamad is
News from the front desk: Welcome back! The year is still too fresh and unsteady on its feet for us to predict how it will bend and what shape it will grow into. So, let’s take full advantage and slap down some blueprints right up front. See if we can seize the agenda and channel the trajectory.
As a publication focused on ways to create a more ...
Who knew copper could be sexy? It is for Australia’s mining giants which are falling over themselves to get more exposure to the metal.
Recently, Rio Tinto proposed a $300 million merger with Glencore to create the world’s largest miner. It’s essentially a takeover and through it, Rio wants to increase earnings from copper and the AI data centre theme ...
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Australia is running an opportunity deficit in its biggest cities. Housing, congestion and service pressures are eroding the everyday “deal” in Sydney and Melbourne. The question is no longer whether people and investment will look elsewhere, but ...
President Trump has adopted the position that in international relations, ‘might is right’. What does that mean for smaller, not so mighty countries? Former senator Rex Patrick asks. Donald Trump’s new ‘Donroe doctrine‘ has been applied to the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, threats to neighbouring Colombia, and his
Cancelled writer Randa Abdel-Fattah has launched defamation action against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.
The post Malinauskas spurred by ‘Murdoch press’ and ‘pro-Israel lobby’, says cancelled writer appeared first on The Klaxon.
Federal Parliament will be recalled next week to debate and pass new hate speech laws in the wake of the Bondi massacre. But will it target all hate speech? Al The Writer asks. It’s being hailed as the “toughest hate laws Australia has ever seen” in response to the devastating Bondi Beach
CSIRO chief Doug Hilton announced he’s sacking 350 scientists, but the $965K pa head of the science body now refuses to have his own ‘sacking science’ publicly reviewed. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. Back in April 2024, in the context of a newly announce ‘Made in Australia’ policy, MWM wrote
The spin cycle around devastating bushfires in Victoria this month is now a bureaucratic labyrinth of “lies and statistics”. Andrew Gardiner reports. With Victorian bushfires torching an area almost twice the size of the ACT this month, locals in badly-scorched Alexandra, north east of Melbourne, were after blood. And political
Dunghutti man Paul Silva is calling on supporters to join him in defying NSW’s new protest ban by going ahead with a pre-planned Deaths in Custody march tomorrow. Wendy Bacon reports. For ten years, the Dungay family have battled unsuccessfully to hold the NSW state government accountable for the killing
The NSW Government’s plan to criminalise the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ ignores obvious facts about how language works. Analysis from professional linguist Nick Riemer. In the wake of December’s antisemitic massacre on Bondi Beach, the orchestrated moral panic over the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ has itself been globalised. According to
Australia’s Former PM Scott Morrison will join far-right political figures as a keynote speaker at an Israel-sponsored antisemitism conference later this month. Stephanie Tran reports. Scott Morrison is billed as a keynote speaker at the Generation Truth antisemitism conference in Israel later this month, an event which has drawn criticism
The arrest of alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade, Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, is a win for law enforcement, but what does it mean for the trade? Criminologist James Martin asks. Declared by an Iraqi court to be “one of the most dangerous wanted men in the world”, Hamad is
News from the front desk: Welcome back! The year is still too fresh and unsteady on its feet for us to predict how it will bend and what shape it will grow into. So, let’s take full advantage and slap down some blueprints right up front. See if we can seize the agenda and channel the trajectory.
As a publication focused on ways to create a more ...
Who knew copper could be sexy? It is for Australia’s mining giants which are falling over themselves to get more exposure to the metal.
Recently, Rio Tinto proposed a $300 million merger with Glencore to create the world’s largest miner. It’s essentially a takeover and through it, Rio wants to increase earnings from copper and the AI data centre theme ...
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Australia is running an opportunity deficit in its biggest cities. Housing, congestion and service pressures are eroding the everyday “deal” in Sydney and Melbourne. The question is no longer whether people and investment will look elsewhere, but ...
President Trump has adopted the position that in international relations, ‘might is right’. What does that mean for smaller, not so mighty countries? Former senator Rex Patrick asks. Donald Trump’s new ‘Donroe doctrine‘ has been applied to the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, threats to neighbouring Colombia, and his
Cancelled writer Randa Abdel-Fattah has launched defamation action against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.
The post Malinauskas spurred by ‘Murdoch press’ and ‘pro-Israel lobby’, says cancelled writer appeared first on The Klaxon.
Federal Parliament will be recalled next week to debate and pass new hate speech laws in the wake of the Bondi massacre. But will it target all hate speech? Al The Writer asks. It’s being hailed as the “toughest hate laws Australia has ever seen” in response to the devastating Bondi Beach
