tent embassy
27 Jan 2012
The media has framed it as violent but the tent embassy protest was basically peaceful. It's this gross distortion - and the heavy-handed response of the AFP - that warrant criticism, writes Ben Eltham
Tent Embassy
27 Jan 2012
The 40th anniversary of the tent embassy was overshadowed by the Gillard scuffle. That's a shame, says Alexandra Lamb, because it was an otherwise cheerful celebration of a notable date
Egypt
27 Jan 2012
More people turned out to mark the anniversary of the uprisings in Tahrir Square than were at the initial protests. Austin Mackell reports from Cairo on a day of celebration and dissent
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One year on from the start of the Egyptian revolution, Manoj Dias-Abey talks to a gay activist about his involvement in the protests and the prospects for s*xual freedom in Egypt
Should taxpayers finance a brown coal power station in Victoria? No, says Julien Vincent, and not just because it's dirty power. There are plenty of reasons why the grant to HRL should be cancelled
Real change has emerged from some of the Arab uprisings - but not in Bahrain. With the government locked in standoff with its people, David Hollier speaks to exiled activist Lamees Dhaif in Cairo
Flagrant breaches of privacy are everyday occurrences online. Who cares? Is there a way to revolutionise the surveillance rentier state, asks Adam Brereton
The public might support pokies reform but powerful vested interests do not. And if folding on the Wilkie deal didn't look bad enough, Craig Thomson threw in some extra sleaze, writes Ben Eltham
Is chivalry dead? When the Costa Concordia ran aground, the old code of 'women and children first' was abandoned. What are our current survival priorities, asks Zoe Krupka
Feminism, not religion, is at the heart of controversy about Melinda Tankard Reist. Who decides who gets to use the f-word, asks Eva Cox
The media has framed it as violent but the tent embassy protest was basically peaceful. It's this gross distortion - and the heavy-handed response of the AFP - that warrant criticism, writes Ben Eltham
Were the Suffragettes puritanical? Hardly. As the debate over p*rn rages, the history of feminism is being mischaracterised as the terrain of wowsers and killjoys. Helen Pringle responds to Eva Cox
The Government's backslide on poker machine reform is poor politics and terrible policy. It's disheartening to see Labor blowing the gains it made in late 2011 in this way, writes Ben Eltham
Felicity Hill joined an international delegation to the radioactive Fukushima region and was shocked by the conditions faced by Japan's nuclear refugees almost one year on from the disaster
Wouldn't it be nice if the internet shut up for a while? Sure, Ben Pobjie believes in freedom of speech - but imagine how pleasant things would be if we actually got internet censorship right
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