For three months, we have given up our liberties and our livelihoods to comply with the directives of our leaders - all for the common good.

A spokeswoman for the Vice Chancellors of our major Universities said that they had advised the Minister, Dan Tehan, that unless they got extra funding soon, they would have to retrench academic staff and hence curtail valuable research work. However, the Vice Chancellors have decided not to fly to Canberra in their private jets seeking government bailouts. Making some arcane reference to automotive CEOs from Detroit, their PR departments advised them it would not be a good l

In a well-written advocacy in The Saturday Paper supporting the Black Lives Matter protests on Saturday 6th June 2020, Amy McQuire wrote that “Since 1991, 432 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have lost their lives in custody.” The clear impression given by McQuire and most other journalists was that the state was responsible for these deaths. “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up 27 per cent of the national prison population, while only making up 3