The Yellow Peril: The Chinese Scapegoat on the Goldfields as Ideological Safety Valve
The following text was presented at the Australian History Association annual conference ‘Boom to Bust,’ organized in conjunction with Federation…
Category: Writing
Silent Majority PSA
We must have oppression or we will have chaos. If you think for yourself the terrorists win. The interests of…
80 Years Ago Today Economic Democracy Became (Briefly) A Thing
This week celebrates the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, the momentous end to…
A Critique of Competitive Individualism
The self-made man or woman as business success story has long been the motivating ideal of free market capitalism and…
Kush Zombies
Originally published online at Counterpunch.org; appeared in the Morning Star (UK) May 31, 2016. Found the byline funny; the original…
The Trickle Down Myth
Supply side economics are driven by policies favouring the privileged and wealthy as a purported way of stimulating investment and…
Negative impacts on tourism from knowing about coral bleaching
The badly-misnamed Department of Environment has campaigned to have every reference to Australia removed from a UNESCO report entitled, “World…
Hanson’s Latest Whingefest
Narcissistic attention seeker and professional supply addict Pauline Hanson protests descriptions of racism and comparisons to racist counterpart US Presidential…
Ships in the Night
1/1. Life in the midst of war, upheaval and uncertainty: the daily possibility of becoming the next statistic, the difficulty…
Halal Hysteia
@Piece in Arena Magazine; text is an edited version of a talk I gave on ‘Halal Certification: The Muslim Scapegoating…