World News and Society

Bullying and the media circus
"...what happens when children learn that by bullying somebody they can get their face on national television and earn a few hundred or thousand dollars in the process?"

Help stop the torture of the macaque monkey
"These intelligent and vulnerable creatures are poached from the jungles and then cruelly "trained" to be chained performers..."

Ban the live cattle trade
"The images from the footage on Four Corners is still vivid in my mind. They are that powerful."

Stop the live sheep trade
"Once again the farmers and the Australian companies responsible for the live animal trade have known about the abuse in Kuwait, just as they knew about the animal abuse in Indonesia."

Austrailan Defence Force a sewer of abuse
"Documents have come to light that show that the Australian Defence Force has known about and actively covered up abuse or what they refer to as bastardisation."

A Current Affair's fanciful tale of tobacco smuggling
"On a recent episode of A Current Affair, they would have you believe that it is a huge industry that will continue to grow if the Australian government introduces plain packaging for cigarettes."

How are there still climate change skeptics?
"They even have a former head of Western Mining Corporate, Hugh Morgan, on the Coalition business group that advises the Liberal party on its climate change policy."

Today Tonight lies about car manufacturing industry
"Australian current affairs program Today Tonight have done it again. Putting to air a story that is carelessly researched and rife with errors."

Phone hackers will get away with it
"If you're told that phone hacking has taken place, it only means one thing. Somebody has illegally gained access to another person's private phone."

Blaming Muslims for Norway bombing
"This was done without proper research and without gaining confirmation for the claims."

Politics

Gillards crusade against marriage equality
"In Australia, the battle lines have recently been shifted with athiest Prime Minister Julia Gillard stating that she does not believe in gay marriage"

Budget cut to scientific research?
"Scientific research is important for producing innovation in the healthcare industry that produces cost savings for the Australian tax payer."

Barnaby Joyce as Deputy Prime Minister?
"It would be worse than watching a live cooking show starring Hannibal Lector. But what laughs the Labour camp would have at his expense."

Politics now owned by the media
"Politics has evolved from being a place of real social and economic reform to a study of opinion polls that are highly media driven."

Mandatory detention is an ugly necessity
"...should we also be supportive of a practice that enables those refugees with the means to buy illegal passage to Australia to bypass the system that others are forced to live with?"

Tony Abbott and his Plebiscite - a love story
"But when your advisors were once the guards Azkaban it may be a little difficult."

Religious zealot Michele Bachmann campaigns for presidency
"...Michele Bachmann also promises to abolish the Environment Protection Agency and the Department of Education."

Science & Technology

Restricting R18+ games morally wrong
"It seems futile to ban computer games that are rated R18+ when DVDs with this rating can be purchased and hired, and cinemas are permitted to screen movies rated R18+"

Two of the most dangerous drugs
"The study highlighted in 20 Most Dangerous Drugs lists alcohol as the fifth most dangerous drug and tobacco as the seventh most dangerous drug."

The shadow Internet of the United States
"They provide the means for people to organise uprisings and overthrow dictatorships that they are not happy with."

Eye on Society

Why drive an SUV in the city?
"And don't get me started on the SUV driver in a busy shopping centre parking garage!"

Don't censor our t-shirts
"I think it is hilarious when so-called community groups rally together to protect the world from what they consider inappropriate."

Fare evaders will increase on Melbourne trams
"Baillieu thinks that tram passengers will go an buy a ticket elsewhere before jumping on a tram."

Carnita Matthews hides behind her burqa
"Letting her get away with this crime is just opening the flood gates for every Muslim woman to hide behind a burqa while breaking Australian laws."

Australian politician's discrimate against the gay community
"If you believe that marriage is between a man and woman because religion dictates it as such, then why do you allow civil unions for men and women?"

Worth Protecting

Free speech must be protected
"It guarantees people the right to speak against the status quo and to protest against decisions made by political and social leaders."

Entertainment

Lady Gaga fights for gay rights
"This is truly a show of courage and conviction. If only we had political leaders with the same courage."

This novel deserves a literary agent
"From the prologue of the first novel, Rebirth, I was hooked and wanted to read more."

A fresh cast for Jersey Shore
"Jersey Shore was going to continue. There are no TV gods!"

Talk pure evil of talk back radio
"They may not be true journalists, but they are broadcasting and commenting on political and social issues in a professional capacity."

Miscellaneous

Starbucks is evil
"How perfect life is without seeing the green and white Starbucks sign, the green and white sign that none other than Satan himself could have designed?"

Enough of Prince William and Kate Middleton
"...it just appeared to me that Prince William was touring Australia more to announce his wedding to Kate Middleton and reaffirm support for the royal family..."

Ricky Nixon and Kim Duthie: The Sequel
"The media has created her and now they are feeding her more column inches and television minutes. Kim Duthie is a ratings winner."

Kate Middleton won't win a spelling bee
"...if we must suffer the princes and princesses of this world a while longer, I don't feel that it is too much to ask that they learn to spell correctly."