Really, these constant attacks on the credibility of asylum seekers are becoming too offensive for words. The latest racist accusation being used by the Right is that some of them are faking their ages to gain special treatment. The abominable Tim Blair takes a predictably fatuous line, sneering at the fact that some of those claiming to be teenagers have no hair.

Well, actually it's quite possible that they can be both balding and under 18. These people are clearly under great stress, and th...
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Appallingly, the attacks on the great Julian Assange continue. Has any hero been treated more savagely than this great freedom (of information) fighter?

Take these derisive claims about his methods of evading AmeriKKKan assassins in a book put out by The Guardian. (Actually this report is doubly disturbing considering its source. Up to now that newspaper has had a well deserved reputation for speaking truth to power. But maybe it's been infiltrated by the CIA? I think it's highly likely...
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While I think that the choices for Australian of the Year and Young Australian of the Year are at least tolerable, I do have some reservations, fellow travellers.

My first one is general in nature, and is simply about the whole concept of the award. This idea that we celebrate one individual, as opposed to a collective, smacks more than a little of conservatism. It's also undeniably nationalistic. I mean, if we do have to laud an individual couldn't we nominate someone who does the whole Eart...
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The appalling Kyle Sandilands has declared war on beloved Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, claiming that she is trying to destroy the city's nightlife with her anti-capitalist policies. Note the various forms of hate speech in his on air rant about Ms Moore.

''I'll get rid of that woman, you watch. Eighty-year-old woman trying to run the town. Go to the retirement village, you old clown,'' Sandilands said on his program.

As well as the obvious sexism, note the appalling ageism in this disturb...
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In what is perhaps the most appalling example of media bias so far in this election campaign, the appalling right wing peenie wavers at the Daily Telegraph have depicted our Julia as an old biddy.

It's as sexist as it is ageist.

And these reactionaries have the gall to say that the ABC tilts to the left!

Appalling. Just appalling.

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