This week, Jordan Peterson appeared on Q&A. His sentiment, despite being popular, often betrays its own logic.
Explainer: The Medical Evacuation Bill on Nauru and Manus
The Medical Evacuation Bill (just) passed through the Senate, but the legislation and the effects of our policy on Nauru should be examined.
Deep Time Dreaming – Billy Griffiths on Indigenous Australia
In Deep Time Dreaming, Billy Griffiths examines Australia’s coming-to-terms with its Indigenous past. Hyperbole aside, it is the most important analysis of who we were in a very long time.
Analysing Jordan Peterson’s argument against political correctness and postmodernism
Recently, Jordan Peterson appeared at TEDx to give his thoughts on political correctness. As he undoes his own logic, I did my best to make sense of it.
Thomas Piketty: Is inequality inevitable?
When notable economist Thomas Piketty addressed Sydney on the growing issue of inequality in developed nations, I found myself in the crowd.
Turnbull’s immigration policy: No exception to his rule
“This will send the strongest possible signal to people smugglers.” Malcolm Turnbull calls for life bans for asylum seekers, the latest step in his government’s reprehensible immigration policy.
Waleed Aly *almost* nails it with #SendForgivenessViral
Waleed Aly’s call for empathy was noble but misguided, as the gaps in understanding are far deeper than he claims.
Why Labor’s Mediscare worked
While Labor has been heavily criticised for their Mediscare campaign, there can be no doubt as to its effectiveness. Why did it work so well?
Nepal: In the mountains of Lower Mustang – Part two: Altitude is not my friend
In part two, our guide walks deeper into the mountains, battling the elements to venture further away from civilisation, and ultimately, himself.
Is this the death-knell of our two-party system?
As current election results show voters moving further away from our unamenable majors, is the two-party system as we know it under legitimate threat from minority parties and independents?
Nepal: In the mountains of Lower Mustang – Part one: The walk to Kagbeni
In part one of Lachlan’s series, we follow our guide into the ancient, yet achingly beautiful Himalayan region of Mustang.
Fact check: Is Peter Dutton wrong?
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been under fire for his recent comments about refugees. But is he wrong?
The Turnbull Government’s credibility risk
Malcolm Turnbull kicked off the election with a plea to avoid Labor’s high-taxing, debt and deficit agenda – but history shows that the Libs may not be able to do any better.
Nepal: Sky burials with a man named Balsudan
On my last excursion before leaving Nepal, I was told of the confronting, but sacred tradition of the sky burial.
Nepal: Maha Shivaratri, the Great Night of Lord Shiva
Attending the festival that honours one of Hinduism’s most important figures, Shiva, was an eye-opening experience of life, death and rebirth.
TBS Travelogue: Welcome to Kathmandu
From my first steps in Kathmandu, I was beset by Hindu mystics and living goddesses in a modern day country trying to find itself.
The blockade that crippled Nepal
Nepal: a beautiful country beset by recent constitutional strife, natural disasters and a crippling blockade…but Everestian change is on the horizon – Lachlan R. Dale
Book Review: Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Lachlan R Dale slipped back into the harsh embrace of his 40-year-old beau, A Lover’s Discourse, to relearn the benefits and detriments of searing love.
Music Review: Father John Misty live at the Opera House
Lachlan R Dale caught Father John Misty’s performance at the Opera House and found the overt theatrics on display did not quite match the vulnerability of the album.
Abbott: A man without borders or station
As Tony Abbott carried on with his solution to the refugee problem, Lachlan Dale ponders on what to do with our new Abbott problem.
Will political climate limit Turnbull’s climate change?
With Malcolm Turnbull set to appear at the UN climate change summit, Lachlan Dale wonders what the Prime Minister can hope to achieve.
No more free rides for Shorten and the Left
Lachlan R Dale looks upon the new political landscape Turnbull has carved, and explains that for the Left, that outrage is no longer enough.
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