What is this crap?

To the desiccated post Cold War left, everything is a US proxy war.

True. The proportion of those outside academia/media/politics who can be bothered to contribute to this site is absurdly small.

It is ridiculous to refer to a question about whether a particular law is discriminatory - especially one that turns on complex questions like what count as special measures under ICERD - as a dispute about 'facts'.

Basic factual error in third sentence. Brit audiences won’t know.

Approval from black respondents.

Profound geopolitical insight or maybe they were pissed. You choose.

On top of it, the 83% “poll” was of 738 people. Probably why the MP is so touchy. The fact that an initiative that is supposed to be a result of years of grassroots demand from the indigenous population keeps referring to such a flimsy survey says it all.

14 year-old Tiger Woods speaking on racism in golf, 1990

Of course it’s interfering and of course they should. The austerity threatened by the RBA, especially arguing for wage restraint, is a political agenda and should be voted on.