September 2024

The punishment for felling Australia’s foreshore trees is a mere pittance against developers’ obscene profits | Paul Daley

The bastards who vandalise trees to enhance views should be criminally pursued in line with those who vandalise public buildings

I have a dream. It’s all about the day on which the first of Sydney’s antisocial tree vandals cops a truly punitive fine or, better still, prison time as they more likely would if they’d so cynically destroyed private property or public infrastructure just for the sake of a water view.

Australia helped bring peace to Timor-Leste – but that doesn’t absolve it of a long appeasement of Indonesia | Paul Daley

The Howard government promoted itself 25 years ago as the people’s champion while at the same time affording Jakarta diplomatic cover for militia violence