The HomepageDAILY community likes to co-create both content and process. What are you thinking right now about what we do and how we do it? Tell us about the news, videos and stories and anything else you see on HPD. What you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see in future. Recommend a website, video or article; send us pix, new stories - share it with us and by so doing you are giving us permission to share it with the world.
Leave Feedback here
*********************************
Re: My Unrealistic Wish for the Chaser
Right on, the chasers approach is exactly what is needed to make the comfortable uncomfortable and give greater accesibility for criticism and analysis of the ridiculous shit we have to continuously put up with from our political system and those running it. I only hope they manage to keep it up without compromising themselves. - Simon
*********************************
Re: Sol Trujilo
Sean Maguire is right to say that Australia has racist tendencies. Our first people have been copping it badly since the next lot arrived. When my refugee father's lot arrived in '59 he suffered racist abuse. My mother had to put up with neighbours refusing to speak to her because she'd crossed the line and married "one of them" and, growing up in the 60s and 70s. I copped it too, including a public school infants school teacher ostracising me for my wog breath. Newcomers still cop racism every day.
But while horrid things happen here all too often, I don't know that Australia is particularly racist. We don't have hostels being razed to the ground (yet). We don't have religious riots either. It isn't as bad as many many other places but that's not really the point of my letter. My main point is that I just don't believe that Sol Trujillo's accusation is made in good faith. It seems like a pretty easy way to try and distract the world from the real reason that Sol is leaving and leaving early. He failed at Telstra and he failed spectacularly. What he really is pissed about is that we're "over-regulated" because he's still caught up with the whole neo-con approach: the approach that led to our current financial meltdown. If we were even less regulated he and his henchmen could have taken us for even more of a ride. - Mouldfield
*********************************
Re: The AfPak Blues
Isn't it strange that the bad terrorist guys we need to attack all seem to have things in common: >OIL >GAS >OIL & GAS >PIPELINE ACCESS TO OIL/GAS Just one of those weird coincidences I guess. Maybe the next attack will be on a little country with huge reserves of Brussel Sprouts -just to prove me wrong. - Warren
*********************************
Re: How To Become Weapons of Mass Destruction
Well written, I really dig this article. - Peter Silver
*********************************
Re: HomepageDaily
I usually get the real news from overseas sites. How good it is to find your site after wading through the sanitized oz media for so long. Onya HomepageDaily! [this is definately not a commercial announcement]. - Woz
*********************************
Re: Ron Paul on Swine Flu
It takes courage to speak out when those around you are cowed by ignorance and fear. HPD's running the Ron Paul article shows they are one of those we can count on in Australia to hold the line and provide decent edutorial standards.When I came through Brisbane aurport on the morning of May 1st 2009 the passengers were ordered to walk in single file keeping a one metre distance from the person in front. The flight crew who I thought would be used to this sort of thing joked "they will be making us goose step in time next". This was suposedly so we could be screened electronically for "fever". This flu virus beat up like the 1976 version ramps up budgets for more police state nonsense and loss of civil liberty. HPD carries some of the only copy that speaks to the decline of criticism of the status quo. While Murdoch's papers are lobbying for the criminal class of the financial banksters HPD gives life to a wider debate. When my North American friends say "Who can you recommend for some genuine Australian insight?" HPD is tragically one of the few links I have to offer and does so with my heartfelt thanks. - Anthony Innes
*********************************