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Robert Nioa has built a weapons empire and now has his sights on Australian gun laws

The 1996 Port Arthur massacre killed 35 people, transformed the nation’s gun culture and helped Robert Nioa build an empire. He’s wandering through part of it now, a $25 million purpose-built, ­milita... read more

Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands

Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH. Their tactic is to organize anti-gun marches and rallies to push for stricter gun laws and penalties ... and symmetrical to the gun lobby’s tactics. The NRA has built a j... read more

Energy and science in America are in big, big trouble

The havoc that leak unleashed is only just now coming to light ... The party will have to grant him a waiver for the seat, and even they are embarrassed by his apology to Hayward (note the source of t... read more

The US Hand in the Libyan/Syrian Tragedies

The mass murder we now ... has allegedly become a torrent, as many more have traveled to the mountains straddling Syria and Turkey, where the rebels have established their bases.” A Syrian rebel told ... read more

Reading isn't believing when it comes to newspapers

splashed across the front of the Daily Telegraph on day one, and one that has barely drawn ... It may suit the "evil empire" prejudices of the anti-Murdoch left to argue that case, as much as it might ... read more

Charged With a Crime? Better Check Your Facebook Pictures

CNN reports that party photos and pictures of defendants drinking or looking unrepentant have resulted in harsher sentences for ... But the image of him sticking his tongue out at a party is far more ... read more

Seymour fined $7,500 for pulling Clady’s hair

Oakland Raiders’ defensive end Richard Seymour was fined $7,500 by the NFL for the unnecessary roughness penalty he received for pulling on the cornrows belonging to Broncos’ left tackled Ryan Clady. ... read more

The Scalp-Taking of Gen. Flynn

Exclusive: The Russia-gate prosecutors have taken the scalp of ex- National Security Adviser (and retired Lt. Gen.) Flynn for lying to the FBI. But this case shows how dangerously far afield this “sca... read more

Reckoning with the God Squad

The corporate, political and religious right have converged, led by a president who, in his own disdain for science, reason and knowledge, is the most powerful fundamentalist in American history. And ... read more

The next great reform will be of politics itself

The TV adaptation of George Megalogenis's excellent book The Australian Moment began ... And next? Times have changed. Where then the task of remaking our economy was serious, urgent and substantial, ... read more