Today's Sydney Morning Herald has an article discussing the uproar amongst several Australians who have donated to the fascist, xenophobic, and just plain disturbing British National Party (think the KKK as a political party).The reactions are rather absurd and completely devoid of self-awareness in my opinion, preferring to mask their bigotry under wanting to reduce immigration. (Well, perhaps not that 24 year old swim coach--who has never even been to the UK). I have a message for that swim coach: I was in Brixton and Soho when David Copeland bombed them, he may have claimed to act alone, ...

According to the centre-right US Hoover Institute’s Paul Brady, the Republican Party must jettison social conservative stances on abortion, same-sex marriage and immigration, or else face permanent consignment to the political wilderness for the next few decades. Brady argued that the party had moved too far to the right, and had thus alienated many former supporters. The Republicans needed to return to the centre, when he addressed the United States Studies Centre at Sydney University.  He noted that despite state constitutional same-sex marriage bans, public opinion was now tending liberal on same-sex spousal rights, and was already strongly pro-choice on abortion. ...