Now, I am an "artist". I appreciate the controversial and the edgy in most arts. But I hate it when crap is being planned for huge sums of taxpayers cash — crap that is designed to destroy vistas that are not perfect mind you, but there is no point in furthering the damage with deliberate artistic mediocrity...

Of course the artistic impression above is far more accurate than the drawings submitted to the city. But the Lord Mayor wants to be remembered for a giant seagull "Barsch" (perch) with a shape reminiscent of a collapsing one-eyed Macdonald's...

Last week, in collaboration with 68 scientists, I was co-author on a letter in Science titled “Save Australia’s Ecological Research”

SA Senator Nick Xenophon’s bid for justice for an Australian citizen – who simply wants his passport back – has been rejected by the Senate.

“This really is a very significant scandal in the fact that a citizen of this country has been denied the ability to travel overseas” Senator Xenophon said.

Crossbench senator Derryn Hinch has become the latest politician to be embroiled in the dual citizenship debacle.

The Victorian senator has confirmed that he still holds a US social security card from his time living in New York in the 1960s and 1970s, which could be a breach of the constitution.

US President Donald Trump has touched down in Texas to assess the response to devastating Tropical Storm Harvey — the biggest natural disaster of his White House tenure — as officials in Houston struggled to manage the record-breaking rains.

Nothing that solid steel bollards could not do...

The case against Monsanto is the gift that keeps on giving.

There is fake news and strange stuff that actually means nothing... If this email is legit, then the business people, especially Felix Sater, who seem to make deals like Tom and Jerry, write like Donald Duck and speak like Sylvester the cat, are idiots. They are also like Scrooge married to the witch in Snow White, and Mr Magoo allied with Al Capone and our treasurer Scomo who said something about the ASIS investigation into the CBA that made as much sense as Popeye with a mouth full of spinash. It did pop my eyes. 

Why do religious people always believe that people who do not believe in god are thus “negative”? Is atheism a “negative” position in regard to human potential or is it just a plain positive expression that god does not exist? Is stating that god does not exist, excludes my ability to do “good”? What is good? Is it a providence falling upon us from the sky like fairy dust?

Is "good" being our discovery of what we can naturally achieve on this little planet without doing “bad” or hurting something? Here comes Milbank...

The flu outbreak of 1918 killed three times more people than died during WWI. Why is it so? The common flu is easy to catch. We get flu jabs (vaccination) but the flu virus is a shifty one. Evolution makes it very uncanny. Pneumonia, as a secondary stage of the flu can be deadly.

Meanwhile:

The Pentagon chief also said that Washington had recently decided to supply Ukraine with more than $175 million worth of equipment.