While global solidarity for things the like the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US is important, it is always interesting to see it trending in Australia, when there is so little interest in analysing our own institutionalised racial policing. Is it just another by-product of US cultural imperialism that we care more about America’s racist criminal justice system than our own?

If the Abbott administration wants to get approval from corrupt governments to implement sketchy projects against the will of local residents, they might consider asking Australian mining company Lynas Corp for tips on how it’s done.

It's 2014 and Australia is gearing up for a tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s King and I; advertisements line the streets. If you pick up the papers the reviewers are urging us to put away our political correctness and go see the fantastic show. Never mind that it is a musical about a white-woman teaching the Orientals how to be ‘modern’.