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Title of discussion thread	Replies	Author	Start time	Last reply	Recs	Views
Indigenous Australian literature panel featured at the 2019 National Book Festival in Washington, DC	1	CBHagman	Aug 31	Sep 4	2	448
Good News about Family DownUnder....👏👏👏👏👏	2	irisblue	Nov 2017	Aug 16	1	1338
Top Places To Visit In Australia	4	kat3rinamarquez	Aug 12	Aug 16	4	551
ABC raid: Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster	1	sandensea	Jun 2019	Jun 2019	2	763
New Labor leader Anthony Albanese calls for end to climate wars	2	Matilda	May 2019	Jun 2019	1	653
Bob Hawke, Australia's 23rd prime minister, dies aged 89	6	Thyla	May 2019	May 2019	4	635
Australian Federal election 2019: Prime Minister Scott Morrison sets May 18 election date	3	Thyla	Apr 2019	Apr 2019	1	652
Federal Election, May 2019	0	Matilda	Mar 2019	Mar 2019	1	624
The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront	3	Thyla	Mar 2019	Mar 2019	6	1204
Nobody needed this: Brian Burston levels sexual harassment allegations at One Nation leader	1	Thyla	Feb 2019	Feb 2019	1	793
Tony Abbott has not changed, not even the Speedo pose looks different	2	Matilda	Feb 2019	Feb 2019	1	849
Tasmania is burning. The climate disaster future has arrived while those in power laugh at us	13	Matilda	Feb 2019	Feb 2019	34	2187
Behrouz Boochani: detained asylum seeker wins Australia's richest literary prize	0	Matilda	Jan 2019	Jan 2019	3	590
(NZ) Driver posts 'hide your children' prison Halloween photo after causing death of teen	0	sl8	Dec 2018	Dec 2018	0	1181
Signal says it can't allow government access to users' chats	0	sl8	Dec 2018	Dec 2018	2	827
Thousands of students rally across Australia	2	Matilda	Nov 2018	Nov 2018	6	1025
The Opera House debacle	6	Matilda	Oct 2018	Oct 2018	4	1162
Morrison vows no money for climate conferences and "all that nonsense"	4	Matilda	Oct 2018	Oct 2018	6	1080
This message was self-deleted by its author	2	sl8	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	1	1154
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull digs in	9	Matilda	Aug 2018	Sep 2018	2	1431
Scranton, Pennsylvania, university building will now bear the name of Australian nun Mary MacKillop	2	CBHagman	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	2	1406
NSW Government says entire state in drought.	0	Matilda	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	4	1157
This is Australian-style sexism brought to you by a senator and Sky News	2	Matilda	Jul 2018	Jul 2018	4	1428
Questions about how Australian gun law changes have played out	8	Ken Burch	Feb 2018	Feb 2018	1	1777
Well, in case you hadn't heard it, Trump wants what you'd call a "White America" immigration policy	7	Ken Burch	Jan 2018	Jan 2018	2	2155
Vatican should make celibacy for Catholic priests voluntary, royal commission says	1	Matilda	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	1	1044
For Family & Friends Down Under. X Post from LGBT group & GD	0	irisblue	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	0	799
Kiwi spies knew of Donald Trump's 'collusion' with Russia as it unfolded book	5	JonLP24	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	28	3300
Scientists grow baby coral on Barrier Reef	1	sl8	Nov 2017	Nov 2017	4	1335
Malcolm Turnbull delays Parliament amid banking commission push	1	Matilda	Nov 2017	Nov 2017	1	1027
'Stop The F*gs': Anti-Gay Activists Are Attacking Same-Sex Marriage Via This Vile Poster	5	TexasTowelie	Aug 2017	Nov 2017	1	3209
All we want is freedom not another prison camp	0	Matilda	Nov 2017	Nov 2017	1	1455
Australian government orders police raids on union offices	0	TexasTowelie	Oct 2017	Oct 2017	1	1211
Australian economy "going into a hole"	0	TexasTowelie	Oct 2017	Oct 2017	0	2186
Anti-Gay Activists Just Got Burned by a Pizza Parlor	1	TexasTowelie	Sep 2017	Oct 2017	23	3666
Giant 5.2-metre (17 foot) croc shot dead in central Queensland	5	left-of-center2012	Sep 2017	Sep 2017	0	2038
Tennis Legend Says if Australia Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage 'There Will Be No Christmas'	8	TexasTowelie	Sep 2017	Sep 2017	5	2308
Satirist John Clarke dies aged 68.	2	Matilda	Apr 2017	Sep 2017	2	1388
North Korea: Australia would support United States in conflict, Malcolm Turnbull says	4	Matilda	Aug 2017	Aug 2017	1	3542
Gillian Triggs: Australian government 'ideologically opposed to human rights'	1	Matilda	Jul 2017	Jul 2017	6	1635
Australia's Prime Minister says laws of mathematics don't apply in his country	1	TexasTowelie	Jul 2017	Jul 2017	1	2105
Tony Abbott: The Opposition Prime Minister	0	Matilda	Jul 2017	Jul 2017	4	2109
The Long-Lost 8th Wonder of the World May Have Been Found	4	sandensea	Jun 2017	Jun 2017	22	4984
John McCain urges action on Great Barrier Reef and Paris climate deal	3	Matilda	May 2017	May 2017	0	5145
Australian indigenous leaders meet for historic summit	0	nitpicker	May 2017	May 2017	1	5992
'The most ill-informed, under-prepared, and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history'	10	Matilda	Apr 2017	May 2017	28	9319
Dear Australia: I'm sorry we treated your citizen so awfully. I'm embarrassed.	3	Aristus	May 2017	May 2017	3	3119
Kokoda Track (Papua, New Guinea) Commemoration---75th Anniversary	1	Tanuki	Apr 2017	Apr 2017	2	1169
Mom taking pics of toddler spots deadly snake inches away	2	TexasTowelie	Mar 2017	Mar 2017	2	4790
'Very impressed': Elon Musk speaks to SA premier Jay Weatherill	1	Matilda	Mar 2017	Mar 2017	2	1422
Trump hails Australia's draconian immigration regime	3	TexasTowelie	Mar 2017	Mar 2017	1	1660
'It's a tragedy,' Clive Hamilton says of Turnbull's climate transformation	5	Matilda	Mar 2017	Mar 2017	2	1506
Australia's highest-paid public servant quits $4.3 million job	0	TexasTowelie	Feb 2017	Feb 2017	0	1896
Eaten Fish: Iranian asylum seeker and cartoonist ends Manus Island hunger strike	0	Matilda	Feb 2017	Feb 2017	0	1384
Fall of Singapore: Australian POWs' oral history charts memories of defeat and imprisonment	3	Matilda	Feb 2017	Feb 2017	0	1373
Australian government reintroduces sweeping welfare cuts	4	TexasTowelie	Feb 2017	Feb 2017	4	1748
Greens move to bar 'racist, xenophobic' Trump from visiting Australia	3	Matilda	Feb 2017	Feb 2017	10	1719
Honest Government Advert - Centrelink Fail	0	Matilda	Jan 2017	Jan 2017	3	1435
One Nation lies about Trump invite, gets caught out, cries 'fake news'	1	Matilda	Jan 2017	Jan 2017	10	2368
Pensions cut for 330,000 Australian retirees	0	TexasTowelie	Jan 2017	Jan 2017	0	2274
Former PM Paul Keating weighs in on Rex Tillerson	0	Matilda	Jan 2017	Jan 2017	9	2319
Senator Rod Culleton declared bankrupt	0	Matilda	Dec 2016	Dec 2016	0	2433
Feds block joint venture between American Airlines and Australia's Qantas	1	TexasTowelie	Nov 2016	Nov 2016	0	1244
What's Up, Rod?	1	Matilda	Nov 2016	Nov 2016	0	1485
Tony Abbott tells UK Tories he believes he can be PM again	2	Matilda	Oct 2016	Oct 2016	0	1545
Australia does not have a welfare problem. We have a poverty problem	4	Matilda	Sep 2016	Sep 2016	2	1609
Batgirl 'housework': Target removes 'sexist' T-shirt and apologises	3	niyad	Aug 2016	Aug 2016	2	1630
Remains of missing hiker found in Summit County	4	GentryDixon	Aug 2016	Aug 2016	2	1818
Life in Nauru detention: a dark, wretched Truman Show without the cameras	1	friendly_iconoclast	Aug 2016	Aug 2016	0	1455
Will Anthony Albanese challenge Bill Shorten for the ALP leadership?	3	Ken Burch	Jul 2016	Aug 2016	0	1358
The Nauru Files: 2,000 Leaked Reports Reveal Scale of Abuse of Children	0	Matilda	Aug 2016	Aug 2016	0	1212
Clinton or The Frump	0	peakhillfm	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	1	1347
PM announces royal commission into mistreatment of juveniles in NT detention	1	Matilda	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	0	1184
The terrible true story of Mr Eaten Fish, Manus Island cartoonist	0	Matilda	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	0	1484
Kevin Rudd seeks nomination for UN secretary general role	0	Matilda	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	1	1337
Labor's Anne Aly claims victory in Cowan after vote count correction (First Female Muslim MP)	0	Matilda	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	0	1242
Conservatives win national elections	2	shenmue	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	1	1828
So, they've resumed counting ballots...	5	Ken Burch	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	0	1733
Worth remembering: Labor opposition to Iraq War	0	Matilda	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	2	1471
Just heard Pauline Hanson's made a comeback in the Senate.	1	Ken Burch	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	0	1498