Mondo Italiano
Italy, one step at a time … Restaurant law prescribed by the EU … Mafia traditions … Benito’s clockwork trains … All aboard with the pooches … The commodification of tourism … Bangladeshi handbags made in Milano … Fascist clarion call for the looming elections
Divine Retribution
Epiphany … Catholic sinners at ICAC … Agitation for the Bell Commission never to end … The fraught business of defining antisemitism … Conflation of Jews with Israel … Richard Flanagan takes the stand … Cathy Wilcox challenges the tropes brigade … Old Rupe gets the hagiography he pays for
Long tail of the law
Silencing Silenced … Where’s Linda’s loot? … Faruqi v Hanson … MacInnes v Wilson … Dirty bathwater … The High Court beckons … Angus Taylor snared in Catholic mafia’s web … ICAC gets close to the flame
Secret Men’s Business
Panicky phone calls from Goulburn … ICAC examines the Nasty Party’s Catholic mafia … Swifty lurking in the wings … The money go-round … Wash, rinse, spin … Branch stackers unite … The Christian Brothers’ vanishing loot
Taxing Times
Government in strife for helping the poor … Bad policy … Where will it end? … Tax havens ahoy … Is James Murdoch a “Good Murdoch”? – His reign as the empire’s satrap in Britain ended in flames … GetUp! calls for snoozy Press Council to wake up … Maj. Gen. Brereton, flat-footed
