“My name is Kenneth Chamberlain. This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me.”

And that’s just what they did.

Milan Kundera's truism, "the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting", described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I went to Stanfords map shop in London's Covent Garden. "Timor?" said a hesitant sales assistant. We stood staring at shelves marked South East Asia. "Forgive me, where exactly is it?" 

From a political perspective, all that matters in the Craig Thomson saga is whether the MP is eligible to remain in Parliament.

If Labor had a 10-seat majority, the Coalition would not be showing much interest at all in the case.

David Walsh hasn't just changed how the rest of the country sees Tasmania with his sex and death museum, he's altered the very mindset of the Apple Isle itself.

"Does God exist?" is a valid and relevant question. Here are my top reasons why the answer is a resounding, "No."

A tyrannical air is supplanted by an image of grumpy uncle.

It got a bit lost in the uproar over the Labor catastrophe in Queensland, but the truly alarming news from the banana republic this week is that Barnaby Joyce is on the hunt for a lower house seat.

Gillard wants to be seen as the leader who delivers the policy goods but the voters may have already switched off.

It has tried every avenue of marketing, from TV ads to sponsorship of sport. Now McDonald's is opening up a new front: its own TV show.

The former Labour MP, George Galloway, one of the most divisive figures in Westminster politics, has created political history by winning yesterday's Bradford West by-election for his Respect party with a stunning majority of 10,140, grabbing a seat held by Labour since 1974.

Electricity companies are refusing to tell struggling families and businesses exactly how much the carbon tax will add to their power bills.

They have rejected state government demands for transparency on power prices, claiming it is impossible to provide accurate itemised billing to every home and that it would put them squarely in the sights of the ACCC.

However, the O'Farrell government will this week announce its intention to force all energy retailers to provide an "averaged" carbon tax liability on every consumer's bill starting from July 1.

A secret unit within Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.

The piracy cost the Australian pay TV companies up to $50 million a year and helped cripple the finances of Austar, which Foxtel is now in the process of acquiring.

A four-year investigation by The Australian Financial Review has revealed a global trail of corporate dirty tricks directed against competitors by a secretive group of former policemen and intelligence officers within News Corp known as Operational Security.

Paul Crouch, 77, and his wife Jan Crouch, 73, run the Trinity Broadcasting Network which delivers the Christian message to every continent except Antarctica 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It bills itself as "the world's largest religious network and America's most watched faith channel".

The network broadcasts prosperity gospel programming, which promises that believers will be materially rewarded, and raked in $92 million in donations in 2010.