NewsRave with Tom Ravlic

World Vision is a treasure trove of information and there is plenty of material online about what World Vision does. Political parties ask for donations but you can't see a set of financial statements anywhere. Should you donate to political parties at all when you don't know how they run the joint?

The Prime Minister is gunning for Get Up. Rather interesting considering the fact that the campaigning organisation has its financial statements available on the internet. Where are the financial statements of the major parties? Should we treat major political parties in the same way as we do charities?

Former Australian soldier Andrew Hastie - the member for Canning - has been the subject of criticism over the past week alluding to a strategic and intelligence error the French made in World War Two. Has history become inconvenience all of a sudden?

Tom Ravlic explores the role research plays in helping us understand our community and uses a study on racism that illustrates that incidents of so-called anti-white racism are immaterial to demonstrate the value of such research in discussion. Tom encourages people to read the article written by Rick Morton in The Saturday Paper on ground breaking research into the use of Facebook by right wing groups.

The pill testing debate needs more nuance and a broader discussion that nobody seems to want to have.