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By Maria Millers   The city hums its endless song, while he builds a kingdom out of cardboard walls and yesterday’s news. People pass like weather – some warm, some cold, most never stopping long enough […]

Media Release For the first time, the Australian community will have the opportunity to investigate the controversial and secretive AUKUS defence pact. Today, five esteemed Australians will launch a nationwide Public Inquiry into AUKUS at […]

Oxfam Australia Media Release The rise in wealth alone could lift nearly 1 million people out of poverty in Australia The collective wealth of Australia’s billionaires increased by $25.67 billion over the past year – equivalent to […]

LIVE FROM THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (Dramatic music. Flags wave. Audience applauds nervously.) OPENING HOST: Good evening Australia, and welcome to tonight’s Leaders Debate – proudly sponsored by: collapsing housing affordability, supermarket duopolies, and emotionally […]

By Rob Mellett Data privacy experts and civil liberties advocates warn that Australia’s November 2026 expansion of its digital identity system risks entrenching serious, unresolved privacy failures at a national scale. From 30 November, private […]

By Walt Zlotow   One possible blessing from Trump’s criminal, failed war on Iran? Trump squandered so many offensive and defensive missiles in 39 futile bombing days, he’s doesn’t have enough left to provoke war with […]

There are some stories that feel like political satire before a writer even taps away at the keyboard. This week, a federal judge ordered that John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could not […]

Dedication: To my wife – who taught me that silence is not neutrality. It is a choice. And that the price of subordination is always paid by the subordinate. The Architecture of “Presence” Australia maintains […]

These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth column and anything that could risk being seen as ordinary. The […]

By Denis Hay   Description Discover how privatisation in Australia transformed public assets, shifted wealth, affected costs, and changed the nation’s future. Privatisation in Australia: What the Great Sell-Off Cost Introduction Imagine if Australians collectively owned […]

While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving ever more predatory with the Gaza Strip. With aggrandizing impunity, more territory is […]