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 I’m Let’s be done with the pretence of decency and soggy references to just resolution in the face of extreme circumstances. Be done with the hilarious stage acts of referring to legal doctrines that either […]

 Australians were less engaged in their communities, lonelier, unhappier and less satisfied with life, even before the present turmoil. But there is cause for hope, writes Dr James O’Donnell… Look around the world and you […]

A few years ago I read Don Watson’s biography of Paul Keating, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM. Watson worked as Keating’s senior speechwriter from 1992 to 1996. In this […]

 There are many things Elon Musk has demonstrated an extraordinary talent for. Building electric cars, launching rockets, buying Twitter and turning it into X, annoying approximately half the population of Earth and convincing the other […]

National Environmental Protection Agency Media Release  A 21-year-old man has been charged and remanded in custody over allegations he attempted to smuggle 163 native reptiles from Sydney to Hong Kong as air cargo. The charges […]

In September 2025, nine countries launched the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel. Australia explained its important if dark inspiration in pursuing it: the slaying of Zomi Francken, along with six of her colleagues […]

Dementia Australia and Carers Australia Dementia Australia and Carers Australia are calling for Federal Government leadership and investment in an independent national review of respite care services, warning that carers are struggling to access the […]

Many feel governments aren’t holding up their end of the deal, corroding support for democracy, writes Mario Peucker… We hear a lot today about the pile-up of overlapping problems like climate change, war, financial stress, […]

 By James Moore Democrats in Texas tend to be afraid to express optimism over elections. For more than three decades, they have put more hope than logic and organization into their electoral politics. It has […]

Media Alert Australia’s independent, crowdfunded Public Inquiry into AUKUS concludes its public hearings today in Canberra, with presentations from Andrew Wilkie, the Hon Kim Beazley AC, Dr Michael Keating, Jon Stanford and Dr Emma Shortis […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release KOROR, PALAU, Wednesday 2 September 2026 – The new global heating projection by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has laid bare the dire realities of inevitable climate disaster, loss […]