Year: 2025

Trump’s cognitive decline, marked by notable memory lapses, impulsive and often erratic remarks, and a troubling pattern of inconsistent statements, ignites profound worries regarding his mental fitness for leadership. These signs not only raise eyebrows […]

The Reserve Bank of Australia would like you to know that everything is fine. Or at least “a little tight”. Also, you can fix it all by punishing nurses. Fifty thousand full-time jobs vanished in […]

Part 2: The Architects – Follow the Money to the Mates By Sue Barrett  This is Part 2 of our investigation. Yesterday, we documented how the Australian fair go was systematically dismantled – wages decoupled […]

Monash University Media Release With Australia’s social media ban coming into force this week, a new survey from Monash University has found that almost four out of five Australian adults support the Australian government’s social […]

“Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” Nikolai Berdyaev (Also, apparently, Palantir’s unofficial mission statement.) I. Enter the Magical Spy Orb, Stage Right In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the palantír was a sort of medieval CCTV camera […]

By A Concerned Reader (This article draws only from publicly available information, media reports, Senate Estimates transcripts, and policy documents.) Introduction As the new Support at Home (SaH) program begins rolling out across Australia, an […]

The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s alleged impotence. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” […]

Part 1: The Evidence – How They Dismantled the Australian Fair Go By Sue Barrett This is Part 1 of a three-part investigation into who’s responsible for Australia’s declining living standards. Over the next three […]

This article presents a critical analysis of the Victoria Police Force, tracing its philosophical and operational journey from its 19th-century foundations in British ‘policing by consent’ to its modern manifestation as a paramilitarised, politically leveraged […]

If there’s one thing President Trump thinks about more than governing, it’s his legacy. He speaks of it constantly – the greatest, the strongest, the toughest, the most successful, the most historic. In Trump’s own […]

He craves it, and, to some extent, his desire was satisfied. President Donald Trump did get a peace prize. Not the peace prize picked out by self-important Norwegian non-entities, but the inaugural curiosity of FIFA, […]