Month: April 2025

By Jane Salmon Dear Messrs Burke and Albanese, I enjoy the support of Labor in many areas of my life. Education, social security, health, disability supports … the list is long. I am grateful. I […]

Election 2025 – Australia’s Weak Laws Let Misinformation Thrive – Here’s How to Stay Sharp for Pre-Poll By Sue Barrett I asked Grok, the AI built by xAI, what’s being overlooked in the 2025 Australian […]

By Elizabeth Dangerfield America is not becoming great again under President Trump, it is vanishing! Along with everything that made America great including the ideals of protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness enshrined […]

The King who didn’t, didn’t care, No matter what happened anywhere. His biggest worry  – was his hair, While his people lived in such despair. So when King Don farted As he departed His people […]

By Steve Davies Dear Voters, Advocates, Public Servants, Politicians, Journalists, and Concerned Citizens, With just 12 days until the Australian election, many are asking the same old questions: Will politicians ever really change? Will “the […]

Let’s rewind three weeks, when yours truly – a self-confessed EV novice – collected my BYD Atto 3 without so much as a test drive. Yes, really. I dove in headfirst, armed with YouTube tutorials, […]

By James Moore There had been much joy in my flight across the Pacific. My trip to Australia had been the realization of childhood dream. Even in college, I had fantasized about moving down under […]

Robert Pether, an Australian engineer, has been detained in Iraq since April 2021, following a contractual dispute between his employer, Dubai-based CME Consulting, and the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) over the construction of the […]

By John Steley My ethnic heritage is entirely British. The first of my forebears arrived here in 1839, just 51 years after the First Fleet. But I am not British, I am Australian 100%. To […]

(A response to: Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system, University of Cambridge) About one hundred and forty-seven light years south of us, circling a huge old red dwarf star, is a […]

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, is […]

Forward: The Unknowable Divine Across millennia, humanity has painted the divine in countless hues: vengeful storm gods, compassionate saviors, impersonal cosmic forces. From the intricate pantheons of ancient Mesopotamia to the monotheisms that dominate today, […]