Month: July 2025

Far north in the boughs of a blood-redwood tree, where the morning mist curls and clings, A monarch was born with the sun on her wings, spun fine from the breath of spring. Her name, […]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has offered some comforting words to the more than 17 million Americans expected to lose Medicaid under Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: “They’ll get over it,” he said calmly, […]

How do you create enough chaos to get away with murder? Murder is used metaphorically, but may also be the reality when we look at the chaos which is seen in politics and geo-politics today, […]

John Macgregor’s “The Mechanics of Changing the World” is a formidable and timely contribution to the ongoing conversation about democratic reform and systemic change. In an age of growing political polarisation, environmental crisis, and rising […]

When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way to the digital treasure troves of WikiLeaks. The online publisher of government secrets had become […]

It’s often said that politicians love the uneducated. It’s not hard to see why – they’re the ideal voter: loyal, loud, and unlikely to ask inconvenient questions like, “Wait, didn’t you promise me the opposite […]

CPA Australia Media Release 25 years on, now is the time for generational reform of the GST CPA Australia proposes five-step plan to improve the GST GST must be broadened to reduce overreliance on income […]

The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorised by President Donald Trump on June 22, was raucous and triumphant. But that depended on […]

Dogs don’t like Donald Trump. Neither do I. Maybe it’s the way he answers questions like a malfunctioning GPS: always off-course, full of reroutes, and somehow circling back to himself. Ask about healthcare, and you’ll […]