Month: September 2025

Chapter 29: Conclusion – Australia Can and Must Do Better Facing What Has Been Denied For more than two centuries, Australia has been built on colonisation: stolen land, stolen wages, stolen children, and the attempted […]

ACOSS Media Release The Federal Government must substantially lift deeply inadequate income support payments, with routine indexation leaving 1.5 million people unable to afford basic essentials. Tomorrow’s routine indexation of JobSeeker will only lift the […]

Chapter 28: Education – The Key to Understanding Why Education Matters Ignorance is not neutral – it is a tool of colonisation. For generations, Australians were taught a whitewashed version of history: peaceful settlement, brave […]

By Dr Martha Knox Haly   I recently wrote an article suggesting Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund could be a model for Australia. The discussion referred to Dutch Disease (where developed economies such as Australia and […]

Yet another blistering addition to the ghoulish accounts of cruelty regarding the ongoing actions of Israel in Gaza made its appearance on September 16. It came in the form of a report by the United […]

The Litmus Test for our Kids, Our Leaders and Ourselves In the measure of words, kindness is up there but doesn’t top the pops. Yet “Is it Kind?” is a powerful question for us to […]

In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025, a firestorm of calls for action against those expressing negative or celebratory remarks about his death has swept across the United States. […]

Chapter 27: Disinformation and Division – How the Myths Are Spread Lies With Purpose Disinformation about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is not random. It is strategic. Powerful interests, media outlets, and political actors […]

These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch. In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology Sydney thought it prudent to throw A$4.8 million at the tax consultants […]