Month: October 2025

It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdoms and novel notions long known to those who vote for them. This tendency endears the dim rascals to you, showing an ignorance that remains, for the most […]

Thou doth protest too much For as long as I’ve watched Australian politics, one pattern stands out: Coalition governments are largely idle, achieve little, and then, once in opposition, loudly criticise Labor for failing to […]

Imagine the scene: eight hundred of the United States’ most senior military minds – generals and admirals who have commanded fleets and orchestrated campaigns – are summoned to Washington. The gravity is palpable. One expects […]

He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian […]

By Walt Zlotow Mimicking Biden family, the Trump family is propping up a mentally and physically disintegrating president Last year President Biden tepidly approached the podium at his presidential debate and verbally self-destructed before a […]

Older Persons Advocacy Network Media Release The Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) welcomes today’s Senate Community Affairs References Committee report – Aged care service delivery. The report offers several recommendations on how to strengthen our […]

How do you make peace, a peace that works, a peace that is sustainable? Two years of bloody fighting was initiated with an attack on a kibbutz and music festival in Israel, just outside the […]

Four months ago, at the federal election, the Australian people spoke with a clarity that reverberated across the political landscape. It wasn’t just a loss for the Coalition; it was a repudiation. The electorate delivered […]

Recent developments in the United States of America and the performances of President Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth should be concerning to us all. There are indeed reports and analyses indicating that […]