Month: November 2025

If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém, Brazil were bound to be ungainly, weak, and messy. […]

Australia’s early childhood sector is at a turning point. In recent times, we have seen a troubling slate of safety and quality incidents in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Governments have responded with […]

Charles Darwin University Media Release Charles Darwin University (CDU) has officially launched the First Nations Training and Teacher Education Hub, a collaborative initiative designed to grow the next generation of First Nations teachers, educators, and […]

In an age where information is power, a silent war is being waged for the mind. The landscape of public discourse is increasingly curated, with gatekeepers – both state and corporate – determining which narratives […]

What does it mean to give someone a platform? Not the right to speak, every Australian possesses that, but the power to amplify a message to millions. A platform is no neutral megaphone. It confers […]

UniSA Media Release A radical shift is needed in how Australian parliaments engage with young people, ensuring that the next generation is not sidelined by the country’s political institutions, but encouraged to shape the future. […]

The rhetoric of transforming the Pentagon into a “battlefield power” is historically illiterate, morally bankrupt, and a recipe for endless war. A recent public statement by Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, celebrating the transformation of […]

Debt, Democracy, and Digital Dependency The AI Wars: How Australia Became a Server Farm with a Flag Over two days, Urban Wronski examines the speculative bubble hollowing out democracy and the colonial logic reshaping Australia’s […]

It began with the colourful confessions of former Australian Army rifleman Oisin Donohoe. In a report published in The Age on November 8, Donohoe made salty allegations that the private security intended for overseeing “unlawful […]

SSI, ACOSS, FECCA, SCOA, CCA and RCOA joint Media Release One year after the Australian Human Rights Commission launched the country’s first national roadmap to eliminate racism, 54 civil society organisations are calling on the […]