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A Duty of Care
By John Steley An event is in the planning, to be held over several days in August next year, to consider environmental solutions. Because the brutal truth is: ”It won’t be us who pays the […]
Year: 2025
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Poll Position to Political Peril: The Unraveling of Peter Dutton’s Campaign
In late 2024, Peter Dutton was riding high, with polls signaling a potential prime ministerial victory and his anti-Labor rhetoric gaining traction. Christmas promised extra cheer. Yet, just four months later, his path to power […]
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Sudan crisis marks grim anniversary as Plan International condemns civilian and aid worker deaths
Plan International Australia Media Release Dozens of people have been killed in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region following intense fighting over the weekend. The seizing of the camp by armed parties also saw […]
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Why Election 2025 Is Flooded with Lies and Spin
By Denis Hay Description Political spin dominates Election 2025. Discover how misinformation shapes Australia’s future and what voters can do to reclaim the truth. Democracy or Deception, Election 2025? Location: A quiet living room in suburban […]
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Gender Stunts in Space: Blue Origin’s Female Celebrity Envoys
Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was space capitalism and celebrity shallowness on full show, masquerading as profound, moving and […]
Politics
Starting A Go Fund Me For Peter Dutton’s Poor Son…
There’s a certain hypocrisy about nearly all political leaders: We’ll see the happy family all up there for various events like campaign launches or victory parties, but then when someone asks a difficult question about […]
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Operation Sovereign Borders: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
WELCOME, DEAR READER! IT’S TIME TO BEGIN, A TALE OF ESCAPE, WHERE HOPE GIVES IN. YOU’RE SEEKING A HOME, A PLACE SAFE AND FREE, BUT CHOICES ARE FEW, AS YOU’LL SOON COME TO SEE. TURN […]
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Dutton’s Housing “Initiative”: A Masterclass in Political Hypocrisy
By Wilkinson Kayne Peter Dutton’s recent PR campaign – featuring his son and an affordable housing initiative – is a textbook case study in political miscalculation. The optics alone are disastrous: a wealthy politician using […]
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Who benefits from fair trade and trade wars?
Choices governments make and the economic consequences “What ever happens we have got The Maxim Gun, and they have not.” (British poet Hilaire Belloc, “The Modern Traveller”, 1898) At the height of the British Empire, […]
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Australia may soon be faced with an ultimatum
It was rather uncomfortable reading that a global strategist has warned that Australia could have just months before we are “asked to choose” who we align with between the US and China amid an escalating […]