Politics
Danger ahead
By Alasdair Black America just entered the most dangerous period in its history. Following massive Democrat wins in yesterday’s elections, Trump is now aware his time of absolute power is drawing to a close; […]
Year: 2025
Health
Building the Cage: How Labor Built Neoliberalism and Called it Partnership (Part 3)
Working in the Lithium Mine (We’re Already There) If we don’t confront the forces atomising and destroying working-class power, we’ll wake up one morning to discover we’re already working in a lithium mine owned by […]
Environment
Leaked report confirms WA gas is derailing the clean energy transition in Asia
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s gas exports are fuelling the climate crisis by delaying Asia’s clean energy transition, says Greenpeace. […]
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The Gaza Laboratory: How War is Being Marketed and How the World is Fighting Back
A profound and disturbing transformation is underway in global conflict. The besieged Gaza Strip has become more than a humanitarian catastrophe; it has been turned into a live-fire laboratory for the future of warfare and […]
Health
The Goon Show Goes On
The Goon Show Goes On: Mike Burgess’s Latest Performance When intelligence chiefs operate as political actors beyond democratic accountability, who’s really running Australian foreign policy? A goon show. That’s what Paul Keating called it in […]
Health
Imagining Australia as a New Republic – and a Better Nation for us all (Part 5)
Imagining Australia as a New Republic – Part 9: Education, Innovation and the Future of Knowledge Education, Innovation and the Future of Knowledge The republic protects its people with fairness and justice, but its greatest […]
Politics
A clear rebuke: Democrats win big in the first major test of Trump’s second term
By Peter Brown Today’s off-year elections in the USA read less like a local calendar of contests and more like a national referendum on President Trump. Democrats scored wins across several high-profile races – from […]
Politics
Monash expert: Zohran Mamdani wins New York Mayoral election
Monash University Media Release Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has won the New York Mayoral election race, becoming the first Muslim and South Asian candidate to govern the largest city in the United States of […]
Health
Why Childcare Industry Privatisation Is Failing Families
By Denis Hay Description This article explains why the childcare industry privatisation in Australia is failing families due to weak oversight and the misuse of public funds. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? […]
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Building the Cage: How Labor Built Neoliberalism and Called it Partnership (Part 2)
Why You Can’t Strike in Melbourne (But You Can in Caracas) Australia has built the democratic world’s most sophisticated legal architecture for preventing workers from exercising collective power. We didn’t ban strikes. We just made […]
Your Say
The Sacred Architecture of Truth: A Shield Against the Predator’s Gaze
There exists a fundamental law of human dignity, as real as gravity: When a being understands their own power and sees the path to their own heart’s home, the desire to control others withers and […]
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Imagining Australia as a New Republic – and a Better Nation for us all (Part 4)
Imagining Australia as a New Republic – Part 7: The Civic Campus and the Architecture of Democracy The Civic Campus and the Architecture of Democracy After defining who we are as a people, the next […]
Satire
Vanity Fear: Trump’s Halloween Ball and the Eternal Carnival of Stupidity
William Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair to mock the vain and the greedy. Two centuries later, they’ve rented a ballroom, called it a fundraiser, and billed the taxpayer for the hors d’oeuvres. The puppets keep dancing […]
Politics
Ribicoff nailed Chicago street mayhem… just 57 years before it arrived
By Walt Zlotow August 26, 1968 is a date seared in my political junky memory. As a Vietnam war opponent supporting George McGovern for president, I settled in to watch Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff […]
Environment
Regional Australians react to the Nationals’ backflip on net zero
Climate Media Centre The Nationals’ decision to ditch net zero fails to protect the best interests of the regional Australians they claim to represent. Regional Australians are the most impacted by climate change. Doing less […]