Month: January 2026

Trump’s so‑called “Board of Peace” looks less like a new deal than Jared Kushner’s “Peace to Prosperity” 2019 plan re-branded. It’s as flash as a rat with a gold tooth in a new suit and […]

By Chen Ziqi   Every time the Chinese New Year approaches, I find myself paying closer attention to the animal of the year. Not just the symbolism, but the stories behind it, where those meanings […]

The irony is ripe There is a recurring message across social media, delivered with great confidence by supporters of Donald Trump: If you don’t live in the United States, you have no right to comment […]

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace overseeing the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise a host of niggling questions. From the outset, the US President made it clear he would be the helmsman of […]

By Denis Hay Description Environmental chemicals and health risks affect Australians through work, food, and water. Learn impacts, causes and solutions. Introduction Environmental chemicals and health are inseparable issues in modern Australia. For decades, Australians […]

The 2017 “Watergate” scandal, where $80 million of taxpayer money bought questionable water rights from a Cayman Islands-linked company, seemed like a breaking point. It wasn’t. Instead, it was a high-definition symptom of a deeper, […]

There are moments when satire feels redundant, because the material arrives already complete. President Trump has sent a diplomatic communiqué (or, more accurately, a grudge-text) to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. It is a […]

Having done a lot of work in social housing high-rises in Melbourne over the years in various guises, as well as having visited friends who lived in the towers, I have come to understand and […]

In the opening weeks of 2026, the Western media’s portrait of Iran has reached a fever pitch of distortion. We are told, with the practised urgency of a countdown, that we are witnessing the final […]

Palestine Action Group Media Release Today has witnessed a new low in the sickening attempt by some politicians to exploit the horrific massacre at Bondi in order to attack the mass protest movement in which […]

For the first time in Australian political history, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party is polling higher than the Liberal–National Coalition. Let that sink in. A party that thrives on fear, resentment, and division – a […]

Like all new frontiers touted as necessary and worthwhile, the cashless society is advertised as a supremely convenient way to facilitate financial transactions while avoiding such silly inconveniences as carrying cash and scouting for a […]

Oxfam Australia Media Release New report calls for taxing the super-rich to tackle rampant inequality Average Australian billionaires’ wealth grew by almost $600,000 a day in the last year alone, or over $10.5 billion collectively, […]