Month: February 2026

Nine months. That’s how long Australia’s first female Liberal leader lasted before the boys’ club sharpened their knives. Sussan Ley never stood a chance and that was always the point. The Liberal Party, Australia’s rapidly […]

Have you ever walked through a forest and wondered at the feeling, the sense of freedom, quiet contemplativeness, perhaps barefoot, feeling the earth beneath your feet and your mind relaxes, listening to the sounds of […]

Media Release The Australian Delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla released the names of the first wave of Australians, including several First Nations participants, a feminist author, climate justice activists and an anti-zionist Jewish activist, […]

By Alasdair Black   What this whole Epstein horror story shows, is that sexual abuse is about power, venal privileged self satisfaction, carnal gratification and exploitation, where human lives are commodities to be traded, used […]

There were never the sharpest negotiators in the room, resembling a facsimile of Bertie Wooster in desperate need of the good advice of his manservant Jeeves. The Australian defence establishment has yet to find a […]

I spent a couple of terms on an ACFE Regional Council and have been intimately involved with numerous projects with a range of Neighbourhood houses in the past. The first thing you notice about a […]

Chris Minns, symbolism, policing, and the narrowing of dissent By Ricky Pann The five-day visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia in February 2026 was framed by the federal government as a gesture of […]

Australian politics can produce surprises. We have seen independents overturn safe seats, minor parties hold the balance of power, and leaders rise and fall with dizzying speed. But there are limits to volatility. There are […]

By Denis Hay   Canberra – Parliament has passed legislation expanding Australia’s preventive detention and surveillance powers under national security laws. The amendments extend existing counter-terrorism and national security laws, allowing authorities to continue using preventive […]

The first thing the scribbly gums taught me was that even trees have diaries. You see it the moment you step onto the track – pale trunks covered in looping lines, as if someone has […]