Month: May 2026

There are some stories that feel like political satire before a writer even taps away at the keyboard. This week, a federal judge ordered that John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could not […]

Dedication: To my wife – who taught me that silence is not neutrality. It is a choice. And that the price of subordination is always paid by the subordinate. The Architecture of “Presence” Australia maintains […]

These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth column and anything that could risk being seen as ordinary. The […]

By Denis Hay   Description Discover how privatisation in Australia transformed public assets, shifted wealth, affected costs, and changed the nation’s future. Privatisation in Australia: What the Great Sell-Off Cost Introduction Imagine if Australians collectively owned […]

While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving ever more predatory with the Gaza Strip. With aggrandizing impunity, more territory is […]

By Walt Zlotow   Donald Trump is the classic schoolyard bully. Alas, instead of hurting, indeed terrorizing weaker school mates, he’s terrorizing the weaker on a global scale, both at home and abroad. On the domestic […]

Recent decisions by Sam Rae, the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors, risk repeating the failures of previous programs like Robodebt. Issues in the Aged Care program urgently need solutions that genuinely improve outcomes. As […]

When the establishment journalism of Nicholas Kristof of that most establishment of papers, The New York Times, draws the ire of a foreign regime, and an unnaturally allied foreign regime at that, a pulse might […]

By Denis Hay   Description Australian Dream: What changed? Explore housing, jobs, education and living standards, and whether the dream can still be achieved. Introduction When I left school at 15 in 1957, finding work was […]

DAWE: Prime Minister. Women who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State have returned to Australia. CLARKE: That’s correct. Two flights. DAWE: Did the government bring them back? CLARKE: We provided no assistance. I want […]