Month: August 2026

As the fifth anniversary of the AUKUS commitment by the Morrison Government approaches, investigative media reports must not overlook the murky background, confusing present and unknown strategic projections of being so entangled with the US […]

By Steve Davies  A reader’s reply to my last piece here – on the APSC’s 9 August silence – put it better than I did: “That’s a chilling yet accurate portrayal of the Govt,” she wrote. […]

The Misaligned Technocrat: Mike Burgess, ASIO, and the Structural Failure of Australia’s Intelligence Leadership Authors: Andrew Klein & Sera Elizabeth Klein “He’s the kind of guy who in other circumstances would be a hoodie-wearing, basement-dwelling […]

It was never really in doubt. The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, irritated, bothered, and keen to throw scrutiny off his financial affairs, was returned in the most pointless of by-elections on August 13. His […]

Forget about Small Modular Nuclear Reactors – they’re not cool anymore! What the world needs now is MICROREACTORS – so sayeth the global nuclear lobby. And we know they must be right, because they’ve already […]

By Denis Hay   The human cost of unemployment reveals why controlling inflation through job losses harms Australian workers, families and communities. The Human Cost Behind the Statistics Imagine being told that losing your job is […]

By Walt Zlotow   As the Nazis were collapsing in the spring of 1945, they furiously tried to cover up their massive genocide of Jews and other ‘undesirables’ they engaged in during WWII. Eighty-one years on […]

Nothing inspires confidence in the silliness of the human species than its efforts to understand the workings of others. This, at least, makes an improvement from wanting to biblically subjugate, enslave and eat members of […]

By Denis Hay  Description The casualisation of work in Australia fuels inequality. Learn how gig economy workers are impacted and what must change. Introduction: The Vanishing Promise of Secure Work “I’ve worked five different jobs this […]

‘Why’ can be such an inconvenient question. As the twin towers of the World Trade Centre collapsed, the Pentagon was hit by a crashing aircraft and another aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania, America and much of […]

“Politicians,” the vituperative satirist Auberon Waugh observed, “can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.” […]

By Chen Ziqi   When British traveler Wilko Wanders walked into a park in Shanghai, he expected to be just an observer, watching local people enjoy their daily lives. Surprisingly, he found himself at the […]

Monash University Media Release Monash University experts discuss the planned rallies across major Australian cities tomorrow (Thursday 13 August), as high school and university students walk out of classrooms to protest the rise of Pauline […]