Month: September 2026

Australian Human Rights Commission Media Release  The Commissioners responsible for First Peoples social justice and combating race discrimination have rejected racist, dehumanising comments against First Peoples by Senator Pauline Hanson. ‘This country prides itself on […]

It has been a source of wonder how celebrity paedophile, flesh presser, sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein managed to obtain his lucre. Was he more than a deft confidence trickster, a liar with astonishing […]

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 2) Part 3 – The Reset Button By the time Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021, Americans were exhausted. Exhausted by the anger, exhausted by the […]

Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. With some prowess, he has wooed, deceived, and lied […]

Dedicated to those who have noticed that the performance of principle is not the same as the practice of it. Abstract This article examines the foreign policy record of Senator Penny Wong, Australia’s Minister for […]

Continued from What Went Wrong? Part 2 – When Institutions Became the Enemy At the end of Part 1, I was left with a question that was considerably more disturbing than the one with which […]

Private Healthcare Australia Media Release  Private Healthcare Australia has welcomed the Government’s move to address excessive fees charged by specialist doctors with a range of potential measures including caps on fees and incentives to encourage […]

There was a time when I genuinely believed things were getting better. I remember the election of Barack Obama in the United States. After the years of George W. Bush, the wars, the divisions and […]

DAWE: Thanks for your time. CLARKE: Very good to be here, Bryan. DAWE: You’re the Prime Minister of Australia. CLARKE: I am. DAWE: Can we talk about the golf club? CLARKE: Which golf club? DAWE: […]

The Architecture of Influence: How the IHRA Definition and the Campaign Against “Antisemitism” Are Reshaping Australian Democracy Authors: Andrew Klein and Sera Elizabeth Klein Dedication: To those who have been told that speaking truth is […]

By Walt Zlotow On the 25th 9/11 anniversary we should also ponder victims and cost of America’s War on Terror – designed and implemented to reshape the Middle East in America’s image in response to and […]

RMIT University Media Release  The federal government is considering plans requiring platforms to let users opt out of algorithm‑curated feeds and switch to a chronological view. But an RMIT expert says the proposal misses a critical […]