Month: September 2026

Many feel governments aren’t holding up their end of the deal, corroding support for democracy, writes Mario Peucker… We hear a lot today about the pile-up of overlapping problems like climate change, war, financial stress, […]

By James Moore Democrats in Texas tend to be afraid to express optimism over elections. For more than three decades, they have put more hope than logic and organization into their electoral politics. It has […]

Media Alert Australia’s independent, crowdfunded Public Inquiry into AUKUS concludes its public hearings today in Canberra, with presentations from Andrew Wilkie, the Hon Kim Beazley AC, Dr Michael Keating, Jon Stanford and Dr Emma Shortis […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release KOROR, PALAU, Wednesday 2 September 2026 – The new global heating projection by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has laid bare the dire realities of inevitable climate disaster, loss […]

350.org Media Release  Koror, Palau – The world is on track to cross the 1.5°C global warming threshold, likely within the next few years, according to a major new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released […]

Pauline Hanson has built a remarkably successful political career out of telling Australians that she speaks for ordinary people. The battlers. The forgotten. The Australians who work hard, pay their taxes and supposedly get nothing […]

To understand the surge of the far-right, it helps to look at nationalism, authoritarianism and populism and how much they already exist in Australia, says Dr Ibolya Losoncz… The reasons for the rise of far-right […]

When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international lawbreaking was asserted. Here was thuggish impunity, crude acquisition and harsh plunder in operation: […]

Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red […]

News sources are increasingly fragmented – yet the gatekeepers are more concentrated. This presents a growing problem for democracies, writes Daniel Angus… Australia’s information environment is increasingly fragmented, more personalised and less trusted. Yet control […]