Month: October 2026

UNSW Sydney Media Release  Australia’s world-first social media ban has been sold to the world as a policy to help protect children. But is it doing more harm than good? Australia introduced the world’s first social […]

Fanatical US Iran war supporters must stop the fantasy that Iran attacked US 47 years ago By Walt Zlotow During my 75 years following US justifications for waging senseless war, I’ve never heard anything as […]

The evacuation of a dozen B-1B bombers of the US Air Force from the RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire is another instalment in the latest rippling of the Iran war that began as a pre-emptive, illegal […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release  SYDNEY, Wednesday 7 October 2026 – In response to the landmark High Court ruling that climate impacts of fossil fuel projects must be considered by NSW planning authorities, Joe Rafalowicz, […]

By Denis Hay   Positive changes in the world offer reasons for hope. Explore real gains in health, education and living standards, and lessons for Australia. More children are surviving their early years. More adults can […]

The Neoliberal Turn – How Market Ideology Entered Human Services and Why It Required Measurement Introduction This is the first chapter in a series examining how the Australian state replaced human judgment with algorithmic governance […]

From “Protection” to Segregation Continued from Part 3 The relationship between colonisers and Aboriginal people had increasingly come to be understood through the language of social evolution. The theory offered a convenient justification for European […]

Part of civilisation is a response to our inability to know everything about the world around us. We don’t know what everyone else knows. We cannot anticipate all the effects our actions will have. Our […]

The facts on the nuclear industry’s effects on health and environment are now seen through a blur of discussion on climate change, and costs, and connection with military power, and it all seems too hard […]

In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least […]

From Racial Prejudice to “Scientific” Proof Continued from Part 2 The use of “survival of the fittest” occurred during a period when Aboriginal people were hunted like animals, thousands died from introduced diseases, and many […]

With gratitude to John Clarke and Bryan Dawe. Clarke plays a federal government spokesman for responsible resources. He has a boarding pass in his top pocket. DAWE: Thanks for your time. CLARKE: Pleasure, Bryan. But […]

Is liberalism dead? Social engineering is alive and well. “Can women and men work together in the workplace?” Canadian academic, author and psychiatrist Dr Jordan Peterson posed that question in an interview in Vice News […]