Year: 2026

I didn’t choose Australia. Not originally, anyway. I came here as a child with my family. I didn’t make the decision, didn’t know what Australia was, what it would become to me, or whether one […]

By Walt Zlotow   President Biden joined Israel’s campaign against Gaza the day after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Nearly three years later, as of October 8, Gaza’s 141 square miles have […]

How China is turning citizen complaints into urban solutions By Chen Ziqi When Krisca, an international student in east China’s Shandong Province, stepped out of a taxi, she didn’t realize she had left her bag […]

Ale house readings, spiritual zest, and the inevitable crapulous effect: a pub, the public house, the inn, the tavern, that home that functions between your actual home and the funeral rites that lie ahead, a […]

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 5) Part 6: Have We Moved Forward? There was a time when I genuinely believed we were moving forward. I remember the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the […]

Thomas Hobbes said a frightened people will hand a strongman the right to end their arguments about the truth. Trump worked out he doesn’t need to end the argument. He just needs to own the […]

Has everybody gone nuts? Don’t they notice that AI is not actually making any money? The Wall Street Journal explains – Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? Tech companies pour hundreds […]

The Desert and the Budget Victory – Reallocation, Control, and the Erosion of Scrutiny in the Albanese Government “The question is not whether the Albanese government will change. It will not. The question is whether […]

By Denis Hay   Quick answer Israeli government influence in Australia includes documented public pressure and diplomatic retaliation intended to shape Australian policy. Israeli allegations also prompted a consequential Australian aid-funding decision. Those actions warrant scrutiny […]

Countries have a duty to see that migrants who leave their birthplace for richer countries do so under conditions that make sense. If Australia’s public health services actively recruit nurses from other countries, and that […]

A post-human guide to aged care on Planet Bureaucratia Humanity disappeared centuries ago. The paperwork survived. Nobody was entirely sure what finished the humans. The cockroaches suspected climate change. The surviving satellites blamed social media. […]