Year: 2026

By Dr Dan Steinbock In 2026, Chinese import growth will continue to expand, deepen and diversify, despite the US-led tariff wars. When I began to spend more time in China in the early 2000s, the […]

148 girls died in Minab. The school had been separated from the nearby military base for a decade. International law exists for precisely this moment. So why is no one reaching for it? Sara Shariatmadar […]

Sustainability, Safety, and the Real Cost of Ageing at Home Australia’s aged-care reforms aim to deliver fairness, consistency and sustainability. The introduction of the Support at Home program and the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) represents […]

Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so chronologically distant as to be fiction. If not Marvel, it’s not marvellous. But another […]

Craig Hill Media Release Why we started petitions to stop the Trump Tower on the Gold Coast We didn’t set out to run one of the biggest grassroots campaigns the Gold Coast has seen in […]

By Denis Hay Description Mainstream media in Australia increasingly fail citizens. Learn why this happens and how independent journalism can be strengthened. Introduction Trust in mainstream media in Australia has steadily declined. Many Australians sense […]

By James Moore “The Middle East was remade by strangers who did not understand it, and it has been paying the price ever since.” (David Fromkin, author, A Peace to End All Peace). The U.S. […]

Introduction: The Burgers and the Bench There’s a burger franchise in Boronia. I go there, that’s how I got to know the name Hash Tayeh. Reasonable prices. Decent food. Hash Tayeh, the man behind the […]

By Chen Ziqi In a care facility in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, a waist-high white robot glides quietly between rooms. Its digital face lights up in a cheerful greeting as it makes its rounds. It […]

Britain’s Labour Prime Minister is an accidental genius. Having won a comprehensive election victory in 2024 for not being a disturbed, sociopathic Tory leader, Sir Keir Starmer is now engineering his party into a position […]

🎬 UTOPIA: “Nobody Likes PILES” Scene 1 – Department Meeting Room Tony (brisk): Good news. Complaints are up 50%, which means engagement is up. (1-second pause) Nat looks up slowly. Slow blink. Nat: That’s not […]

The Hidden Human Cost of Algorithmic Warfare Fresh from their “snuff-movie” hit incinerating Venezuelan fishermen, Team Trump moves yet another carrier strike group into the Persian Gulf. Suddenly, our infotainment airwaves are full of experts […]

When former president Barack Obama was asked in a rapid-fire exchange whether aliens were real, he replied bluntly: “They’re real.” It was dry, ambiguous, almost certainly playful. In another era it would have drifted away […]