Year: 2026

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace overseeing the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise a host of niggling questions. From the outset, the US President made it clear he would be the helmsman of […]

By Denis Hay Description Environmental chemicals and health risks affect Australians through work, food, and water. Learn impacts, causes and solutions. Introduction Environmental chemicals and health are inseparable issues in modern Australia. For decades, Australians […]

The 2017 “Watergate” scandal, where $80 million of taxpayer money bought questionable water rights from a Cayman Islands-linked company, seemed like a breaking point. It wasn’t. Instead, it was a high-definition symptom of a deeper, […]

There are moments when satire feels redundant, because the material arrives already complete. President Trump has sent a diplomatic communiqué (or, more accurately, a grudge-text) to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. It is a […]

Having done a lot of work in social housing high-rises in Melbourne over the years in various guises, as well as having visited friends who lived in the towers, I have come to understand and […]

In the opening weeks of 2026, the Western media’s portrait of Iran has reached a fever pitch of distortion. We are told, with the practised urgency of a countdown, that we are witnessing the final […]

Palestine Action Group Media Release Today has witnessed a new low in the sickening attempt by some politicians to exploit the horrific massacre at Bondi in order to attack the mass protest movement in which […]

For the first time in Australian political history, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party is polling higher than the Liberal–National Coalition. Let that sink in. A party that thrives on fear, resentment, and division – a […]

Like all new frontiers touted as necessary and worthwhile, the cashless society is advertised as a supremely convenient way to facilitate financial transactions while avoiding such silly inconveniences as carrying cash and scouting for a […]

Oxfam Australia Media Release New report calls for taxing the super-rich to tackle rampant inequality Average Australian billionaires’ wealth grew by almost $600,000 a day in the last year alone, or over $10.5 billion collectively, […]

By Peter Brown In a sharp escalation of transatlantic tensions, French President Emmanuel Macron is urging the European Union to ready its most powerful – and untested – trade weapon against the United States. The […]

I watched a short clip of Miranda Devine attempting to explain why younger women dislike Donald Trump. It was awful. Not “controversial.” Not “provocative.” Just awful – in the way that makes you sit back […]

By James Moore (The story below is speculative fiction that I wrote while sitting around worrying about my country and its future. It is also the stuff of nightmares that an increasing number of U.S. […]

The American Empire has finally done it. After strutting the globe like a prize bull in a china shop, for what seemed an eternity, (the blink of an eye in world history), it has tripped […]