Year: 2026

By Denis Hay   Description Criticism of the Australia-US alliance examines whether unquestioning support for the US undermines peace, sovereignty, and regional stability. Introduction – Asking the Question Australians Rarely Hear For decades, Australia has […]

By Ricky Pann To: All Australians / Members of the Australian Parliament From: Ricky Pann MMap (UTS), MDM (UNSW) Date: 27 February 2026 Subject: The Mandatory Labelling of AI and the Right to Orientation Part […]

Alienated from active political participation and low membership rates for trade unions, Australians are now responding more positively to far-right ideologies from the LNP and beyond. Encouragement for the LNP always comes from the Murdoch […]

Introduction: Where There Is Ignorance, Bad Things Find a Home Where there is a lack of understanding, ignorance, then there is room for bad things to make a home for themselves. The banking sector and […]

It was good of Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, to come clean with the witchery and superstition that marks the Bible. When a text advocating genocide, ethnic cleansing and dubious real estate advice in […]

The perception that the Albanese government is governing from the political centre – and at times shading toward conservative comfort zones – has become a recurring theme in Australian political commentary. Whether that perception is […]

By Helen Reynolds   Well, I sat through it. I watched the entire, record-breaking marathon. By the end, I felt like I’d aged a term and a half myself. President Trump’s latest State of the […]

By Lee Capocchi (Continued from Part 1) The supply of housing has been constrained for years, with house approval numbers varying little over several decades, despite the increasing population, meaning the percentage of new houses […]

With much in the way of pomp and false premises, the social media ban in Australia for those under 16-years-old was celebrated as a healthy incentive to encourage children to get off the screens and […]

Introduction Let’s be direct about what we’re facing. Jillian Segal, the government’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, has proposed a sweeping agenda that would fundamentally alter how Australian universities operate. Her plan includes “university report […]