Year: 2026

By Dr Dan Steinbock Recently, Canada’s PM Mark Carney declared the end of the rules-based order. It was an outstanding speech. Yet, US unilateralism first soared in the 1980s. The rest of the West complied […]

From Sydney’s kettled streets to Canberra’s sanctions theatre, how the US military-industrial complex choreographs our protests, media, and middle-power obedience. The humid February evening outside Sydney Town Hall hangs heavy with the acrid sting of […]

By Maria Millers When the newly minted Liberal leader, Angus Taylor fronted his first press conference last Friday he immediately announced that his priorities were to restore our standard of living and protect our way […]

For those with a sense of humour, consulting alleged facts compiled by an agency specialising in subterfuge, subversion, deception and plain mendacity must surely have been a delightful exercise. That delightful exercise would seem to […]

By James Moore “No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark” (Warsan Shire, author). Only a week had passed since we had moved into an adobe duplex about ten minutes north […]

New Liberal leader Angus Taylor has announced a bold new plan to restore “Australian values,” reduce cost-of-living pressures, and reintroduce a door policy at the national border. “It is clear that numbers have been too […]

The Farrer by-election offers a real opportunity for Australian Progressive Politics. This by-election is a potential change-maker. Conservative representatives have an enormous swathe of regional federal electorates across Australia. In Queensland, these conservative electorates extend […]

For generations, Australians were taught that Britain “settled” an unoccupied land. Many First Nations people reject that description entirely, calling 1788 an invasion. The dispute is not merely semantic. It turns on a legal question […]

The placards rise in neat, Instagrammable formation outside the buttery yellow sandstone of Sydney Town Hall in summer sun. A sea of cardboard rectangles held aloft, their edges crisp and unbent. Some are neon-bright; electric […]

By Walt Zlowtow President Trump recapped his sixth meeting this year with his real boss, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by stating it will be “very traumatic” for Iran if a nuclear deal isn’t reached […]

The eulogies are starting to wear thin. The lamented passing of the rules and law-based order only makes sense to those who believed that such rules and laws existed in the first place. How easy […]