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The Great Christian Creep
By James Moore “Pretending to know things one doesn’t know is a betrayal of science – and yet it is the lifeblood of religion.” (Sam Harris, author, neuroscientist). There has always been a nonsensical element […]
Year: 2026
Politics
We Asked Two AIs What’s Driving the Doomsday Clock: The Answer Was Human Power
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been to catastrophe. Predictably, some commentary rushed to place artificial intelligence at the […]
Politics
As Trump Threatens Weekend Strike on Iran, Albanese Pretends Pine Gap Isn’t Complicit
Albanese’s Iran Illusion: How Australia Sleepwalks into Someone Else’s War While our federal government waffles on about rules based order, Iran is rewriting the rules of modern warfare. Trump is threatening regime-change. The Strait of […]
Politics
When Journalism Becomes a Crime
The arrest of Don Lemon should alarm anyone who cares about democracy, regardless of how they feel about Don Lemon himself. Lemon is a polarising figure. He has critics across the political spectrum. President Trump’s […]
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Australia CPI Inflation Rises in Latest ABS Release
By Denis Hay Source: Australian Bureau of Statistic Latest ABS CPI data shows Australia’s inflation rose to 3.8 per cent in December 2025, driven by housing, energy, and food prices. Australia’s Consumer Price Index […]
Politics
Political Futures: Proactive Social Democratic Possibilities
Historic social democratic policy options remain for the Albanese Government with support from a united front with progressive senate crossbench members. In contrast, News Corp fosters nostalgia for the return of LNP majorities under strong […]
Satire
Will The Libspill Add Interest To The RBA This Week?
Ok, I said that I’d be taking time off to write a screenplay but I started having trouble. I asked a friend what was wrong and she told me that the main problem was that […]
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Platform 1 at 6:12am
Platform 1 at 6:12am has a particular kind of light. Not the golden, romantic light of postcard mornings, but the thin, undecided light that hasn’t committed to being day yet. The sky is often the […]
Politics
The Rules-Based Order: Where America Gets Away with Murder, and Everyone Else Gets the Bombs
Foreign Minister Penny Wong chants “rules based order” like a sacred hymn. Order? In reality, it’s a squalid, pseudo-legal jargon for a world where might is right. While the US drops depleted uranium on Iraqi […]
Satire
The Trump Family Cinematic Universe
Fresh from the record-shattering box office success of Melania – a film seen by dozens, emotionally processed by none, and forgotten by breakfast – the studio has announced an ambitious new franchise: a feature film […]
Politics
Dooming the Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma
When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter […]
Politics
A Trump attack on Iran likely to kill thousands of Americans and Israelis
By Walt Zlotow In word and deed, President Trump appears on the cusp of attacking Iran to decapitate its regime and destabilize the entire country of 93 million. Trump threatens war and moves massive military […]
Health
The Day the Slide Broke
The day the slide broke, it felt, absurdly, disproportionally, like the end of something. It wasn’t a dramatic break. No screaming child. No ambulance. No headline. It was just a council park on an ordinary […]
Your Say
The Theatre of the Absurd: How we are made to consent to our own enslavement
We have identified the pattern: a state of never-ending war, from the global stage to the living room. But a war cannot continue without soldiers, without taxpayers, without a populace that accepts it as inevitable. […]
Politics
The US’s Multi‑Front War: A House of Cards
Trump’s Ponzi War Machine: The US Empire Eats Itself From Caracas to Tehran, the self‑devouring logic of perpetual conflict; and why the blowback will be biblical In my previous piece, I depicted a US on […]