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 […]
Year: 2026
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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 […]
Politics
Is free speech a shield for open discourse or a vehicle for hate speech?
Is free speech a shield for open discourse or a vehicle for hate speech? This piece examines where reason should guide our understanding of that boundary. This article explores how free speech sits between liberty […]
Health
War Without Bombs: China War on Poverty and Development
By Denis Hay Description How China war on poverty and development contrasts with US militarised wars, revealing different uses of power and human outcomes. This article was inspired by Jerry Grey from “Jerry’s Take […]
Politics
Project 2025 : The Architecture of an American Upheaval
In an era of complex global challenges, a blueprint for the radical restructuring of the United States government and its role in the world has moved from the fringes of policy workshops to the centre […]
Health
The Deep End and the Shallow Bits
The first thing I remember is the smell. Chlorine, yes, sharp and medicinal, like a promise that the water won’t kill you. But also, sunscreen warmed on skin, hot concrete, wet towels, the faint sweetness […]
Politics
Government spends more on property investor tax breaks than social housing, homelessness services and rent assistance combined
ACOSS Media Release New data shows Australia’s housing and homelessness crisis is worsening, prompting calls to curb property investor tax breaks and build more social homes. The Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services released today […]
Health
The Afterlife of Failed Prime Ministers
There is a curious phenomenon in modern politics whereby leaders rejected by voters at home are reborn as sages abroad. It is a kind of political reincarnation, except instead of coming back as something wiser, […]
Politics
The war nobody’s paid to see coming
Right now, this minute, the USS Abraham Lincoln and nine escort warships; 5,700 sailors, 75 aircraft, 1,200-plus Tomahawk missiles, 7,500 tons of ordnance, are sitting in the Persian Gulf like a firing squad aimed at […]
Health
The trouble with religion
In Australia, we have, we ‘enjoy’, sometimes ‘suffer’, freedom of religion. Freedom of religion: What does that really mean, especially in the context of the urgent call to somehow inscribe restrictions on that in the […]
Politics
The Preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison in Israel
Australia’s former Prime Minister and faithful Pentecostal Scott Morrison never passes up the chance to express an opinion if it will net him a reward. As one of various politicians of the right (and far […]
Health
Standing in Front of a Painting I Didn’t Understand
The first time I stood in front of a painting I didn’t understand, I felt something close to embarrassment, an embarrassment so ordinary it was almost invisible. I was on a school excursion. We’d been […]
Politics
Dancing with European Nationalism: Israel’s Generation Truth Antisemitism Conference
Held between January 26 and 27 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center and called Generation Truth, the second international conference on combating antisemitism was a picture of cracking contradictions. Organised by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs […]
Politics
Doomsday Clock setting feels more like 5 seconds to midnight than 85
By Walt Zlotow Lived all but the first 4 months of my 81 years under the threat of nuclear annihilation. So every January, I take seriously the annual Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock […]