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The End Stage of an Ideology Thirty years ago, politicians of both major parties promised that deregulation, privatisation and the “magic of the market” would make Australia prosperous, efficient and secure. They sold off public […]

How AUKUS is Becoming the Largest Wealth Transfer in Australian History – and Why the Government Won’t Tell You the Cost Dedicated to my wife, who sees through the secrecy and still chooses to fight […]

Lisa Goodwin’s twins are autistic. She applied three times before they were accepted onto the NDIS, then spent years fighting funding cuts through appeals, each round requiring her to prove, again, that her children were […]

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is where Australia quietly makes, or unmakes, its future. It happens in rooms that smell of sunscreen and toast, and in the small early moments when a child learns […]

They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds […]

The Authoritarian State by Stealth The Confession The Albanese government is not sleepwalking into a surveillance state. It is marching. The ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2025, now before the Senate after passing the Lower […]

By Chen Ziqi From April 13 to 18, the upcoming China International Consumer Products Expo in south China’s Hainan Province will bring together more than 3,400 brands from around 60 countries and regions. Spanning lifestyle […]

He doesn’t quite remember when he first felt it. Not pain exactly, more the sense that something in his mouth had changed shape. A jagged edge where there shouldn’t have been one. A hairline crack […]

One of my early jobs when I left the social research sector was designing interventions for “first in family” students to help feel more included in TAFE and University courses and achieving stronger outcomes in […]

I once managed the fieldwork for a longitudinal study into homelessness, the below is not an individual/real person but rather a compilation of countless stories I heard throughout this study. The car park is never […]

Motherland Where in hell can you go Far from the things that you know Far from the sprawl of concrete That keeps crawling its way About a thousand miles a day   Take one last […]

When will Israel realise that invading Lebanon with paralytic compulsion can never be the solution to its security ills? Having destroyed Gaza with existential, illegal fury, the Israeli Defense Forces have commenced operations in Lebanon […]

By James Moore “Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.” (Roger […]

Australia’s aged care reforms were built for consistency and control. But as complaints rise and appeals stall, a familiar pattern is emerging – one seen in similar systems around the world. Something isn’t sitting right […]