Health

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 […]

We’re paying more for packaging than the product – and it’s costing us the planet. You go to the supermarket to buy food. You come home with plastic, cardboard, film, trays, wraps, seals, labels, inserts […]

Having spent most of my career in marketing and advertising, I have firsthand insight into how deliberate persuasive techniques are used to shape attitudes and behaviours. In this piece, I argue that the media employs […]

By James Moore I am in New Orleans this weekend at the city’s book festival, listening to authors and ideas that would move even the most disconsolate of souls. Anderson Cooper of CNN, who has […]

Australia’s repeated failure to enforce accountability allows harm from crime to persist. Only urgent, decisive action to hold institutions and leaders accountable will break this harmful cycle. After 21 major inquiries in Australia, most close […]

They told you Iran’s missiles were being swatted from the sky like blowflies at a backyard barbecue. They told you the Iron Dome was holding the line, the Patriot batteries were doing their job, US […]

Australia’s aged care system is confronting a strange paradox. Across the country, older Australians are being formally assessed as needing support – yet many must wait months before that support actually begins. The official justification […]

On Labour Day 2026, a Nobel Prize, a Doughnut, and a kitchen table show us how ordinary Australians reclaim what has been taken – and why Labour Day is not a holiday. It’s a template. […]

With the ruling classes shown to be fickle, contemptible and unreliable in fulfilling their obligations to society, much of this confirmed by the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the United States Department of […]

Early childhood education and care is entering a new phase of reform in Australia, and the temptation is to treat each new measure as a stand-alone fix. A change to subsidised hours. A wage initiative. […]

Sustainability, Safety, and the Real Cost of Ageing at Home Australia’s aged-care reforms aim to deliver fairness, consistency and sustainability. The introduction of the Support at Home program and the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) represents […]

By Chen Ziqi In a care facility in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, a waist-high white robot glides quietly between rooms. Its digital face lights up in a cheerful greeting as it makes its rounds. It […]

In the winter after the first pandemic winter, a friend showed me a small device she carried like an amulet. It was the size of a matchbox, with a screen that glowed a cheerful, bureaucratic […]

It’s the start of the year in a kindergarten; a small boy stands at the threshold of a room he has never entered before and performs the oldest human calculation. He doesn’t have the words […]