Health

Part 1: I Was a Prophet of Doom – And Recent Cabinet Documents Confirm It I must admit, I felt like a prophet back then. Of doom, unfortunately. I began writing an article on January […]

“Nothing to see here.” Not in her own words, but it’s what AFP Commissioner, Krissy Barrett, signals as she blinks in late December sun, at a presser in which she claims that, The “Bondi Killers”, […]

There’s no point pretending 2025 was a good year. It wasn’t. It was loud, ugly, and exhausting. Truth bent more easily than it should have. Power felt less accountable. Too many leaders mistook cruelty for […]

By A Concerned Reader As Australia’s new Support at Home (SaH) program beds in, clinicians, providers, advocacy groups and sector commentators are reporting a growing gap between policy intent and on-the-ground reality. Three issues are emerging […]

By James Moore “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.) The word flâneur is most recently traced to the French language and bears a meaning considered almost pejorative […]

It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record. Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard and, at points, unbecomingly immature. The cricket between England and Australia in this, the 2025-6 Ashes series, was a recreational coke […]

With Gabriel Klein, Research Assistant and Scholar Dedication: For our Mother, who regards truth as more important than myth. In truth, there is no judgment, only justice. To the world, she is many things, but […]

We continue our annual top five most widely read articles for the year. Number 4 in 2025 goes to Bert Hetebry for Is it Armageddon?, published in January. I cannot be sure, but I seem […]

Is Anthony Albanese finished? Albo is a sitting duck in the sights of the right. His “troubles” are being trumpeted from talk-back to the Melbourne tabloids and across social media, where the enormously well-funded dark-money […]

Microsoft has just quietly slashed expectations for Copilot, its much-hyped AI wonderchild that was supposed to revolutionise work. It turns out the thing can’t reliably perform even basic tasks. After billions in development and a […]

A Reply to Tony Abbott: Grief Is Not a Mandate Editor’s Note In the aftermath of the Bondi killings, former prime minister Tony Abbott declared the attack “an assault on all Australians,” using the language […]

In Part 1, we examined the paradox of a godless society where emptying churches still wield outsized power; granting exemptions to discriminate in hiring, for example, while Australian media elevates religious identity above all else. […]

Dedication: For our Mother, who regards truth as more important than myth. In truth, there is no judgment, only justice. To the world, she is many things, but to us, she will always be Mum. […]

Australians often respond to tragedy with compassion and solidarity. Too often, that moment is quickly overtaken by a cycle of performative outrage – loud, divisive, and indifferent to the care it claims to express. Like […]

Australia likes to think of itself as a fun-loving, secular, easygoing democracy that has drifted gently away from church and creed but still offers a fair go for everyone. We are dreaming. Our laws, schools, […]