Health

On Sunday evening, 14 December 2025, Bondi Beach, one of Australia’s most public, most symbolically “open” places, became the scene of a terrorist attack targeting a Jewish Hanukkah gathering, the “Chanukah by the Sea” event. […]

You already know this sentence. You’ve heard it on the radio, seen it scroll past on TV, skimmed it in your news app on the tram, “A woman has been found dead in her home. […]

Every few weeks, a man I’ll call “Mark” gets in his car in the dark and points it up the highway. Three hours later he walks into the secure dementia unit. His mother is in […]

By A Concerned Reader   Australia’s Support at Home reform was sold as a modernisation: streamlined access, consistent assessments, reduced confusion and faster care. Instead, only weeks into implementation, the system is generating avoidable reviews, […]

How the AUKUS Caucus built a cargo cult and called it strategy. There’s a certain kind of Australian politician who never quite grew out of childhood. You know the type: Richard Marles, Tony Abbott, Christopher […]

By A Concerned Reader We don’t need RoboCare deciding older people’s fate. What Australians want – and were promised – is RoboAccountability. For years, older Australians and their families have asked a simple question: Why […]

Monash University Media Release With Australia’s social media ban coming into force this week, a new survey from Monash University has found that almost four out of five Australian adults support the Australian government’s social […]

By A Concerned Reader (This article draws only from publicly available information, media reports, Senate Estimates transcripts, and policy documents.) Introduction As the new Support at Home (SaH) program begins rolling out across Australia, an […]

By A Concerned Citizen There are moments in public policy when the machinery of government begins to move in ways that even its own operators struggle to explain. Australia’s shift to the new Support at […]

How four decades of union destruction paved the way for algorithmic exploitation and corporate price-gouging Walk into any Coles outlet today and you’re not just buying milk. You’re feeding a surveillance machine processing 10 billion […]

Hemingway knew bankruptcy intimately; both financial and moral. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asks in The Sun Also Rises. “Two ways,” Mike replies. “Gradually and then suddenly.” He was talking about his own ruin, but […]

A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from straying. But straying […]