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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 […]

By Peter Brown   During his first presidency, Donald Trump repeatedly boasted that he knew more about defeating ISIS than the generals did – a claim met with widespread ridicule, yet one that captured the essence […]

Introduction: A Leader in Freefall There is a pattern to despots and demagogues that repeats across centuries. When they cannot win with results, they reach for prophecy. When they cannot convince with evidence, they claim […]

The record is extraordinary. The case for bringing more community independents into parliament has never been stronger – and in Farrer, the next chapter is being written right now. By Sue Barrett There is a […]

By Walt Zlotow On February 28th Trump made the most self-destructive presidential military decision in America’s 250 years. He sucker punched Iran with a massive bombing campaign while falsely negotiating a peace deal. It has backfired […]

In a week when American senators are finally beginning to ask serious questions about the US$1 billion per day cost of the war on Iran – funds diverted from domestic programs that American families rely […]

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 […]

By Walt Zlotow   Trump is seeking an exit from his lost war against Iran. US bases are being systematically damaged in 6 neighboring nations. Israel is suffering the most serious damage in its 78 year […]

In his January speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave the impression of a banker turned soothsayer, a Daniel coming to judgment. Here was a born-again man of […]

ASOSS Media Release The findings of the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s Robodebt investigation will be devastating to the victims and their loved ones today. The NACC found two public servants engaged in ‘serious corrupt conduct’ – […]

A Report for the Australian People and Their Parliament In 2017, I asked a simple question: why does Australia spend nearly a billion dollars per Joint Strike Fighter while homelessness services scrape by on $250 […]

PART THREE OF THREE This is the concluding part of a series that began as two pieces and became three, for the same reason this war began as a targeted operation and is becoming something […]

I’ve just read an article about planning nuclear power for a “post-Trump world” I’m wondering how many people are actually doing just that – planning for a “post Trump world.” Well, Donald Trump isn’t one […]

Wars can distract, and for leaders in political purgatory, they can be particularly useful. It remains to be seen whether the UK’s increasing involvement in the illegal war being waged on Iran by Israel and […]