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By Denis Hay   Source: Australian Bureau of Statistic Latest ABS CPI data shows Australia’s inflation rose to 3.8 per cent in December 2025, driven by housing, energy, and food prices. Australia’s Consumer Price Index […]

Historic social democratic policy options remain for the Albanese Government with support from a united front with progressive senate crossbench members. In contrast, News Corp fosters nostalgia for the return of LNP majorities under strong […]

Platform 1 at 6:12am has a particular kind of light. Not the golden, romantic light of postcard mornings, but the thin, undecided light that hasn’t committed to being day yet. The sky is often the […]

Foreign Minister Penny Wong chants “rules based order” like a sacred hymn. Order? In reality, it’s a squalid, pseudo-legal jargon for a world where might is right. While the US drops depleted uranium on Iraqi […]

When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter […]

By Walt Zlotow   In word and deed, President Trump appears on the cusp of attacking Iran to decapitate its regime and destabilize the entire country of 93 million. Trump threatens war and moves massive military […]

The day the slide broke, it felt, absurdly, disproportionally, like the end of something. It wasn’t a dramatic break. No screaming child. No ambulance. No headline. It was just a council park on an ordinary […]

Trump’s Ponzi War Machine: The US Empire Eats Itself From Caracas to Tehran, the self‑devouring logic of perpetual conflict; and why the blowback will be biblical In my previous piece, I depicted a US on […]

Is free speech a shield for open discourse or a vehicle for hate speech? This piece examines where reason should guide our understanding of that boundary. This article explores how free speech sits between liberty […]

By Denis Hay   Description How China war on poverty and development contrasts with US militarised wars, revealing different uses of power and human outcomes. This article was inspired by Jerry Grey from “Jerry’s Take […]

In an era of complex global challenges, a blueprint for the radical restructuring of the United States government and its role in the world has moved from the fringes of policy workshops to the centre […]

The first thing I remember is the smell. Chlorine, yes, sharp and medicinal, like a promise that the water won’t kill you. But also, sunscreen warmed on skin, hot concrete, wet towels, the faint sweetness […]