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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 […]

The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s alleged impotence. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” […]

Part 1: The Evidence – How They Dismantled the Australian Fair Go By Sue Barrett This is Part 1 of a three-part investigation into who’s responsible for Australia’s declining living standards. Over the next three […]

This article presents a critical analysis of the Victoria Police Force, tracing its philosophical and operational journey from its 19th-century foundations in British ‘policing by consent’ to its modern manifestation as a paramilitarised, politically leveraged […]

If there’s one thing President Trump thinks about more than governing, it’s his legacy. He speaks of it constantly – the greatest, the strongest, the toughest, the most successful, the most historic. In Trump’s own […]

He craves it, and, to some extent, his desire was satisfied. President Donald Trump did get a peace prize. Not the peace prize picked out by self-important Norwegian non-entities, but the inaugural curiosity of FIFA, […]

The headlines shout of a new Cold War: NATO versus Russia, the West against China. The narrative presented is often one of unprovoked aggression by authoritarian states. But to understand the present, we must dare […]

We Need to Talk About Kevin: How Australia’s Men Became a Market for Rage The Demographic Stampede Something has shifted in the Coalition’s heartland, and it’s not policy. It’s identity. Australian men who once mumbled […]

The Swedish Mirror: What Australia’s ‘Perfect Society’ Shows We’ve Chosen Not to Be By Peter Brown A friend recently shared a social media post from a Swede, listing the entitlements of everyday life: five weeks’ […]

In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his business to convince the mob (a) that it is […]

A recent report criticising Palestinian schoolbooks has revived a persistent narrative: that Palestinian culture inherently teaches hatred. This framing is not merely inaccurate; it is the latest tool in a century-long campaign to obscure a […]

Efforts by state governments to offer affordable transport, contrast with the corporatised values of the privatised rail sector with its control over the Great Southern Railway Network’s operation of the Ghan, the Indian Pacific and […]