Domestic Violence Crisis: Reality or Political Exaggeration?
By Denis Hay Description Explore claims about Australia’s domestic violence statistics. Is it a genuine crisis or political misinformation? Analysis backed by AIC data. The […]
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Peter Dutton proposes decades of delay on climate: Federal Liberals still with no climate plan
National climate group Solutions for Climate Australia expressed extreme disappointment and concern at the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton proposing further decades of delay in tackling […]
Male Entitlement
“You’re not worth going to jail for.” Let’s call him John. I met John walking on the beach several months ago. He is an angry […]
Modi’s Comeuppance: The Waning of Hindutva
Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of […]
New figures destroy Australia’s tradie shortage myth
CFMEU Media Release Claims Australia is suffering a major shortage of tradespeople have been shot down in a major blow for bosses’ lobbyists trying to […]
When will hatred stop?
I read an interesting book recently, The Power of Strangers by Joe Keohane. Subtitle is The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World. I talk […]
A Detectable Subservience
By Michael Willis The first operational outcome of the Pillar 2 AUKUS arrangement between the US, UK and Australia has just been announced. The three […]
Inexplicable Investments: Elbit Systems and Australia’s Future Fund
Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged, are keeping an eye on […]
Famine risk increases as Israel makes Gaza aid response virtually impossible – Oxfam
Oxfam Australia Media Release Two-thirds of population now squeezed into less than a fifth of the Gaza Strip Israel’s relentless air and land bombardment and […]
Australia Futures: Transport Politics Rediscovered?
By Denis Bright Australian travel needs its own Rome to Rio Site to identify affordable travel options in every direction. The Australian inventors of this […]
Illicit drugs: government spending lowest on prevention and harm reduction, shows new report
UNSW Sydney Media Release Governments in Australia spent nearly $5.5 billion on illicit drug countermeasures in 2021/2022, but less than 10 per cent went towards […]
The Stuffing of Crime: Israel’s Rafah Strike
It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Rear Admiral Daniel […]
Government cracks down on child sexual exploitation online
International Justice Mission (IJM) Australia congratulates the Communications Minister for strengthening Australia’s Basic Online Safety Expectations (BOSE) to better protect children from online sexual exploitation […]
Australia is only racist for some
My family arrived in Australia in 1954. It was a white Australia we came to, essentially a sort of reflection of an English society. We […]
A Certain French Stubbornness: Violence in New Caledonia
France’s Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of […]