The Campaign to Free Assange: Reflections on ‘Night Falls’
The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos. People gather; debates held. Views converge; others diverge. Speakers are invited to […]
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Alexey and Yulia: Faith, hope … and the greatest of these is love
By unashamed believer in Love, guest columnist Tess Lawrence The romance between the Navalnys, Alexey and Yulia is destined for historical and cinematic heroic grandeur, […]
Aid system at the brink of total collapse and women give birth to stillborn babies as the risk of famine looms large in Gaza
ActionAid Media Release With one-quarter of Gaza’s population being one step away from famine and more than a dozen children dying from malnutrition in the […]
“No one should miss out”: RACGP calls for urgent rural NDIS boost
Royal Australian College of GPs Media Release The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) is calling on government to boost the National Disability Insurance Scheme […]
Aiding Those We Kill: US Humanitarianism in Gaza
The spectacle, if it did not say it all, said much of it. Planes dropping humanitarian aid to a starving, famine-threatened populace of Gaza (the […]
Cultural evolution
Cultures evolve, the lives we live today are different than the lives we used to live, very little remains of what used to be, but […]
A Wishful Gamble: Rugby League in Las Vegas
The history of such experiments is not promising. Why would those in the US like the game of rugby league, when an established code of […]
Dutton’s nuclear reactors are the latest climate delay
Solutions for Climate Australia Media Release Climate advocacy organisation Solutions for Climate Australia today called on the Federal Liberal and National Parties to release policies […]
More than 1/3 illicit drugs sold on the dark web contain unexpected substances
RMIT University Media Release Testing of illicit drugs bought online found 35% were not what they said they were, highlighting the urgent need for more […]
Mistakes, Misfiring and Trident: Britain’s Flawed Nuclear Deterrence
Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states. Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing. From time to time, they go missing, […]
Triumphant Down Under: Elbit Systems and the Australian Military
Deeds of substance, rather than words of forced concern, will always take precedence in the chronicles of history. Superficially, the Australian government has been edging […]
Yanis Varoufakis Australian speaking tour March 2024
The Australia Institute Media Release Yanis Varoufakis, visionary economist and former Finance Minister of Greece, is touring Australia discussing ‘Technofeudalism’, his boldest and most far-reaching […]
New insights into Australia’s productivity problem
Productivity Commission Media Release A new report from the Productivity Commission shows that labour productivity fell sharply in 2022-23, as a record-breaking increase in hours […]
First city on Mars – what’s it called?
Like stardust and feathers exploding in perpetual flower with unending grace into the permeable night we pass 2nd Incantation (AB) My first port of […]
Online retail saved Australians from even higher price rises: new research
Australia’s inflation crisis would have been worse if it wasn’t for lower priced products and increased competition from online retail channels, according to new research […]