Progress and setbacks on Closing the Gap targets
Productivity Commission Media Release The latest Annual Data Compilation Report (ADCR), which tracks progress towards the targets and indicators in the National Agreement on Closing […]
Global temperatures exceeded 1.5°C warming for a full year. What does this mean for the Paris Agreement?
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes Media Release A climate scientist explains that while a 1.5 °C rise in global temperatures doesn’t break […]
Housing supply crisis keeps inflation above target
Annual housing inflation accelerated to 5.5 per cent over the year to June 2024, well above the average inflation rate of 3.8 per cent. Master […]
Federal Government must pay Rex workers staff entitlements
USU Media Release The Albanese government must step in and cover the staff entitlements of Rex workers who have been told not only they will […]
Olympian Ordure: Swimming and Shitting in the Seine
Swimming, or dipping, in faecal polluted waters is not unusual. The spirit longs for purity in the staining aqua, and the body keeps pace with it. […]
Wildlife ecologist and volunteers who helped Kangaroo Island recover after devastating bushfires are in the running for Eureka Prize
University of South Australia Media Release University of South Australia wildlife ecologist Sophie ‘Topa’ Petit and a team of Kangaroo Island volunteer NGOs have been […]
Builders optimistic ministerial reshuffle a chance for coordinated approach as new home approvals decline
Newly released Australian Bureau of Statistics data has shown another slow month for building approvals, with just 13,237 new dwellings approved in June, a 6.5 […]
Greasing Palms: The Thales Blueprint for Corruption
It is a point verging on the trite: an arms corporation suspected of engaging in corrupt practices, spoiling dignitaries and officials and undermining the body […]
What’s All This Woke Nonsense About The Lust Supper And The Olympics?
There was an interesting little tweet… I’m still confused about what to call those things that people put on the Platform That Used To Be […]
Alliance for Animals welcomes The Hon Julie Collins MP to Agriculture Ministry
Australian Alliance for Animals Media Release The Australian Alliance for Animals congratulates The Hon Julie Collins MP on her appointment as the new Minister for […]
The Tortilla Curtain
By James Moore Nothing ever works to stop illegal immigration across the Texas and Mexico frontier. Migrants keep coming north hoping for a better life […]
The Olympic Games: Perennially Costly and Always Over Budget
Another entertainingly corrupt sporting event has just started in Paris, opening with a barge packed ceremony on the Seine. Thousands of simpering commentators, paid-up media gawkers […]
Why Trump Should Drop J. D. Vance But That May Not Be Why He Does…
When Donald Trump first ran for President he had the good sense to have Mike Pence as his running mate. Trump, after all, would have […]
When psychopaths rule
“Why is the world so unfair? Why all the economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: Psychopaths. That part of the […]