A Lot Has Happened While I’ve Been Away…
Ok, some of you may have noticed that I’ve been on holiday… Just in case that seems a little egocentric, I’m sorry. It’s just that […]
Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick
“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of […]
The Silent Truth
By Roger Chao The Silent Truth In the tumult of a raging battle, beneath the echoing cries, Where shadows merge with fading lights, the silent […]
Nuclear Energy: A Layperson’s Dilemma
In 2013, I wrote a piece titled, “Climate Change: A layperson’s Dilemma” in which I pointed out the debunked theories of people like Andrew Bolt, […]
The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend!
The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was adamant. Not only […]
Religious violence
Having worked for many years with a diverse number of people from different ethnic groups and religions, and some with no religion, I was impressed […]
Can you afford to travel to work?
UNSW Media Release Australia’s rising cost of living is squeezing household budgets, and with high fuel prices and public transport costs increasing, many Australians face […]
A Ghost in the Machine
By James Moore The only feature not mentioned was drool. On his second day in court, charged with multiple felonies, the putative leader of the […]
Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture of Assange Continues
Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that […]
Spiderwoman finally leaving town
By Frances Goold Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? 25 November 2023 – 28 April 2024* […]
New research explores why young women in Australia are reluctant to enter politics
Despite growing momentum to increase female representation in Australia’s national parliament, it continues to be a male dominated domain. New research from Monash University explores […]
Bondi and mental health under attack?
‘Mental health’; a broad canvas that permits a highly misinformed landscape where anything goes, particularly ignorance and social stigma. Can’t we do better than this? […]
Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation
The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. […]
Commentary on the Migration Amendment Bill 2024
By Jane Salmon, voluntary refugee advocate for over 11 years. Introduction: The facts are obvious. As Senator Meereen Faruqi has written, this Bill would: Create […]
Fossil Fuel’s war on protest
Madeleine King, Minister for Resources in the Albanese government recently announced that she will curtail the ability of Australians to challenge resource corporation projects in […]