It was not a happy Australia Day for Michael Pascoe. Two polls told him we’re getting meaner, less confident, less welcoming, less Australian. There was a lot of depressing news over the long weekend, so much that you might have missed the opinion poll indicating Australians are getting meaner. The
Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains. Let’s start with
On Australia Day, we’re supposed to celebrate mateship, egalitarianism, freedom and prosperity. But what if these “pillars” of Australiana are myths? Andrew Gardiner reports. Each year at this time, academics, activists (and sometimes, by complete accident, supermarket chains) raise “inconvenient truths” about what they call the fallacies around ...
Canada’s redefinition of relations with Trump’s America serves as a stark reminder of Australia’s place in the world and our need to realign, too. Duncan Graham reports from our reluctant neighbour, Indonesia. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Canadian PM Mark Carney spoke of the end of
Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn. Andrew Brown with the story. Thursday night at the Opera House was a masterclass in performative
The Trump gang’s power to act beyond any laws in disrupting, coercing, stealing and killing comes from America’s economic and military might but the limits to one of those is in sight, writes Michael Pascoe. The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel
A charity linked to Israel’s military and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has removed four fundraising campaigns from its home page. Stephanie Tran with the update. The Chai Charitable Foundation, which reported $19.1m in tax-deductible donations in the 2025 financial year, earlier told MWM that it does not
There’s a thing in quantum mechanics called entanglement – where “two particles can retain a sort of telepathic tether even if they are on opposite sides of the lab (or indeed, the galaxy”). While the Sydney market increasingly veers into a similar nether region, Melbourne’s actually made housing way more affordable. No dramatic changes to planning ...
We hear a lot from Australia’s Zionist Jews in the media, not so much from non-Zionist Jews. Judith Treanor on hate laws and a nation in upheaval. This sneer on X stopped me in my tracks today. I’ve received a lot worse from trolls, Zionists and racists on social media,
Serial entrepreneur Alf Wheeler of Zeoform reveals the most persuasive argument to make when you’re pitching for funding. Spoiler alert: it’s not a great idea. Or even a worthy one.
Alf Wheeler, founder of innovative plant based materials manufacturer Zeoform, won the Spanish Inquisition pitchfest at The Fifth Estate’s Circular Disruption event in ...
What impact will the new hate speech laws have on the ability of ordinary Australians to protest? Constitutional Law Professor Anne Twomey explains. The Albanese government’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act 2026 was passed by both houses of Parliament this week with the support of the Liberal Party. That
The new Sydney Fish Market opened on Monday morning at 5am, heralding what’s hoped to be a Danish-designed icon to rival that other major tourist attraction, the Sydney Opera House.
But while tens of thousands of patrons flooded Pyrmont to see the new home for seafood lovers, The Fifth Estate headed in the opposite direction, to Surry Hills to ...
It was not a happy Australia Day for Michael Pascoe. Two polls told him we’re getting meaner, less confident, less welcoming, less Australian. There was a lot of depressing news over the long weekend, so much that you might have missed the opinion poll indicating Australians are getting meaner. The
Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains. Let’s start with
On Australia Day, we’re supposed to celebrate mateship, egalitarianism, freedom and prosperity. But what if these “pillars” of Australiana are myths? Andrew Gardiner reports. Each year at this time, academics, activists (and sometimes, by complete accident, supermarket chains) raise “inconvenient truths” about what they call the fallacies around ...
Canada’s redefinition of relations with Trump’s America serves as a stark reminder of Australia’s place in the world and our need to realign, too. Duncan Graham reports from our reluctant neighbour, Indonesia. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Canadian PM Mark Carney spoke of the end of
Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn. Andrew Brown with the story. Thursday night at the Opera House was a masterclass in performative
The Trump gang’s power to act beyond any laws in disrupting, coercing, stealing and killing comes from America’s economic and military might but the limits to one of those is in sight, writes Michael Pascoe. The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel
A charity linked to Israel’s military and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has removed four fundraising campaigns from its home page. Stephanie Tran with the update. The Chai Charitable Foundation, which reported $19.1m in tax-deductible donations in the 2025 financial year, earlier told MWM that it does not
There’s a thing in quantum mechanics called entanglement – where “two particles can retain a sort of telepathic tether even if they are on opposite sides of the lab (or indeed, the galaxy”). While the Sydney market increasingly veers into a similar nether region, Melbourne’s actually made housing way more affordable. No dramatic changes to planning ...
We hear a lot from Australia’s Zionist Jews in the media, not so much from non-Zionist Jews. Judith Treanor on hate laws and a nation in upheaval. This sneer on X stopped me in my tracks today. I’ve received a lot worse from trolls, Zionists and racists on social media,
Serial entrepreneur Alf Wheeler of Zeoform reveals the most persuasive argument to make when you’re pitching for funding. Spoiler alert: it’s not a great idea. Or even a worthy one.
Alf Wheeler, founder of innovative plant based materials manufacturer Zeoform, won the Spanish Inquisition pitchfest at The Fifth Estate’s Circular Disruption event in ...
What impact will the new hate speech laws have on the ability of ordinary Australians to protest? Constitutional Law Professor Anne Twomey explains. The Albanese government’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act 2026 was passed by both houses of Parliament this week with the support of the Liberal Party. That
The new Sydney Fish Market opened on Monday morning at 5am, heralding what’s hoped to be a Danish-designed icon to rival that other major tourist attraction, the Sydney Opera House.
But while tens of thousands of patrons flooded Pyrmont to see the new home for seafood lovers, The Fifth Estate headed in the opposite direction, to Surry Hills to ...