It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now. Michael West reports. We are led by fools and sycophants. The illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran is not just garden variety stupidity. This
BHP has had almost an entire court case muzzled and its demands met to toss out a coal miner’s case without even filing a defence. Stephanie Tran reports. In a judgment published on Monday evening, Justice Needham of the Federal Court found that Simon Turner’s case “had no reasonable prospects
On Pittwater Road in North Manly, there’s a community health centre building being repurposed to provide tangible support to women at risk.
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Among the multiple questions that have been stimulated by the proposed demolition of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers is the cost of building social housing.
A new report, along with a parliamentary inquiry tabled in December, unveils the internal tug of war on information to prevent further probing into why the towers needed to be demolished, ...
A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows the Labor Government puts extinction second to politics. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. A long-awaited brief, prepared by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), has now been released after an FOI fight in the Administrative
When the UK government stopped building non-market social and affordable housing in the UK, the private sector didn’t step in to make up the difference. It delivered more or less the same number of dwellings. The same reality applies in Australia.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
China has surpassed the EU to become the largest carbon market in the world, and around 1000 cement enterprises in China are included in this mandatory trading scheme.
During a trip to Beijing over Christmas, The Fifth Estate dropped in on the China Building Materials Federation to get a better understanding of the work they’re engaged in to create ...
Treasurer Chalmers is floating tax reform balloons ahead of the May budget but Michael Pascoe warns he’s fighting the last war. The next one is nuclear. If a week is a long time in politics, two months before the May budget is an eternity, plenty of time to float balloons
The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why. Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news. Two women
BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner’s case. Stephanie Tran reports. The Federal Court of Australia has struck out a landmark case brought by an injured coal miner against BHP Group Limited and related entities, refusing him leave to
Social media giant Meta has strongly suggested it will abandon its Australian fact-checking operations — such as those used to flag lies over the Bondi terror attacks — in line with its moves in Donald Trump’s America.
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Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of intervention by Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board documents reveal.
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It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now. Michael West reports. We are led by fools and sycophants. The illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran is not just garden variety stupidity. This
BHP has had almost an entire court case muzzled and its demands met to toss out a coal miner’s case without even filing a defence. Stephanie Tran reports. In a judgment published on Monday evening, Justice Needham of the Federal Court found that Simon Turner’s case “had no reasonable prospects
On Pittwater Road in North Manly, there’s a community health centre building being repurposed to provide tangible support to women at risk.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
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By the end of 2026, this former community health ...
Among the multiple questions that have been stimulated by the proposed demolition of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers is the cost of building social housing.
A new report, along with a parliamentary inquiry tabled in December, unveils the internal tug of war on information to prevent further probing into why the towers needed to be demolished, ...
A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows the Labor Government puts extinction second to politics. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. A long-awaited brief, prepared by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), has now been released after an FOI fight in the Administrative
When the UK government stopped building non-market social and affordable housing in the UK, the private sector didn’t step in to make up the difference. It delivered more or less the same number of dwellings. The same reality applies in Australia.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
China has surpassed the EU to become the largest carbon market in the world, and around 1000 cement enterprises in China are included in this mandatory trading scheme.
During a trip to Beijing over Christmas, The Fifth Estate dropped in on the China Building Materials Federation to get a better understanding of the work they’re engaged in to create ...
Treasurer Chalmers is floating tax reform balloons ahead of the May budget but Michael Pascoe warns he’s fighting the last war. The next one is nuclear. If a week is a long time in politics, two months before the May budget is an eternity, plenty of time to float balloons
The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why. Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news. Two women
BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner’s case. Stephanie Tran reports. The Federal Court of Australia has struck out a landmark case brought by an injured coal miner against BHP Group Limited and related entities, refusing him leave to
Social media giant Meta has strongly suggested it will abandon its Australian fact-checking operations — such as those used to flag lies over the Bondi terror attacks — in line with its moves in Donald Trump’s America.
The post Meta’s Australia fact-checking under Zuckerberg’s sword appeared first on The Klaxon.
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of intervention by Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board documents reveal.
The post Randa Abdel-Fattah cancelled due to Malinauskas, board documents reveal appeared first on The Klaxon.