It's hard to imagine American politics could summon a political project anything like Jesse Jackson's ever again. The post Jesse Jackson’s politics at its best was joyful and alive. There
Australia’s strict gun laws have reduced domestic gun violence, but the country still enables global harm through defence companies linked to weapons used in organised crime and terrorism abroad. read now...
Nats Senator Matt Canavan has disclosed his 'conflict of interest' in questioning the CEO of an Nationals-aligned thinktank in the Senate this week. The post ‘Conflict of interest’: Nationals-aligned
Tim Wilson, who led the Coalition campaign against franking credit changes, represents the kind of neoliberalism the Liberal Party needs to move away from. On some level, he knows that.
‘Give peace a chance’ was the theme of one of John and Yoko’s bed-ins in 1969.
Apparently, they were reacting against the USA involvement in Vietnam. Given John’s talent at creating melodic lines, the song became a chant or anthem for many groups when they were lamenting a war somewhere, or when marching down a street in a protest.
I am wondering if ...
Members on all sides of government continue to enjoy benefits from Qantas and Virgin, all while domestic airline passengers are taken for a ride. The post No end in sight
The myth of social cohesion is that immigrants 'bring foreign conflicts' to Australia. They don't, and can't, but we take conflicts to them — courtesy of our American overlords. The
Over the next five years, the federal government plans to buy more from Indigenous businesses, while cracking down on a practice known as “Black cladding”. That’s when non-Indigenous businesses fraudulently exaggerate or falsify Indigenous people’s involvement in their firm to access opportunities meant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-owned ...
The Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT has warned that there’s unprecedented risk of First Nations deaths in custody in the New South Wales prison system at present, which is due to ongoing record-breaking numbers of First Peoples incarcerated in this state. And it further comes on the back of 12 Aboriginal people having died in custody in 2025, which is ...
In what has been described as 'harrowing reading', a major report has found 'systemic' racism at Australian universities. The post ‘Not met their duty of care’: Report finds widespread
Three hundred and forty years ago, Thomas Hobbes articulated a principle so fundamental that every legitimate political arrangement since has either built upon it or been forced to explain away its violation:
‘No obligation on any man which ariseth not from some act of his own.’
No obligation – including the obligation to surrender your wealth – exists ...
It's hard to imagine American politics could summon a political project anything like Jesse Jackson's ever again. The post Jesse Jackson’s politics at its best was joyful and alive. There
Australia’s strict gun laws have reduced domestic gun violence, but the country still enables global harm through defence companies linked to weapons used in organised crime and terrorism abroad. read now...
Nats Senator Matt Canavan has disclosed his 'conflict of interest' in questioning the CEO of an Nationals-aligned thinktank in the Senate this week. The post ‘Conflict of interest’: Nationals-aligned
Tim Wilson, who led the Coalition campaign against franking credit changes, represents the kind of neoliberalism the Liberal Party needs to move away from. On some level, he knows that.
‘Give peace a chance’ was the theme of one of John and Yoko’s bed-ins in 1969.
Apparently, they were reacting against the USA involvement in Vietnam. Given John’s talent at creating melodic lines, the song became a chant or anthem for many groups when they were lamenting a war somewhere, or when marching down a street in a protest.
I am wondering if ...
Members on all sides of government continue to enjoy benefits from Qantas and Virgin, all while domestic airline passengers are taken for a ride. The post No end in sight
The myth of social cohesion is that immigrants 'bring foreign conflicts' to Australia. They don't, and can't, but we take conflicts to them — courtesy of our American overlords. The
Over the next five years, the federal government plans to buy more from Indigenous businesses, while cracking down on a practice known as “Black cladding”. That’s when non-Indigenous businesses fraudulently exaggerate or falsify Indigenous people’s involvement in their firm to access opportunities meant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-owned ...
The Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT has warned that there’s unprecedented risk of First Nations deaths in custody in the New South Wales prison system at present, which is due to ongoing record-breaking numbers of First Peoples incarcerated in this state. And it further comes on the back of 12 Aboriginal people having died in custody in 2025, which is ...
In what has been described as 'harrowing reading', a major report has found 'systemic' racism at Australian universities. The post ‘Not met their duty of care’: Report finds widespread
Three hundred and forty years ago, Thomas Hobbes articulated a principle so fundamental that every legitimate political arrangement since has either built upon it or been forced to explain away its violation:
‘No obligation on any man which ariseth not from some act of his own.’
No obligation – including the obligation to surrender your wealth – exists ...