How convenient that Pauline Hanson is suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black kettles are on sale – never has Parliament served up such a textbook pot calling the kettle black moment.
Hanson had proposed a private senators’ bill to ban full-face coverings in public, citing ‘national security’ and ‘women’s ...
On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament House in Queensland and was a signatory to a petition against the banning of puberty blockers for gender non-conforming children in Queensland.
Farmer was joined by MPs Grace Grace, Mark Bailey, and my own local member Joe Kelly, to vehemently ...
“Mineral-only” sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of “chemicals”, a belief that “mineral” products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens actually protect our skin. How mineral sunscreens actually work is not widely understood, and neither is what’s actually in them. We tested
Across the nation, our culturally and linguistically diverse older population is growing faster than the systems designed to support it. read now...
This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’.
The Bill is titled Online Safety and Other Legislation Amendment (My Face, My Rights) Bill 2025 and will seek to amend the Online Safety Act 2021.
The Bill was introduced merely weeks away from the ‘social media ban’ that will commence on 10 ...
Antifascist combat training is about feeling safe, not tough. read now...
Ransomware has shifted from a disruptive nuisance into one of the most aggressive and costly cyber threats facing organisations of every size and sector. read now...
The Sudanese people are not passive victims. They are resisting, organising and imagining a different kind of society. Susan Price Fri, 28/11/2025 - 19:59
The key issue driving the authoritarianism of the second coming of the US Trump administration is mass migration, which involves stoking fears in respect of it and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants. The US is also in the midst of a soft colonisation of northern Australia, and it now has plans to interfere in our domestic policy via monitoring ...
Environmental activist Ben Pennings has come out the other end of a five-year-long legal persecution waged against him by Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani victorious.
Pennings signed off on a 26 November 2025 order that ended the yearslong proceedings, as plaintiffs Adani Mining and Carmichael Rail Network dropped the 26 August 2020 filed lawsuit ...
The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest political scandal of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court. The alleged 2019 rape of Higgins, a staffer of
Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second economic. These days, both are classified as geopolitics. In an era of great power competition, investment and trade inevitably have security
How convenient that Pauline Hanson is suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black kettles are on sale – never has Parliament served up such a textbook pot calling the kettle black moment.
Hanson had proposed a private senators’ bill to ban full-face coverings in public, citing ‘national security’ and ‘women’s ...
On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament House in Queensland and was a signatory to a petition against the banning of puberty blockers for gender non-conforming children in Queensland.
Farmer was joined by MPs Grace Grace, Mark Bailey, and my own local member Joe Kelly, to vehemently ...
“Mineral-only” sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of “chemicals”, a belief that “mineral” products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens actually protect our skin. How mineral sunscreens actually work is not widely understood, and neither is what’s actually in them. We tested
Across the nation, our culturally and linguistically diverse older population is growing faster than the systems designed to support it. read now...
This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’.
The Bill is titled Online Safety and Other Legislation Amendment (My Face, My Rights) Bill 2025 and will seek to amend the Online Safety Act 2021.
The Bill was introduced merely weeks away from the ‘social media ban’ that will commence on 10 ...
Antifascist combat training is about feeling safe, not tough. read now...
Ransomware has shifted from a disruptive nuisance into one of the most aggressive and costly cyber threats facing organisations of every size and sector. read now...
The Sudanese people are not passive victims. They are resisting, organising and imagining a different kind of society. Susan Price Fri, 28/11/2025 - 19:59
The key issue driving the authoritarianism of the second coming of the US Trump administration is mass migration, which involves stoking fears in respect of it and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants. The US is also in the midst of a soft colonisation of northern Australia, and it now has plans to interfere in our domestic policy via monitoring ...
Environmental activist Ben Pennings has come out the other end of a five-year-long legal persecution waged against him by Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani victorious.
Pennings signed off on a 26 November 2025 order that ended the yearslong proceedings, as plaintiffs Adani Mining and Carmichael Rail Network dropped the 26 August 2020 filed lawsuit ...
The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest political scandal of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court. The alleged 2019 rape of Higgins, a staffer of
Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second economic. These days, both are classified as geopolitics. In an era of great power competition, investment and trade inevitably have security