Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed

Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed

Sex workers are descending upon Melbourne’s Magistrates Court at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, to call for justice for Yuko, a 62-year-old Asian migrant sex worker, who was raped and murdered in horrible circumstances, as she was legally working in a Footscray brothel. And those rallying before the court are calling for the case to go to trial, so ...
What’s up with Andrew Hastie?

What’s up with Andrew Hastie?

A few months ago, Andrew Hastie’s name was tossed into the potential leadership mix as the rumour mill tried to decide who would replace Sussan Ley. Anyone, really… Eventually Angus Taylor was decided upon as a factional compromise – the tasteful blueish hue with the well-worn wealthy professionalism necessary to speak to the wayward Teal seats. He was ...
Wisdom, truth, and joy

Wisdom, truth, and joy

In Zoroaster’s thought, the human being is not passive or bound by fate, but a conscious and responsible agent who shares in the destiny of the world through personal choice. He is among the earliest thinkers to speak clearly of moral free will. In the Gathas, one of the sections of the Avesta with a tradition said to reach back more than 8,000 years, ...
Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque

Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque

Despite it being announced the night prior that they would be in attendance, when prime minister Anthony Albanese and home affairs minister Tony Burke turned up at Lakemba Mosque during the end of Ramadan Eid celebration last Friday, 20 March 2026, a significant number of worshippers decried their attendance at the event, claiming their political ...

Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed

Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed
Sex workers are descending upon Melbourne’s Magistrates Court at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, to call for justice for Yuko, a 62-year-old Asian migrant sex worker, who was raped and murdered in horrible circumstances, as she was legally working in a Footscray brothel. And those rallying before the court are calling for the case to go to trial, so ...

What’s up with Andrew Hastie?

What’s up with Andrew Hastie?
A few months ago, Andrew Hastie’s name was tossed into the potential leadership mix as the rumour mill tried to decide who would replace Sussan Ley. Anyone, really… Eventually Angus Taylor was decided upon as a factional compromise – the tasteful blueish hue with the well-worn wealthy professionalism necessary to speak to the wayward Teal seats. He was ...

Wisdom, truth, and joy

Wisdom, truth, and joy
In Zoroaster’s thought, the human being is not passive or bound by fate, but a conscious and responsible agent who shares in the destiny of the world through personal choice. He is among the earliest thinkers to speak clearly of moral free will. In the Gathas, one of the sections of the Avesta with a tradition said to reach back more than 8,000 years, ...

Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque

Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque
Despite it being announced the night prior that they would be in attendance, when prime minister Anthony Albanese and home affairs minister Tony Burke turned up at Lakemba Mosque during the end of Ramadan Eid celebration last Friday, 20 March 2026, a significant number of worshippers decried their attendance at the event, claiming their political ...