Plus: Farrer candidates are facing off in a final debate to be hosted by Barrie Cassidy. The post On Notice: 30 years since Port Arthur massacre, antisemitism royal commission to
Many harsh things have been said about our beautiful country. Yet the Australian Parliament now also wants to ‘…foster informed, engaged, and active citizens of all ages…’ according to its guide to how our democracy works.
Democracy has always been about results. It was ‘a knife and fork, a bread and cheese question’ as a Chartist leader Joseph Rayner ...
Well, it's confirmed: government documents show we're negotiating to hand access to every Australian travellers' biometric data to the United States. And it's worse than we thought. The post FOI
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches is Unconstitutional, Court Finds
The ban was found to impinge upon the implied right of political communication contained in the Australian Constitution.
Click here to read the article
The Offence of Destroying ...
As job losses, inflation and weak growth impact many economies, Australia advances apace. read now...
Thirty-one-year-old Cole Allen has been named as the suspect in an attempted shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner. Meanwhile the government has committed another $1 billion to defence vehicles
Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world. The stakes could hardly be higher. Russia, Israel and the United States, all nuclear-armed,
The times might be bad, but they have suited Anthony Albanese. The explosions on the political right since the 2025 election have, in electoral terms, resulted so far mainly in a rearrangement of debris between the Coalition and One Nation. Support for the government had declined, but it has been
Plus: Farrer candidates are facing off in a final debate to be hosted by Barrie Cassidy. The post On Notice: 30 years since Port Arthur massacre, antisemitism royal commission to
Many harsh things have been said about our beautiful country. Yet the Australian Parliament now also wants to ‘…foster informed, engaged, and active citizens of all ages…’ according to its guide to how our democracy works.
Democracy has always been about results. It was ‘a knife and fork, a bread and cheese question’ as a Chartist leader Joseph Rayner ...
Well, it's confirmed: government documents show we're negotiating to hand access to every Australian travellers' biometric data to the United States. And it's worse than we thought. The post FOI
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches is Unconstitutional, Court Finds
The ban was found to impinge upon the implied right of political communication contained in the Australian Constitution.
Click here to read the article
The Offence of Destroying ...
As job losses, inflation and weak growth impact many economies, Australia advances apace. read now...
Thirty-one-year-old Cole Allen has been named as the suspect in an attempted shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner. Meanwhile the government has committed another $1 billion to defence vehicles
Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world. The stakes could hardly be higher. Russia, Israel and the United States, all nuclear-armed,
The times might be bad, but they have suited Anthony Albanese. The explosions on the political right since the 2025 election have, in electoral terms, resulted so far mainly in a rearrangement of debris between the Coalition and One Nation. Support for the government had declined, but it has been