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AUSTRALIA REQUIRES doctors, nurses, psychologists and social workers to advocate for patients, protect human rights and speak up when care is unsafe.

DEMOCRACY RUNS ON A SIMPLE, UNGLAMOROUS AGREEMENT — that facts are facts, truths are truths, and lies are lies, and that we can broadly tell the three apart.

Often feeling unrepresented by the major parties, the federal seat of Kennedy has been safely in the hands of Bob Katter for over two decades while his son, Robbie Katter, represents much of the same area at state level as the member for Traeger.

Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely U.S.-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central Australia. As the late scholar of strategic studies Desmond Ball pithily remarked in 1988, it is “an espionage operation. Euphemisms should not be allowed to obscure this essential point”.

…his former patients are still suffering, and although there has been much talk of action, many have been left without medical care and only complex legal avenues to pursue. Gordon treated over 13,000 patients. The legal process, which is an option over 500 women have so far considered, may subject victims to further invasive tests and intense legal examination, and it will likely be a long and arduous process, with no assured outcome.

ON 30 JUNE 2026, the U.S. House Oversight Committee held a hearing into the CIA’s illegal human experimentation program MKUltra.

Data from the 2021 Census shows that more than 122,000 people in Australia experienced homelessness on Census night. Social housing waitlists remain unacceptably high, with more than a quarter of a million households (254,571 applicants) waiting for social housing, including 122,457 in greatest need on priority waitlists, a 12% increase.

GROSS DEBT was $971.4 billion last Friday, according to the Office of Financial Management. That’s not much more than the $946.4 billion borrowed in October 2024.

AUSTRALIA is at an environmental crossroads. The Albanese Government is moving towards the adoption of a new draft environmental offsets standard and draft regulations which will decide the fate of Australia’s wildlife.

Interesting re-examination of ‘The Time Machine’ in the light of the Information Revolution. Maybe a stretching of the metaphor, maybe not.

In simple terms, it means ensuring that a person’s life chances are not determined by the disadvantages they were born into — such as low income, poor education, limited access to healthcare, or social exclusion. This concept focuses on long-term, structural change, not just short-term relief.

There is a clear reason Australia is tumbling further down the global happiness rankings, Alan Austin reports: mendacious media reporting.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) has reaped just over 20 per cent of the vote in Saturday’s South Australian State Election, proving racism is alive and well in the State.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) has reaped just over 20 per cent of the vote in Saturday’s South Australian State Election, proving racism is alive and well in the State.

The NACC Report on the Robodebt reinvestigation described scenarios which all but exonerated Scott Morrison and Kathryn Campbell.

Australia’s continued loyalty to the U.S. alliance is framed as strategic necessity, but increasingly looks like silence in the face of war and declining democratic values.

Recent data confirms current policies are gradually reversing Australia’s chronic inequality

Australia has been quietly executing one of the harshest deportation regimes in the so-called democratic world. It has done so not through emergency powers or wartime necessity, but through ordinary legislation — principally the Migration Act 1958, and s 501, the so-called “character” provision.

More than 120,000 locals have signed petitions opposing a proposed Trump-branded tower in Surfers Paradise, arguing the project threatens the Coast’s identity, infrastructure and public beachfront.

workable partnership requiring further policy alignment and concessions on the part of both nations.

February has been a month of high‑profile corporate court cases in Australia, both shining a spotlight an economy where customer welfare is incidental to the pursuit of profit.

Friday 13 February is a fitting date for Angus Taylor to roll Sussan Ley as Liberal Party leader because Taylor represents a Trumpist MAGA horror show result for Australia’s social cohesion and democratic health.

As racism shifts from the fringe to the mainstream, Australia’s social cohesion and democratic stability are being quietly eroded.

As Israeli President Isaac Herzog begins his visit to Australia, the Federal Government faces mounting legal pressure over its obligations under international and domestic law.

Inequality keeps growing in Australia because we play by one rule — don’t upset the rich.

The latest split in Australia’s conservative Coalition is yet another signal the old, established rules no longer apply.

If we are serious about eliminating risk and lifting quality for our youngest citizens, we must shift from simply strengthening regulatory frameworks to truly professionalising the workforce: attracting, training, rewarding and retaining the very best people in early childhood education and care.

The political uproar around antisemitism in Australia this coming year will hinge on what happens in Gaza and the West Bank, as it did in 2025.