Every year on the 26th of May, Australia observes National Sorry Day. Flags are lowered. Speeches are made. Politicians stand at podiums and invoke the language of healing, reconciliation, and…
Before the word sorry was even possible, the country already knew what had been taken ...
After Oscar Wilde's Salomé – – –The court is lit with torchlight and imported wine.Herod sweats beneath his crown of compromise. Once – this is the part he doesn't say…
Mediocrity in government and business is destroying Australia in the public sector. Participation awards have suddenly become something of value.
I am old. Older than the names they gave me,
Australia must formalise a response to the detention and mistreatment of its citizens by Israeli authorities participating the Global Freedom Flotilla.
Destruction of Palestinian artefacts and books, including the places of learning, are core features of genocide.
Domestic violence in Australia is a cultural scourge, one for which men must take responsibility to lead its eradication.
Some of you have been reading this blog since its earliest days. You know the history. You know what was attempted. This is a brief note to tell you that…
The durability of an international alliances is tested by hegemonic imbalance, a risk in the AUKUS Alliance.
French insists that the good life is possible, refusing the settle for second rate and pursuing all aspect of life and culture with a seriousness unique to its people.
Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.
Let us begin where we must. On 14 December 2025, fifteen people were murdered at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration. The attack was ISIS-inspired, carried out by gunmen whose…
Regardless of recommendations, time and again, the rights of Indigenous people in Australia are subordinated to those of others, The Gap never closing.
Farrer has become the canary in the electoral mine, highlighting that voters in regional areas have had enough of being ignored.
That is the wound that does not close — to love a place that is choosing, deliberately, with its eyes open, to be less than it was, less than it could be ...
The desire for freedom is common to all people, a matter that will drive resistance against an oppressor.
Humanity is blessed by the longevity of Sir David Attenborough, who continues to educate and advocate for the planet to the benefit of us all.