Fifty Years Still Owed: When the Anniversary Songs Stop
Fifty years of achievement must be viewed through the lens of what those who came before us were working toward and what still remains to be achieved.
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July 8, 2026
Fifty Years of Deadly: What half a century of NAIDOC has actually built
A review of the achievements of Indigenous people over the past 50 years in Australia.
July 7, 2026
The Ledger of Belonging: Australian Identity and Its Religious Influences
Australian identity must hold the country's Indigenous history, its British institutional inheritance, and its immigrant present in the same frame.
July 6, 2026
The Whinger’s Litany
You disagree? You must be red.A commie, comrade – latte-fed,except it’s flat white, thanks a lot;don’t let a coffee spoil the plot."Marxist!" spat like it’s a curse,from a man who’s…
July 5, 2026
The Sand Remembers What the State Forgets: Uyghur Cultural Survival and the Architecture of Forgetting
Survival of Uyghur culture is dependent on the transmission of language and culture among its diaspora.
July 3, 2026
Barnaby Joyce, One Nation and the Politics of Defection
The defection of Barnaby Joyce should be viewed not so much as a matter of principle as one of strategic ambition.
July 2, 2026
The Weight of the Hill: Indigenous Australian Experience Since Colonisation
The professor names the oppressors with taxonomic precision – and is correct about all of them. He cannot, however, imagine that Aboriginal people laugh.
June 29, 2026
The Politics of Division: Hanson, Australia and Its Thirty-Year Unresolved Argument
Australia needs to discuss what immigration looks like, from origins to infrastructure, community cohesion to differing norms.
June 26, 2026
Impossible Monoculture: Diversity, Pluralism and the Australia That Actually Exists
I. Two Arguments That Must Not Be Confused The case against monoculturalism in Australia rests on two distinct foundations that are often conflated, and the conflation weakens both. The first…
June 25, 2026
Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution
Those who undermine the rule of law for political purpose inflict deep and lasting damage upon the legal and justice systems. Accountability is needed.
June 24, 2026
The Law That Looks Away: Accountability, Honest Data, and the Long Work of Justice in Australian Policing
The law must be held to account. The institutions that carry it must be held to account. The politicians who shape those institutions must be held to account.
June 23, 2026
The Sanctioning of a Lawyer: Francesca Albanese and the Hierarchy of Human Rights
Francesca Albanese's book, When the world Sleeps, highlights the asymmetry in international human rights.
June 21, 2026
The Unfinished War: Why the Crusades Never Really Ended
Awareness of historically loaded tropes can prevent a rash response to a perceived or actual provocation.
June 20, 2026
The Erosion of Trust: Hanson, Robodebt and the Fragmenting Political Landscape
The lack of accountability by Ministers, underpinned by ineffective inquiries and commissions has set the foundation for the erosion of trust in government.
June 19, 2026
Hanson at the National Press Club: The Necromancy of Fear
Hanson’s 2026 address highlights three decades of bipartisan policy failure and offers a sense of belonging - provided you are not Indigenous or an immigrant.
June 18, 2026
Populist Power: Preferential Voting and the Limits on One Nation
One Nation's is unlikely to form government, but its strong polling reflects a deep malaise among voters that the duopoly would be foolish to ignore.
June 17, 2026
Exclusion: White Nationalism and the Moral Imperative of Resistance
Coordinated effort across education, institutions, legislation and community is required to counter the skewed narratives of white nationalism
June 16, 2026
Flee The Fear: Countering the One Nation Politics of Dread
A slogan to counter Hanson's tactics and refuse to engage it the politics of fear.
June 15, 2026
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Hollow Sovereignty: One Nation, Hanson and Borrowed Grievance
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
June 14, 2026
When the Law Itself Was Unlawful: PARD, Town Hall, and the Case for Accountability
The decision that the PARD Amendments legislated following the Bondi attack are unconstitutional raises questions about the Premier.
June 13, 2026