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September 12, 2026
Native Title, Freehold and the Backyard Never at Risk
Freehold has never been at risk from Native Title in Australia, and arguments to the contrary by One Nation demonstrate the manipulation of community sentiment.
September 7, 2026
Clay Remembers: Ancient Voices, a Child’s Question and Empathy
Across millennia, continents and technologies, one thing is certain - humankind faces the same concerns, regardless of era.
September 2, 2026
Telescreen On The Toll Road: Nineteen Eighty-Four and New South Wales’s New Surveillance Powers
Road toll cameras have become the means of surveillance in New South Wales, with no checks of balances on their use to protect civil rights.
August 31, 2026
Aeschylus’ Suppliants and Asylum: Moral Obligation and Political Danger
Throughout the ages, displacement and asylum have tested the willingness of states to balance compassion against risk.
August 25, 2026
Poetry as a Form of Resistance: Voice, Witness, and the Defiance of Oppression
Poetry is the art of remaining human, a happening, an act of resistance that even when the pages that held it are burned, lives on.
August 20, 2026
Jason Arday: A Neutral Account of the Allegations versus Racial Targeting
A synthesis of public reporting as of 17 August 2026. Cause of death has not been confirmed.
August 18, 2026
Unfinished Reckoning: Auschwitz and the Fires Still Burning
The legacy of Auschwitz remains the same as at the day of liberation - to remember how the horrors of Holocaust were allowed to happen.
August 16, 2026
One Moon, One God: On the Senselessness of Religious Supremacy in Australia
Monotheism, regardless of religion, must accept that name of God may vary between religions, but the entity remains the one God.
August 8, 2026
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Racism
Be Alert, Be Alarmed: How Justice Fails in the Australian Capital Territory
It took multiple people and agencies to ruin the lives of the former Commissioner for Revenue and his family and it can happen to you as well.
August 7, 2026
Pig Feast: West Papua, Indonesia and Colonialism in Our Time
Censorship in the absence of government direction, even denial, underpins the continued destruction of culture and transparency.
August 6, 2026
Babylon Again: The West’s Enduring Need for an Eastern Enemy
Repeating the patterns of millennia, The war in Iran is yet another instance of the West challenging the East, using the farce of divine rhetoric.
August 1, 2026
The Unfinished Masterpiece: Multicultural Australia as a Work in Progress
Australia is a ongoing multicultural masterpiece in the making.
July 29, 2026
The Reformed Man: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Modern Hero
Nolan's Odysseus is a hero of insight, presented for an audience who would shy away from Homer's original more brutish ruler, heedless of those he harms.
July 24, 2026
The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life
Most of what appears on this site concerns itself with the present tense of injustice – the ACT, the AFP, the slow grinding machinery of institutions that would rather forget…
July 20, 2026
The Architect Who Dismantled: F.W. de Klerk and the Politics of Letting Go
Whether genuinely seeking peace or simply a pragmatic politician who saw the inevitable, FW de Klerk was instrumental in dismantling apartheid
July 19, 2026
Nelson Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom and Reconciliation
On Nelson Mandela International Day, we reflect on the life and legacy of one of modern history's greatest humanists.
July 18, 2026
The Mirage In The Distance: The Right’s Invented Golden Age
Culture is constantly evolving, each generation inheriting portions and adding to it,, such that no one group can place a claim on it.
July 16, 2026
The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning
Homer's The Odyssey records the earliest instance of verbal abuse of a woman, demonstrating an embedded cultural trope that requires rectifying.
July 14, 2026
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Mining / Uncategorized
The Enduring Legacy Of Murujuga: The International Significance Of The Mardathoonera Rock Art
Enforceable protections for the ancient rock art at Murujuga from the North West Shelf gas industry are critical to ensuring that it survives another fifty-thousand years.
July 12, 2026