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
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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
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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
Charles Perkins and the Unfinished Freedom Ride: A NAIDOC Week Reflection
Perkins broke through racial barriers not to be a first, but to move the dial of disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people so that they are counted as equal.
July 10, 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
Conscience
Truth misunderstood, dangerous in its honour, stares back at us disappointed and betrayed ...
July 4, 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
The Mirror We Refuse To Hold: Australian Culture and Male Violence
What will it take for Australia's leaders to address the never-ending spate of abuses perpetuated against women?
June 30, 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
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
Hatred: Populist Othering and Social Upheaval – Balancing the Analysis
The othering of groups within society to drive political aims is an Imbalanced, failing in its basic analysis due to the inconsistent metrics applied across all groups.
June 11, 2026
Indonesia, West Papua and the World’s Largest Deforestation Project
The destruction of West Papua's farmland and forests represents an ecological and cultural disaster, compounding the atrocious human rights record on the island.
June 10, 2026
The Impact and the Distance: Friendship Across Two Decades
Sometimes, the profoundness of a friendship is not fully realised until that friend is lost. We all know this. Today for Blak and Blak, for me personally, it is the…
June 9, 2026
The Imagination Of A Nation: Shabbat Tables, Policy Failures and the Future We Must Choose
Immigrants, most of whom came to Australia legally, are not the cause of the problems we face; that fault lies with the policies of successive governments.
June 5, 2026
The Oneness of Humanity: Universal Themes in Global Indigenous Creation Myths
Commonalities in Creation myths across Indigenous cultures point toward a shared origin and universal imagination.
June 3, 2026
G’day: A Chorus of Many Voices
One nation? Yes – but wide as all its peoples, deep as the Dreaming, old as the first rain.
June 2, 2026
The Woman Who Spoke Truth To Impunity: Francesca Albanese, The United Nations, And The Price Of Conscience
I. A Room Without Empathy On 30 October 2024, Francesca Albanese – UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories – stood before the General Assembly and said what those…
May 31, 2026