Marathon, Not Hastings: The Inheritance a Bigot Never Read
Some argue that Australia is built upon British culture, but what are the origins of that culture? The answer may surprise.
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October 24, 2026
Sixty Years On: Aberfan and the Cost of Not Listening
Sixty years on, the ineptitude that resulted in the Aberfan disaster remains at the heart of government and corporate culture.
October 23, 2026
What We Said Over Breakfast: Helen Haines and Division
Helen Haines tragedy highlights a deteriorating social climate around politicians and media, generating division in the community.
October 21, 2026
Hanson, Wannabe Prime Minister of a Country Already Changed
A country's leader must be able to pull together the threads that define it; anything less will break it, a fact Hanson fails to understand.
October 19, 2026
The Mullins Minute: ACT Treasury Knew the Truth in 2001
Records demonstrate that ACT Treasury were advised of Mullins qualifications in 2001, reiterated eight months later in Marina's racist letter of 9 May 2002.
October 17, 2026
Gaza Three Years On: Children, Witnesses, Nuremberg
Following the Nuremberg Trials, principles binding on other governments were agreed. Accountability for massacres must apply, regardless of the state responsible.
October 8, 2026
Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony
Far from being a recent contrivance, Welcome Country has ancient origins to do with protection and safety whilst on the land.
October 5, 2026
Tu Pham’s Prestidigitation, Self-Interest and Racism
The former Auditor-General of the ACT, Tu Pham acted to protect herself from accountability over her racism against an Indigenous employee.
September 30, 2026
The Hanson Paradox: Popularity Despite the Racism
Hanson and One Nation's seemingly rampant popularity is a symptom of an electorate jaded by the poor performance of past and incumbent governments.
September 15, 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
Commonwealth Government / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Government / Racism / Sexism / Uncategorized
Pauline Hanson’s Politics Of Personal Dislikes
To dislike it not enough. The opinion of the leader must translate to policy a justifiable bind, especially when it touches those already disadvantaged.
August 17, 2026
The Unspoken Ledger: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Manufactured Scarcity
Federal and state budgets choose to neglect crucial supports for people in need in favour subsidies for fossil fuel corporations.
August 15, 2026
The Man From Nowhere: A Madeleine at Thirty Thousand Feet
A bottle of red, a madeleine biscuit ... the mundane things that trigger involuntary memory.
August 2, 2026
The Two-Way Street To Taormina: Hanson’s Campaign Against Women
Pauline Hanson's twp-way street comment only exposes her own hypocrisy.
July 30, 2026
The White Australia Policy: Origin and Evolution as Present-day Warning
The White Australia Policy enabled the usuary maltreatment of South Sea Islanders and Indigenous people, ultimately excluding them from society.
July 27, 2026
Separation Of Powers: 2017 Contempt to the Taylor Intervention
Angus Taylor's comments regarding bail granted to a woman repatriated from Syria tests the limits of separation of powers.
July 23, 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
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 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 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