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.
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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
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
Australian Aborigines / Commonwealth Government / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Refugees / Uncategorized
Hollow Sovereignty: One Nation, Hanson and Borrowed Grievance
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
June 14, 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
Truth: Correspondence or Construction, and the Courage of Uncertainty
Defining truth is a constant challenge as is it perpetually distorted by power, suppressed by authority, or corrupted by self-interest.
June 8, 2026
Red Herring: Hanson, Corporate Capture and the Limits of Performed Insurgency
Pauline Hanson's track record is clear that she more concerned with performance that addressing the structural inequalities between people.
June 4, 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
The Weight of No Charges: Kumanjayi White and the Persistence of Police Impunity
Australian institutions are failing to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
May 29, 2026
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Racism / Uncategorized
Sorry Means Accountability: A Sorry Day Essay
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…
May 27, 2026