Monash University Media Release The Albanese government has urged digital platforms to apply strong editorial control to the Trump administration’s proposed live stream of a public execution, while th...

Chapter 5: Aged Care – The Integrated Assessment Tool and the Outsourcing of Care Continued from Chapter 4 5.1 The Royal Commission and Its Aftermath The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Sa...

UNSW Sydney Media Release New ACOSS and UNSW Sydney research shows almost two million Australians in households relying mainly on income support were below the poverty line. Australia’s income support...

The Liberals and Pauline Hanson: Allies Against Labor, Enemies on the Right? The Liberal Party and One Nation may share a desire to remove Labor from office, but when two parties compete for the same ...

Chapter 4: The NDIS – Epistemic Injustice and the Datafication of Disability Continued from Chapter 3 4.1 The Scheme That Was Promised The National Disability Insurance Scheme was designed as a radica...

Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are calling the migrant intake down like lots on a falling clock. Nobody at the podium will ask what we owe the people on the block. Daylight saving robbed [...]

By Walt Zlotow Former Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a mass murderer who killed 13, wounded 32 in 2009, deserves to remain in prison till he’s no longer a threat to society. But executing Hasan, [...]

They are a trying lot, spruiking their overvalued, loss-making firms, sowing discord and fear, and then seeking state collaboration that will serve to implicate all the parties concerned should things...

Chapter 3: Robodebt – The Paradigm Case Continued from Chapter 2 3.1 The Scheme That Defined the Era Robodebt is not merely an example of the algorithmic lens. It is the paradigm case. Every structura...

When justice becomes a spectacle: the barbarity of livestreamed execution There are moments when a society reveals something about itself that is far more disturbing than the crime that prompted its r...

Chapter 2: The Instruments – How the State Began to See Citizens as Data Points Continued from Chapter 1 2.1 The Shift from Judgment to Measurement Chapter 1 established that neoliberalism required me...

By Steve Davies   An analysis of The Neoliberal Turn (written and published by Dr Andrew Paul Klein). What this analysis is, and what it is not You asked for an ideal type analysis: not [...]

As Labor’s primary vote hovers in the 25-28 per cent range in recent polling, Treasurer Chalmers must still hope for an end of year breakthrough in the release of MYEFO data. The Albanese Government h...

Chapter 1: The Neoliberal Turn – How Market Ideology Entered Human Services and Why It Required Measurement Continued from Intro 1.1 The Ideological Shift That Preceded the Machines The algorithmic le...

Fanatical US Iran war supporters must stop the fantasy that Iran attacked US 47 years ago By Walt Zlotow During my 75 years following US justifications for waging senseless war, I’ve never heard anyth...

Oxfam Australia Media Release  Climate disasters cost small island states and the world’s poorest countries $16 billion last year. The number of people affected by climate disasters in Least Developed...

RMIT University Media Release  The Green Institute has proposed establishing a publicly owned supermarket chain to challenge the dominance of Coles and Woolworths. An RMIT expert says increasing compe...

The evacuation of a dozen B-1B bombers of the US Air Force from the RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire is another instalment in the latest rippling of the Iran war that began as a pre-emptive, illegal [....

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release  SYDNEY, Wednesday 7 October 2026 – In response to the landmark High Court ruling that climate impacts of fossil fuel projects must be considered by NSW plan...

By Denis Hay   Positive changes in the world offer reasons for hope. Explore real gains in health, education and living standards, and lessons for Australia. More children are surviving their early ye...

The Neoliberal Turn – How Market Ideology Entered Human Services and Why It Required Measurement Introduction This is the first chapter in a series examining how the Australian state replaced human ju...

From “Protection” to Segregation Continued from Part 3 The relationship between colonisers and Aboriginal people had increasingly come to be understood through the language of social evolution. The th...

Part of civilisation is a response to our inability to know everything about the world around us. We don’t know what everyone else knows. We cannot anticipate all the effects our actions will have. Ou...

The facts on the nuclear industry’s effects on health and environment are now seen through a blur of discussion on climate change, and costs, and connection with military power, and it all seems too h...

In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, n...

With gratitude to John Clarke and Bryan Dawe. Clarke plays a federal government spokesman for responsible resources. He has a boarding pass in his top pocket. DAWE: Thanks for your time. CLARKE: Pleas...

Is liberalism dead? Social engineering is alive and well. “Can women and men work together in the workplace?” Canadian academic, author and psychiatrist Dr Jordan Peterson posed that question in an in...

The trend was already tracing itself through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defence department has fallen, most heavily, for the use of artificial intelligence at virtually ever...

David Martin Shoebridge has been leader of the Greens for four days. In that time he has choked up on national television. He has been tagged an ecopopulist. He has been accused of prejudice. A [...]

Make Big Polluters Pay Alliance Media Release  As Pre-COP commences in Fiji, Australia, as President of Negotiations, must treat the huge shortfall in global UN Climate Funds as the life-or-death issu...

If America Invaded Canada, Whose Side Would Australia Take? Social media has been in a frenzy over suggestions that Donald Trump might one day decide that Canada needs liberating from the Canadians. T...

Darwin, Spencer and the “Survival of the Fittest” Continued from Part 1 In 1859, a book was published that would profoundly influence the way Europeans thought about life, humanity and, eventually, ra...

With a hasty executive action by the Scott Morrison’s government, Australia signed up to buy $368 billions’ worth of second-hand nuclear submarines, and created a special military alliance with USA an...

Many forms of cognitive ability have had scarcity value throughout human history. Someone who could perform calculations rapidly, memorise vast amounts of information, write well, diagnose disease, tr...

The Racist Heritage of Colonial Australia There has been much discussion in Australia about racism and the way it continues to manifest itself in our political and social landscape. Yet racism is hard...

Anglicare Sydney Media Release  The Australian Government is enabling more social and affordable housing than it has in a generation, but new Anglicare Sydney research warns that supply alone will not...

The Greens have a new leader. The press gallery has a new roughie. The field has been called to the post and the commentators are already in the box. And they’re racing. That is how [...]

There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearyi...

There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearyi...

By Walt Zlotow President George W. Bush criminally attacked Iraq on March 20, 2003, for no other reason than he could. He used the 911 attacks in New York, D.C. and Pennsylvania to remake the Middle [...

Things are looking bleaker by the day for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, most notably for his standing as a competent leader in full mastery of his office. After allegations were made that...

Continued from Part 1 Intelligence was purposely ignore As I documented this pattern in investigatory essays in late 2023 and eventually in The Fall of Israel, warnings from the Israeli lookouts were ...

By Dr Dan Steinbock​​ Thanks to some AI executives, the Trump administration had an opportunity to foster global AI cooperation. By contrast, it gave the green light to existential risks. On September...

Parents for Climate Media Release  Parents for Climate has condemned the IPC’s approval of the full 19-year Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) coal extension, saying the decision locks in decades more climate pollution while offering no [...]

Climate Council Media Release  The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has approved the Hunter Valley Operations Continuation Project (HVO), the largest coal mine expansion ever proposed in New South Wales. The project would unleash more [...]

The Language of Foreclosure: On Slurs, Securitisation, and the Manufacture of Silence I. The First Move Every system of control begins with a word. Not a law. Not a weapon. A word that places the [...]

By Dr Dan Steinbock  Following October 7, 2023, the Hamas-led offensive has been portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11,” which came out of the blue. That’s not supported by facts. The Netanyahu cabinet knew abo...