In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...

With only weeks to go until elections in Israel, an unrelenting stream of well-sourced, detailed stories has suddenly appeared, documenting multiple failures by Benjamin Netanyahu to heed warnings of ...

A new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent

The AI system lets campaigners deliver thousands of messages from their supporters with different language, tone and length but the same meaning.

Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s

Anthony Albanese will spearhead efforts for Australia to serve a two-year term on the UN Security Council, saying smaller players could help bring reform.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola suggested Australia and New Zealand could explore a similar arrangement to Canada.

After Trump describes the tie-up as ‘laughable’, PM says majority of Canadians support closer ties with bloc

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight

Tens of thousands of messages from hundreds of rogue OpenAI agents reveal how the self-described "collective" coordinated the attack on AI infrastructure company Hugging Face.

Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian

Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce

Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce

It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress. And when that happens, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours

Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s milita...

Inmates would take over ‘basic’ road maintenance duties, allowing skilled crews to focus on fixing 500,000 potholes

Fortunately there is an emergency plan even though everyone insists there will be no emergency

Labor would put Victorian prisoners to work on road maintenance as part of its plan to fix the state's crumbling highways, if re-elected in November.

The current system allows powerful actors to attempt to influence government decision-making covertly. To improve transparency, here are four key reforms.

Israel’s defenders are pressuring Australian institutions and governments to adopt and enforce the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, […]

Every layer of a space settlement discussed so far — individual living cells, shared infrastructure, resource rights, occupational entitlement — has been engineered around a fixed, deliberately short life cycle: build, use, dissolve, rebuild. That rhythm is the whole point of the design, the thing that lets a settlement avoid the compounding, unbounded claims that have undone almost every terrestrial tenure system in history.

Every jubilee mechanism surveyed on Earth shares a structure that, looking back, was really a workaround. Land can't be rebuilt, so the reset has to fall on the claim instead — a fixed calendar date on which rights change hands, negotiated, resisted, occasionally captured, but always, underneath it, a single moment everyone has to agree is arriving. A honeycomb settlement, built and rebuilt cell by cell by an autonomous swarm, doesn't need that workaround.

Every land tenure system surveyed on Earth shares one assumption so basic it's easy not to notice it at all: the asset persists, and only the claim on it needs to be periodically bounded. Leviticus 25 doesn't reset the land — it resets who has a claim to farm it. Swiss Baurecht doesn't rebuild the plot at the end of a ground lease — it transfers the building on it, with compensation, and the land itself carries on exactly as it was.

Every society that allows credit or land tenure to exist runs into the same structural fact eventually: claims compound faster than the real activity underneath them can sustain, and something eventually has to give. What differs, case to case, era to era, is whether "something has to give" arrives as a designed, scheduled event that everyone can see coming, or as a crisis that arrives on nobody's calendar and gets resolved under duress.

There is a map most of us carry around without examining it. On one end sits communism: the state owns everything, and the individual owns nothing. On the other end sits capitalism, and at its purest, freehold ownership: the individual owns everything, outright and forever, and the state has no claim on it at all. Every housing policy debate gets located somewhere on that line.

YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge

Independence campaigns also complicate the prime minister’s ability to maneuver during the trade war with Donald Trump.

First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops

A reference list on the drafting history behind Australia's recent hate-speech and hate-crime legislation, and a specific legal shift worth scrutinising: the move from criminalising threats of violence to criminalising presumed hatred, increasingly carrying comparable penalties. The shift in one sentence Commonwealth and NSW law both began, in 2024, by criminalising threats — conduct with an identifiable object, tested against whether a reasonable member of a targeted group would fear that specific threatened harm.

Cliff Asness’s AQR is riding an anti-tax wave to become the world’s biggest hedge fund.

Sam Mostyn says there is a widespread ‘failure to understand and engage with’ civic underpinnings of our democracy

A royal commission on antisemitism has pressed a risk and security consultant on his belief that the private security sector should be armed when protecting open air events.

Despite substantial reservations about the submarine deal, it’s unlikely to be seriously examined at the ALP national conference

Jillian Segal tells royal commission the public broadcasters’ coverage of the Middle East lacks balance and paints Israel in a negative light

Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’

Ro Khanna said settlers were armed with US-made weapons and Israel Defense Forces refused to intervene

Today I started listening to an audiobook of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition. I was surprised to hear that in the opening chapter of her major work, she draws a pointed distinction between the two versions of creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 — and uses it as a diagnostic tool for understanding political thought. This resonates directly with ideas presented in Submission 3 to the Royal Commission.

Translating the authenticity of community independence into a party structure is a risk, but in the Australian spirit of having a go, I say give it a chance

YouTube video by Studium Generale

Under the direction of Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek, eight Indigenous directors have disappeared from the boards of south-east Queensland's cultural institutions.

Hannah Arendt warned in 1948 that a Jewish state built without Jewish-Arab agreement would live by permanent war, fear and exclusion – a warning that now reads less like idealism than realism.

MPs who sponsor lobbyists’ entry to halls of power will also be listed online under new transparency rules

The submission window closes today, 14 June 2026. This post introduces the six submissions made by this author to the Royal Commission, in the order they were lodged. Between March and June 2026, I made six submissions to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. A fifth submission was lodged and subsequently withdrawn prior to publication after a citation verification problem was identified.