Countries have a duty to see that migrants who leave their birthplace for richer countries do so under conditions that make sense. If Australia’s public health services actively recruit nurses from other countries, and that [...]

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 4) Part 5 – The Vacuum At the end of Part 4, I suggested that we had reached the next stage of this story. When people lose faith in [...]

Labor hardheads believe Pauline Hanson’s recent controversies have altered the dynamic and created space for a more strident line on One Nation.

A post-human guide to aged care on Planet Bureaucratia Humanity disappeared centuries ago. The paperwork survived. Nobody was entirely sure what finished the humans. The cockroaches suspected climate ...

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By Walt Zlotow  Trump off by one election when gas will come down Facing defeat at the midterms in 54 days, Trump tried to reassure his MAGA base to maintain his control of Congress. “Just vote [...]

“He was naturally suspicious of white strangers, having spent twenty-seven months in prison for actions would not have been ‘crime’ had a white man committed them.” (In the spirit of Crazy Horse, page...

By Denis Hay  Australian political reform could give citizens more influence between elections. Is our democracy really delivering for the people? Introduction: What Does Democracy Actually Deliver? A...

Penguin had learned that cafés were dangerous places. This was not because of the coffee. Usually. The difficulty was Café Mathematics, a specialised, high-precision branch of Bistro Mathematics conce...

Penguin had learned that cafés were dangerous places. This was not because of the coffee. Usually. The difficulty was Café Mathematics, a specialised, high-precision branch of Bistro Mathematics conce...

Hardly a day goes by on social media without somebody demanding that the Governor-General sack Anthony Albanese. Apparently, such a sacking has been done before. And therefore, according to the sophis...

A few years ago I read Don Watson’s biography of Paul Keating, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM. Watson worked as Keating’s senior speechwriter from 1992 to 1996. In th...

Reprehensible as it is, the arms trade is an exercise of purgatorial ethics pursued by all states keen on having a market for the merchants of death: from the perspective of countries and those who [....

Dedication: To the Australian people, who deserve leaders whose sole loyalty is to them – not to foreign powers, corporate interests, or the hollow promise of a “secure” digital future. Introduction: ...

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The Commonwealth Home Support Program will be extended until mid-2029, redesigned, and kept separate from Support at Home, the government has announced.

The Senate has voted to scrap Labor's aged care assessment algorithm, days after Four Corners revealed it barely reads the clinical data it collects. The IAT's days may be numbered.

A long-time ABC reporter is one of nearly 100,000 Australians waiting on a crucial aged-care assessment.

By Steve Davies  A reader’s reply to my last piece here – on the APSC’s 9 August silence – put it better than I did: “That’s a chilling yet accurate portrayal of the Govt,” she wrote. [...]

As the fifth anniversary of the AUKUS commitment by the Morrison Government approaches, investigative media reports must not overlook the murky background, confusing present and unknown strategic proj...

Using expert analysis, evidence revealed by bureaucrats at Senate estimates, and documents obtained under FOI, Four Corners reveals the fullest picture yet of the secretive algorithm affecting the liv...