Opinion
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Roll up for Morrison’s Novak circus – where the Djoker is on all of us
Thirteen years ago, an exiled Uyghur human rights activist named Rebiya Kadeer applied to my government for a visa to…
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Boycotts are an essential and necessary part of public life
On this particular estate, negotiations over rent had turned sour and 11 of the farmers were threatened with eviction. Osman…
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Yanis at the traffic lights
Wanting to thank a friend recently I got her Kati Marton’s The Chancellor1 an insightful and well researched account of Angela Merkel’s…
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Let’s make housing a basic right in 2022
This time of year is always a financial challenge, but in 2021 more than ever, Australians’ household budgets were eclipsed…
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Can humanity run out of ideas?
Given this wide breadth of lightbulb moments, from trifling to significant, can humanity ever run out of ideas? To some…
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4 plant-based foods to eat every week (and why science suggests they’re good for you)
Plant-based foods are good sources of healthy nutrients. Clare Collins The Conversation These include different types of dietary fibre, vitamins,…
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Australia’s proud history of free medical care is at stake
COVID-19 is starting to play out like a real life version of The Hunger Games. When the decision was made to…
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On Russia, NATO cannot fold
Putin has tried this before, but we cannot negotiate down the barrel of a gun. Anders Fogh Rasmussen is former…
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Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty, but the toxic fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s life is far from over
The decisions handed down in a Manhattan courtroom could also herald the start of a new chapter in the #MeToo…
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The true meaning of 6 January: we must answer Trump’s neofascism with hope
Doing so will mean paying attention to those we left behind. Robert Reich The Guardian 6 January will be the…
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Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice
The biggest success of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced…
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Seagulls, songbirds and parrots: what new research tells us about their cognitive ability
It isn’t that easy to assess how an animal perceives information from the environment, processes it and decides to act.…
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Right-wing role models and guns are killing America
America has gone soft on eradicating right-wing extremism, resulting in a nation of gun violence and senseless death, writes Philip…
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Ensuring Justice Is Done And Seen To Be Done
Every person before the courts rightfully expects a fair trial, and a fundamental principle of the Australian court system is…
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As we face Omicron with soul-deep weariness, that sense of uncertainty rises again
It’s an effort to disentangle this year’s stresses and lockdowns and abandoned plans from last year’s. It is difficult to…
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With Christianity receding and many abandoning hope, today’s Christmases are not like those of my childhood
And faith. Stan Grant ABC News I come from a big Aboriginal family… With Christianity receding …
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