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Just a few quaint pandemic-y years ago, Scott Morrison, Prime Minister, secret Health Minister, secret Finance Minister, secret Industry, Science, Energy and Resources Minister, and secret Home Affairs and Treasury Minister, possessed the Professor-X-like ability to put my mind into a trance. To telekinetically move my arm to the tv remote, to click off, and,…

Universities have been with us for many centuries, with their roots deep in the tradition of philosophical enquiry as a key component of what it means to be human. The organising principle is simple: the advancement of civilisation requires a safe space for higher learning. All very high-falutin’, but there isn’t a free society where…

Normally the idea of locking a bunch of social media creators in a room without access to the internet would be the media’s wet-dream, yet when it happened recently it was so controversial that it nearly overshadowed the boringness of the 2025 federal budget. As a Gen Z person, my reaction to hearing that so-called…

Isn’t it insane that not wanting Palestinian children to be blown up with impunity can leave you feeling alienated from mainstream Australian society?  It’s fucked up. Like, really fucked up. Fucked up to the point I’m pining for a dose of the more traditional garden variety of alienation triggered by lame celebrities, celebrated thinkers that…

As the saying goes, everything the Nazis did was legal, under German law. Hitler began by being lawfully elected, then invited to form government and become Chancellor under the constitution, following which he suspended everyone’s civil rights, suborned parliament and made increasingly repressive laws. Since government consists of three arms, you need to capture or…

Chooks, gallus gallus domesticus, chickens, hens, whatever; as someone who’s spent many hours observing them, I can confirm they’re deeply weird birds. If chook watching isn’t your thing – and let’s be honest it’s not something everyone’s putting on their CV – bear with me dear reader. There’s a reason we use the word chicken…

As sure as the sky being blue and Elon Musk being a waxy, heinous prick, Israel is colonising Palestine. That is not an anti-semitic slur, nor should it be a controversial thing to say. It’s not even an opinion. It is a statement of historical, political and cultural fact. It is the truth.  And though…

Judith Treanor, Suzie Gold and Michelle Berkon were welcomed by security, NSW police and event attendees as they held a small gathering outside Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney to protest a speaking event by Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton. Concerned by Dutton ‘weaponizing antisemitism for political gain’, the three women, who also happen to be proudly…

On 8 December 1941, Australia declared war on Japan. It was one day after Pearl Harbour, and it was our first ever independent declaration of war as a sovereign nation. When we’d gone to war against Germany in 1939, Australia still considered itself a vassal dominion of Great Britain and that it had no say…

For the task at hand – journaling the truth of the world as I perceive it – it is unhelpful just how hyperbolic reality sounds when described accurately. This is the news, not a Paul Verhoeven film, not Wolfenstein, but the distinction grows more meaningless by the day. In just a single month, Donald Trump…