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Mar 21, 2026, 3:47 PM

The Starmerization of Anthony Albanese

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Ever since the bloodcurdling Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 2023, that shocked the world, the job of governing Australia has come with an added and unwelcome foreign policy burden for Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. This fraught management was not...

Mar 12, 2026, 4:36 AM

Andromeda’s fate etched in the stars of history

Lelek. Source: Lelek / Tomislav Roso.

In the first century BCE, the Greek geographer Strabo noted that the inhabitants of the Balkan interior were both poor and tattooed, “as other Illyrian tribes.” The remark is among the earliest written references to a practice that would...

Feb 1, 2026, 1:16 PM

How Australia’s famed multiculturalism died at 6.47pm, on December 14, 2025

Multiculturalism in Australia, with its almost religious-like status, did not collapse slowly, and it did not collapse by accident. It collapsed because too many powerful institutions and politicians, especially those on the left, made the same calculation: silence was safer...

Jan 14, 2026, 8:23 AM

Iran at the crossroads: Power, succession, and the geopolitics of uncertainty

Iran today stands at one of its most consequential junctures - or perhaps ruptures - since the so-called 1979 Revolution. The state appears strong on the surface, yet underneath lies a system strained by economic decay, social alienation, elite rivalry,...

Jan 3, 2026, 7:47 PM

The white feminist’s guide to DIY suicidal empathy

Let us take a moment to appreciate the astonishing miracle of our ten thousand or so years of clawing our way from caves to cathedrals, from banging rocks together to sequencing genomes, all to create a society where, finally,...

Dec 21, 2025, 8:04 AM

On Bondi Beach, Australia’s Emperor has no more clothes – or excuses

In moments of national trauma - like that of the December 14 Bondi Beach massacre of 15 Jewish Australians - governments reach instinctively for rolls of societal fabric. Not comfort blankets—those are left to therapists and columnists—but the heavy ceremonial...

Dec 17, 2025, 2:15 PM

Australia’s ‘Never Again Is Now’ Moment

Exactly eleven years separate the Lindt Café siege in Sydney’s iconic and busy Martin Place and last Sunday’s killings near Bondi. But eleven years is not a long time. Eleven years, however, is long enough for a nation or a...

Dec 6, 2025, 11:40 AM

How Miami Vice & Tom Petty predicted the end of the American Dream

How two seemingly innocuous and unrelated cultural moments became the film and soundtrack harbingers of US imperial decline. Above: Crockett and Tubbs walking into the light was the visual metaphor for withdrawal from a fight that no longer had clear...

Oct 13, 2025, 12:54 AM

Justice Deferred Or Double Standards – Choose Society’s Poison Carefully

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In the long and grim annals of Australia’s legal history, few cases are as emblematic of miscarriage, prejudice, and institutional failure as that of the Croatian Six. In 1981, six Croatian-Australians—recent migrants, many with little or limited English, all white,...

Jul 12, 2025, 4:01 PM

Challenging the Distortion of Genocidal Narratives, One Song at a Time

In a recent opinion piece, Thompson promotes Holocaust distortion—his lies unchallenged, published by The Jerusalem Post, and written by Efraim Zuroff and Aleksandar Nikolic, both authors criticize Croatian singer Marko Perković, also known as Thompson to his fans, and his recent...

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Journalist and editor with 25 years experience, including reporting from Bosnia, Japan and all over Australia--- focus includes IT, ethics and geopolitics.