Had you asked me during my military years, 50 years ago, how far from the action I was stationed, I could have answered very precisely: 18 km southeast of the Lebanese border, 15 km west of the Syrian border, and 3 km north of a cafe at a new Israeli settlement still…

I came across a photo while going through Mum's paperwork. I can see I’m in it, but I have no idea when it was taken or where (likely in the Golan Heights because that's where I was in 75/76). I don't recognise any of the other…

Far from being just a policy debate, migration is the lifeblood of the Australian workforce. To understand why, look at the people serving your coffee, building our suburbs, and caring for our parents…

The orange-coated, kiddy-fiddling golf cheat has been relentless in his bang on about voter ID of late. He’s well aware that Australia runs one of the most secure and trusted voting systems in the world, and it does it without forcing people to show photo ID or special proof of citizenship…

History suggests these kinds of projects often function more as branding exercises than as credible pathways to lasting peace. When you look closely at how they’re structured, who benefits, and what peace processes actually require, the reasons for scepticism become fairly clear…

Social media has been riddled of late with claims that strange white lines in the sky over south-east Queensland are chemtrails, or secret chemicals sprayed on the population. The photos look dramatic: long white streaks crisscrossing the blue sky, sometimes spreading into a hazy blanket.

I am sick to fucking death of the recurring panic in public debate whenever the word “Sharia” appears. I should know better than to be triggered by ignorance, but I still am, every time. It is treated as if it represents a foreign legal system waiting to replace national law…

For years, Australians have been told, both directly and indirectly, that radical Islam constitutes the country’s greatest danger. This narrative has been repeated so frequently that it has become embedded in public consciousness…

Few politicians lean into the rhetoric of "Australian values" quite as heavily of late as Angus Taylor. But for a man so eager to wrap himself in the flag, his track record suggests a version of Australian values that most citizens wouldn't recognise; one defined by shadow companies…

It’s taken me almost 70 years, but my new book, On God, the Wider Self, and the Expanding Circle, made it to #1 on the Amazon Bestsellers list in the Utilitarian Philosophy category, nudging Machiavelli and John Stuart Mill aside. So far, it’s been there for three days.

Since the world’s richest racist, fraudster, fascist, liar, mysoginist, genocide-apologist and pedo-enabler, Elon Musk, took over Twitter, there’s been a growing normalisation of openly anti-Muslim rhetoric on the platform. It’s been driven predominantly by politicians, journalists, and public figures…

For a nation of twenty-eight million people to tether its entire fiscal and sovereign future to the fading industrial capacity of the Anglosphere is not just ambitious; it is a reckless gamble that prioritises the interests of Washington…

6:00 AM, and while most of the country is hitting snooze or grabbing a latte, a quiet miracle is unfolding in nursing homes across Australia. In my mum’s facility, it’s the sound of soft footsteps and a gentle "good morning" delivered in an accent that might have originated in…

We’ve so far avoided nuclear power generation despite the fact that we sit on some of the world’s largest uranium deposits and have a long history of uranium mining. Federal and state laws currently prohibit nuclear power plants, and most state governments maintain legal bans on their construction…

It’s a slogan used mainly in pro-Palestinian activism. The word intifada is Arabic for uprising or shaking off. It refers most famously to the two major Palestinian uprisings against Israeli control: the First Intifada from 1987 to 1993…