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Latest News
Your next meal could help change lives
Posted 20 04 2018
Four Brave Women is a cafe initiative of The Trading Circle in Summer Hill that aims to give refugees experience over 8 weeks as cooks. The aim is for them to be able to operate and grow their own small business. ...more
Death of Australian children's TV programming
Posted 18 04 2018
Patricia Edgar, founding Director of Australian Children's Television Foundation, reflects on lessons that may be learned from the BBC reinvesting to serve its youngest audience and advocates for quick action on Australia's children's programming ...more
Australia is not listening in the Pacific
Posted 17 04 2018
In the Vanuatu Daily Post, Dan McGarry opines that "the average Australian's conception of Pacific island nations is so limited it makes some of us wonder if they even want to understand. Our voices and our reality are pointedly and repeated ignored" ...more
Pathways to justice pass through health - 6 ways to prevent harm of incarceration
Posted 13 04 2018
The major findings of the Australian Law Reform Commission's Pathways to Justice report on the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was tabled in Parliament last week and is awaiting a detailed response from government. ...more
New record lows for Australia's foreign aid
Posted 06 04 2018
Since the Coalition's 2014 decision to cut foreign aid funding by $1.4 billion per year, Australia's foreign aid record has not improved. A new report from The Australia Institute suggests that Australia's aid spending could be cut even further. ...more
It's the community's economy and we vote
Posted 16 03 2018
The Sydney Morning Herald's economics editor Ross Gittins reflects on the role of governments in setting boundaries within market economies - for entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurial - on behalf of the community's economy. ...more
March for Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Energy
Posted 15 03 2018
#Time2Choose Rally and March is being held outside NSW Parliament House at 12 noon on Saturday 24 March - calling for Clean Air, Clean Water and Clean Energy. ...more
Ignoring climate data makes mass extinctions likely
Posted 07 03 2018
We have a combination of man-made hazards threatening continued human survival, writes Bob Douglas, and the evidence base and scientific data, writes Andrew Glikson, are under-rated by political decision makers everywhere. ...more
Climate Change adaptation - loss of momentum
Posted 01 03 2018
Professor Bruce Thom AM, Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, and former Chair National Coasts and Climate Change Council reflects on the last 10 years and where we are heading. ...more
Australia/US relations and Pine Gap
Posted 28 02 2018
Richard Tanter is Senior Research Associate at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, and teaches International Relations at the University of Melbourne. He writes with concern about Australian sovereignty after US rhetoric on North Korea ...more
The apology ten years on
Posted 15 02 2018
Writing in Eureka Street, Frank Brennan SJ asks us to "recommit to the unifying challenge" put to Parliament a decade ago and put the human face on the Uluru Statement from the Heart: 'In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard.' ...more
No to global arms role
Posted 10 02 2018
Take action against the Government announcement that it is looking for Australia to become one of the top ten arms producers and exporters for the reason of job creation. ...more
New trade pact needs close scrutiny
Posted 01 02 2018
Greg Wood writes that TPP-11 "discards Australia's sovereignty" and AFTINET asks that we petition for a Senate Inquiry and commission an independent study on the real costs of the trade deal. ...more
NSW National Parks in decline
Posted 31 01 2018
Michael McFadyn has watched and mourned as NSW national parks have been run into the ground. ...more
6 ways to stand in solidarity with Indigenous Australians
Posted 25 01 2018
According to Tanya Denning-Orman, NITV Channel Manager: "Survival Day acknowledges the mixed nature of January 26. It recognises the invasion and our history, but invasion doesn't frame us as a people. We are still here, our languages are still spoken ...more
First Australia Day - 30 July 1915
Posted 21 01 2018
The original Australia Day, a national event to raise funds for troops wounded at Gallipoli, was held on 30 July 2015. Each State celebrated their Foundation Day. NSW has always ignored 18 January 1788 when British settlement fleet landed at Botany Bay. ...more
Human Rights Commissioner on religious freedom
Posted 19 01 2018
31 January is the deadline for submissions to the religious freedom inquiry by a panel led by former Attorney General Phillip Ruddock. The Human Rights Commissioner, Ed Santow, outlines key considerations ...more
Inequality is a choice government makes
Posted 13 12 2017
We need a solid jobs plan, and full employment should be a policy priority. The government can blame people all they like but this won't address the inequality many are burdened with, writes John Falzon. ...more
Massive battery that can do much more
Posted 08 12 2017
The opening of the "world's largest" lithium-ion battery is truly a historic moment for both South Australia, and for Australia's future energy security. It may well be a game changer, by delivering services not previously provided by wind and solar PV. ...more
Tensions in Australia-China relationship
Posted 07 12 2017
Aspects of current tensions in Australia-China relations from 'Pearls and Irritations': Mark Beeson on the Australian/US alliance and China's attitude to it; and Fran Martin on the alleged influence of the Chinese Government on Chinese students. ...more