Is Planned Obsolescence Humanity’s Worst Invention?
Consumer habits are killing the planet but are we powerless to stop? Read more…
Sounds of Asylum: Salim and Sammy, Recount Their Harrowing Escape From Afghanistan In This Exclusive Podcast
“Just with the stupid idea, a little bit different with the religion, they can kill the people, they can kill the people, they can kill the people!” says Sammy, 36, an Afghan Hazara, whose father was killed by the Taliban. Read more…
The Revolution Will Be Internalised
An information revolution, delivered by the convergence of podcasts and the internet, is handing the keys to our biology back, enabling humans to restore themselves to their evolutionary design and glory. Read more…
Commentary: Poison, Pills and Rubbish
The best of the west is making you sick. Read more…
Rise of the Feminazi or Something More Sinister?
US Election Exit Polls tell us 55% of white women voted for the ‘pussy-grabbing’ ex-President, Donald Trump. Is this the end of feminism’s fairy tale? Read more…
Behind The Veil of American Fascism with Robert F Kennedy Jr
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s father and uncle were stoically anti-war, fought tooth-and-nail against the American military-industrial complex, and were subsequently assassinated. In this tell all interview with former heavyweight boxing world champion, Mike Tyson, Kennedy Jr lifts the lid on American fascism; the CIA’s links with the mafia; and the ‘corporate kleptocracy’ that has consumed the free world. Read more…
Poverty Vignettes: Is This What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like?
Comparing levels of privilege among the impoverished is a bizarre and redundant exercise. To put it simply, there is no privilege in poverty. Read more…
Whatever Happened To The 15 Hour Work Week?
“It’s time to put reduced working hours back on the political and industrial agenda,” says Anthony Veal, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney. Read more…
The Idiot’s Guide To Class (ft. Dr Liz Allen)
The class you were born into is going to go a long way to shaping your experience and perceptions of this planet. Yet it is almost never talked about. Why? Read more…
Amy Taylor’s Coronavirus Survival Guide
“If your way of being a rebel and fucking up society is to fuck yourself up, that’s just like cutting your dick off to spite your balls. Like, what are ya doin?” – Amy Taylor. Read more…
Too Young For Facebook, Old Enough For Prison
Australian lawmakers are in the process of deciding whether they should continue locking up ten year old children, the vast majority of whom are First Nation people. Read More…
This Is What Militant Strike Action Looks Like
On the picket line of Brisbane’s War of the Wharves. Read more…
COMMENTARY: ‘MURICA! And What It Means for the Rest of Us
Endless protests. Endless shootings. Endless murders. Endless massacres. Endless wars. Endless misery. Endless profit for an increasingly tiny few. A political system so rigged it’s the only thing left and right can agree on. What does it mean for the rest of us? Read more…
I Was 120 kg and Eating Myself To Death
As a young Aboriginal boy abandoned by my mother, food was my first addiction. Read more…
They Call This A “Mugs Game”
But for me, Rugby League was The Great Provider. If there’s a better community out there than a rugby league community, I don’t know of it. Read More…
The Long Road To J Bay
According to the most recent statistics, 57 people are murdered each day in South Africa – or over 20 000 a year. This is my third trip to South Africa and one thing I’ve learned is, everyone has a violent crime story. Read more…
The Sickening Case of Little Dylan Voller
Indigenous 11-year old Dylan Voller was forced to sleep in his own piss, denied food, water and toilet breaks, restrained, racially abused and threatened with sexual abuse at the hands of Alice Springs detention centre staff. From the ages of ten to 12, I was his youth worker. Read more…
Life In A Tibetan Refugee Camp
A trending topic in the 1990s, the plight of Tibetans living under occupation and in exile has largely disappeared from the mainstream news agenda. Not because the situation has improved. Far from it. Read more…
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