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Keywords: Auspol

  • AUSTRALIA

    Rock the boat

    • Cristy Clark
    • 08 February 2022
    22 Comments

    Avoiding discomfort is a privilege only enjoyed by those who benefit from the status quo, and civility policing is fundamentally about protecting both that privilege and the status quo itself. Confronting the reality of injustice in both our past and our present should be uncomfortable, and no one is entitled to immunity.

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  • CARTOON

    Testing times

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 01 February 2022

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  • AUSTRALIA

    All that is solid melts into air

    • John Falzon
    • 20 January 2022
    7 Comments

    Social security payments were once seen as a means of preventing poverty, not prescribing it. A job was once seen, at least for some, as being not only the best guarantee against poverty but the path to economic security. Now it seems, however, multiple jobs are required to stave off poverty.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    United by our national scapegoat

    • Joel Hodge
    • 20 January 2022
    25 Comments

    It is unusual when political enemies unite. We should take note of them. The spectacular deportation of Australian Open tennis champion, Novak Djokovic, is one such unusual moment. Feeling had risen to a mob-like fervour. One is left wondering why?

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  • CARTOON

    Misfortune teller

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 18 January 2022
    1 Comment

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  • MEDIA

    Best of 2021: Facebook unfriends Australia

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 11 January 2022
    1 Comment

    Instead of retaining its control of a fruit market, or preserving an oil monopoly, Facebook harnesses another resource: data. Any regulator or sovereign state keen to challenge the way the Silicon Valley giant gathers, monetises and uses that data will face their ire.

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  • ECONOMICS

    Best of 2021: Homelessness is caused not by poverty but by wealth

    • John Falzon
    • 04 January 2022
    7 Comments

    When you put rising housing costs alongside stagnating wages, an alarming trend in normalising insecure work, persistent unemployment and underemployment, and statutory incomes that are going backwards in real terms, there’s good reason to be deeply worried about an increase in homelessness.

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  • CARTOON

    Tis the season

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 07 December 2021

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  • CARTOON

    Limited freedom

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 22 November 2021
    1 Comment

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  • CARTOON

    Meanwhile on Nauru

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 09 November 2021
    1 Comment

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  • CARTOON

    The political science is in

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 03 November 2021

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  • CARTOON

    When the heat is on...

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 26 October 2021

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