More affordable housing

The fact that one of the least populated countries on Earth contains the world’s second most expensive housing is a national calamity, and a stunning failure of public policy.  Australia’s mess …

Good health!

Despite Australia’s semi-universal public health care system funded through Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and through subsidised private health insurance, there remains significant inequity in both access to, and provision …

Australia needs a climate plan

Human-caused global warming is already irreversible on the timescale of people alive today and will worsen in decades to come (NASA).  The world must change its approach to energy, recognise the limits to endless growth, …

Political party financing

Without spending caps, our election debates are dominated by those with the biggest bank balance, not those with the best ideas. Alice Drury, Human Rights Law Centre There can be …

Heath McKenzie contests Dunkley

Long-time Seaford resident, Heath McKenzie the Australian Democrats candidate for the Dunkley by-election. (Still) keeping the bastards honest Heath is married with three young children and has lived in the …

‘I have a dream’

January 15th commemorates Dr Martin Luther King’s dream of peace  “I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell …