A toxic recipe for social disconnect and disaffection
Australians are less engaged in their communities, lonelier, unhappier and less satisfied with life – but there is cause for hope, writes Dr James O’Donnell.

January 22, 2025
January 22, 2025
Former PwC Australia boss Luke Sayers has stood down as president of the AFL’s Carlton Football Club over a “penis photo scandal”.

January 20, 2025
NACC boss Paul Brereton says he is considering launching an inquiry into the $44 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme, including holding public hearings for the first time.

January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025
The group that ran the "No" campaign against the Indigenous Voice in now at the heart of an anti-offshore wind disinformation network.

January 14, 2025
Donations to Guide Dogs Victoria have plunged by more than $1 million a year since the Josh Frydenberg scandal.

January 12, 2025
The embattled National Anti-Corruption Commission has completed its first three investigations – and found zero corruption.

January 8, 2025
No one has been held publicly accountable over Guide Dogs Victoria scandal - and the charity has never admitted any wrongdoing occurred.

December 28, 2024
December 28, 2024
Guide Dogs Victoria was devastated by the Josh Frydenberg scandal, with donors leaving for good and no part of the organisation left unharmed, says its CEO.

December 13, 2024
December 13, 2024
Peter Dutton’s "small modular reactors" would cost almost four times as much as renewables — with that gap widening a massive 30 per cent in six months.

November 30, 2024
November 30, 2024
After more than eight months a university professor has obtained a secretive “complaint” made against him by disgraced consulting giant PwC.

November 15, 2024
An official at the National Anti-Corruption Commission was offered a bribe but its boss Paul Brereton took no action, reveals an explosive new report.

November 13, 2024
The boss of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has misrepresented the findings of misconduct against him, says one of the nation’s top former judges.

November 7, 2024
Events in “international politics” show the vital importance of an effective National Anti-Corruption Commission, experts say.
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