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.

June 8, 2024
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus used fudged data to justify implementing the almost entirely secret National Anti-Corruption Commission, vastly understating the amount of NSW anti-corruption hearings held in public.

June 5, 2024
June 5, 2024
The world’s biggest weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin has deleted from its website details about Australia’s key role in building F-35 fighter jets, which Israel is using to bomb Gaza.

May 30, 2024
May 30, 2024
Disgraced consultancy PwC and its offshoot Scyne Advisory are currently undertaking 46 Federal Government contracts valued at $138 million, it has been revealed.

May 27, 2024
The identity of major anti-Voice donor remains hidden from public – and the corporate regulator is inexplicably refusing to act.

May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024
A secretive "review" by the Department of Finance paves the way for PwC Australia's partners to unlock the profits from tens of millions in taxpayer contracts.

May 23, 2024
Billionaire UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a surprise election to be held more than six months before the required deadline, setting the scene for an electoral wipe-out and likely end to 14 years of Conservative Party rule.

May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024
Small scale nuclear reactors cost over four times as much as solar and wind, even after accounting for “firming” the renewables, new analysis reveals.

May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024
Statements from ALP MPs “speaking out” over the Federal Government’s gas policy are strikingly similar, suggesting a behind-the-scenes government strategy.

May 10, 2024
The Department of Finance approved disgraced consultancy PwC to continue making millions from taxpayers just days before explosive Senate report.

May 3, 2024
May 3, 2024
The Federal Government has awarded more than $700,000 to “PwC’s Indigenous Consulting” as it moves to resume contracts to disgraced consultancy PwC Australia, despite ongoing criminal investigations.

May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024
The Federal Government has paved the way to resume giving contracts to disgraced consultancy PwC Australia – and as soon as December.

April 25, 2024
Warren Mundine’s Fuse Minerals has until today to repay investors in its failed $10 million initial public offering — yet he and the company have gone silent.
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