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Tackling loneliness: Leadership needed from Federal Government

Australia needs a Federal Minister for Loneliness and Social Connection to provide leadership on ...  
The youth crime panic: Real fear, wrong fix

While serious youth crime fuels genuine fear, evidence suggests harsher punishment is failing to ...  
Organised misogyny radicalisation becoming national security issue

Today's boys are being fed entitlement and grievance — women are cast as the enemy who took some ...  
Meta pays billions, but its addictive business model survives

Meta will pay up to US$18 billion to settle American legal claims that Facebook and Instagram ...  
The kids are alright — it's the One Nation Adults who are a concern

From Vietnam to today’s anti-Hanson rallies, young Australians have a proud history of speaking ...  
The strait of human life: When oil matters more than children

When war is measured in barrels instead of bodies, our moral priorities have gone badly astray.  
Fertility rate falls: More and more Australians are choosing to be child-free

For a growing number of Australians, the decision to remain child-free is a rational calculation ...  
Submission by the family of Bridgette "Biddy" Porter to the NSW Law and Safety Committee

A submission by the family of Bridgette “Biddy” Porter highlights how repeated forensic ...  
The Epstein Files and Australia's elite underground 'pedocracy'

Recent developments, including the Epstein Files, prompt renewed scrutiny of long-standing alle ...  
Australia’s social media ban offers lessons for the Netherlands

Dutch researchers use Australia's social media ban as a case study to find ways to make digi ...  
Beyond behaviour: Understanding neurodivergent overwhelm

When a neurodivergent child melts down or shuts down, experts say the behaviour is often a signal ...  
World Schizophrenia Awareness Day: Schizophrenia has a story that we need to start listening to

Stigma around schizophrenia makes secrecy feel necessary, adding another layer of anguish.  
Funding, advantage and Australian schools: Why inequality persists despite reform

Education funding is now more about sustaining advantage than addressing need.  
Remembering Desmond Filby: Sovereign Citizen and accused child flasher

Desmond Filby, the man commonly called by the media "Dezi Freeman", was shot by police, but shou ...  
Australia’s youth detention system punishes kids but fails to rehabilitate them

The punitive approach of our youth detention system only serves narrow, short-term political ...  
Albanese's victimisation of "ISIS brides" and innocent children is appalling

Despite languishing for years in an atrocious conditions, Australia's PM belligerently refu ...  
The AFL enters a concussive new season still stumbling around

Australian football has the highest rate of concussion of any team sport in the world, but play ...  
Condescending and harmful: An update on Australia’s social media ban

The social media ban was sold to the public as protection, but evidence shows disadvantaged ...  
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