Michael Taylor

‘A Culture of Fear’: Adelaide University Under Fire for Cancelling Event with UN Expert Francesca Albanese By Helen Reynolds   The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freed...

“The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freedom and censorship in South Australia.”

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Inflated Calamities: Security Threats to Anthony Albanese With the ruling classes shown to be fickle, contemptible and unreliable in fulfilling their obligations to society, much of this confirmed by the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the United Sta...

Was this an exaggerated security threat to fool the public?

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Win for transparency and accountability following FOI discharge Senator Fatima Payman Media Release Western Australian Independent Senator Fatima Payman is today celebrating a big win for freedom and transparency after the Government discharged the flawed Freedom ...

“Western Australian Independent Senator Fatima Payman is today celebrating a big win for freedom and transparency.”

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From Subsidies to Stewardship Early childhood education and care is entering a new phase of reform in Australia, and the temptation is to treat each new measure as a stand-alone fix. A change to subsidised hours. A wage initiative...

“There are signals that Australia is beginning to treat early childhood as the high-trust, safety-critical, nation-building infrastructure it is.”

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Trump’s 3 day ‘quickie’ war turning into a 3 year catastrophe By Walt Zlotow President Trump bet his entire criminal attack on Iran as a quick 3 day operation which would force Iran’s capitulation. Kill its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the 90 million Irania...

“Trump bet his entire criminal attack on Iran as a quick 3 day operation which would force Iran’s capitulation. Kill its leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the 90 million Iranians would rise up and make peace with new master America.

It has backfired spectacularly.”

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Trump’s Iran Blunder Reich Is Right About the Chaos. He Misses the Graveyard It’s Heading For. Robert Reich knows a thing or two about how American power works. He served as Labour Secretary under Bill Clinton, has taught...

“Increasingly, team Trump is at war with information itself. His own cabinet cronies can’t keep the story straight.”

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Australia’s carbon markets risk penalising Indigenous stewardship RMIT University Media Release Carbon markets rewarding the recovery of degraded environments risk penalising long-term Indigenous stewardship, according to a coalition of experts writing in Nature Cli...

“Carbon markets were designed to reward climate action, but our research shows they may be producing a perverse outcome: rewarding those who damaged land in the past while excluding Indigenous custodians who for generations have cared for country.”

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When did we forget who we are? Australia did not become itself by accident. We are one of the most successful multicultural societies in the world. Walk through any suburb in Melbourne or Sydney and you will hear languages from eve...

Immigrants have not diluted Australia. They have defined it.

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THE PETRI DISH AT THE GATES OF EUROPE: How Gaza's Environmental Collapse is Breeding the Next Pandemic - and Why the West is Blind to It Introduction: A Statement, a Warning, a Countdown On 2 March 2026, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Ireland issued a formal statement. It documented something that should have been front-page ...

THE PETRI DISH AT THE GATES OF EUROPE: How Gaza’s Environmental Collapse is Breeding the Next Pandemic – and Why the West is Blind to It.

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Bring them home On the morning of 16 February 2026, a Kurdish military escort led a convoy out of al-Roj, the camp in north-east Syria where Australian women and Australian children have been held for years in a [......

“If you want a single image that captures Australia’s current posture, its moral evasions, its political timidity, its confusion between vengeance and justice, this is it.”

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Going Native in the Trump Jungle: How it became Legal to Attack Iran The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we keep hearing about how awful Russia’s war against ...

The travesty, in all its disgusting forms, continues.

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Why Australia-US Military Alliance Risk Is Growing By Denis Hay Description: How Australia-US military alliance risk may increase strategic exposure in an unstable global security environment. Introduction – A Warning from Recent Escalation Australia-...

“Australia is deeply integrated with the United States defence infrastructure. That integration brings intelligence, technology and strategic alignment. It may also bring exposure.

Does deeper military integration enhance security or increase vulnerability?”

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How US/Israeli Iran Strikes Will Penalize Global Prospects By Dr Dan Steinbock The US/Israel strike against Iran aims at regime change in Tehran, control its energy resources and restructure the Middle East. But it will amplify risks, disrupt energy markets a...

“The US/Israel strike against Iran aims at regime change in Tehran, control its energy resources and restructure the Middle East. But it will amplify risks, disrupt energy markets and could severely penalize global prospects.”

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The Most Respected Man in the Room (According to the Room) According to Donald Trump, the United States is respected around the world again. This is terrific news. It must be. It was announced very confidently. One imagines world leaders waking each morning, ...

The number of posts swooning over Donald Trump have been flooding social media platforms lately, more so than ever. Some of them are laughable.

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The Tail That Wags the Dog: Israel’s War, America’s Blood Three American soldiers are dead. At least 555 Iranian civilians have been killed across twenty-four provinces, with the toll still rising. One hundred and sixty-five girls, at least, are crushed to d...

“Let’s be clear about something the American media and propaganda machine, including our ABC, prefers to downplay: the US had no legal right to join this war. None. Not under international law. Not under its own constitution. Not under the War Powers Resolution of 1973.”

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This is an interesting article, long but worth reading.

Many reasons why Trump empire should not get a foothold on the Gold Coast.

War Without Consent: America, the World, and the Legality of Trump’s Iran Strikes By Peter Brown On the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury – a sweeping, coordinated assault on Iran targeting nuclear facilities, missile ...

“Whether history vindicates or condemns Operation Epic Fury may take years to determine. What is already clear is that the United States has once again crossed a threshold – and this time, with no obvious path back.”

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BULLA AND BOMBS: How Australia Funds War While Families Struggle Introduction: The Yogurt Aisle It was a Sunday morning at Boronia Square. Susan and I were buying milk and yogurt. Nothing remarkable – just ordinary life, the kind millions of Australians live every ...

“Australia is being played. And it’s time to name the players.”

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Roguish Justifications: The Apologists for the Attack on Iran February 28, 2026. Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter. A gross violation of international law. As usual, a violation celebrated as ethical, necessary, and high-minded in prin...

The apologists have come out in force, including our prime minister.

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He Was Warned. He Knew. He Did It Anyway. Trump was told exactly what would happen if he attacked Iran. The warnings were public, repeated and precise. He listened to Netanyahu, to MBS, and to the voice in his own head that craves spectacle [...

“Trump was told exactly what would happen if he attacked Iran. The warnings were public, repeated & precise. He listened to Netanyahu, to MBS, and to the voice in his own head that craves spectacle over statecraft. Now the region is on fire and 148 schoolgirls are dead.”

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China’s import expansion supports world trade prospects By Dr Dan Steinbock In 2026, Chinese import growth will continue to expand, deepen and diversify, despite the US-led tariff wars. When I began to spend more time in China in the early 2000s, the [...]

“Australia is a key food and resource exporter.”

It’s good to see we get a mention.

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When Need Meets the Algorithm Sustainability, Safety, and the Real Cost of Ageing at Home Australia’s aged-care reforms aim to deliver fairness, consistency and sustainability. The introduction of the Support at Home program and t...

“Australia’s aged-care reforms aim to deliver fairness, consistency and sustainability. The introduction of the Support at Home program and the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) represents a significant shift toward standardised assessment and needs-based funding.”

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Mendacious Rationales: The Lies Behind Operation Lion’s Roar Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so chronologically distant as to be fiction. If not Marvel, it’s n...

A Feb 28 statement from Trump declared the objective was “to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.” This was curious given the previous US-Israeli attacks in 2025 had apparently “obliterated the regime’s nuclear program…”

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We Bombed a School Full of Children. Call It What It Is. 148 girls died in Minab. The school had been separated from the nearby military base for a decade. International law exists for precisely this moment. So why is no one reaching for it? Sara Shariatmad...

“148 girls died in Minab. The school had been separated from the nearby military base for a decade. International law exists for precisely this moment. So why is no one reaching for it?”

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Craig Hill – Gold Coast Trump Tower Petitions Craig Hill Media Release Why we started petitions to stop the Trump Tower on the Gold Coast We didn’t set out to run one of the biggest grassroots campaigns the Gold Coast has seen in [...]

With the Trump administration actively making life harder for Australian exporters and workers, why on earth should the Gold Coast build a glittering shrine to the Trump name? We don’t want him here. We don’t want his name here. If you agree, please sign the petition.

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Why Mainstream Media in Australia Fails Citizens By Denis Hay Description Mainstream media in Australia increasingly fail citizens. Learn why this happens and how independent journalism can be strengthened. Introduction Trust in mainstream media in ...

Why the mainstream media is failing us.

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Consider it done, my friend.

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Angus Will Take Australia In The Right Direction...Whatever That Is! I just saw a little clip where Angus Taylor was being interviewed by Peta Credlin. I’m not sure if it was part of a longer interview or whether she just interviewed him for the Liberal [...]

Angus wants to take Australia In the right direction - whatever that is. I’d rather he didn’t get the chance. By @rossleighaim.bsky.social

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Caring Robots: A new solution for aging societies? By Chen Ziqi In a care facility in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, a waist-high white robot glides quietly between rooms. Its digital face lights up in a cheerful greeting as it makes its rounds. It...

Some Chinese ingenuity.

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