The Drug That Wasn’t There
An Australian hospital has one week of its primary sepsis antibiotic left. This was predictable.
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What is the Australiasian College for Emergency Medicine for?
ACEM flew its members across the country to learn about eels and witchetty grubs. It counted as CPD.
Why Australians buy houses
When the country can't keep the air conditioning on, let alone build a solar panel, the best Future Made in Australia defaults to a residential mortgage.
Building nothing: why Australia’s housing crisis never gets solved
Australia has more than ten housing problems. Every government picks one, fixes nothing, and calls it a plan.
Australia’s housing crisis, explained by everyone
As overheard at the local pub.
The Wheatbelt’s medicare subsidy
WA's smallest councils are spending millions to deliver a healthcare promise the
Commonwealth won't fund
A nation that says ‘urgent’ but spends eventually maybe
One year after a 36-point blueprint declared defence Australia's "no higher priority," implementation suggests a different hierarchy of urgency.
This article was first published in Defence Connect on 9th February 2026.
High Noon in Western Sydney
John Wayne thought High Noon was a story about weakness. The Liberal Party thinks it's a strategy.
Who is the law for?
A pregnant woman was assaulted by her neighbour. He was released and returned next door. The system expected her to manage the risk.
The permanent purge: What Xi’s housecleaning reveals about China’s stability
Xi's purges consolidate power but hollow out competence