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The urgent need for true democracy of and by the people

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Solving the Australian housing crisis is complex but feasible: A conversation with Matt Lloyd-Cape

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Why aren't we regulating AI properly? The role of corporate power and negligent government

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Reflections on Zionism, Christian Zionism, and the self-serving delusions of people in Israel

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Is fascist politics on the rise world-wide? unpicking Germany's lurch to the (far?) right

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Why AUKUS is the stupidest policy that Australia has ever enacted, and what we can do

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Stopping Australian support for illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide: four 'Red Lines' bills

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Housing and homelessness: Thinking outside the policy box

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Unpicking the new gambling legislation and the vested interests making sure it doesn't work

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We need to resist the move towards authoritarianism before it's too late

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AI: stealing human knowledge for private profit, and its effects on inequality and human learning

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An insider look at how companies and governments came to offload their admin work onto us

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Campaign to create a natural regional park in the face of ad hoc housing developments

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Trump and the dangerous imaginings and influence of the New Apostolic Reformation movement

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Automated decision-making affecting people's lives in the new NDIS Bill and across government departments

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Sudan's civil war and the fallout for refugees as told by Aziza Hussein

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People's declining faith in democracy, while the wealthy cry into their milk about tax changes

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Kelvin Thomson talks about his life-long engagement with nature and current community projects

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Radiothon retrospective: Revisiting some Think Again themes

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Lurch to One Nation, collapse of the two-party system, and confusions of the current Australian political-economy

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Threading together some of the key factors behind Israel's genocidal war

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Report on serious anti-Palestinian racism in our institutions and communities

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Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism! Strategies of the Zionist lobby to suppress pro-Palestine solidarity

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Australia's new hate speech laws and serious threats to protest, dissent and free speech

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A worker's movement within the Catholic church: Three personal stories from across the world

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Superintelligent AI: Why we need to shut it down NOW before it's too late

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Developing good teaching practice from the ground up (without ill-informed command-and-control from our polis)

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Democracy in Australia and what does Labor stand for?

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How policy is getting in the way of schools and teachers doing good education

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Israel, US and Iran (still) and imagining a better system for everyone in 2050

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Chaos and devastation unleashed by Israel and the US in their latest illegal war

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Going undercover at the reactionary Right’s Advance conference: What can we learn from it?

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Stop children being arrested, charged, hauled before courts and imprisoned as adults! Join the campaign

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'Love letters to nature' and other ACF campaigns fighting for our natural world

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Imagining better and more democratic ways of organising ourselves: It's necessary for change

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Are we really in a democracy right now...? We have some doubts...

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Footscray Community Response: A community evaluation of the Footscray CBD Security Patrol Program

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Learning from Aboriginal and West Papuan communities: Robert Hoskin reflects

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We're in the middle of three cataclysms: ecology, community violence and world politics

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Loss of bodily and situational awareness while immersed in our mobiles: What are the implications?

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In the shadow of Trump's Gaza 'Peace' Plan: Palestinians are driven from the West Bank

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Runaway racial profiling by Victoria Police revealed in the data

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Revelations about Australia's foreign policy: What is really happening and why, as told by Prof. Clinton Fernandes

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Why we need to stop the Victorian Government from introducing adult jail sentences for children

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Ending violence against women and children: Interview with Phillip Ripper from No To Violence

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AI cannot and should not usurp and replace human creativity and interaction

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Voices under fire: Stories from Gaza

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Making sense of the latest Israel-Palestine (occupier-occupied) 'peace' deal

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Building Jewish solidarity with Palestinians: A journey including 4 years in Gaza and fierce push-back from pro-Zionists back home

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Centurion University leading the way: Working with, training and empowering local tribal communities

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Can the Labor government keep the people’s trust on its current trajectory?

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Australia's tepid climate policy, and a call for urgent collective action: Interview with Annika Reynolds from ACF

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Converging fractures in our society, with lessons from Europe's Nazi past and current US

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The failed neoliberal takeover of our human services - When will our leaders see it's not working?!

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Australian universities in crisis? But they inject a lot of money into 'our' economy!

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Productivity Roundtable: skimming the surface, ignoring unpaid productivity like caring, and reinforcing systemic inequality

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Creating dementia-friendly communities

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The Wild West of AI and the need to regulate it on behalf of 'us', the people

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Communities creating change and hope in Timor Leste - Building local ecology, economies, and health and wellbeing

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What is the place of 'community development' in creating social change?

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What's happening in Iran? - an insider's view

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External politics, internal politics - on matters like Israel we've effectively been a one-party system

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Hopeful community-led initiatives to tackle climate change: Hepburn Energy

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Behind the current 'Iran situation': the US and Britain squashing Iranian democracy in 1953 and its consequences today

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Looking through the layers of the latest war in Iran - Australia is involved in

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Think Again retrospective and moving into today... and possible tomorrows...

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Radiothon retrospective: Looking back over six years of broadcasting Think Again

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Moral ambition and creating change: Thoughts and inspiration for activists and would-be activists

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Implications of the federal election result for our planet (including the latest 'climate bomb' decision)

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Time to ride the wave of change for a better world; Hopefully the new government notices...

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Implications of the federal election result for refugees and asylum seekers

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Could this be the time for honesty and bravery in Australia-Palestine politics...? Nah...

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Leading up to the federal election, are we voting about what matters?

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The new Universities Australia definition of antisemitism and its weaponisation against dissent, protest and scholarly debate

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The dire situation of the Alevi people and other minorities in Turkiye and surrounding countries

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Tracking how well people are doing beyond narrow economic indicators like GDP

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Dissecting the recent federal budget - will it make a difference?

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The further escalation of US Authoritarianism, the selective silence of our leaders, and the need to be alert and active

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Authoritarianism is 'in' again... and it's time to resist

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The US-led roller coaster and what it means for everyone stuck on it (including us)

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Making sense of the latest German election results

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Supporting teachers' reflection and self-directed learning and improvement

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Unravelling societies... is that what we see happening in the US and in Australia?

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How corporations are killing free speech; a conversation with Josh Bornstein

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What's happening in Oz, US and international politics in 2025-continued

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What to look out for in Oz, US and international politics in 2025 (Warning: some scary things)

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Israel wreaks havoc in the Middle East with US backing, while our media and politicians are lost in action

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Talking with Professor Kate Rigby about her academic journey in Ecological Humanities

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How companies and governments outsource their administration to us, we doing all their work for 'free'

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Trump, the decline of capitalism, and the role more active schooling and education could play

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The empire is sick and shaky... and is Trump(ism) the cause or just the symptom?

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Strategies of tax evasion by the mega rich, and how we can return billions of lost revenue to the public purse

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Ben Rivers' play 'The invaders' fear of memories', based on family diaries from early-1900s Palestine

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The Alevi culture and substantial presence in Australia: Who knew?

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Community ways of doing politics in Oz: Will the Independents' 'tide' save our democracy?...

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Israel's denial of its slaughter of Palestinian people and the ways it tries to mask the truth

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Attack-dog Dutton, acquiescing Albanese, and how the anti-democratic two-party system is failing us

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Decline of democracy in Australia, a potted history of bold Labor reforms, and current Labor-lite

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The 'bizarre' state of western democracy - and are we even in one?

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Empire US: Its long history and where Australia fits in today