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FriendlyJordies and the War of New Media | Elroy Rosenberg
With the arrest on June 4 of Kristo Langker, producer and journalist for YouTuber Jordan Shanks (who works and publishes under the moniker FriendlyJordies), it has become clear that the defamation...
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China and Hong Kong: One Country, Many Predicaments | Adrian Yeung
During the height of the Umbrella Movement protests in 2014, I made an attempt to predict the fate of Hong Kong after the expiry of Beijing’s ‘one country, two systems’ approach to governing the city...
View ArticlePlaying Catch-Up: The Conundrum Facing Australian Education | Ailish Parr
A fourteen-year-old wonders why a monologue from Macbeth is used to determine their “intelligence” in English; a sixteen-year-old ponders why integration in maths class is so significant for later on...
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Massacre or Revolution? Sudan’s Uprising and the Fight for a Civilian...
It is the 8th of April. A woman stands on top of a white car. She wears a white thoub, the traditional dress that signifies the professional Sudanese woman, heralding back to the Queens of Kandaka. A...
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Shenzhen: China’s Lesser Known Megacity | Joe Sutcliffe
It is now merely a statement of fact to call China a dominant force in global economics. A globally integrated China has begun to pose the very real possibility of economic dominance shifting from the...
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Hosting the Olympics: Is it Worth the Money? | Adrian Yeung
The Olympic Games seem to have only one purpose: to remind humankind once every four years that we can’t have nice things. Despite being an international sporting event, the media usually seems more...
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When Snowflakes Melt: Humour And Offence | James Dance
Laughing at ourselves and with others about our experiences and idiosyncrasies holds a special place in human nature. It keeps us honest, grounded and aware of who we fundamentally are – irreversible...
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Is Australia’s Aid Money Being Allocated To The Right People? | James Dance
Australia has a strong and long history of providing aid to countries all around the world, in both military and non-military forms. Australia’s commitment to providing aid has continued into 2018. The...
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Tension and Uncertainty in the South China Sea | Fred Johnston
Recently, a Chinese warship came within 40 metres of colliding with a US Navy vessel. The catalyst of the incident stems from military posturing and territorial disputes in the South China Sea. But why...
View ArticleListen to Your Grandmother: Heuristics as a Weapon Against Shoddy Thinking |...
Combatting the onslaught of low quality or outright false analysis circulating online means wielding simple, effective tools – not complex appeals to the rational mind. It is unreasonable for any...
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Leave Avocado Toast Out of This: There’s Plenty For Us to Be Angry About |...
Remember when an entitled white man somewhere said something along the lines of ‘millennials could afford to buy a house if they stopped spending so much money on avocado toast’? While roasting him...
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Canada Legalises Cannabis – Why Can’t Australia? | Daniel Huigsloot
Canada is now the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to legalise and regulate cannabis use. With one in five Americans living in states where marijuana is legal or in the process of...
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How the Identities of Australia and New Zealand Should be Shaped | Reagan Ward
Writing for The Guardian in August 2017, journalist Toby Manhire noted an unusual cooling of Australia-New Zealand relations. This chill came during what proved to be the early days of the...
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Are We Eating Aliens? Why Extraterrestials Haven’t Made Contact Yet | Aditi...
Humanity’s fascination with the stars has traversed the ages. For centuries we have gazed up at the heavens, plagued by a simple question: Are we alone? We have ploughed billions of dollars and...
View ArticleSideline or Saddle – How Young People Need to Retake Their Own Agency |...
The concept of youth media has a particular connotation that we keep reproducing for ourselves, confirming all the reasons why youth voices and concerns are sidelined. Centrethought believes that...
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How to Stay Informed in the Age of Fake News | James Dance
Helping other people. The free and open sharing of ideas and solutions. This is what politics should be about. Not a competition to determine who is the most offended, or who is the most privileged. We...
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US Military Presence Overseas – The Base Of An Empire | Fred Johnston
One of the most ubiquitous aspects of modern society is the American military presence in far-flung places around the world. To truly grasp the extent of this phenomenon, one only needs to glance at...
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Is Australia’s Aid Money Being Allocated To The Right People? | James Dance
Australia has a strong and long history of providing aid to countries all around the world, in both military and non-military forms. Australia’s commitment to providing aid has continued into 2018. The...
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A New Perspective On Terrorism | Meena Johnson
In spite of how far we have come in the fight for equality of the sexes, there are still remnants of our historically patriarchal system today. Women were largely excluded from the creation of...
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Bring On The Time When ‘Nobody Has To Say #MeToo Again’| Brodie Logue
The bleeding hearts of the Hollywood elite at the Golden Globes shed figurative blood almost as rapidly as the bloodshed seeping from the hearts of real victims. In a 2011 display of her ‘temperament’,...
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