Early Childhood Education and Care
The issues Every child deserves the best possible start in life. Where you live and your parent’s cultural heritage should not be a barrier. According to the Productivity Commission: early …
Youth Mental Health
A world-first review into youth mental health describes a lack of action as a “scandal” that is having big implications for the health, wellbeing and productivity of young people. Professor …
Nuclear weapons and power
“So long as anyone has nuclear weapons, others will want them. So long as anyone possesses nuclear weapons, they are bound, one day, to be used, by accident or miscalculation …
A Trojan Horse to a Surveillance State
The Albanese government is attempting to introduce legislation that will ban social media for anyone under the age of 16, and provided a 24 hour window for the public to …
The Arts
The issues | The arts have a long tradition of shaping our society and have an important part to play in our future. They help define and negotiate who we …
Biodiversity
Australia is a megadiverse continent supporting 7.8% of the world’s described species. More than 90% of our vascular plants, frogs, and reptiles, and more than 80% of our mammals are …
The Environment
Spending on the protection and restoration of nature isn’t just a nice-to-have item. More than half our GDP relies on natural systems and healthy nature is vitally important for the …
Climate protesters criminalised
Governments across Australia have criminalised people who are peacefully protesting by proliferating a worrying number of anti-protest laws. Over the past two decades, 49 laws affecting protest have been introduced …
The Drill – Are EVs really the green future
By Grahame Elder Before we start a quick recap. Last episode, the DRILL wrote about vaping and the proliferation of tobacco outlets. Subsequently the DRILL contacted local organisations and the Hornsby Shire …
Reform of the Australian Constitution
The issues The Australian people have not agreed to proposed changes to the Constitution in more than three decades. Only eight of the 44 referenda that have been put to …