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The socialists have been limited by the same barriers that snarl more traditional politicians: a finite budget, the votes needed to pass legislation and an occasionally dysfunctional government. Although moderates are spooked by their talk of higher taxes and social housing — government-owned units not subject to fluctuations in rental prices — the socialists have not yet tried to muscle through such policies.
In Nigeria, under a colonial-era law still enforced today, attempting suicide is a crime, not a crisis. Survivors are dragged from hospital beds to police stations, charged, prosecuted, and sometimes imprisoned. Their suffering is met with threats, rather than therapy, deepening their trauma. Every 33 minutes, another Nigerian dies by suicide, a figure equivalent to 16,000 lives a year, each one a story cut short, a future erased, a cry that went unheard.
“Income inequality hits a 20-year high”. “Housing is less affordable than ever”. “The staggering truth about wage inequality in Australia”. Those are just some of the headlines we’ve seen this year about new research on growing inequality, which often hits younger Australians hardest. The United Nations tracks countries’ efforts to reduce inequalities. According to its 2025 report, Australia’s performance on cutting inequality is “stagnating”.