Archive for October 2025

While all parties agreed housing needed urgent attention, they were divided over how to fix it. Labor and the Coalition focused on first homebuyers and housing supply. The Greens emphasised rent control and social housing, and One Nation campaigned on cutting immigration and taxes on building materials for new houses.

Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, demonstrate for women’s rights in 2018 in front of the Woody Guthrie Centre, which features a mural depicting the folksinger, a native of the state, playing his iconic guitar emblazoned with the slogan “This Machine Kills Fascists”, below the title of his most famous song, “This Land is Your Land”.

Alumni of First Nations University’s Indigenous social work program gather to support future professionals.

Rod Theis, who works for the InterMountain Education Service District (ESD), was ordered to remove the book covers for “He Is He,” “She Is She,” and “Johnny the Walrus” after a complaint labeled the display as “transphobic.” InterMountain ESD administrators subsequently cited the books for promoting a “binary view of gender.”

Reporting Highlights
Hidden Drug Names: For decades, the FDA has blacked out the names of generic drugs on inspection reports for foreign factories that were found to have safety and quality violations.
Patients in the Dark: The practice has prevented patients, doctors, and pharmacists from knowing whether manufacturing failures have made medications ineffective or unsafe.
Pill Bottle Mysteries: Consumers are limited in what they can learn about the quality of their drugs because labels on pill bottles often don’t list the manufacturer or the factory’s address.

The postwar British political establishment is collapsing. The Conservatives threw themselves into a death spiral last year, though it had been a long time in the making. Now in government, Labour is heading in the same direction, corkscrewing downwards, touching 15 points in one recent poll and haemorrhaging votes in every direction.

My new research has found that villagers have been forced to move away from the sea four times, losing both land and livelihoods in the process. The government has not provided compensation for damaged homes or financial assistance to help them relocate. Many younger villagers, wearying of constant displacement and finding it increasingly difficult to find fish as sediment makes the sea shallower, have left for jobs in Bangkok on construction sites, in factories and other workplaces. Those who remain are mostly older villagers.