🌿 Your Peace Pulse


Explore inspiring stories, grassroots movements, and peace-building initiatives from around the globe.


Browse by Category

Popular Topics
#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #African

Live: Ansell reports unauthorised access to data in cyber incident

Ansell is investigating a data breach, with some confidential or personal information accessed, as the ASX dips despite a rally in New York overnight. Follow the ABC News live markets blog.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Savvy politicians know how to β€˜perform’ authenticity – the Jacinda Ardern doco offers a masterclass

The award-winning documentary Prime Minister showcases a politician capable of blending the ordinary and extraordinary – a key to success on both the left and right.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Do you have performance anxiety? Musicians share tips for keeping it manageable

Music exams and competitions aren't easy, but our experts have some tips to make the process as stress-free as possible, including managing performance anxiety.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

If this mining company broke the law, why isn't it being prosecuted?

A gas company operating in the Northern Territory has been accused of breaching environmental laws by an NT government department, which decided against prosecution in favour of a formal letter encouraging "behaviour change".

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

How sexual predators and far-right extremists are using Roblox to target children

Experts warn Roblox has a predator problem, amid reports Australian children are being exposed to a range of disturbing experiences on the platform.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Live: Super backflip a 'victory for Australians', Coalition says

The government's reworked superannuation policy is welcomed as a "victory for Australians" by the Coalition. Follow live.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Inside the moment Israelis watched the hostages leave Gaza after 738 days

Israelis gather to watch a historic day unfold as hostages held for two years are finally set free.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Man charged after sports clubs burn down, causing $4m in damage

A man is charged with setting two community sports clubhouses on fire in Melbourne's south-east this year.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Search expands for missing Gus, as police announce new taskforce

As SA Police and the Australian Defence Force resume their search for missing four-year-old Gus in South Australia's arid mid-north, authorities have announced a new taskforce.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Morning Mail: Trump joins world leaders to sign peace deal, CSIRO plans more cuts, Abbott’s history lesson reviewed

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterMorning everyone. Donald Trump has flown from Israel to Egypt for a summit with more than 20 world leaders where they signed a peace agreement for a β€œnew era” in the Middle East, following the release of all remaining hostages that Hamas had held in Gaza. We have reports and analysis...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

World Cup qualifier stopped by runaway rat, Cape Verde makes history

Cape Verde will play in the men's FIFA World Cup for the first time after beating Eswatini 3-0 to win its group in African qualifying for the 2026 showpiece.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Bush communities grapple with 'fear' as youth crime rates buck trends

Official figures show youth crime is decreasing across NSW, but that does not ring true in some rural communities.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Police resume search for young woman three years after disappearance

Police have called in dogs capable of tracking electronic devices as they resume their search for Lucinda Miller, who disappeared three years ago after travelling to eastern Victoria.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Reform of NZ’s protected lands is overdue – but the public should decide about economic activities

Changes to New Zealand’s conservation laws could delist up to 60% of protected areas. There are better ways to balance ecological values with economic gains.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

BMI shouldn’t be the only way to assess who can access weight-loss drugs

Weight doesn’t tell us the whole story about a person’s risk for poor health.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Power-hungry data centres threaten Australia’s energy grid. Here are 3 steps to make them more efficient

Australia could be a global champion for sustainable data centre growth.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Two true crime books on the mushroom trial are out – one is told by a fictional juror

A legal expert reviews Duncan McNab’s Recipe for Murder and Greg Haddrick’s The Mushroom Murders – both published on the same day.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

β€˜Extremely hostile’: Trump lashes China over trade controls but there may be a silver lining

We’ve entered a period where control of a few key resources and trade routes gives countries enormous leverage.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

What Pocock’s ban from parliament’s sport club says about lobbying – podcast

Last week, independent senator and former elite athlete David Pocock was banned from the parliament’s social sports club after raising concerns about its association with gambling lobbyists.Senior reporter Henry Belot speaks to Reged Ahmad about how he broke the story and what the saga says about how lobbyists access politiciansRead more: Continue reading...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Australia: A History by Tony Abbott review – mostly celebratory account of β€˜a land built by heroes’ | Frank Bongiorno

Former PM lauds his country’s progress to egalitarian democracy where β€˜only the very unlucky’ miss out – yet judges it β€˜materially rich but spiritually poor’ Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTony Abbott was a boxer during his Oxford years. A metaphor from the art of pugilism might be apt for his single-volume general history of Australia: Abbott is leading with his chin.As it happens, the former prime...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Sussan Ley praised for β€˜standing up for democracy’ as Labor’s freedom of information crackdown looks set to fail

Government’s FoI changes unlikely to pass Senate as Coalition, Greens and key crossbenchers voice outrageFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Labor government’s changes to limit access to freedom of information (FoI) requests appear to be dead in the water, with the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, saying the Coalition will vote against the β€œ...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Sussan Ley announces (another) frontbench reshuffle

Sussan Ley has reshuffled her frontbench team again after Liberal Andrew Haste resigned as Shadow Minister of Home Affairs over immigration concerns .

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Labor’s watered-down super tax plan creates a fairer system – but it’s far from as fair as it should be

Jim Chalmers says revised superannuation tax reforms still raise a β€˜substantial’ amount of money, but it will be much less than beforeSuperannuation tax changes: what you need to knowGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor has dramatically overhauled its $3m super tax legislation, and the policy is weaker for it. It’s still pushing in the right direction, just not as hard.None of this bodes...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

If government bailouts of miners and steelmakers are the new normal, Australia needs a better strategic vision | John Quiggin for The Conversation

It is one thing to abandon the dogmas of neoliberalism. It is quite another to develop a coherent alternativeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government’s announcement of a A$600m rescue package for Glencore’s copper smelting and refining operations in Mount Isa and Townsville marks a definitive shift in Australia’s industry policy.The announcement follows the $2.4bn rescue of the...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Israelis are hailing Trump as Cyrus returned – but who was Cyrus the Great, anyway?

One wonders what Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian empire, would think of the comparison.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

How do you even birdwatch? A comedian and birdwatching champion explain – video

Birdwatching: everyone's doing it (we think)! But how exactly do you start? Is it really the cure-all to gen Z and millennial woes? BirdLife's Sean Dooley and comedian Geraldine Hickey show Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley the ins and outs of birdwatching - just in time for the 2025 bird of the year Which Australian birds are the peoples' choice? Matilda Boseley finds out - videoGoing extinct β€˜right under our noses...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

The Instagram effect: dying for the perfect photo

Social media tourism is encouraging risky behaviour and the death toll is mounting

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

'Explain why that's on your homepage': senator asks Yahoo about 'explicit' photo on site – video

During a Senate committee hearing about online safety, Liberal senator Sarah Henderson asks Logan Smith, director of public policy and human rights at Yahoo, why 'inappropriate content' appeared on the homepage of Yahoo Australia's website. Smith responds that he would have to see what Henderson is referring to but 'I assume it is content from a third party'. According to Henderson, the 'inappropriate content' is a...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

The Shiralee brings a Shakespearean energy to the Aussie swag-man’s life

The classic 1955 D’Arcy Niland novel has been dapted by Kate Mulvany and directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Jim Chalmers unveils major retreat on controversial superannuation changes

Jim Chalmers has watered down from Labor’s changes to superannuation, and fully dumped the plan to tax unrealised capital gains

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Trump’s β€˜shock and awe’ foreign policy achieved a breakthrough in Gaza – but is it sustainable?

Trump’s foreign policy approach is fast-paced and intensely personal. The true test of its success won’t be Gaza, but geostrategic conflicts with China and Russia.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Australia’s β€˜ISIS brides’ have returned. Governments can do better at handling this situation

The issue of returning Australian citizens connected to Islamic State has become a vexed issue. There are better ways to handle it.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Six changes to superannuation tax rules announced by treasurer Jim Chalmers – video

Labor treasurer, Jim Chalmers, announced some surprise changes to the super tax rules on Monday morning. 'There are six main changes to the proposal that we put forward a couple of years ago', he said, including an increase to the low income superannuation tax offset, raising the eligibility threshold, and indexing the threshold up to $10m. 'This means a better deal for low-income workers and also better targeted...

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

What is gingivitis? How do I know if I have it?

Here are some tell-tale signs of gingivitis, and what to do about this common type of gum disease.

Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)